I’m Anneliese, a stormwater engineer, planner, and perpetual student.

Research

My research focuses on stormwater management policy, planning, and  design strategies to minimize the negative ecological impacts of urbanization. Through collaboration with a range of municipalities from different geographic and political settings, I seek to understand and develop solutions for natural and institutional barriers to restoring watershed functions in human altered environments. In particular, I’m interested the potential for using of distributed infiltration facilities and green infrastructure techniques for flood reduction, groundwater recharge, and stream base flow augmentation. Benefits of small-scale infiltration systems have been well documented, but applications are generally limited by soil infiltration rate and groundwater levels, conditions that vary widely across urban landscapes. Understanding urban hydrologic pathways and approaches to stormwater management in various contexts will help inform future conjunctive surface water, groundwater, and environmental flow policy and planning efforts.

Education

I received a B.Sc. in civil/environmental engineering from Seattle University in 2012 and M.Sc. in environmental engineering from UC Berkeley in 2017. Between degrees, I worked as a water resources engineer for an Herrera Environmental Consultants in Seattle. I am now pursuing a PhD in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning from UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design.