Biography
My work explores the intimate feedback loop between the water cycle and humanity. I use paleoclimate proxies (mainly tree rings) as well as climate and hydrological models to study the water cycle—its behavior over space and time across scales, in the past, present, and future. Working with historians and archaeologists, I examine how societies were affected by, and adapted to, such changes. This knowledge of the past is key to help societies cope with climate change in the future.
Research Interests
- Dendrochronology
- Hydrology
- Water resources management
- Paleoclimate
Education
- PhD, Singapore University of Technology and Design
- MS, Delft University of Technology
- MS, National University of Singapore
- BEng, National University of Singapore and University of Melbourne
Grants
Ultra-High Resolution Paleostreamflow in Southeast Asia: Proxy/Model Comparison (National Science Foundation)
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Earth Science and Environmental Change
Highlighted Publications
Montanari, A., Nguyen, H., Rubinetti, S., Ceola, S., Galelli, S., Rubino, A., & Zanchettin, D. (2023). Why the 2022 Po River drought is the worst in the past two centuries. Science Advances, 9(32), Article eadg8304. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adg8304
Nguyen, H. T. T., Galelli, S., Xu, C., & Buckley, B. M. (2022). Droughts, Pluvials, and Wet Season Timing Across the Chao Phraya River Basin: A 254-Year Monthly Reconstruction From Tree Ring Widths and δ18O. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(17), Article e2022GL100442. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100442
Khan, N., Nguyen, H. T. T., Galelli, S., & Cherubini, P. (2022). Increasing Drought Risks Over the Past Four Centuries Amidst Projected Flood Intensification in the Kabul River Basin (Afghanistan and Pakistan)—Evidence From Tree Rings. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(24), Article e2022GL100703. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100703
Cook, B. I., Smerdon, J. E., Cook, E. R., Williams, A. P., Anchukaitis, K. J., Mankin, J. S., Allen, K., Andreu-Hayles, L., Ault, T. R., Belmecheri, S., Coats, S., Coulthard, B., Fosu, B., Grierson, P., Griffin, D., Herrera, D. A., Ionita, M., Lehner, F., Leland, C., ... Wise, E. K. (2022). Megadroughts in the Common Era and the Anthropocene. Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, 3(11), 741-757. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-022-00329-1
Nguyen, H. T. T., Turner, S. W. D., Buckley, B. M., & Galelli, S. (2020). Coherent Streamflow Variability in Monsoon Asia Over the Past Eight Centuries—Links to Oceanic Drivers. Water Resources Research, 56(12), Article e2020WR027883. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR027883
Recent Publications
Do, H. X., Nguyen, H. T. T., Tran, V. N., Le, M. H., Nguyen, B. Q., Pham, H. T., Le, T. H., Van Binh, D., Dang, T. D., Tran, H., & Nguyen, T. V. (2024). Uncertain Benefits of Using Remotely Sensed Evapotranspiration for Streamflow Estimation—Insights From a Randomized, Large-Sample Experiment. Water Resources Management, 38(10), 3819-3835. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-024-03840-w
Harley, G. L., Therrell, M. D., Maxwell, J. T., Bhuta, A., Bregy, J. C., Heeter, K. J., Patterson, T., Rochner, M., Rother, M. T., Stambaugh, M., Zampieri, N. E., Altman, J., Collins-Key, S. A., Gentry, C. M., Guiterman, C., Huffman, J. M., Johnson, D. J., King, D. J., Larson, E. R., ... Ahmad, S. (2023). The Longleaf Tree-Ring Network: Reviewing and expanding the utility of Pinus palustris Mill. Dendrochronological data. Progress in Physical Geography, 47(4), 570-596. https://doi.org/10.1177/03091333221147652
Montanari, A., Nguyen, H., Rubinetti, S., Ceola, S., Galelli, S., Rubino, A., & Zanchettin, D. (2023). Why the 2022 Po River drought is the worst in the past two centuries. Science Advances, 9(32), Article eadg8304. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adg8304
Cook, B. I., Smerdon, J. E., Cook, E. R., Williams, A. P., Anchukaitis, K. J., Mankin, J. S., Allen, K., Andreu-Hayles, L., Ault, T. R., Belmecheri, S., Coats, S., Coulthard, B., Fosu, B., Grierson, P., Griffin, D., Herrera, D. A., Ionita, M., Lehner, F., Leland, C., ... Wise, E. K. (2022). Megadroughts in the Common Era and the Anthropocene. Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, 3(11), 741-757. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-022-00329-1
Khan, N., Nguyen, H. T. T., Galelli, S., & Cherubini, P. (2022). Increasing Drought Risks Over the Past Four Centuries Amidst Projected Flood Intensification in the Kabul River Basin (Afghanistan and Pakistan)—Evidence From Tree Rings. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(24), Article e2022GL100703. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100703