BRYANT REYES
EDUCATION
1020 15th Street Apt. 16E ● Denver, CO 80202
Bryant@BryantReyes.com ● (347) 572-3290
Colorado School of Mines
Expected May 2016
Golden, CO
PhD, Civil Engineering
Co-Advisers: Terri S. Hogue & Reed M. Maxwell
University of California, Los Angeles
June 2012
Los Angeles, CA
MS, Civil Engineering
Adviser: Terri S. Hogue; Field: Hydrology & Water Resources Engineering
Northeastern University
May 2011
Boston, MA
Cum Laude
BS, Civil Engineering
Minor in Environmental Science
RESEARCH
EXPERIENCE
Research Interests: Distributed surface/subsurface flow and land surface modeling, urban
hydrology
Drs. Terri S. Hogue and Reed M. Maxwell Research Groups
August 2011–Present
Golden, CO
Los Angeles, CA
Graduate Student Researcher, Colorado School of Mines
Graduate Student Researcher, UCLA
Dr. Christa D. Peters-Lidard, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory
CMAC Intern/Visiting Graduate Student, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Dr. Ferdi L. Hellweger Laboratory
Undergraduate Researcher, Northeastern University
P R O F E S S I O N A L NYC Mayor’s Office of Environmental Remediation
Intern
EXPERIENCE
Fall 2010–Spring 2011
Boston, MA
May–July 2011
New York, NY
Kleinfelder ● S E A Consultants, Inc.
January–June 2010
Cambridge, MA
Camp Dresser & McKee (CDM), Inc.
January–June 2008 & 2009
Cambridge, MA
Environmental Engineering Co-op/Intern
Environmental Engineering Co-op/Intern
FELLOWSHIPS
HONORS
AWARDS
June–August 2013
Greenbelt, MD
NASA CMAC Grant
Summer 2013
UVA/NASA Intensive Summer School for Computing in Environmental Sciences (ISSCENS) Program
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP)
Fall 2012–Summer 2015
National Science Foundation
Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship
Fall 2011–Spring 2012
Graduate Division, University of California, Los Angeles
Graduate Research Mentorship Award
Not Activated
UCLA Competitive Edge: NSF Summer Transition Program
Summer 2011
Graduate Division, University of California, Los Angeles
National Science Foundation/UCLA AGEP
Provost Team Undergraduate Research Award
Spring 2010
Office of the Provost, Northeastern University
Dean’s List
College of Engineering, Northeastern University
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Fall 2006–Spring 2011
Excellence Scholarship
Fall 2006–Spring 2011
Northeastern University
P E E R - R E V I E W E D Reyes, B., R.M. Maxwell and T.S. Hogue, 2015: Impact of lateral flow and spatial scaling
on the simulation of semi-arid urban land surfaces in an integrated hydrologic and
PUBLICATIONS
land surface model. Hydrological Processes, DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10683 [in press]
Reyes, B., T.S. Hogue and R.M. Maxwell, 2015: Temperature and hydrologic regime
change due to urban irrigation: impacts and implications in the semi-arid urban
environment of Los Angeles, CA. Environmental Research Letters [in preparation]
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
CONFERENCE
P R E S E N T A T I O N S Reyes, B., T.S. Hogue and R.M. Maxwell: Irrigating the urban semi-arid environment:
Effects on land surface and hydrologic fluxes. 2015 American Geophysical Union
(AGU) Hydrology Days, Colorado State University (CSU), Fort Collins, CO, March 23–25,
2015 also presented at Modflow and More 2015: Modeling a Complex World, Golden,
CO, May 31–June 3, 2015.
Acob, T., B. Reyes, K. Manago, T.S. Hogue and R.M. Maxwell: Climatological and
anthropogenic impacts on contributions to urban groundwater in Los Angeles, CA.
National Groundwater Association (NGWA) Groundwater Summit, Denver, CO, May 4–
7, 2014.
Reyes, B., T.S. Hogue, and R.M. Maxwell: Hydrologic and Land Surface Modeling of the
Semi-Arid Urban Environment [Expository Talk]. Super Computing 2013 Conference,
Denver, CO, November 12–22, 2013.
Reyes, B., P. Vahmani, T.S. Hogue and R.M. Maxwell: Assessing the effects of irrigation on
land surface processes utilizing CLM.PF in Los Angeles, California. American
Geophysical Union (AGU) Meeting of the Americas, Cancún, MX, May 14–17, 2013.
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Reyes, B., T.S. Hogue and R.M. Maxwell: Understanding the impacts of anthropogenic
processes on the Los Angeles Basin with an integrated high-resolution hydrologic
model. American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December
14–18, 2015.
Reyes, B., R.M. Maxwell and T.S. Hogue: Analyzing urban sub-grid processes using highresolution land cover and an integrated hydrologic model. 2014 American
Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 13–19, 2014.
Reyes, B., T.S. Hogue, R.M. Maxwell and C.D. Peters-Lidard: Hydrologic and land surface
modeling of the semi-arid urban environment: Ballona Creek, Los Angeles, CA.
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 9–13,
2013 also presented at 2014 Conference on Earth & Energy Research (CEER), Golden,
CO, February 27–28, 2014.
Reyes, B. and C.D. Peters-Lidard: Assessment and improvement of high-resolution land
surface modeling of the urban semi-arid environment. 2013 NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center Summer Intern Poster Session, Greenbelt, MD, August 1, 2013.
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Reyes, B. and T.S. Hogue: Estimating urban induced groundwater recharge through
coupled hydrologic modeling in Ballona Creek Watershed, Los Angeles, CA.
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 7, 2012.
Reyes, B. and K.J. Fennell: Northeastern University Campus Redesign Project: A Focus
on Stormwater Management. [Student Paper Winner] Water Environment Federation
Technical Exhibition & Conference (WEFTEC) 2011, Los Angeles, CA, October 15, 2011.
CERTIFICATIONS Certification:
SKILLS
Models:
EIT/FE passed October 2010
ParFlow; LIS; MODFLOW; HEC-HMS; SWAT; SWMM
Computer Languages:
Python; MATLAB; Unix/Linux (Bash, etc.); R; C/C++; Fortran
90/95; Tcl; JavaScript; HTML; CSS
Computer Applications:
ArcGIS; GRASS; AutoCAD; Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop,
Dreamweaver, Acrobat)
Foreign Language:
Spanish (fluent: speak, write, read, translate)
Chi Epsilon (χε) Civil Engineering Honor Society
TEACHING
E X P E R I E N C E Fluid Mechanics Tutor
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)
STEM Tutor for High School
Abraham Lincoln High School – ESL Program
English as a Second Language (ESL) Math Tutor
P R O F E S S I O N A L CEE Department Seminar Series Committee
Speaker Search and Organization
ACTIVITIES
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Student Member
Engineers Without Borders (EWB)
Spring 2009–2011
Boston, MA
Fall 2007–2009
Boston, MA
Fall 2005–Spring 2006
Brooklyn, NY
Summer 2014–Spring 2015
Colorado School of Mines
Summer 2012–Present
Fall 2009–Spring 2011
Northeastern Student Chapter
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Fall 2009–Spring 2010
Treasurer; Student Member since Fall 2006
Northeastern Student Chapter
Chi Epsilon (χε) Civil Engineering Honor Society
Spring 2009–2011
Fluid Mechanics Tutor; Student Member
Northeastern Student Chapter
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)
Fall 2007–Spring 2008
Vice President for Financial Affairs; Student Member since Fall 2006 Northeastern Student Chapter
Research Committee; Student Member since Fall 2007
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