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Alexander Lastner

Graduate Student

Contact

Office: GEO 4103
Geology Building
8000 Regents Drive
College Park, MD 20742

Mailing Address
8000 Regents Drive
College Park, MD 20742

Fax: (301) 314-9661Fax

alastner [at] umd [dot] edu

Advisor

Karen Prestegaard

Research Interests

I am interested in the impacts of climate and land cover change on water balance components, with special attention to vegetation's role in precipitation partitioning.

Publications

Lastner, A.J. and Prestegaard, K.L. (2026) Investigation of minimum delay embedding dimension as a hydrological metric: Correlations with basin characteristics and temporal trends across CONUS.  Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment. 40 227. DOI: 10.1007/s00477-026-03368-y