Dr. Hugo Gutierrez-Jurado is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences of the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). Dr. Gutierrez-Jurado holds a BS in Ecological Engineering, an MS in Interdisciplinary Studies from UTEP, and a PhD in Hydrology from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.

• Ph D in Earth & Environmental Science , New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (2012)
• MS in Interdisciplinary Studies, University ofTexas at El Paso (2004)
• BS in Ecology, Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua (2000)

• Friction Velocity estimation using a 2D Sonic Anemometer in Coastal Zones Atmosfera (2022), Bernardo Figueroa Espinoza, Zulia Sanchez-Mejia, Jorge Uuh-Sonda, Paulo Salles, Luis Mendez-Barroso, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado.
• Modelling quasi-three-dimensional distribution of solar irradiance on complex terrain Environmental Modelling & Software 149 (2022), Wenjie Liu, Huade Guan, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Eddie W. Banks, Xinguang He, Xinping Zhang.
• Ecosystem Productivity and Evapotranspiration Dynamics of a Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest of the Yucatan Peninsula Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 127 1 (2022), Jorge M. Uuh‐Sonda, Bernardo Figueroa‐Espinoza, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Luis A. Méndez‐Barroso.
• Global analysis of the hydrologic sensitivity to climate variability JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY 603 (2021), Marisol Dominguez-Tuda, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado.
• Environmental Controls on the Temporal Evolution of Energy and CO2 Fluxes on an Arid Mangrove of Northwestern Mexico Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 126 7 (2021), K. P. Granados‐Martínez, E. A. Yépez, Z. M. Sánchez‐Mejía, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, L. A. Méndez‐Barroso.
• Thermal remote sensing of plant water stress in natural ecosystems FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT 476 (2020), Na Liu, Zijuan Deng, Hailong Wang, Zidong Luo, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Xinguang He, Huade Guan.
• A Course Scaffold for Integrating Science and Culture: A Water Example Arizona State University - STEM Futures (2020), Amy Charkowski, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Sharon Locke, Joey Nelson, Tracy Wacker.
• Evapotranspiration Module Hydrolearn Project (2020), Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Josephine Archibald, Shangping Xu.

• What Drives Trees Nuts? A multi-temporal, multi-scale and multi-disciplinary look at stress sources of water-subsidized trees in dryland agroecosystems of North America and their impact on the regional water use and conservation (2023), Volume San Francisco, CA, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Jesus Manuel Ochoa-Rivero, Orlando Ramirez-Valle , Maria Carmen Delgado-Gardea, Maria del Rocio Infante-Ramirez, Luis Ubaldo Castruita-Esparza, Noe Chavez-Sanchez, Lixin Jin, Lin Ma, Mark Engle.
• What Drives Trees Nuts? A multi-temporal, multi-scale and multi-disciplinary look at stress sources of water-subsidized trees in dryland agroecosystems of North America and their impact on the regional water use and conservation (2023), Volume San Francisco, CA, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Jesus Manuel Ochoa-Rivero, Orlando Ramirez-Valle , Maria Carmen Delgado-Gardea, Maria del Rocio Infante-Ramirez, Luis Ubaldo Castruita-Esparza, Noe Chavez-Sanchez, Lixin Jin, Lin Ma, Mark Engle.
• What Drives Trees Nuts? A multi-temporal, multi-scale and multi-disciplinary look at stress sources of water-subsidized trees in dryland agroecosystems of North America and their impact on the regional water use and conservation (2023), Volume San Francisco, CA, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Jesus Manuel Ochoa-Rivero, Orlando Ramirez-Valle , Maria Carmen Delgado-Gardea, Maria del Rocio Infante-Ramirez, Luis Ubaldo Castruita-Esparza, Noe Chavez-Sanchez, Lixin Jin, Lin Ma, Mark Engle.
• Effect of Extreme Drought and Deforestation on Changing Hydrologic Responses to Climatic Variability of Amazonian Forests (2022), Volume Chicago, Illinois, Marisol Dominguez-Tuda, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado.
• Investigating Evapotranspiration Partitioning Dynamics of Shallow Desert Soils of a Piedmont Site in High Temporal Resolution (2022), Volume Chicago, Illinois, Alfredo Dagda, Orlando Ramirez-Valle, Martha Gardea, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Lin Ma, Mark Engle.
• Investigating Evapotranspiration Partitioning Dynamics of Shallow Desert Soils of a Piedmont Site in High Temporal Resolution (2022), Volume Chicago, Alfredo Dagda, Orlando Ramirez Valle, Martha Gardea, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Lin Ma, Mark Engle, Lixin Jin.
• The effects of climate-driven stresses and the critical zone architecture on the water use dynamics of irrigated orchards in arid lands (2022), Volume Chicago, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Orlando Ramirez Valle, Lixin Jin.
• The effects of climate-driven stresses and the critical zone architecture on the water use dynamics of irrigated orchards in arid lands (2022), Volume Chicago, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Orlando Ramirez Valle, Lixin Jin.
• Triple Oxygen Isotopes in Pedogenic Carbonates Reveal the Varied Role of Evaporation in Western US Drylands (2022), Volume Chicago, Illinois, Julia Kerson, Naomi Levin, Ronald Amundson, Kirsten Andrews, Miriam Bartleson, Bruce Finney, Martha E. Gardea, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Lixin Jin, David Huber, .
• Triple Oxygen Isotopes in Pedogenic Carbonates Reveal the Varied Role of Evaporation in Western US Drylands (2022), Volume Chicago, Illinois, Julia Kerson, Naomi Levin, Ronald Amundson, Kirsten Andrews, Miriam Bartleson, Bruce Finney, Martha E. Gardea, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Lixin Jin, David Huber, .
• Assessing the productive vs unproductive water use in annual and perennial crops under furrow irrigation through a data-fusion scheme that partitions evapotranspiration fluxes using remote sensing and ground-based meteorological data (2022), Volume Puerto Rico, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, O. Ramirez-Valle, L.A. Méndez-Barroso, E.A. Yepez, J. Uuh-Sonda, Lixin Jin, Lin Ma.
• Tree Size as a Proxy of Texture and Soil Salinity in a Pecan Orchard: Exploring the Spatial Variability and Dominant Controls on Carbon Fluxes in Managed Dryland Critical Zone (2022), Volume Honolulu, HI, Michelle Quiroz, Aimee Garcia, Valeria Molina, Orlando Ramirez-Valle, Manny Sosa, Viri Orona, Diane Doser, Galen Kaip, Mark Engle, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Lin Ma, Lixin Jin.
• Tree Size as a Proxy of Texture and Soil Salinity in a Pecan Orchard: Exploring the Spatial Variability and Dominant Controls on Carbon Fluxes in Managed Dryland Critical Zone (2022), Volume Honolulu, HI, Michelle Quiroz, Aimee Garcia, Valeria Molina, Orlando Ramirez-Valle, Manny Sosa, Viri Orona, Diane Doser, Galen Kaip, Mark Engle, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Lin Ma, Lixin Jin.
• Assessing the productive vs unproductive water use in annual and perennial crops under furrow irrigation through a data-fusion scheme that partitions evapotranspiration fluxes using remote sensing and ground-based meteorological data  (2022), Volume San Juan, Puerto Rico, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Orlando Ramirez Valle, Luis Mendez Barroso, Enrico Yepez, Jorge Uuh Sonda, Lixin Jin, Lin Ma.
• Untangling the effect of forest cover loss on changes in the hydrologic responses of the world’s major forests to climatic variability (2022), Volume San Juan, Puerto Rico, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Marisol Dominguez-Tuda.
• Evapotranspiration partitioning of tropical deciduous forests of North America: A model-based comparison of two eddy-covariance sites with contrasting hydroclimatic regimes (2021), Volume New Orleans, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Jorge Uuh-Sonda, Luis A. Mendez-Barroso, Bernardo Figueroa Espinoza, Enrico Yepez, Nidia E. Rojas Robles.
• Quantifying water stress and productive vs non-productive water use in the critical zone of dryland agricultural areas with alternating surface and groundwater irrigation: lessons learned from a combined remote sensing and groundwater data analysis. (2021), Volume New Orleans, LA, Orlando Ramirez-Valle, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Alfredo Dagda, Martha Gardea, Lixin Jin, Lin Ma.
• Dynamics of Plant Water Use and Water Movement in Shallow Desert Soils of a Piedmont Site: Insights From an Integrated Hydro-Geophysics-Geochemical Approach of a Highly Dynamic Shallow Dryland Critical Zone (2021), Volume New Orleans, LA, A. Dagda, O. Ramirez-Valle, M. Gardea, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Lixin Jin, Lin Ma, Mark Engle.
• Dynamics of Plant Water Use and Water Movement in Shallow Desert Soils of a Piedmont Site: Insights From an Integrated Hydro-Geophysics-Geochemical Approach of a Highly Dynamic Shallow Dryland Critical Zone (2021), Volume New Orleans, LA, A. Dagda, O. Ramirez-Valle, M. Gardea, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Lixin Jin, Lin Ma, Mark Engle.
• Dynamics of Plant Water Use and Water Movement in Shallow Desert Soils of a Piedmont Site; Insights From an Integrated Hydro-Geophysics-Geochemical Approach of a Highly Dynamic Shallow Dryland Critical Zone. (2021), Volume New Orleans, LA, Alfredo Dagda, Orlando Ramirez-Valle, Martha Gardea, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Lixin Jin, Lin Ma, Mark Engle.
• Exploring Controls by Pedogenic Carbonates as a Critical Interface on Water, Carbon and Nutrient Interactions in Drylands: Initial Insights from the Dryland Critical Zone Network Cluster (2021), Volume New Orleans, LA, Lin Ma, Mark Engle, Nohemi Valenzuela Garay, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Diane Doser, Mark Baker, Anthony Darrrouzet-Nardi, Lixin Jin.
• Exploring Controls by Pedogenic Carbonates as a Critical Interface on Water, Carbon and Nutrient Interactions in Drylands: Initial Insights from the Dryland Critical Zone Network Cluster (2021), Volume New Orleans, LA, Lin Ma, Mark Engle, N. Valenzuela, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Diane I. Doser, M. Baker, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi, Lixin Jin.
• Exploring Controls by Pedogenic Carbonates as a Critical Interface on Water, Carbon and Nutrient Interactions in Drylands: Initial Insights from the Dryland Critical Zone Network Cluster (2021), Volume New Orleans, LA, Lin Ma, Mark Engle, N. Valenzuela, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Diane I. Doser, M. Baker, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi, Lixin Jin.
• Modeling quasi-three-dimension distribution of solar irradiance on complex terrain (2021), Volume New Orleans, LA, Wenjie Liu, Huade Guan, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Eddie Banks, Xinguang He, Xinping Zhang.
• Quantifying water stress and productive vs non-productive water use in the critical zone of dryland agricultural areas with alternating surface and groundwater irrigation: lessons learned from a combined remote sensing and groundwater data analysis (2021), Volume New Orleans, LA, O. Ramirez-Valle, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, A. Dagda, M. Gardea, Lixin Jin, Lin Ma.
• Vegetation water sourcing dynamics of a dryland Critical Zone: vegetation location in piedmont surfaces shows access to isotopically different water depending on proximity to ephemeral channels, does soil texture and changes in vegetation density matter as well? (2021), Volume New Orleans, LA, Martha Gardea, Hayden Thompson, Orlando Ramirez-Valle, Alfredo Dagda, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado.
• Exploring Controls by Pedogenic Carbonates as a Critical Interface on Water, Carbon and Nutrient Interactions in Drylands: Initial Insights from the Dryland Critical Zone Network Cluster (2021), Volume New Orleans, LA, Lin Ma, Mark Engle, N. Valenzuela, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Diane I. Doser, M. Baker, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi, Lixin Jin.
• Friction velocity estimation in Coastal Sites using 2D velocity measurements (2020), Volume Online, Bernardo Figueroa Espinoza, Zulia M. Sanchez-Mejia, Jorge Uuh-Sonda, Paulo Salles, Luis Mendez-Barroso, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado.
• Assessment of irrigation effects on consumptive water use under varying warming scenarios through the lens of multiple evapotranspiration models: implications on the sustainability of water resources of an intensive irrigation valley in Northwestern Mexico (2020), Volume Online, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Juan J. Garcia Gamez, Luis Mendez-Barroso, Enrico Yepez, Orlando Ramirez-Valle.
• Ecohydrological dynamics of the seasonally dry forest of the Yucatan Peninsula as a response to the variability of precipitation, energy and access to groundwater (2020), Volume Online, Jorge Uuh-Sonda, Bernardo Figueroa Espinoza, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Luis Mendez-Barroso.
• Impact of Agricultural Practices on an Overdrafted Aquifer: Implications on Competition for Water between Urban and Rural Users (2020), Volume Online, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Orlando Ramirez-Valle.
• Sensitivity of Mexican Forests to Climate Variability (2020), Volume Online, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Marisol Dominguez.
• Team-based experiential learning in the Geosciences: lessons from an Ecohydrology course with a diverse student group (2020), Volume Online, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado.
• Water Sourcing Strategies of Highly Resilient Vegetation in Desert Soils: Stable Isotope Analysis of a Northern Chihuahuan Desert Ecosystem (2019), Volume San Francisco, CA, Hayden Thompson, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Lin Ma, Lixin Jin, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi.
• Water Sourcing Strategies of Highly Resilient Vegetation in Desert Soils: Stable Isotope Analysis of a Northern Chihuahuan Desert Ecosystem (2019), Volume San Francisco, CA, Hayden Thompson, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Lin Ma, Lixin Jin, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi.
• Water Sourcing Strategies of Highly Resilient Vegetation in Desert Soils: Stable Isotope Analysis of a Northern Chihuahuan Desert Ecosystem (2019), Volume San Francisco, CA, Hayden Thompson, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Lin Ma, Lixin Jin, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi.
• ASSESSING THE SUSTAINABILITY AND HYDROLOGIC FUNCTIONING OF A SEMIARID ENDORHEIC BASIN WITH A HEAVILY STRESSED AQUIFER SUPPORTING A LARGE AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITY IN NORTHERN MEXICO. (2019), Volume Valencia, Spain, Suzan Aranda-Luna, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Orlando Ramirez-Valle, Carolina Cisneros, Lin Ma, Lixin Jin.
• IRRIGATION OPTIMIZATION WITH METEOROLOGICAL AND SATELLITE DATA TO IMPROVE WATER SAVINGS IN AN INTENSIVE-AGRICULTURE VALLEY WITH A HEAVILY STRESSED AQUIFER. (2019), Volume Valencia, Spain, Orlando Ramirez-Valle, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Suzan Aranda-Luna, Jaime Garatuza-Payan, Miguel Servin-Palestina, Carlos Cervantes.
• Assessing the vulnerability of a tropical, seasonally stressed regional aquifer system to climate variability and agriculture expansion-driven deforestation (2019), Volume Valencia, Spain, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Jorge M. Uuh-Sonda, Luis A. Mendez-Barroso, Bernardo Figueroa-Espinoza, Guadalupe Alvarez Rodriguez.
• Sustainable Irrigation Program Planer (2019), Volume Lake Buena Vista, Florida, Carlos Cervantes, Orlando Ramirez-Valle, Stephen Pruett, Ryan Jones, Tarek Haddad, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado.
• Identifying water retention of soil in arid regions to determine water sources of vegetation (2019), Volume UTEP, Amaris Bustamante, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Hayden Thompson, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi.

• Implementation Grant: Community-driven Inclusive Excellence and Leadership Opportunities in the Geosciences (CIELO-G)
• A COURSE SCAFFOLD FOR INTEGRATING SCIENCE AND CULTURE: EXPLORING FACULTY ADAPTATIONS ACROSS DISCIPLINES AND INSTITUTIONS
• Network Cluster: Patterns and controls of ecohydrology, CO2 fluxes, and nutrient availability in pedogenic carbonate-dominated dryland critical zones
• Space and Seed Grant Proposal to Establish a “One Water” Cluster in the Interdisciplinary Research Building, University of Texas at El Paso
• Water sourcing of highly resilient desert vegetation: implications for the vulnerability of arid ecosystems and the water balance of desert landscapes