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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Young Scientist Award (Donath Medal), The Geological Society of America
  • 2010 - James B. Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2010 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Jasper A. Vrugt is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine, United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Engineering, with a focus on Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Civil and Structural Engineering, and Statistics and Probability.

Their work covers a range of topics including groundwater flow and contamination studies, hydrology and watershed management studies, hydrology and drought analysis, soil and unsaturated flow, flood risk assessment and management, climate variability and models, and soil moisture and remote sensing.

Frequent coauthors in their publications include Yifu Gao, Debora Yumi de Oliveira, Guilherme J. C. Gomes, Mehdi Rahmati, and Jan Vanderborght.

Vrugt has published in several notable venues, including:

  • Water Resources Research
  • Vadose Zone Journal
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences
  • ACS ES&T Water

Recent papers by Vrugt and collaborators include:

  • Improving Simulation Efficiency of MCMC for Inverse Modeling of Hydrologic Systems With a Kalman-Inspired Proposal Distribution, 2020, Water Resources Research
  • Soil hydraulic properties estimation from one-dimensional infiltration experiments using characteristic time concept, 2020, Vadose Zone Journal
  • Confidence intervals of the Kling-Gupta efficiency, 2022, Journal of Hydrology
  • On the use of distribution-adaptive likelihood functions: Generalized and universal likelihood functions, scoring rules and multi-criteria ranking, 2022, Journal of Hydrology
  • Bayesian inference of rock strength anisotropy: Uncertainty analysis of the Hoek-Brown failure criterion, 2021, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences

Awards received by Vrugt include the Young Scientist Award (Donath Medal) from The Geological Society of America in 2011, the Fellow status of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2010, the James B. Macelwane Medal from AGU also in 2010, and Fellowship of the Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • A Shuffled Complex Evolution Metropolis algorithm for optimization and uncertainty assessment of hydrologic model parameters

    Jasper A. Vrugt;Hoshin V. Gupta;Willem Bouten;Soroosh Sorooshian

  • Present and future global distributions of the marine Cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus

    Pedro Flombaum;José L. Gallegos;Rodolfo A. Gordillo;José Rincon

  • Accelerating Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation by differential evolution with self-adaptive randomized subspace sampling

    J.A. Vrugt;C.J.F. ter Braak;C.G.H. Diks;B.A. Robinson

  • Treatment of input uncertainty in hydrologic modeling: doing hydrology backward with Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation.

    Jasper A. Vrugt;Jasper A. Vrugt;Cajo J. F. ter Braak;Martyn P. Clark;James M. Hyman

  • On the value of soil moisture measurements in vadose zone hydrology: a review

    H. Vereecken;J. A. Huisman;H. Bogena;J. Vanderborght

  • Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation using the DREAM software package: Theory, concepts, and MATLAB implementation

    Jasper A. Vrugt;Jasper A. Vrugt

  • Effective and efficient algorithm for multiobjective optimization of hydrologic models

    Jasper A. Vrugt;Hoshin V. Gupta;Luis A. Bastidas;Willem Bouten

  • Evolutionary algorithms and other metaheuristics in water resources

    H.R. Maier;Z. Kapelan;J. Kasprzyk;J. Kollat

  • Modeling Soil Processes: Review, Key Challenges, and New Perspectives

    H. Vereecken;A. Schnepf;J. W. Hopmans;M. Javaux

  • Improved evolutionary optimization from genetically adaptive multimethod search

    Jasper A. Vrugt;Bruce A. Robinson

  • Improved treatment of uncertainty in hydrologic modeling: Combining the strengths of global optimization and data assimilation

    Jasper A. Vrugt;Cees G. H. Diks;Hoshin V. Gupta;Willem Bouten

  • Framework for Understanding Structural Errors (FUSE): A modular framework to diagnose differences between hydrological models

    Martyn P. Clark;Andrew G. Slater;David E. Rupp;Ross A. Woods

  • A formal likelihood function for parameter and predictive inference of hydrologic models with correlated, heteroscedastic, and non-Gaussian errors

    Gerrit Schoups;Jasper A. Vrugt;Jasper A. Vrugt;Jasper A. Vrugt

  • Differential Evolution Markov Chain with snooker updater and fewer chains

    Cajo J. Ter Braak;Jasper A. Vrugt

  • High-dimensional posterior exploration of hydrologic models using multiple-try DREAM (ZS) and high-performance computing

    Eric Laloy;Jasper A. Vrugt;Jasper A. Vrugt

  • Equifinality of formal (DREAM) and informal (GLUE) Bayesian approaches in hydrologic modeling

    Jasper A. Vrugt;Jasper A. Vrugt;Cajo J. F. ter Braak;Hoshin V. Gupta;Bruce A. Robinson

  • Strong latitudinal patterns in the elemental ratios of marine plankton and organic matter

    Adam C. Martiny;Chau T.A. Pham;Francois W. Primeau;Jasper A. Vrugt

  • Towards a comprehensive assessment of model structural adequacy

    Hoshin V. Gupta;Martyn P. Clark;Jasper A. Vrugt;Jasper A. Vrugt;Gab Abramowitz

  • Generalized likelihood uncertainty estimation (GLUE) using adaptive Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling

    Roberta-Serena Blasone;Jasper A. Vrugt;Henrik Madsen;Dan Rosbjerg

  • Treatment of uncertainty using ensemble methods: Comparison of sequential data assimilation and Bayesian model averaging

    Jasper A. Vrugt;Bruce A. Robinson

  • Calibration of a two-dimensional root water uptake model

    J. A. Vrugt;J. W. Hopmans;J. Šimunek

  • Self-Adaptive Multimethod Search for Global Optimization in Real-Parameter Spaces

    J.A. Vrugt;B.A. Robinson;J.M. Hyman

  • One-, two-, and three-dimensional root water uptake functions for transient modeling

    J. A. Vrugt;M. T. van Wijk;J. W. Hopmans;J. Šimunek

  • Sustainability of irrigated agriculture in the San Joaquin Valley, California

    Gerrit Schoups;Jan W. Hopmans;Chuck A. Young;Jasper A. Vrugt

  • Improved extraction of hydrologic information from geophysical data through coupled hydrogeophysical inversion.

    A. C. Hinnell;T. P. A. Ferré;J. A. Vrugt;J. A. Vrugt;J. A. Huisman

  • A Shuffled Complex Evolution Metropolis algorithm for optimization and uncertainty assessment of hydrological model parameters

    J. A. Vrugt;H. V. Gupta;W. Bouten;S. Sorooshian

Frequent Co-Authors

Willem Bouten
Willem Bouten University of Amsterdam
Jan W. Hopmans
Jan W. Hopmans University of California, Davis
Hoshin V. Gupta
Hoshin V. Gupta University of Arizona
Chonggang Xu
Chonggang Xu Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Johan Alexander Huisman
Johan Alexander Huisman Forschungszentrum Jülich
Niklas Linde
Niklas Linde University of Lausanne
Rosie A. Fisher
Rosie A. Fisher National Center for Atmospheric Research
Nate G. McDowell
Nate G. McDowell Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Soroosh Sorooshian
Soroosh Sorooshian University of California, Irvine

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