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Curriculum Vitae
Jayantha TB Obeysekera, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, F.EWRI
CONTACT INFORMATION
Home Address 1228 Avondale Ln, West Palm Beach, Florida 33406
Email jobeysek@fiu.edu
Telephone (305) 919-4119
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Civil Engineering (Hydrology and Water Resources Program), Colorado State
University, Fort Collins, Colorado (1978-1981)
Master of School of Hydrology, University of Roorkee, Roorkee, India (1977-1978)
Engineering
P.G.Diploma School of Hydrology, University of Roorkee, Roorkee, India (1976-1977)
B.S. Civil Engineering (Honors), University of Ceylon, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (1970-1975)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
May 2018 - present Sea Level Solutions Center,
Institute of Water & Environment, Florida International University
Research Professor, Department of Earth & Environment, FIU
Research Professor, Extreme Events Institute, FIU
2011 to Present Research Affiliate Professor, Department of Geosciences and Center
for Environmental Studies, Florida Atlantic University
Oct. 2011 to May 2018 Chief Modeler, Hydrologic & Environmental Systems Modeling, South
Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, Florida
Technical lead at SFWMD for all issues on Climate Change and Sea
Level Rise topics
Oct. 2003 to Sep. 2011 Director, Hydrologic & Environmental Systems Modeling Department,
South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, Florida
May, 1995 to Sep. 2003 Director, Hydrologic Systems Modeling Division, South Florida Water
Management District, West Palm Beach, Florida
May, 1991 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Geography & Geology
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida
May, 2000 Courtesy Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
Oct. 1989 to April, 1995: Supervising Professional Water Resources Engineer
Supervising Professional Civil Engineer
South Florida Water Management District, West
Palm Beach, Florida.
May. 1988 to Sep. 1989: Senior Water Resources Engineer
Sep. 1987 to May. 1988: Staff Water Resources Engineer
Jan. 1987 to Sep. 1987: Water Resources Engineer
- Planning and execution of hydrological studies in the areas of rainfall-runoff modeling, water supply,
flood control, droughts and others important for water management in South Florida.
- Conducting applied research on water management problems in South Florida.
- Developing regional basin plans for water resources planning needs in flood control, water supply,
water quality and environmental enhancement.
- Supervising junior and senior engineers
- Directing a department of over 60 professionals and a budget of over several million dollars
Jan. 1985 - Dec. 1986: Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering,
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado.
-Conducting basic and applied research in areas of stochastic hydrology and water resources planning
and management.
-Teaching courses in hydrology and water resources area.
-Advising students in their graduate work (both as advisor and a committee member)
Aug. 1982 - Dec. 1984: Research Scientist, International Water Resources Institute, School of
Engineering and Applied Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
-Technical assistance in applied and research projects undertaken by the International Water Resources
Institute.
- Teaching courses in Hydrology and Water Resources area.
Sep. 1981 - July 1982: Research Associate, Hydrology and Water Resources Program, Colorado State
University, Fort Collins, Colorado.
- Instructor of an undergraduate course on basic hydrology.
-Assisted in organizing and preparing lecture notes for a course entitled, "Computer Watershed Models
in Hydrology."
-Research on forecasting monthly streamflow for the real time operation of reservoirs.
Aug. 1978 - Aug. 1981: Research Assistant, Hydrology and Water Resources Program, Colorado State
University, Fort Collins, Colorado.
- Modeling hydrologic time series with mixture models in general and shifting level models in particular.
- Research on physically based stochastic models in hydrology.
- Teaching Assistant for an undergraduate (Senior level) course on basic hydrology.
- Teaching assistant for a graduate course on Stochastic Processes in Hydrology.
- Grader for a graduate course on Open Channel Hydraulics.
- Assistant in preparing lecture notes and computer programs for a short course entitled "Statistical
Techniques for Data Generation and Forecasting."
July 1976 - May 1978: UNESCO Fellowship Holder, School of Hydrology, University of Roorkee,
Roorkee, India.
-Research on daily rainfall generation using a Markov chain models.
-Research on a deterministic daily rainfall-runoff model suitable for situations of inadequate hydrologic
data.
- Research on sizing of a reservoir using economic analysis and simulation.
Jan. 1976 - June 1976: Assistant Lecturer in Civil Engineering, University of Sri Lanka, Katubedda, Sri
Lanka.
- Teaching and conducting lab classes in fluid mechanics.
- Advising undergraduate students in their project work.
July 1975 - Dec 1975:Engineering Assistant, Hydrology Division, Irrigation Department, Colombo, Sri
Lanka.
- Operational study of the Kotmale reservoir in Mahaweli project, Sri Lanka.
- A simulation study on the effect of Mahaweli project on existing irrigation schemes.
Mar. 1975 - June 1975: Instructor in Civil Engineering, University of Sri Lanka, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
- Conducting lab classes and grading lab reports for undergraduate civil engineering students.
- Advising students in their project work.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND NATIONAL COMMITTEES
Member, American Geophysical Union, American Society of Civil Engineers, Journal of Coastal
Research.
Member, Surface Runoff Committee of the American Geophysical Union (term expired)
Member of the National Research Council committee to review recent hydrologic studies of the
Klamath River Basin in Oregon and California (term completed)
Member of the National Research Council committee on Sustainable Water & Environmental
Management in California Bay-Delta (term completed)
Member of the National Research Council panel on California Bay Delta Conservation Plan (term
completed)
External agency member to the US Army Corps of Engineers to review the hydrologic modeling of the
New Orleans in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina
Member of the organizing committee of the Federal interagency conference on hydrologic modeling
and sediment transport (3 conferences, 2002, 2006, 2010)
Member of the United States National Climate Assessment and Development and Advisory
Committee, USGCRP, appointed by The Secretary of Commerce, US Department of Commerce
(Current). Lead author for SE Chapter of the 2014 National Climate Assessment
Member and Co-author, Sea Level Rise Scenarios for the National Climate Assessment (released 2012)
Member of the National Research Council committee on the Edwards Aquifer in Texas (term
completed)
Member, Coastal Assessment Regional Scenario Working Group (CARSWG), Department of Defense
(term completed)
Member, Task Committee Lead, Stochastic Methods for Analyzing Nonstaionary Extreme Hydrologic
Events, EWRI, American Society of Civil Engineers
Member, HYDEA Committee, American Society of Civil Engineers
Peer Reviewer for Hydrologic Processes, Journal of Hydrology, EoS (AGU), Climate Science, Earth
Interactions, J. Hydrologic Engineering, Coastal Engineering, Journal of Coastal Research, Water
Resources Research, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Journal of Environmental Planning and
Management, J. American Water Resources Association, Hydrological Sciences, Environmental
Reviews, Climate Dynamics, Regional Environmental Change, Weather, Climate and Society journal
PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION
Registered Professional Engineer (No. 40202), State of Florida, Diplomate Water Resource Engineer,
EWRI, Fellow EWRI
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1. Basic Hydrology (Undergraduate), Colorado State University
2. Advanced Hydrology (Graduate), George Washington University
3. Water Resources Planning (Graduate), George Washington University
4. Computer Watershed Models in Hydrology (Graduate), Colorado State University
5. Stochastic Processes in Hydrology (Graduate), Colorado State University
6. Control of Floods and Droughts (Graduate), Colorado State University
7. Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics (Undergraduate), Colorado State University
8. Dynamic Hydrology (Graduate), Florida Atlantic University
9. Stochastic Hydrology (Graduate), Florida Atlantic University
10. Advanced Topics in Hydrology (Graduate), Florida International University
ACADEMIC ADVISING
Luis Cadavid, M.S. Civil Engineering, Colorado State University (Advisor until leaving CSU)
Paul Trimble, M.S. Florida Atlantic University (Committee Member)
Keren Bolter, Ph.D., Florida Atlantic University (Committee Member)
Aaron Evans, Ph.D., Florida Atlantic University (Co-Advisor, Completed 2014)
Dissertation: Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration using Automated Calibration: Development and
Testing in the State of Florida
G. Naveendrakumar. M.Phil. Historical trends in averages and extremes of rainfall, temperature, and
runoff of Sri Lanka. University of Peradeniya. Sri Lanka.
BOOKS
Co-editor, Multivariate Analysis of Hydrologic Processes, Proceedings of Fourth International
Hydrology Symposium, July 15-17, 1985, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
Co-author, Landscapes and Hydrology of the Pre-drainage Everglades, University Press of Florida,
ISBN 978-0-8130-3535-2, Gainesville, Florida, 2011
Co-editor, Florida’s Climate: Changes, Variations & Impacts. Florida Climate Institute (FCI). 2017
INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
Brazil: One-week visit to write a proposal for water management in the drought-prone regions of the
North and East
Colombia: Visited two times to conduct short-course on hydrologic modeling at the National University,
Medellin
Dominican Republic: Principal Investigator for hydrologic studies, Operational Studies of the Valdesia
Reservoir, a project funded by the World Bank. Taught several training classes on hydrologic modeling.
India: Participated as a member of US team at a special workshop on Incorporation of climate
information in water resources management held in Pune, India, July 2006
Korea:Taught 12 hours on Statistical Modeling of Hydrologic Extremes at the course on Risk Analysis
of Water/Environmental Systems organized by Professors Jose Salas & Jun-Haeng Heo, Yonsei
University, Seoul, Korea: Jan 21-Feb 1, 2013.
Presented an invited lecture on “Incorporation of Climate Change and Variability for Management of
Water Resources in South Florida, USA,” at the International Symposium on New Directions in Climate
Change Research, held Seoul, Korea (March, 2008)
Peru: Short course on “Risk of extreme events under non-stationary conditions” at the National
University of Engineering, Lima, March 14-16, 2013.
Spain: Invited to teach at a one-week short-course on hydrologic modeling using stochastic methods at
University of Valencia
Sri Lanka:
During the last several years, taught several short-courses on hydrologic modeling to engineers at the
Sri Lanka Land Reclamation and Drainage Corporation (SLLRDC).
Developed a methodology for computing design rainfall events for the Colombo Metropolitan
Region.
On several occasions during the past several years, presented seminars to engineers at the Irrigation
Department and to the scientists at International Water Management Institute (IWMI).
Presented a Special Invited Lecture at the International Conference on Water Resources Management
in the Changing Environment of the Monsoon Region held November17-19, 2004 in Colombo, Sri
Lanka. The title of the paper was “Integrated Water Resources Management in the USA–Experience
in South Florida.”
Presented a seminar entitled “Recent Technological Advances in Hydrologic Information Systems”
to about 40 engineers at the Irrigation Department in Sri Lanka (November 25, 2004).
Co-principal investigator on Tsunami Impacts on groundwater, soils, and vegetation in coastal
regions of Sri Lanka, funded by the US National Foundation, and the Sri Lanka National Science
Foundation (visited Sri Lanka in February, 2005, and again in July, 2005)
Presented several talks on Climate Change (March, 2011)
Taught the short course on “Quantifying Hydrologic Risk of Extreme Events in a Changing Climate,”
8th International Perspective on Water Resources and the Environment, IPWE Conference organized
by EWRI or the American Society of Civil Engineers, Jan 3-6, 2016
Taught a 2-day workshop on Watershed and River Flow Modeling using HEC software (43
engineers, April 2017)
USA:
Taught a short course entitled “Quantifying Hydrologic Risk of Extreme Events in Non-Stationary
Environments,” at the 2013 ASCE-EWRI meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio
Taught the coarse on “Quantifying Hydrologic Risk of Extreme Events in Changing Climate
and Environment”, EWRI meeting, West Palm Beach, Florida, May 22, 2016
Venezuela: Invited to present a paper on “Ecosystem Restoration and Sustainable Development in South
Florida,” Inter-american Conference on Environmental Issues, December 8-11, 1997, Universidad
Simon Bolivar
Bolivia: Taught a short course entitled “Hydrologic Risk of Extreme Events,” ASOCIACION
BOLIVIANA DE INGENIEROS PARA LA CONSERVACION DEL AGUA, Tarija and Sucre,
Bolivia, February 28-March 7, 2016
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
1. Jose D. Salas, J. T. B. Obeysekera, and R. A. Smith, "Identification of Streamflow Stochastic
Models," Journal of the Hydraulics Division, ASCE, Vol 107, No. HY7, July, pp. 853-866, 1981.
2. J. D. Salas, and J. T. B. Obeysekera, "ARMA Model Identification of Geophysical Time
Series," Journal of Water Resources Research, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp 1011-1021, 1982.
3. A. V. Vechhia, J. T. B. Obeysekera, J. D. Salas and D. C. Boes, "Aggregation and Estimation
of Low Order Periodic ARMA Models," Journal of Water Resources Research, Vol 19, No. 5,
pp 1297-1306, 1983.
4. V. Yevjevich, and J. T. B. Obeysekera, "Estimation of Skewness of Hydrologic Variables,"
Journal of Water Resources Research, Vol. 20, No. 7, pp. 935-943, July, 1984.
5. V. Yevjevich, and J. T. B. Obeysekera, "Effects of Incorrectly Removed Periodicity in
Parameters of Stochastic Dependence," Journal of Water Resources Research, Vol. 21, No. 5,
pp. 1685-1690, May. 1985.
6. J. T. B. Obeysekera and V. Yevjevich, "A Note on Simulation of Samples of Gamma
Autoregressive Variables," Journal of Water Resources Research, Vol 21, N0. 10, pp. 1569-
1572, Oct. 1985.
7. J. T. B. Obeysekera, M. Bayazit and V. Yevjevich, "Covariance Between Subsample
Mean and Variance as Related To Storage Variables," Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 78, pp. 137-
150, May, 1985.
8. V. Yevjevich, and J. T. B. Obeysekera, "Correlation Between Sample First Autocorrelation
Coefficient and Extreme Hydrologic Runs," Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 79, pp. 171-186, July
1985.
9. J. T. B. Obeysekera and J. D. Salas, "Modeling of Aggregated Hydrologic Time Series," Journal
of Hydrology, Vol. 86, pp. 197-219, 1986.
10. V. Yevjevich and J. T. B. Obeysekera, "Relationship Among Water Storage Variables"
Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, ASCE, Vol. 113, No. 3, May, 1987,
pp. 353-367.
11. J. T. B. Obeysekera, G. Q. Tabios III, and J. D. Salas, "On Parameter Estimation of Temporal
Rainfall Models" , Journal of Water Resources Research, Vol. 23, No. 10, pp. 1837-1850, Oct.
1987.
12. H. W. Shen, G. Q. Tabios, and Jayantha Obeysekera, "On Outlier Detection Tests," Schweizer
Ingenieur und Architekt, Nr.37, 8. Sep. 1988.
15. H.W. Shen, G.J. Koch, and J. T. B. Obeysekera, "Physically Based Flood Features and
Frequencies,"Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 116, No. 4, April, 1990.
16. Luis Cadavid, Jayantha T. B. Obeysekera, “Flood-Frequency Derivation from Kinematic
Wave,” Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Vol. 117, No. 4, April 1991, pp. 489-510.
17. W. Abtew, J. Obeysekera, and G. Shih, "Spatial Analysis for Monthly Rainfall in South
Florida," Water Resources Bulletin, Americal Water Resources Association, April, 1993.
18. Jose Salas, and J. T. B. Obeysekera, “Conceptual Basis of Seasonal Streamflow Time Series
Models,” Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Vol. 118, No. 8, August 1992, pp. 1186-1194.
19. G. Shih, W. Abtew, and J. Obeysekera, "Accuracy of Nutrient Runoff Load Calculations Using
Time-Composite Sampling," Transactions of ASAE, Vol. 37(2), 1994.
20. W. Abtew, J. Obeysekera, and G. Shih.) "Spatial Variation of Daily Rainfall and Network
Design". Transactions of ASAE. Vol. 38, No. 3. pp. 843-845, 1995.
21. W. Abtew, and J. Obeysekera, "Lysimeter Study of Evapotranspiration of Cattails and
Comparison of Three Estimation Methods". Transactions of the ASAE, Vol. 38, No. 1. pp 121-
129, 1995.
22. Abtew, W. and J. Obeysekera, "Estimation of Energy Requirements of Morning dew
Evaporation from Leaf Surfaces". Water Resources Bulletin Vol. 31,No. 2. pp. 217-225, 1995.
23. Abtew, W., and J. Obeysekera, "Drainage Generation and Water Use in the Everglades
Agricultural Area Basin". Water Resources Bulletin. Vol. 32, No. 6 pp. 1147-1158, 1996.
24. P. Windemuller, D.L. Anderson, H. Aalderink, W. Abtew, and J. Obeysekera, "Modeling
Flow in the Everglades Agricultural Area Irrigation/Drainage Canal Network". Journal of the
American Water Resources Association. Vol. 33, No. 1 pp. 21-434, 1996.
25. Jayantha Obeysekera, and Ken Rutchey, "Selection of scale for Everglades landscape
models," Landscape Ecology, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp7-18, 1997.
26. Jorge I. Restrepo, Angela M. Montoya, and Jayantha Obeysekera, “A Wetland Simulation
Module for the MODFLOW Ground Water Model,” Ground Water, Vol. 36, No. 5, September
– October, 1998.
27. Jayantha Obeysekera, J. Browder, L. Hornung, and M. Harwell, “The natural South Florida
system I: Climate, geology, and hydrology, Urban Ecosystems, 3, 223-244, 1999.
28. Mark M. Wilsnack, David E. Welter, Angela Montoya, Jorge Restrepo, and Jayantha
Obeysekera, “Simulating Flow in Regional Wetlands with the MODFLOW Wetlands
Package,” Journal of the American Water Resources Association, Vol. 37, No. 3, June 2001
29. Tatiana Hernandez, Mahmood Nachabe, Mark Ross, and Jayantha Obeysekera, “Modeling
Runoff from Variable Source in Humid Shallow Water Table Environments,” Journal of the
American Water Resources Association, Volume 39, No. 1, pp 75-85, 2003
30. Mahmood Nachabe, Caroline Masek, and Jayantha Obeysekera, “Observations and Modeling
of Profile Soil Water Storage above a Shallow Water Table,” Soil Science Society of America
Journal, 68:719-724, 2004
31. Joseph Park, Randy VanZee, Wasantha Lal, David Welter, and Jayantha Obeysekera,
”Sigmoidal Activation of PI Control Applied to Water Management,” Journal of Water
Resources Planning and Planning and Management, ASCE, Vol 131, (4), p 292-298,
July/August, 2005
32. Joseph Park, Jayantha Obeysekera, and Randy VanZee, “Dynamic Control Switching Applied
to Water Resource Management Simulation,” Paper accepted for publication in the Journal of
the American Water Resources Association, August, 2005.
33. Paul Trimble, J. Obeysekera. L. Cadavid, and R. Santee, “Application of Climate Outlooks for
Water Management in South Florida,” in Climate Variations, Climate Change, and Water
Resources Engineering. Edited by Jurgen Garbrecht, and Thomas Piechota, peer-reviewed and
published by American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005.
34. Joseph Park, Jayantha Obeysekera, and Randy VanZee, “Prediction boundaries and forecasting
of non linear hydrologic stage data,” Journal of Hydrology, 312, 79-94, 2005.
35. Illangasekare, T., Jayantha Obeysekera and others, Impacts of the 2004 tsunami on
groundwater resources in Sri Lanka, Water Resour. Res., 42, W05201,
doi:10.1029/2006WR004876.2006.
36. Joseph Park, Jayantha Obeysekera, and Randy VanZee, “Multilayer Control Hierarchy for
Water Management Decisions in an Integrated Hydrologic Simulation Model, Journal of Water
Resources Planning and Planning and Management, ASCE, 133(2), 2007.
37. Jayantha Obeysekera, “The Role of Technology in Water Resources Planning and
Management, contributed as task committee member on an ASCE monograph edited by E. M.
Perez, and W. Viessman, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009.
38. Joseph Park, Jayantha Obeysekera, Jenifer Barnes, “Temporal Energy Partitions of Florida
Extreme Sea Level Events as a function of Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation,” Ocean
Science, 6, 587-593, 2010
39. Joseph Park, Jayantha Obeysekera, Jenifer Barnes, Michelle Irizarry, Winnie Said.
“Climate Links and Variability of Extreme Sea Level Events at Key West, Pensacola, and
Mayport Florida,” ASCE Journal of Port, Coastal, Waterway and Ocean Engineering, 136
(6), 350-356, 2010
40. Jayantha Obeysekera, M. Irizarry, J. Park, J. Barnes, and T. Dessalegne, “Climate Change and
Its Implication for Water Resources Management in South Florida,” Journal of Stochastic
Environmental Research & Risk Assessment, 25(4), 495, 2011
41. Joseph Park, Jayantha Obeysekera, Michelle Irizarry, Paul Trimble, “Storm Surge
Projections and Implications for Water Management in South Florida,” Climatic Change,
doi: 10.1007/s10584-011-0079-8, 2011.
42. Jayantha Obeysekera, L. Kuebler, S. Ahmed, M Chang, V. Engel, C. Langevin, E. Swain
and Y. Wan, “Use of Hydrologic and Hydrodynamic Modeling for Ecosystem Restoration,”
Critical Reviews in Environmental Science & Technology, 41(S1):447-488, 2011.
43. J. Obeysekera, J. Park, M. Irizarry-Ortiz, P. Trimble, J. Barnes, J. VanArman, W. Said, and
E. Gadzinski. Past and Projected Trends in Climate and Sea Level for South Florida. South
Florida Water Management District, Hydrologic and Environmental Systems Modeling
Technical Report (peer reviewed), July 5, 2011, 148 pp.
http://my.sfwmd.gov/portal/page/portal/xrepository/sfwmd_repository_pdf/ccireport_public
ationversion_14jul11.pdf
44. Abtew, W., Jayantha Obeysekera, and N. Iricanin, “Pan Evaporation and Potential
Evapotranspiration Trends in South Florida,” Hydrological Processes, 25: 958–969.
doi: 10.1002/hyp.7887, 2011
45. Michelle M. Irizarry-Ortiz, Jayantha Obeysekera, Joseph Park, Paul Trimble, Jenifer
Barnes, Winnie Said, Erik Gadzinski, “Historical Trends in Florida Temperature and
Precipitation,” Hydrological Processes Journal, 27(16), 2013.
46. Jayantha Obeysekera, Joseph Park, Michelle Irizarry-Ortiz, Jenifer Barnes, and Paul
Trimble. “Probabilistic Projection of Mean Sea Level and Coastal Extremes,” Journal of
Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering, 139 (2), 135:141, 2012
47. Jayantha Obeysekera and Joseph Park. “Scenario-Based Projection of Extreme Sea
Levels.” Journal of Coastal Research: Volume 29, Issue 1: pp. 1 – 7.
48. Parris, A., P. Bromirski, V. Burkett, D. Cayan, M. Culver, J. Hall, R. Horton, K. Knuuti, R.
Moss, J. Obeysekera, A. Sallenger, and J. Weiss. 2012. Global Sea Level Rise Scenarios
for the US National Climate Assessment. NOAA Tech Memo OAR CPO-1. 37 pp. 2012.
49. Jayantha Obeysekera. “Validating climate models for computing evapotranspiration in
hydrologic studies: how relevant are climate model simulations over Florida?”, Regional
Environmental Change, 13(1),pp 81-90, 2013.
50. Ramesh S.V. Teegavarapu, Aneesh Goly, and Jayantha Obeysekera, “Influences of
Atlantic multidecadal oscillation phases on spatial and temporal variability of regional
precipitation extremes,” Journal of Hydrology, 495, pp. 74-93. 2013.
51. Salas, J. and Obeysekera, J. "Revisiting the Concepts of Return Period and Risk for
Nonstationary Hydrologic Extreme Events." ASCE J. Hydrol. Eng., 19(3), 2014.
(Received 3 awards for this paper including the 2015 ASCE Norman Medal)
52. Obeysekera, J. and Salas. “Quantifying the Uncertainty of Design Floods Under Non-
Stationary Conditions.” ASCE J. Hydrol. Eng., 19(7), 2014.
53. Lynne Carter, J. Jones (CLAs) , L. Berry, V. Burkett, J. Murley, J. Obeysekera, P. J.
Schramm, D. Wear (Lead authors) . Chapter 17. Southeast and the Caribbean, Third
National Climate Assessment. Jayantha Obeysekera is a member of the National Climate
Assessment Development & Advisory Committee (a federal committee). 2014.
54. Jayantha Obeysekera, Jenifer Barnes, Martha Nungesser. “Predicting Response of the
Greater Florida Everglades to Climate Change and Future Hydrologic Regimes: Climate
Sensitivity Runs and Regional Hydrologic Modeling,” Environment Management, 55(4),
749-62, 2015.
55. John A. Ha ll, S. G ill, J . O b e ys e ke ra , W. Sweet , K. Knuut i, a n d J . Ma rb u rg e r (2016).
“Re g io n a l Se a Le ve l Sc e n a rio s fo r C o a st a l Risk Ma n a g e m e nt: Ma n a g in g the
Un ce rt a inty o f Futu re Se a Le ve l C h a n g e a n d Ext re m e Wa t e r Le ve ls fo r De p a rt m e nt
o f De fe n s e C o a st a l Sit e s Wo rld wid e ”. U.S. De p a rt m e nt o f De fe n s e , St ra t e g ic
En viro n m e nta l Re s e a rc h a n d De ve lo p m e nt Pro g ra m”. 224 pp. 2016. (peer reviewed)
56. Jayantha Obeysekera, Jose Salas, “Frequency of Recurrent Extremes under
Nonstationarity,” ASCE J. Hydrol. Eng, 21(5), 2016.
57. William V. Sweet, M. Menendez, A. Genz, Jayantha Obeysekera, J. Park, and J. 2016.
In Tide’s Way: Southeast Florida’s September 2015 Sunny-Day Flood [in “Explaining
Extremes of 2015 from a Climate Perspective”]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 97 (12),
S14–S18, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0149
58. William V. Sweet, R. Kopp, C. P. Weaver, J. Obeysekera, R.M. Horton, E. R. Thieler, C.
Zervas. 2017. “Global and Regional Sea Level Rise Scenarios for the United States,” NOAA
Technical Report NOS CO-OPS 083.
59. Obeysekera, J., W. Graham, M.C. Sukop, T. Asefa, D. Wang, K. Ghebremichael, B.
Mwashote. 2017. Implications of Climate Change on Florida’s Water Resources. Chapter 3.
Florida’s Climate: Changes, Variations & Impacts. Florida Climate Institute.
60. Kirtman, B. P., V. Misra, R. J. Burgman, J. Infanti, and J. Obeysekera. 2017. Florida
Climate Variability and Prediction. Chapter 17. Florida’s Climate: Changes, Variations &
Impacts. Florida Climate Institute.
61. Salas, J.D., J. Obeysekera, and R. Vogel. 2018. Techniques for assessing water infrastructure
for nonstationary extreme events: a review. Hydrologic Science Journal, Vol. 63, Issue 3.
Published online: 27Feb2018
62. Sinha, Palash, J.D. Fuentes, M.E.Mann, A. Mejia, L. Ning, W. Sun. T. He., J. Obeysekera.
2018. Downscaled rainfall projections in south Florida using self-organizing maps. Science
of the Total Environment. Vol. 635, 1, pp 1110-1123
63. G. Naveendrakumar, Meththika Vithanage, Hyun-Han Kwon, M. C. M. Iqbal, S.
Pathmarajah, and Jayantha Obeysekera. 2018. Five Decadal Trends in Averages
and Extremes of Rainfall and Temperature in Sri Lanka,” Advances in Meteorology,
vol. 2018, Article ID 4217917, 13 pages. https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/4217917
64. John A. Hall, Christopher P. Weaver, Jayantha Obeysekera, Mark Crowell, Radley M.
Horton, Robert E. Kopp, John Marburger, Douglas C. Marcy, Adam Parris, William V.
Sweet, William C. Veatch & Kathleen D. White. 2019. Rising Sea Levels: Helping
Decision-Makers Confront the Inevitable, Coastal Management,
https://doi.org/10.1080/08920753.2019.1551012
65. Ghanbari, M., Arabi, M., Obeysekera, J., & Sweet, W. (2019). A coherent statistical model
for coastal flood frequency analysis under nonstationary sea level conditions. Earth's Future,
7, 162–177. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EF001089
66. Jose Salas, J. Obeysekera. 2019. Probability Distribution and Risk of the First Occurrence
of k Extreme Hydrologic Events, Paper accepted for publication in ASCE Journal of
Hydrologic Engineering.
67. de Bruijn, K.M., Maran, C., Zygnerski, M., Jurado, J., Burzel, A., Jeuken, C., Obeysekera,
J. 2019. Flood Resilience of Critical Infrastructure: Approach and Method Applied to Fort
Lauderdale, Florida. Water 2019, 11, 517.
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