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Cedric H. David

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4800 Oak Grove Drive
M/S 300-323

Pasadena, CA 91109

Phone:

818.354.4416

Fax:

818.393.6720

Curriculum Vitae:

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Water & Ecosystems

Scientist

Biography

Cédric joined the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in 2014 as a Scientist. He was co-founder and inaugural Group Supervisor for JPL’s Water & Ecosystems Group from 2018 to 2022, before re-focusing his professional activities in support of upcoming space missions.

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA (2009)
  • Master of Science in Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA (2006)
  • Diplôme d'Ingénieur, Ecole Centrale de Lille, Lille, France (2004)

Professional Experience

  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology:
    - Scientist (2014 - present)
    - Group Supervisor (2018-2022)
  • University of California Center for Hydrologic Modeling:
    - Project Scientist (2012-2014)
  • Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin:
    - Postdoctoral Fellow (2009-2012)
  • Centre de Géosciences, Mines Paristech:
    - Graduate Research Assistant (2007-2008)
  • Center for Research in Water Resources, University of Texas at Austin:
    - Graduate Research Assistant (2004-2007, 2008-2009)

Community Service

Panelist and/or Reviewer for Review Panels

  • The National Science Foundation
  • The National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • The National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
  • Dutch Research Council
  • Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)

Peer reviews for international scientific journals

  • Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
  • Nature Geoscience
  • Nature Scientific Reports
  • Nature Scientific Data
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Remote Sensing Letters
  • American Geophysical Union Books
  • Monthly Weather Review
  • Water Resources Research
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics
  • Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres
  • Journal of Geophysical Research – Space Physics
  • Reviewer for the Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface
  • Environmental Modelling and Software
  • Hydrological Processes
  • Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Editorial Roles

  • Earth and Space Science, Guest Editor for the Special Issue on Geoscience Paper of the Future

Advisory committees

  • Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Water & Energy Cycle in US intergovernmental Satellite Needs Working Group (SNWG) (2023)
  • Board Member, JPL Observational Products for End-Users from Remote Sensing Analysis (OPERA), in support of NASA’s Satellite Needs Working Group (2020-2022).
  • Appointed member of the AGU Hydrology Section Task Force on Open Access Model Evaluation for Water Resources Research (2019-2021)
  • Appointed member of the AGU Hydrology Section Remote Sensing Technical Committee (2017-current).
  • Appointed Member of the advisory committee for the NSF EarthCube OntoSoft Project, and Ambassador for the Geoscience Paper of the Future (2015-2017).

Research Interests

Cédric is interested in the observation, simulation and assimilation of the Earth water cycle at continental to global scale with focus on river fluxes and stores within large networks. His areas of expertise include Hydrologic Modeling, Satellite Sampling, Data Assimilation, High-Performance Scientific Computing, Open-Source Programming, Open Scholarship, and Geographic Information Systems. Three overarching questions currently motivate Cédric’s research:

  1. How does water flow within river networks?
  2. How could Earth-orbiting satellites capture surface water variability?
  3. How could satellite information be used along with computer models to best understand surface water dynamics?

Selected Awards

  • Voyager Award, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 2024
  • Invited Fellow, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, 2023
  • Voyager Award, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 2023
  • Team Award, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 2021
  • Early Career Public Achievement Medal, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2018
  • Voyager Award, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 2016
  • Azure Research Grant, Microsoft Research, 2014
  • Horton (Hydrology) Research Grant, American Geophysical Union, 2008.

Selected Publications

The most up-to-date list is at: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0924-5907/ or on my Curriculum Vitae which can be downloaded on this page. A subset of recent papers is below.

  1. Munasinghe, D., R. P. de M. Frasson, C. H. David, M. Bonnema, G. Schumann, and G. R. Brakenridge (2023), A multi-sensor approach for increased measurements of floods and their societal impacts from space, Communications Earth & Environment, 4(1), 462. 10.1038/s43247-023-01129-1.
  2. Riggs, R. M., G. H Allen, J. Wang, T. M. Pavelsky, C. J Gleason, C. H. David, and M. Durand (2023), Extending global river gauge records using satellite observations, Environmental Research Letters, 18, 064027, DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/acd407.
  3. Durand, M., C. J. Gleason, T. M. Pavelsky, R. P. d. M. Frasson, M. Turmon, C. H. David, et al. (2023), A framework for estimating global river discharge from the Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite mission, Water Resources Research, 59, e2021WR031614, DOI: 10.1029/2021WR031614
  4. David, C. H. and Renato P. d. M. Frasson (2023), Blame the river not the rain, Nature Geoscience, 16, 282–283, DOI: 10.1038/s41561-023-01163-w
  5. Tavakoly, A. A., C H. David, J. L. Gutenson, and M. Wahl, M. Follum (2023), Development of non-data driven reservoir routing in the routing application for parallel computatIon of discharge (RAPID) model, Environmental Modelling & Software, 161, 105631, DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2023.105631
  6. Frasson, R. P. M., M. J. Turmon, M. T. Durand, and C. H. David (2023), Estimating the relative impact of measurement, parameter, and flow law errors on discharge from the Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 24, 425–443, DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-22-0078.1.
  7. Liu, P. -W., J. S. Famiglietti, A. J. Purdy, K. H. Adams, A. L. McEvoy, J. T. Reager, R. Bindlish, D. N. Wiese, C. H. David, and M. Rodell (2022), Groundwater Depletion in California’s Central Valley Accelerates During Megadrought, Nature Communications, 13:7825, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-35582-x.
  8. Bonnema, M., C. H. David, R. P. M.Frasson, C. Oaida, and Sang-Ho Yun, (2022), The Global Surface Area Variations of Lakes and Reservoirs as Seen from Satellite Remote Sensing, Geophysical Research Letters, 1-13, 10.1029/2022GL098987
  9. Emery, C. M., A. Paris, S. Biancamaria, A. Boone, S. Calmant, P. -A. Garambois, J. Santos da Silva, and C. H. David (2022), Discharge Estimation Via Assimilation of Multi-satellite-based Discharge Products: Case Study Over the Amazon Basin, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 19, 1-5, DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2020.3020285.
  10. Riggs, R. M., G. H. Allen, C. H. David, P. Lin, M. Pan, X. Yang, and C. Gleason (2021), RODEO: An algorithm and Google Earth Engine application for river discharge retrieval from Landsat, Environmental Modelling & Software, 148, 105254, DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2021.105254.
  11. McStraw T. C., S T. Pulla, N. L. Jones, G. P. Williams, C. H. David, J. E. Nelson, D. P. Ames (2021), An Open-Source Web Application for Regional Analysis of GRACE Groundwater Data and Engaging Stakeholders in Groundwater Management, Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 1-15, DOI: 10.1111/1752-1688.12968.
  12. Yang, Y., M. Pan, P. Lin, H. E. Beck, Z. Zeng, D. Yamazaki, C. H. David, H. Lu, K. Yang, Y. Hong, and E. F. Wood (2021), Global Reach-level 3-hourly River Flood Reanalysis (1980-2019), Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102(11), E2086–E2105, DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0057.1.
  13. International Altimetry Team (including C. H. David) (2021), Altimetry for the future: Building on 25 years of progress, Advances in Space Research, 68 (2021) 319–363, DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2021.01.022.
  14. Frasson, R. P. M., M. T. Duran, K. Larnier, C. Gleason, K. M. Andreadis, M. Hagemann, R. Dudley, D. Bjerklie, H. Oubanas, P.-A. Garambois, P.-O. Malaterre, P. Lin, T. M. Pavelsky, J. Monnier, C. B. Brinkerhoff, C. H. David (2021), Exploring the factors controlling the error characteristics of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission discharge estimates, Water Resources Research, 57(6), 1-29, DOI: 10.1029/2020WR028519.
  15. Clark, M. P, C. H. Luce, A. AghaKouchak, W. Berghuijs, C. H. David, Q. Duan, S. Ge, I. van Meerveld, C. Zheng, M. B. Parlange, and S. W. Tyler (2021), Open science: Open data, open models, …and open publications?, Water Resources Research, 57, 1-8, DOI: 10.1029/2020WR029480.
  16. Sikder, M. S., M. Bonnema, C. M. Emery, C. H. David, P. Lin, M. Pan, S. Biancamaria, and M. M. Gierach (2021), A Synthetic Dataset Inspired by Satellite Altimetry and Impacts of Sampling on Global Spaceborne Discharge Characterization, Water Resources Research, 57(2), 1-12, DOI: 10.1029/2020WR029035.
  17. Allen, G. H., X. Yang, J. Gardener, J. Holliman, C. H. David, and M. Ross (2020), Timing of Landsat Overpasses Effectively Capture Flow Conditions of Large Rivers, Remote Sensing, 12(9), 1510, DOI: 10.3390/rs12091510.
  18. Riggs, R. M., G. H. Allen, C. H. David, P. Lin, M. Pan, X. Yang, and C. Gleason (2021), RODEO: An algorithm and Google Earth Engine application for river discharge retrieval from Landsat, Environmental Modelling & Software, 148, 105254, DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2021.105254.
  19. McStraw T. C., S T. Pulla, N. L. Jones, G. P. Williams, C. H. David, J. E. Nelson, D. P. Ames (2021), An Open-Source Web Application for Regional Analysis of GRACE Groundwater Data and Engaging Stakeholders in Groundwater Management, Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 1-15, DOI: 10.1111/1752-1688.12968.
  20. Yang, Y., M. Pan, P. Lin, H. E. Beck, Z. Zeng, D. Yamazaki, C. H. David, H. Lu, K. Yang, Y. Hong, and E. F. Wood (2021), Global Reach-level 3-hourly River Flood Reanalysis (1980-2019), Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102(11), E2086–E2105, DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0057.1.
  21. International Altimetry Team (including C. H. David) (2021), Altimetry for the future: Building on 25 years of progress, Advances in Space Research, 68 (2021) 319–363, DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2021.01.022.
  22. Frasson, R. P. M., M. T. Duran, K. Larnier, C. Gleason, K. M. Andreadis, M. Hagemann, R. Dudley, D. Bjerklie, H. Oubanas, P.-A. Garambois, P.-O. Malaterre, P. Lin, T. M. Pavelsky, J. Monnier, C. B. Brinkerhoff, C. H. David (2021), Exploring the factors controlling the error characteristics of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission discharge estimates, Water Resources Research, 57(6), 1-29, DOI: 10.1029/2020WR028519.
  23. Clark, M. P, C. H. Luce, A. AghaKouchak, W. Berghuijs, C. H. David, Q. Duan, S. Ge, I. van Meerveld, C. Zheng, M. B. Parlange, and S. W. Tyler (2021), Open science: Open data, open models, …and open publications?, Water Resources Research, 57, 1-8, DOI: 10.1029/2020WR029480.
  24. Sikder, M. S., M. Bonnema, C. M. Emery, C. H. David, P. Lin, M. Pan, S. Biancamaria, and M. M. Gierach (2021), A Synthetic Dataset Inspired by Satellite Altimetry and Impacts of Sampling on Global Spaceborne Discharge Characterization, Water Resources Research, 57(2), 1-12, DOI: 10.1029/2020WR029035.
  25. Allen, G. H., X. Yang, J. Gardener, J. Holliman, C. H. David, and M. Ross (2020), Timing of Landsat Overpasses Effectively Capture Flow Conditions of Large Rivers, Remote Sensing, 12(9), 1510, DOI: 10.3390/rs12091510.
  26. Emery, C. M., S. Biancamaria, A. Boone, S. Ricci, M. C. Rochoux,V. Pedinotti, and C. H. David (2020), Assimilation of wide-swath altimetry water elevation anomalies to correct large-scale river routing model parameters, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 24, 2207–2233, DOI: 10.5194/hess-24-2207-2020.
  27. Massoud, E., M. Turmon, J. Reager, J. Hobbs, Z. Liu, and C. H. David (2020), Cascading Dynamics of the Hydrologic Cycle in California Explored through Observations and Model Simulations, Geosciences, 10 (71), 1-13, DOI: 10.3390/geosciences10020071.
  28. Emery, C. M., C. H. David, K. M. Andreadis, M. J. Turmon, J. T. Reager, and J. M. Hobbs (2020), Underlying Fundamentals of Kalman Filtering for River Network Modeling, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 21, 453-474, DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-19-0084.1.
  29. Sikder, M. S., C. H. David, G. H. Allen, X. Qiao, E. J. Nelson, and M. A. Matin (2019), Evaluation of Available Global Runoff Datasets through a River Model in Support of Transboundary Water Management in South and Southeast Asia, Frontiers in Environmental Science, 7:171, DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2019.00171.
  30. Yang, Y., P. Lin, C. K. Fisher, M. Turmon, J. Hobbs, C. M. Emery, J. T. Reager, C. H. David, H. Lud, K. Yang, Y. Hong, E. F. Wood, and M. Pan (2019), Enhancing SWOT Discharge Assimilation through Spatiotemporal Correlations, Remote Sensing of Environment, 234, 111450, DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2019.111450.
  31. Purdy, A. J., C. H. David, M. S. Sikder, J. T. Reager, H. A. Chandanpurkar, N. L. Jones, M. A. Matin (2019), An open-source tool to facilitate the processing of GRACE Observations and GLDAS outputs: An evaluation in Bangladesh, Frontiers in Environmental Science, 7:155, DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2019.00155.
  32. Nelson, E. J., S. T. Pulla, M. A. Matin, K. Shakya, N. L. Jones, D. P. Ames, W. L. Ellenburg, K. N. Markert, C. H. David, B. F. Zaitchik, P. Gatlin, and R. Hales (2019), Enabling Stakeholder Decision-Making with Earth Observation and Modeling Data Using Tethys Platform, Frontiers Environmental Science, 7:148, DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2019.00148.
  33. Qiao, X., E. J. Nelson, D. Ames, Z. Li, C. H. David, G. Williams, W. Roberts, J. L. Sanchez-Lozano, C. Edwards, M. Souffront, and M. Matin (2019), A Systems Approach to Routing Global Gridded Runoff through Local High-Resolution Stream Networks for Flood Early Warning Systems, Environmental Modelling & Software, 120, 104501, DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2019.104501.
  34. Lin, P., M. Pan, H. E. Beck, Y. Yang, D. Yamazaki, R. Frasson, C. H. David, M. Durand, T. M. Pavelsky, G. H. Allen, C. J. Gleason, and E. F. Wood (2019), Global Reconstruction of Naturalized River Flows at 2.94 Million Reaches, Water Resources Research, 55, 6499-6516, DOI: 10.1029/2019WR025287.
  35. Nickles, C., R. E. Beighley, Y. Zhao, M. T. Durand, C. H. David, and H. Lee (2019), How does the unique space-time sampling of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission influence river discharge series characteristics? Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 8154–8161, DOI: 10.1029/2019GL083886.

Projects

SWOT
GRACE