Mariza Costa-Cabral is a hydrologist focusing on the impacts of climate change on hydrology and water resources

Among her current interests are the physical causes of extreme hydrologic events (as well as their statistical description), and the impacts of projected climate change on the snowpack of the Eastern Sierra Nevada and on the timing of its melt hydrograph. With a team of fellow researchers (see project) she has studied possible impacts on water resources for the city of Los Angeles, for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. She has also joined a research team examining impacts on the water quality of Lake Tahoe (see project). The results of both studies will soon be published in a special issue of Climatic Change.