Elizabeth Carter

Carter has an MSc in Environmental Information Science and a PhD in Water Resources Engineering. She is coordinating digital twin development for the Digital Waters Flagship and leading the Water Digitalization Engineering research group at the Water, Energy and Environmental Research Unit at the University of Oulu.

Carter's research combines information science and spatial statistics/Machine learning/AI to improve characterization of hydrologic processes; increase resilience in water resources infrastructure; and better predict, detect, and respond to hydroclimatic extremes. She utilizes tools from the digital age such as edge computing, distributed sensor networks, high-performance computing, satellite remote sensing, and photogrammetry to explore management-critical topics in hydrometeorology, boundary layer physics, and physical hydrology. Her primary focus areas include management of legacy infrastructure, equity in water resources systems, and natural disaster prediction/preparedness and reconnaissance/response.

Carter has participated in and managed several National Science Foundation, United States Geological Survey, United States Army Corps of Engineers, National Aeronautics and Space Foundation, and state Department of Environmental Conservation projects. She is an Assistant Professor of Computational Hydrology with joint appointments in the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Science at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, USA.