Selected Honors and Awards:

• UA College of Engineering’s Rising Faculty Star Research Excellence & Innovation, 2024.
• Alabama Water Institute Distinguished Faculty Fellow, 2023.
• UA CCEE Department’s Outstanding Faculty Research and Innovation Award, 2023.
• UA CCEE Department’s Mid-Career Outstanding Faculty Award, 2021.
• Cover feature paper in the journal Nature Climate Change (see Liu et al., 2020).
• UA CCEE Department’s Mid-Career Outstanding Faculty Award, 2019.
• Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Bhartiya Samman (Non-resident Indian) Award, 2018.
• NSF CAREER, 2015.
• Finalist, Barret Foundation Business Concept Challenge, 2014.
• UCOWR PhD Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention (2nd Prize), 2010.
• CUASHI-CMWR Fellow, 2008.
• Outstanding Student Paper Award, AGU, 2006.

Awards earned by student advisees:

• UA CCEE’s Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award to Pushpendra Raghav, 2024.
• Alabama EPSCOR Graduate Research Scholars Program (GRSP) Fellowship to Parnian Ghaneei, 2023.
• Alabama EPSCOR Graduate Research Scholars Program (GRSP) Fellowship to Sungyoon Kim, 2020, 2021.
• Nasa Earth Science and Space Fellowship to Chris Krapu, 2017.
• Environment Innovation Fund grant to Yifan Zhou, 2017.
• Duke University Wetland Center grant to Chris Krapu, 2017.
• Outstanding Student Paper Award to Yanlan Liu at AGU, 2016.
• CUAHSI Pathfinder Fellowship to Bijan Seyednasrollah, 2014.
• NASA Snow School Travel Award to Bijan Seyednasrollah, 2014.
• IGERT WiseNET fellowship to Chris Krapu, 2014.
• James B Duke fellowship to Chris Krapu, 2014.