ELIZABETH A. MURPHY Hydrologist

EDUCATION
B.S. in Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 1998
M.S. in Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, December 2002

AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Rainfall-runoff modeling
Water Quality Sampling
Bacterial Plate Counts

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Registered as Engineering Intern in the State of Illinois
Member of Society of Women Engineers

CURRENT PROJECTS
Bull Creek Hydrologic and Hydraulic Modeling
Near Real-Time Flood Simulation System for Salt Creek in DuPage County, Illinois

PUBLICATIONS

Murphy, E.A., 2005, Comparison of Potential Evapotranspiration Calculated by the LXPET (Lamoreux Potential Evapotranspiration) Program and by the WDMUtil (Watershed Data Management Utility) Program, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1020.

Groschen, G.E., Arnold, T.L., Harris, M.A., Dupre, D.H., Fitzpatrick, F.A., Scudder, B.C., Morrow, W.S., Terrio, P.J., Warner, K.L., and Murphy, E.A., 2004, Water Quality in the Upper Illinois River Basin, Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin, 1999.2001, U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1230.

Ishii, A.L., Ortel, T.W., Over, T.M., Murphy, E.A., 2003, Nexrad and rainfall-gage precipitation inputs for near real-time flood simulation of Salt Creek in Du Page County, Illinois, 2003 National Hydrologic Warning Council/Southwestern Association of ALERT Systems Abstracts, Dallas.