Delphis F. Levia

Appointments

• Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences
• Department of Plant and Soil Sciences
• Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Education

• Ph.D., Geography, Clark University, 2000
• M.S. Geography, University of Massachusetts, 1996
• B.A. Geography, Clark University, 1994

Biosketch

Dr. Delphis F. Levia is a Professor of Ecohydrology at the University of Delaware with academic appointments in the Department of Geography & Spatial Sciences (primary), Department of Plant & Soil Sciences (joint), and Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering (joint). He is Past Chair of the Department of Geography & Spatial Sciences and Founding and Past Director of the GIScience and Environmental Data Analytics Program. Prof. Levia's research involves biosphere-atmosphere interactions with an emphasis on precipitation partitioning by trees from both hydrological and biogeochemical perspectives, although a second and new research direction involves water and disease. He has an international research program and conducted research in Japan, Germany, Panama, and Spain, among other countries. He currently serves as a Series Editor for Springer's Ecological Studies Series and an Associate Editor for Hydrological Processes (Wiley). Prof. Levia is a Humboldt Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Invitational Fellow, and he recently finished a Distinguished Visiting Fellowship in the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.
 

Research Interests

Ecohydrology; stemflow; biosphere-atmosphere interactions; biogeochemistry; field methods and instrumentation; microscopy; bioimaging

Publications

See my Curriculum Vitae for a list of my published works.

Select publications:

Levia, D.F. (Editor), Carlyle-Moses, D.E. (Co-Editor), Iida, S. (Co-Editor), Michalzik, B. (Co-Editor), Nanko, K. (Co-Editor), and Tischer, A. (Co-Editor). 2020. Forest-Water Interactions. Ecological Studies Series, No. 240, Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland, 628 p. [ISBN: 978-3-030-26085-9 (Print); 978-3-030-26086-6 (eBook); DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-26086-6]

Levia, D.F.^*, Creed, I.F.^*, Hannah, D.M., Nanko, K., Boyer, E.W., Carlyle-Moses, D.E., van de Giesen, N., Grasso, D., Guswa, A.J., Hudson, J.E., Hudson, S.A., Iida, S., Jackson, R.B., Katul, G.G., Kumagai, T., Llorens, P., Lopes Ribeiro, F., Pataki, D.E., Peters, C.A., Sanchez Carretero, D., Selker, J.S., Tetzlaff, D., Zalewski, M. and Bruen, M. 2020. Homogenization of the terrestrial water cycle. Nature Geoscience 13(10): 656-658. [* equal contributors; we make no distinction between first and second authors] [DOI: 10.1038/s41561-020-0641-y]

Guswa, A.J., Tetzlaff, D., Selker, J.S., Carlyle-Moses, D.E., Boyer, E.W., Bruen, M., Cayuela, C., Creed, I.F., van de Giesen, N., Grasso, D., Hannah, D.M., Hudson, J.E., Hudson, S.A., Iida, S., Jackson, R.B., Katul, G.G., Kumagai, T., Llorens, P., Lopes Ribeiro, F., Michalzik, B., Nanko, K., Oster, C., Pataki, D.E., Peters, C.A., Rinaldo, A., Sanchez Carretero, D., Trifunovic, B., Zalewski, M., Haagsma, M. and Levia, D.F. 2020. Advancing ecohydrology in the 21^st century: a convergence of opportunities. Ecohydrology 13(4): e2208, 14 p. [DOI: 10.1002/eco.2208]