Dr. Carlo DeMarchi is a research investigator at the Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystem Research and School of Natural Resources and Environment, where he works on hydrologic processes, water quality modeling in the watershed, application of remote sensing to hydrology and water quality, and development of decision support systems for water resources management. His passion for research involving water begun at an early age and could even be attributed to his birth in Venice a few days after a disastrous flood submerged the city and the surrounding region.

Dr. DeMarchi is collaborating with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (NOAA-GLERL) scientists to develop a distributed model for watershed hydrology and water quality assessment and apply it to the Great Lakes basin (The Next Generation Large Basin Runoff Model). He also cooperates with scientists at the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences of the University of Michigan to improve precipitation estimation over the Great Lakes and at the Georgia Institute of Water Resources and NASA-Godard Space Flight Center to develop new methodologies for remote sensing of precipitation.

(L) Average August daily precipitation in the Lake Erie region by interpolating rain gages (IDW) and by merging gage and radar data (MPE*); (M) Saginaw River Annual TP Load Estimates; (R) Preparing for rafting on the Nile River downstream Bujagali Falls, Uganda
Dr. DeMarchi is currently conducting a Comparative Analysis of Net Basin Supply Components and Climate Change Impact on the Upper Great Lakes. This project is sponsored by the International Joint Commission's International Upper Great Lakes Study and hopes to evaluate different methodologies for assessing the present and future net basin supply for the Great Lakes. Other current projects of Dr. DeMarchi's include a study on Managing the Impact of Multiple Stressors in Saginaw Bay in order to develop adaptive methodologies for studying the response of a coastal system under multiple stressors in Saginaw Bay, Michigan. This is sponsored by NOAA Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research.

DR. DEMARCHI'S PROFILE