Kevin J. McGuire

Biography

Kevin McGuire is Professor of Hydrology in the Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation at Virginia Tech and Director of the Virginia Water Resources Research Center — one of 54 federally designated water resources research institutes under the Water Resources Research Act — where he leads efforts to advance water science and inform policy at the state and national level.

Dr. McGuire’s research centers on the hydrological processes that govern how water is stored and transmitted within watersheds before contributing to streamflow or evaporation. Working across forested and mountain landscapes, including long-term research at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, he investigates runoff generation mechanisms, groundwater–surface water interactions, and the use of tracers and isotopes to track water movement through soils and bedrock. His work also examines how land use, forest management, and climate variability affect watershed processes and water quality. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the USDA Forest Service, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the Virginia Department of Forestry.

Dr. McGuire is an executive board member of the National Institutes for Water Resources and represents Virginia Tech on the Universities Council on Water Resources (UCOWR) and the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sciences, Inc. He has chaired the UCOWR Annual Conference, the Gordon Research Conference on Catchment Science, and the U.S.–Japan Joint Seminar on Forest Hydrology and Biogeochemistry. He is a member of the American Geophysical Union and the American Water Resources Association, and serves as faculty advisor to the Virginia Tech student chapter of AWRA. He has served as associate editor for Hydrological Processes, Water Resources Research, and Journal of Environmental Quality, and chief specialty editor of the forest hydrology section of Frontiers in Forests and Global Change.