Kara Carr

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Assistant Project Scientist
Co-Manager, Jaime Amorocho Hydraulics Laboratory

  • Civil and Environmental Engineering
She/Her/Hers

Dr. Carr’s areas of specialization include: sediment transport scaling and self-similarity, computational fluid dynamics, physical hydraulic modeling of environmental fluid flows and sediment transport, computational sediment transport modeling, and eco-hydraulics with a focus on fish protection and endangered species.

Publications
  • Design and Laboratory Testing of Enclosures to Support Conservation of an Endangered Estuarine Fish
    Journal Article | Gille, D., Cocherell, D., Peterson, A., Carr, K., Ercan, A., Baerwald, M., Schreier, B., Sommer, T., Fangue, N. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science, 24, 10.15447/sfews.2026v24iss1/2/art6
  • Flood forecasting by means of dynamical downscaling of global NWPs coupling with a hydrologic model at Nong Son-Thanh My River basins
    Journal Article | Trinh, T., Do, N., Trinh, L., Carr, K. Journal of Water and Climate Change, 14, 3257-3279. 10.2166/wcc.2023.262
  • A numerical coupled atmospheric–hydrologic modeling system for probable maximum flood estimation with application to California's southern Sierra Nevada foothills watersheds
    Journal Article | Trinh, T., Diaz, A., Iseri, Y., Snider, E., Anderson, M., Carr, K., Kavvas, M. Journal of Flood Risk Management, 15, 10.1111/jfr3.12809
  • Experimental evaluation of louver guidance efficiency for green sturgeon (Acipenser medirostris)
    Journal Article | Steel, A., Nguyen, T., Cocherell, D., Carr, K., Bell, H., Peterson, A., Kavvas, M., Fangue, N. River Research and Applications, 38, 1609-1619. 10.1002/rra.4032
  • Hydrologic modeling by means of a hybrid downscaling approach: an application to the Sai Gon–Dong Nai Rivers Basin
    Journal Article | Trinh, T., Nguyen, V., Do, N., Carr, K., Tran, D., Thang, N., Dang, T. Journal of Water and Climate Change, 13, 407-420. 10.2166/wcc.2021.426
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