Dr Karina Gutierrez-Jurado
Adjunct Academic Status
College of Science and Engineering
Dr. Karina Gutierrez-Jurado is passionate about hydro(geo)logy and environmental resource management and a believer in multidisciplinary approaches to complex challenges. With a B.Sc in Ecology from Mexico (2010), an M.Sc in Water Science and Management from the USA (2014), and her PhD in Hydrogeology from Australia (2020), she has built a strong background as an environmental scientist with a global scope to work on a broad set of key environmental and water issues.
Growing up in a small town in arid northern Mexico, Karina has experienced firsthand the dramatic impacts of drought in the economy and living standards of her home State Chihuahua. In a world with increasing water scarcity, Karina's Master and PhD thesis focused on understanding surface water-GW interactions in irrigated valleys (Northern New Mexico, US) and on exploring why and how dryland rivers transition from a dry to a flowing state (South Australia). Currently, Karina is Hydrologist at DEW and an Adjunct Academic at Flinders University.
Ph.D., Hydrogeology, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, 2020
Advisor: Dr Margaret Shanafield
Dissertation Title: Streamflow generation in Intermittent and Ephemeral Streams
M.Sc., Water Science and Management, New Mexico State University, NM, USA, 2014
Advisor: Dr Alexander Fernald
Dissertation Title: Water Budgets and Surface Water-Groundwater Interactions of Irrigated Farms in Northern New Mexico
B.Sc., Ecological Engineering, Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, Chihuahua, México, 2010
2018 Research Higher Degree Student International Conference Travel Grant, Flinders University
2014 Graduate School Honors award, New Mexico State University
2010 Valedictorian of the 2010 Ecological Engineering Class, Autonomous University of Chihuahua
2010 “Generación 10” Chihuahua State Government Academic Excelence Award
2007-2010 University of Chihuahua Academic Excellence Scholarship
2007-2010 Outstanding Student Award of the Ecological Engineering Program
Adjunct Academic
Karina has collaborated as a teaching assistant and demonstrator for the following topics:
- Fields methods in Hydrology, Flinders University (2017-2019)
- Earth and Environmental Sciences, Flinders University (2019)
- Watershed Management Laboratory, New Mexico State University (2013-2014)
Addionally, Karina co-developed the Groundwater educational module and Student Handbook for the State (2020) and National (2021) Stormwater Awards for Excellence in Innovation and Research Oakland’s Park Wetlands Education Centre.
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