Anzy Lee

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Research Scientist
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Utah State University

Contact
anzy.lee@usu.edu

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Short bio

A scientist with a passion for environmental hydrodynamics, fluvial geomorphology, surface & groundwater interactions, sediment transport, aquatic ecosystem, and watershed hydrology. My mission is to understand watershed dynamics and nteractions to enhance ecosystem function and resilience.

Pulibcation

  1. A. Lee, J. Castejon, N. K. Patterson, R. Diehl, C. B. Phillips, B. A. Lane, G. B. (In Preparation) Probabilistic quantification of within-reach hydraulic geometry variability.
  2. J. Castejon, A. Lee, N. K. Patterson, B. A. Lane, C. B. Phillips (Submitted) Leveraging High-resolution Topography to Advance Parsimonious Reach-scale Flood Inundation Mapping.
  3. A. Lee, B. A. Lane, G. B. Pasternack (Submitted) RiverSTICH: A modular synthetic 3D channel terrain generator from sparse transect data.
  4. A. Lee, B. A. Lane, G. B. Pasternack (2025) Spectral Slope and Coherence Quantitatively Summarize Nested Topographic Variability Patterns in Rivers. River Res. Applic., 41: 1093-1103.[Link]
  5. A. Lee, B. A. Lane, G. B. Pasternack (2023) Identifying key channel variability functions controlling ecohydraulic conditions using synthetic channel archetypes. Ecohydrology. e2533 [Link]
  6. A. Lee, A. Aubeneau, M. B. Cardenas, X. Liu (2022) Hyporheic exchange due to cobbless on sandy beds. Water Resour. Res. 58, e2021WR030164 [Link]
  7. A. Lee, A. Aubeneau, M. B. Cardenas, X. Liu (2021) Hyporheic Exchange in Sand Dunes Under a Freely Deforming River Water Surface. Water Resour. Res. 57, e2020WR028817 [Link]
  8. A. Lee, A. Aubeneau, M. B. Cardenas (2020) The Sensitivity of Hyporheic Exchange to Fractal Properties of Riverbeds. Water Resour. Res. 56, e2019WR026560. [Link]
  9. A. Lee, J. W. Geem, K. D. Suh (2016) Determination of near-global optimal initial weights of artificial neural network using harmony search algorithm: Application to breakwater armor stones. Appl. Sci. 6(6), 164. [Link]
  10. A. Lee, S. E. Kim, K. D. Suh (2016) An easy way to use artificial neural network model for calculating stability number of rock armor. Ocean Eng. 127, 349-356. [Link]

Conference Proceedings

  1. J. Stieve, B. A. Lane, A. Lee (Submitted to ISE 2026) Generating Syntetic Terrain Models from Sparse Historic Datasets for Ecohydraulic Assessment.
  2. A. Lee, J. Castejon, N. Patterson, R. Diehl, C. B. Phillips, B. A. Lane (Accepted to AGU 2025. Oral Presentation) Probabilistic quantification of within-reach hydraulic geometry.
  3. J. Castejon, A. Lee, B. A. Lane, C. B. Phillips (2024) Accurate River Channel Representation Within a HAND-y Method for Flood Inundation Mapping., AGU 2024 Fall Meeting, Dec 2024, Washington D.C., United States.
  4. A. Lee, B. A. Lane, G. B. Pasternack and S. Sandoval-Solis (2021) Identifying key geomorphic parameters characterizing eco-hydraulic responses of river channels using RiverBuilder, AGU 2021 Fall Meeting, Dec 2021, New Orleans, United States
  5. A. Lee, M. B. Cardenas, A. Aubeneau (2018) Investigation of hyporheic exchange in channels with high Froude Number flows: the importance of free surface water elevation changes, AGU 2018 Fall Meeting, Dec 2018, Washington, D.C., United States
  6. A. Lee, A. Aubeneau (2017) 3D Numerical Modeling of Hyporheic Exchange Processes in Fractal Riverbed’ AGU 2017 Fall Meeting, Dec 2017, New Orleans, United States

Digital Products

  1. A. Lee, B. A. Lane (2024). HAND-FIM Assessment Tools [Python]. GitHub. [Link]
  2. A. Lee (2024). Width Extraction Tools [Python]. GitHub. [Link]
  3. A. Lee (2024). Habitat Analysis Tools [Python]. GitHub. [Link]
  4. A. Lee (2024). Spectral Analysis Tools for Geomorphic Variability Functions [Python]. GitHub. [Link]
  5. A. Lee (2020). hyporheicScalarInterFoam [C++, OpenFOAM]. HydroShare. [Link]

Teaching and Mentoring

Awards and Service