Modern Causal Inference Creating a Gestalt Switch in the Science of Forests and Floods

Dr. Younes Alila, P.Eng

Professor of Hydrology, Faculty of Forestry, UBC-Vancouver

Dr. Younes Alila is currently a Professor of Forest Hydrology and Watershed Management in the Department of Forest Resources Management in the Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia. From 1992 to 1996, he worked full-time as a project engineer for the Greater Vancouver Regional District (now Metro Vancouver) while finishing his PhD program at the University of Ottawa. His MSc and PhD research work is on regional hydrology with a main focus on the transfer of information related to low-flows, floods and precipitation from gauged to ungauged sites. His current research program addresses a number of problems related to watershed management using an approach that combines experimental, theoretical, stochastic, and deterministic hydrology across a wide range of temporal and spatial scales.