Jeffrey J. McDonnell is Professor of Hydrology and Associate Director of the Global
Institute for Water Security at the University of Saskatchewan (Canada). He was
previously Richardson Chair in Watershed Science and University Distinguished
Professor at Oregon State University. He holds the title of 6th Century Chair in
Hydrology at the University of Aberdeen and is Honorary Professor at the Nanjing
Hydraulic Research Institute. He has a BSc from the University of Toronto, MSc from
Trent University and PhD and DSc from the University of Canterbury, where he studied
as a Commonwealth Scholar. His work focuses on new ways to measure, understand
and model streamflow generation processes. Jeff has co-authored ~250 articles on
watershed hydrology and co-edited the Elsevier textbook “Isotope Tracers in Catchment
Hydrology”. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Canada’s National Academy
of Science), and a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, the American
Geophysical Union, the International Water Academy and the Royal Geographical
Society (UK). He has received the Dalton Medal from the European Geophysical Union,
the Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecturer Award from the Geological Society of
America, the Gordon Warwick Award from the British Geomorphological Research
Group and the Nystrom Award from the Association of American Geographers. He is
currently President-Elect of the AGU Hydrology Section.