Prof. Dr. Marian Muste

IIHR - Hydroscience & Engineering, The University of Iowa

Research Scientist

My Profile

About

Dr. Muste is Research Engineer and Adjunct Professor at The University of Iowa. His research area spans experimental river hydraulics and development of watershed data/information management systems, sensors and sensor networks, and their implementation in research and education on sustainable use of water and land resources. Focal interests include acoustic and image-based instrumentation, uncertainty analysis, and investigation of sediment-transport in rivers using laboratory and in-situ measurements. Dr Muste is author or co-author of more than 200 technical papers and 75 reports. He is technical expert for UNESCO and World Meteorological Organization in the area of hydrometry.

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Universities and Academia

Expertise Fields/Interests:

Broad research areas of expertise: Hydraulics and Surface Water Transport, Cyberinfrastructure for Integrated River Basin Management. Focus research areas: Cyberinfrastructure-based information systems for research and education, Integrated Adaptive Watershed Management (using cyberinfrastructure framework), Decision Support Systems for Watershed-scale Science and Engineering, Turbulent Flows, Sediment-Flow Interaction, River Mechanics, Hydraulic Modeling, Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Non-Intrusive Measurement Techniques in Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics, Experimental Methods and Instrumentation, Data Acquisition Systems for Management and Risk Assessment, Uncertainty Analysis, Remote Experimentation and Control, Relational Databases.

Major Achievements:

Technical Committees

Committee Name
Committee on Experimental Methods and Instrumentation
Committee on Fluvial Hydraulics
Committee on Flood Risk Management
Committee on Education and Professional Development
IAHR/IWA Joint Committee on Hydroinformatics

IAHR Position

Committee Name	Position	Start Date	End Date
Committee on Flood Risk Management	Past Chair	2019-11-23	Now
Committee on Flood Risk Management	Chair	2017-10-30	2019-11-03
JAWER Editorial Board	Editorial Board member	2017-01-01	Now
JRBM Editorial Board	Associate Editors	2017-01-01	Now
IAHR Innovation and Professional Development	Past Chair	2015-09-01	Now
IAHR Iowa Young Professionals Network	Student Advisor	2012-01-01	2017-09-20
IAHR Innovation and Professional Development	Chair	2012-01-01	2015-09-01
Committee on Experimental Methods and Instrumentation	Co-opted	2012-01-01	2015-08-06
IAHR Council	Vice President	2011-01-20	2015-08-01

My Papers and Presentations

Title	Year
Evaluation of the Slope-Area Method for Continuous Streamflow Monitoring	2019
Decision-Support System for Underpinning Collaborative Planning for Multi-Hazard Mitigation	2017
Floodss: Call for Community Action	2017
Acoustic Mapping Velocimetry Proof-of-Concept Experiment	2015
Assessment of ice plugging of a cooling water intake by a numerical model	2014
Cyberwater: Prototype Cyber-Infrastructure System for Supporting Decision-Making in Water Resources Management	2013
Hydroacoustics: Emerging Measurement Technology for in-Situ Characterization of River Hydro-Morphodynamics	2013
Quantification of Hysteretic Behavior in Streamflow Rating Curves	2013
Sediment self-cleaning multi-box culverts	2013
Outflow calibration for vertically distorted models of thermally stratified reservoirs	2006
Coupled physical-numerical analysis of flows in natural waterways	2001
Large-scale particle image velocimetry for flow analysis in hydraulic engineering applications	1998

My Videos

Title	Year
Marian Muste - How do we monitor flood waves in natural streams: Challenges and Opportunities	2021
Marian Muste	2020

IAHR Awards

IAHR Awards	Date