Praveen Kumar
INVESTIGATOR, Lead-PI
Director and Sangamon Site Coordinator
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IML Colonel Harry F. and Frankie M. Lovell Endowed Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Univ of Illinois - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kumar's Univ of Illinois page
PhD, Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota , 1993
Serves as director of the IML-CZO; Short- and Long-Term Dynamics of Soil Organic Matter; Coupled Surface Water – Groundwater Hydrology and Biogeochemistry; Integrated Modeling and Critical Zone Services
Phone/Address
217-333-46882527B Hydrosystems Laboratory 301 N. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801
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CZO Publications
Papers/Books
2020
Modeling the Role of Root Exudation in Critical Zone Nutrient Dynamics. Roque-Malo, S., Woo, D.K., and P. Kumar (2020): Water Resources Research
2020
Debates—Does Information Theory Provide a New Paradigm for Earth Science? Causality, Interaction, and Feedback. Goodwell, A.E., Jiang, P., Ruddell, B.L., and Kumar, P. (2020): Water Resources Research
2020
Bundled Causal History Interaction. Jiang, P., and Kumar, P. (2020): Entropy
2020
Debates—Does Information Theory Provide a New Paradigm for Earth Science?. Kumar, P. and Gupta, H.V. (2020): Water Resources Research
2020
Critical Agents of Change at Earth’s Surface. Kumar, P., Herndon, E., and Richter D. (2020): Eos
2020
A new dynamic wetness index (DWI) predicts soil moisture persistence and correlates with key indicators of surface soil geochemistry. Li, M., Foster, E.J., Le, P.V.V., Yan, Q., Stumpf, A., Hou, T., Papanicolaou, A.N., Wacha, K.M., Wilson, C.G., Wang, J., Kumar, P., and Filley, T. (2020): Geoderma
2020
Soil Signals Tell of Landscape Disturbances. Lohse, K.A., Billings, S.A., DiBiase, R.A., Kumar, P., Berhe, A.A., and Kaye, J. (2020): Eos
2020
Discerning the thermodynamic feasibility of the spontaneous coexistence of multiple functional vegetation groups. Richardson, M. and Kumar, P. (2020): Nature Scientific Reports
2020
Sustainability of soil organic carbon in consolidated gully land in China’s Loess Plateau. Yan, Q., Kumar, P., Wang, Y., Zhao, Y., Lin, H., Ran, Q., An, Z., & Zhou, W. (2020): Nature Scientific Report
2019
A Changing Climatology of Precipitation Persistence across the United States Using Information-Based Measures. Goodwell, A.E. and Kumar, P. (2019): Journal of Hydrometeorology
2019
The Power of Environmental Observatories for Advancing Multidisciplinary Research, Outreach, and Decision Support: The Case of the Minnesota River Basin. Gran, K.B., Dolph, C., Baker, A., Bevis, M., Cho, S.J., Czuba, J.A., Dalzell, B., Danesh-Yazdi, M., Hansen, A.T., Kelly, S., Lang, Z., Schwenk, J., Belmont, P., Finlay, J.C., Kumar, P., Rabotyagov, S., Roehrig, G., Wilcock, P., and Foufoula-Georiou, E. (2019): Water Resources Research
2019
Information transfer from causal history in complex system dynamics. Jiang, P. and Kumar, P. (2019): Physical Review E v. 99, iss. 1, January 2019
2019
Using Information Flow for Whole System Understanding From Component Dynamics. Jiang, P., and Kumar, P. (2019): Water Resources Research
2019
Harnessing emerging technologies to reduce Gulf hypoxia. Khanna, M., Gramig, B., DeLucia, E., Cai, X., and Kumar, P. (2019): Nature Sustainability
2019
Characterizing Relative Degrees of Clumping Structure in Vegetation Canopy using Waveform LiDAR. Wang, K. and Kumar, P. (2019): Remote Sensing of Environment
2019
Impacts of Subsurface Tile Drainage on Age–Concentration Dynamics of Inorganic Nitrogen in Soil. Woo, D.K. and Kumar, P. (2019): Water Resources Research
2019
Mapping Subsurface Tile Drainage Systems with Thermal Images. Woo, D.K., Song, H., and Kumar, P. (2019): Agricultural Water Management
2018
Impacts of Quaternary History on Critical Zone Structure and Processes: Examples and a Conceptual Model from the Intensively Managed Landscapes Critical Zone Observatory. Anders, A.M., Bettis, E.A., Grimley, D.A., Stumpf, A.J., and Kumar, P. (2018): Frontiers in Earth Science
2018
Steering Operational Synergies in Terrestrial Observation Networks: Opportunity for Advancing Earth System Dynamics Modelling. Baatz, R., Sullivan, P.L., Li, L., Weintraub, S.R., Loescher, H.W., Mirtl, M., Groffman, P.M., Wall, D.H., Young, M., White, T., Wen, H., Zacharias, S., Kuhn, I., Tang, J., Gaillardet, J., Braud, I., Flores, A.N., Kumar, P., Lin, H., Ghezzehei, T., Jones, J., Gholz, H.L., Vereecken, H., and Van Looy, K. (2018): Earth System Dynamics
2018
A Framework for Global Characterization of Soil Properties Using Repeat Hyperspectral Satellite Data. Dutta, D., Kumar, P. (2018): IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
2018
Dynamic process connectivity explains ecohydrologic responses to rainfall pulses and drought. Goodwell, A.E., Kumar, P., Fellows, A.W., and Flerchinger, G.N. (2018): PNAS 115 (37) E8604-E8613 Cross-CZO
2018
Interactions of information transfer along separable causal paths. Jiang, P. and Kumar, P. (2018): Physical Review
2018
Critical Transition in Critical Zone of Intensively Managed Landscapes. Kumar, P., Le, P.V.V., Papanicolaou, A.N., Rhoads, B.L., Anders, A.M., Stumpf, A., Wilson, C.G., Bettis, E.A., Blair, N., Ward, A.S., Filley, T., Lin, H., Keefer, L., Keefer, D.A., Lin, Y.-F., Muste, M., Royer, T.V., Foufoula-Georgiou, E., and Belmont, P. (2018): Anthropocene
2018
Stochastic Lattice-Based Modelling of Malaria Dynamics. Le, P.V.V., Kumar, P., and Ruiz, M.O. (2018): Malaria Journal
2018
Impact of Hydraulic Redistribution on Multispecies Vegetation Water Use in a Semiarid Savanna Ecosystem: An Experimental and Modeling Synthesis. Lee, E., Kumar, P., Barron-Gafford, G.A., Hendryx, S.M., Sanchez-Canete, E.P., Minor, R.L., Colella, T., and Scott, R.L. (2018): Water Resources Research Cross-CZO
2018
Radiocarbon and Stable Carbon Isotopes of Labile and Inert Organic Carbon in the Critical Zone Observatory in Illinois, USA. Wang, H., Stumpf, A.J., and Kumar, P. (2018): Radiocarbon
2018
The Intensively Managed Landscape Critical Zone Observatory: A Scientific Testbed for Understanding Critical Zone Processes in Agroecosystems. Wilson, C.G., Abban, B., Keefer, L.L., Wacha, K., Dermisis, D., Giannopoulos, C., Zhou, S., Goodwell, A.E., Woo, D.K., Yan, Q., Ghadiri, M., Stumpf, A., Pitcel, M., Lin, Y-F, Marini, L., Storsved, B., Goff, K., Vogelgesang, J., Dere, A., Schilling, K.E., Muste, M., Blair, N.E., Rhoads, B., Bettis, A., Pai, H., Kratt, C., Sladek, C., Wing, M., Selker, J., Tyler, S., Lin, H., Kumar, P., and Papanicolaou, A.N. (2018): Vadose Zone Journal
2018
Three‐Dimensional Modeling of the Coevolution of Landscape and Soil Organic Carbon. Yan, Q., Le, P.V.V., Woo, D.K., Hou, T., Filley, T., and Kumar, P. (2018): Water Resources Research
2017
Impacts of hydraulic redistribution on grass–tree competition vs facilitation in a semi-arid savanna. Barron-Gafford G.A., Sanchez-Cañete E.P., Minor R.L., Hendryx S.M., Lee E., Sutter L.F., Tran N., Parra E., Colella T., Murphy P.C., Hamerlynck E.P., Kumar P. and Scott R.L. (2017): New Phytologist 215(4): 1451–1461 Cross-CZO
2017
Impacts of Hydraulic Redistribution on Grass-tree Competition vs Facilitation in a Semi-arid Savanna. Barron-Gafford, G.A., Sanchez-Canete, E.P., Minor, R.L., Hendryx, S.M., Lee, E., Sutter, L.F., Tran, N., Parra, E., Colella, T., Murphy, P.C., Hamerlynck, E.P., Kumar, P., and Scott, R.L. (2017): New Phytologist
2017
Designing a network of critical zone observatories to explore the living skin of the terrestrial Earth. Brantley, S.L., McDowell, W.H., Dietrich, W.E., White, T.S., Kumar, P., Anderson, S., Chorover, J., Lohse, K.A., Bales, R.C., Richter, D., Grant, G., and Gaillardet, J. (2017): Earth Surface Dynamics, 5, 841–860 Cross-CZO National
2017
Identification and characterization of information-networks in long-tail data collections. Elag, M.M., Kumar, P., Marini, L., Myers, J.D., Hedstrom, M., and Plale, B.A. (2017): Environmental Modelling & Software
2017
Temporal Information Partitioning Networks (TIPNets): A Process Network Approach to Infer Ecohydrologic Shifts. Goodwell, A.E. and Kumar, P. (2017): Water Resources Research
2017
Temporal Information Partitioning: Characterizing Synergy, Uniqueness, and Redundancy in Interacting Environmental Variables. Goodwell, A.E., and Kumar, P. (2017): Water Resources Research 53, 2017
2017
A service-oriented architecture for coupling web service models using the Basic Model Interface (BMI). Jiang, P., Elag, M., Kumar, P., Peckham, S.D., Marini, L., and Rui, L. (2017): Environmental Modelling & Software
2017
Interaction Between Ecohydrologic Dynamics and Microtopographic Variability Under Climate Change. Le, P.V.V. and Kumar, P. (2017): Water Resources Research
2017
Hydrogeomorphological differentiation between floodplains and terraces. Qina Yan, Toshiki Iwasaki, Andrew Stumpf, Patrick Belmont, Gary Parker, Praveen Kumar (2017): Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
2017
Critical Zone services as environmental assessment criteria in intensively managed landscapes. Richardson, M., and Kumar, P. (2017): Earth's Future
2017
Patterns of change in high frequency precipitation variability over North America. Roque-Malo, S. and Kumar, P. (2017): Nature.com
2017
Role of Micro-Topographic Variability on the Distribution of Inorganic Soil-Nitrogen Age in Intensively Managed Landscape. Woo, D.K. and Kumar, P. (2017): Water Resources research
2017
Functional Topology of Evolving Urban Drainage Networks. Yang, S., Paik, K., McGrath, G., Urich, C., Krueger, E., Kumar, P., and Rao, P. (2017): Water Resources Research
2016
Characterizing Vegetation Canopy Structure Using Airborne Remote Sensing Data. Dutta, D., Wang, K., Lee, E., Goodwell, A., Woo, D.K., Wagner, D., and Kumar, P. (2016): IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
2016
Comment on ‘‘Climate and agricultural land use change impacts on streamflow in the upper midwestern United States’’ by Satish C Gupta et al. Foufoula-Georgiou, E., Belmont, P., Wilcock, P., Gran, K., Finlay, J.C., Kumar, P., Gzuba, J.A., Schwenk, J., and Takbiri, Z. (2016): Water Resources Research
2016
Decreasing, not increasing, leaf area will raise crop yields under global atmospheric change. Srinivasan, V., Kumar, P., and Long, S.P. (2016): Global Change Biology
2016
Mean Age Distribution of Inorganic Soil-nitrogen. Woo, D.K., and Kumar, P. (2016): Water Resources Research
2015
On the Feasibility of Characterizing Soil Properties From AVIRIS Data. Dutta, D., Goodwell, A.E., Kumar, P., Garvey, J.E., Darmody, R.G., Berretta, D.P., and Greenberg, J.A. (2015): IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
2015
Information Theoretic Measures to Infer Feedback Dynamics in Coupled Logistic Networks. Goodwell, A., Kumar, P. (2015): Entropy 2015, 17, 7468-7492
2015
Critical Zone Observatory for Intensively Managed Landscapes (IML-CZO) Annual Report 2015. Kumar, P. (2015): NSF Award #1331906
2015
Hydrocomplexity: Addressing Water Security and Emergent Environmental Risks. Kumar, P. (2015): Water Resources Research, 51: pp12
2015
GPU-based high-performance computing for integrated surface–sub-surface flow modeling. Le, P.V.V., Kumar, P., Valocchi, A.J., and Dang, H.-V. (2015): Environmental Modelling & Software
2015
Chapter 2 – The Role of Critical Zone Observatories in Critical Zone Science. White T., Brantley S., Banwart S., Chorover J., Dietrich W., Derry L., Lohse K., Anderson S., Aufdendkampe A., Bales R., Kumar P., Richter D., McDowell B. (2015): Developments in Earth Surface Processes 19: 15–78 Cross-CZO National
2014
Simultaneous improvement in productivity, water use, and albedo through crop structural modification. Drewry, D.T., Kumar, P., and Long, S.P. (2014): Global Change Biology
2014
Threshold Dynamics in Soil Carbon Storage for Bioenergy Crops. Koo, D.K., Quijano, J.C., Kumar, P., Chaoka, S., Bernacchi, C.J. (2014): Environmental Science & Technology
2014
Power law scaling of topographic depressions and their hydrologic connectivity. Phong, V. V. Le and Praveen Kumar, P. (2014): Geophysical Research Letters
2014
Emergent and divergent resilience behavior in catastrophic shift systems. Srinivasan, V. and Kumar, P. (2014): Ecological Modelling
2014
Threshold Dynamics in Soil Carbon Storage for Bioenergy Crops. Woo, D.K., Quijano, J.C., Kumar, P., Chaoka, S., Bernacchi, C.J. (2014): Environmental Science & Technology
2013
Passive regulation of soil biogeochemical cycling by root water transport. Quijano, J. C., P. Kumar, and D. Drewry (2013): Water Resources Research 49(6): 3729–3746,
2012
A graphical user interface for numerical modeling of acclimation responses of vegetation to climate change. Le, P., P. Kumar, D. Drewry, and J. Quijano (2012): Computers & Geosciences 49(0): 91-101
2012
Competitive and mutualistic dependencies in multispecies vegetation dynamics enabled by hydraulic redistribution. Quijano, J. C., P. Kumar, and D. Drewry, A. Goldstein, and L. Misson (2012): Water Resources Research 48(5): 1-22
2011
Typology of hydrologic predictability. Kumar, P. (2011): Water Resources Research 47 (3):1-9
2011
Implications for the hydrologic cycle under climate change due to the expansion of bioenergy crops in the Midwestern United States. Le, P., P. Kumar, and D. Drewry (2011): Proceedings of the National Academy for the Sciences 108(37): 15085-15090
2010
Ecohydrological responses of dense canopies to environmental variability: 2 Role of acclimation under elevated CO2. Drewry, D.T., Kumar, P., Long, S., Bernacchi, C., Liang, X.-Z., and Sivapalan, M. (2010): Journal of Geophysical Research
2010
Ecohydrological responses of dense canopies to environmental variability: 1 Interplay between vertical structure and photosynthetic pathway. Drewry, D.T., P. Kumar, S. Long, C. Bernacchi, X.-Z Liang, and M. Sivapalan (2010): Journal of Geophysical Research 115(G4):1-22
Papers and books that explicitly acknowledge a CZO grant are highlighted in PALE ORANGE.
Other CZO Publications
2019
Intensively Managed Landscapes CZO Annual Report 2019 . Kumar, P., Anders, A.M., Bettis III, E., Filley, T., Papanicolaou (2019): IML CZO, NSF Award #1331906
2018
Intensively Managed Landscapes CZO Annual Report 2018 . Kumar, P., Anders, A.M., Bettis III, E., Filley, T., Papanicolaou (2018): IML CZO, NSF Award #1331906
2018
Comparing the Impact of Hydraulic Redistribution on Co-existing Vegetation Interaction in Semi-arid Upland and Riparian Sites. Lee, E., Kumar, P., Barron-Gafford, G., Scott, R.L. (2018): Abstract H11A-08 presented at 2018 AGU Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C., 10-14 Dec Cross-CZO
2017
Intensively Managed Landscapes CZO Annual Report 2017. Kumar, P. (2017): IML CZO, NSF Award #1331906
2016
Characterizing Vegetation Canopy Structure Using Airborne Remote Sensing Data. Dutta, D., Wang, K., Lee, E., Goodwell, A., Woo, D.K., Wagner, D., and Kumar, P. (2016): IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
2016
Comment on ‘‘Climate and agricultural land use change impacts on streamflow in the upper midwestern United States’’ by Satish C Gupta et al. Foufoula-Georgiou, E., Belmont, P., Wilcock, P., Gran, K., Finlay, J.C., Kumar, P., Gzuba, J.A., Schwenk, J., and Takbiri, Z. (2016): Water Resources Research
2016
Critical Zone Observatory for Intensively Managed Landscapes (IMLCZO) Annual Report 2016. Kumar, P. (2016): NSF Award #1331906 Cross-CZO
2015
Common Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) Infrastructure and Measurements. J. Chorover, S. Anderson, A. K. Aufdenkampe, R. C. Bales, S. L. Brantley, W. Dietrich, P. Kumar, K. A. Lohse, W. McDowell, D. Richter, T. White (2015): A Guide Prepared By CZO PIs, May 05, 2015 Cross-CZO National
2015
Critical Zone Observatory for Intensively Managed Landscapes (IML-CZO) Annual Report 2015. Kumar, P. (2015): NSF Award #1331906
2015
Determining the Role of Hydraulic Redistribution Regimes in the Critical Zone. Lee E., Kumar P., Barron-Gafford G., Scott R., Hendryx S., Sanchez-Canete E. (2015): Abstract H53E-1701 presented at 2015 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 Dec. Cross-CZO
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News
2020 CZO Webinar Series on Sustainability
17 Jun 2020 - For an updated listing of these talks, including abstracts, see /national/education-outreach/sustainability-2020/ The U.S....
In drought and heavy rains, ecosystems function like information communication networks
29 Aug 2018 - Connectivity explains ecosystem responses to extreme events
How Mesquite Trees Gain a Competitive Edge in Arid Arizona
06 Jul 2018 - A new study shows that mesquites employ hydraulic redistribution to move water between soil layers in the savannas of Santa Rita.
Urban Sewers Evolve Similarly to River Networks
10 Jan 2018 - Like river systems, engineered drainage networks become increasingly fractal as they grow.
Kumar receives Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Samman award
10 Nov 2017 - Praveen Kumar (Univ of Illinois, IML) receives Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Samman award.
What Causes Ecological Shifts?
17 Oct 2017 - A new information partitioning methodology allows researchers to identify the factors that drive behavior in an ecohydrologic system.
NSF News Release: Changes in non-extreme precipitation may have not-so-subtle consequences
18 Sep 2017 - Analysis of more than five decades of data leads to new conclusions
NSF Discovery: Corn better used as food than biofuel, study finds
21 Jun 2017 - Scientists obtain comprehensive view of agricultural ecosystems
What’s Good for Crops not Always Good for the Environment
17 Apr 2017 - What's good for crops is not always good for the environment. Nitrogen, a key plant nutrient, can cause problems when it leaches into water supplies.
2017 CZO Webinar Series: Critical Zone and Society
06 Apr 2017 - 2017 CZO Webinar Series: Critical Zone and Society.
Illinois Researchers on Improving Soybean Production
23 Nov 2016 - A group of researchers at the University of Illinois have found a way to make soybeans more productive by reducing the number of leaves on each plant.
Soybean plants with fewer leaves yield more
23 Nov 2016 - Scientists predict that modern soybeans produce more leaves than they need to the detriment of yield—made worse by rising atmospheric CO2.
CZNews: Fall 2016
11 Oct 2016 - CZO Newsletter CZNews: Fall 2016
2016 CUAHSI Biennial Colloquium
31 May 2016 - 2016 CUAHSI Biennial Colloquium: Finding Your Place in Big Data: Using Observations to Understand Hydrologic Processes for Predicting a Changing World
CZNews: Spring 2016
13 Apr 2016 - The CZO National Office Newsletter CZNews: Spring 2016
Video: Critical Zone Observatories help U.S. plan for the future
21 Mar 2016 - The short video features the Intensely Managed Landscapes Critical Zone Observatory (IML-CZO) with commentary from IML Co-Director Praveen Kumar.
Iowa City Press-Citizen: Conference focuses on watershed, farmland management
05 Feb 2016 - Nick Fetty, For the Press-Citizen 7:27 p.m. CDT July 30, 2015 MUSCATINE – In both sports and academics, universities often compete with...
The Coming Blue Revolution
03 Feb 2016 - Review of P. Kumar's journal publication, "Hydrocomplexity: Addressing water security and emergent environmental risks" in Water Resources Research.
CZOs at AGU 2015
14 Jan 2016 - CZOs at AGU 2015: Award recipients and agenda
FIML Art-Science Rendition of IMLCZO
04 Nov 2015 - This video portrays an artistic rendition of Critical Zone Observatory for Intensively Managed Landscapes (http://imlczo.org).
Sino-USA CZO scientists meet to discuss future collaborations
09 Oct 2015 - About 60 Chinese and American critical zone scientists met in Guiyang, China for two days of discussions and presentations on the significance of...
IMLCZO Director Praveen Kumar Featured in International Innovation
14 May 2015 - Researchers in the University of Illinois’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering are studying vulnerability across the Earth’s surface.
Introducing Intensively Managed Landscapes (IML) CZO
03 Mar 2014 - The IML-CZO focuses on intensely managed agricultural and urban landscapes in Iowa, Illinois, and Minnesota.
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Events
CZO / LTER / NEON / ISMC Joint Workshop
Modeling the Critical Zone; State of the Art, Data Integration, and Frontiers
Boulder, Colorado.Praveen Kumar presents Harleman Lecture
Advancing Food-Energy-Water Sustainability through Critical Zone Science
110 Wartik Lab .Webinar: Blue Revolution: Water scarcity in a changing world
Blue Revolution: Water scarcity in a changing world webinar presented by Praveen Kumar.
Online.2016 CUAHSI Biennial Symposium
National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, WV.
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