Watershed Hydrologist


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Molly Cain
Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Science
O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
Ward Watershed Hydrology and Engineering Group
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email: cainmr@iu.edu
twitter: @MollyRCain
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News and Updates

October 2020
  • I had fun reflecting ecohydrology-related questions as an AGU Ecohydro "leaf." Check out the blog post.
July 2020
  • Selected as a finalist for the 2021 Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship. I'm excited to spend a year working for a federal agency in DC bridging science and policy!
  • Received an AGU Horton Hydrology Research Grant to support a modeling investigation of the role of ephemeral floodplain channel inundation in river corridor exchange
August 2019
  • Officially a PhD candidate!
May 2019
  • From the agricultural Midwestern U.S. to rice paddies in Madagascar. Studying the hydrologic function of managed landscapes.Thanks to IU Global for supporting this with a Pre-Dissertation Travel Grant. Had a great time with researchers at the CentreValBio Research Station. Turns out lemurs are pretty cool too!
October 2018
  • Oral presentation at the Geological Society of America Meeting in Indianapolis.
June 2018
  • Had an awesome 2 weeks learning about food security at the Borlaug Summer Institute at Purdue.
December 2017
  • Successful presentation at American Geophysical Union Meeting 2017 in New Orleans.