Jasper Oshun
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Mail code: 8204Campus: Tempe
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Jasper Oshun is a Research Scientist at the Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science at Arizona State University. He is a hydrogeologist with expertise in catchment hydrology, ecohydrology, critical zone science, and water resources. He uses a variety of methods to understand the relationships between landscapes, land cover, and water resources. Dr. Oshun earned his PhD from UC Berkeley in 2016. Prior to joining GDCS, Jasper was a faculty member of geology at Humboldt State University, a Fulbright Scholar at the Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología in Lima, and a research scientist at Rutgers University – Newark. His teaching and research draw on multiple disciplines and emphasize inclusive and community-based approaches to science. Since 2018, he has led interdisciplinary water resources research in development in the Peruvian Andes. At GDCS, his work is focused on answering questions of water resources and water quality in surface and subsurface flows across the Hawaiian Islands.
Ph.D. UC Berkeley, 2016, Earth and Planetary Science
Dissertation Title: The isotopic evolution of a raindrop through the critical zone
B.A. Brown University, 2005, Geology & International Relations
Hydrogeology, water resources, ecohydrology, socio-hydrology, geophysics, critical zone science
Wunderlich, W., Lang, M., Keating, K., Perez, W. B., & Oshun, J. (2023). The role of peat-forming bofedales in sustaining baseflow in the humid puna. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 47, 101394.
Santos, E. A., Haro-Carrión, X., & Oshun, J. (2022). Age-specific and species-specific tree response to seasonal drought in tropical dry forests. Science of The Total Environment, 850, 157908.
Oshun, J., Keating, K., Lang, M., & Miraya Oscco, Y. (2021). Interdisciplinary water development in the Peruvian Highlands: the case for including the coproduction of Knowledge in socio-hydrology. Hydrology, 8(3), 112.
Oshun, J., Dietrich, W. E., Dawson, T. E., & Fung, I. (2016). Dynamic, structured heterogeneity of water isotopes inside hillslopes. Water Resources Research, 52(1), 164-189.