Younes Alila

Younes Alila received his B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. from the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of the University of Ottawa. From 1992 to 1996, Younes worked full-time as a Project Engineer for the Greater Vancouver Regional District while completing his Ph.D. part-time. His M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. research focuses on regional hydrology, with a primary focus on transferring information on low flows, floods, and precipitation from gauged to ungauged sites. He took up his current position in forest hydrology and watershed management in the Department of Forest Resources Management in February 1996.

His current research program addresses a number of problems related to watershed management using an approach that combines experimental, theoretical, stochastic, and deterministic hydrology across a wide range of temporal and spatial scales.

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April 20, 2026