Rate My Professor Ricardo Sánchez-Murillo

Ricardo Sánchez-Murillo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he serves as Graduate Advisor for the EES Ph.D. and M.S. programs. He earned his Ph.D. in Water Resources Science and Management from the University of Idaho in 2014, focusing his dissertation on natural and human influences on baseflow regimes. His earlier graduate studies were also conducted at the University of Idaho, specializing in water resources.

Sánchez-Murillo's research centers on isotope hydrology, employing stable isotope tracers to elucidate hydrological processes in arid and tropical landscapes. His academic interests encompass urban hydrology, tropical cyclone impacts in the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, the North American Monsoon system, and groundwater-surface water interactions. He has produced over 250 publications, with notable contributions including "Deciphering key processes controlling rainfall isotopic variability during extreme tropical cyclones" (Nature Communications, 2019), "The residence time of water vapour in the atmosphere" (2021), and "Stable isotope tempestology of tropical cyclones across the North Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Ocean basins" (2024). His scholarship has accumulated more than 2,299 citations. Sánchez-Murillo received the National Academy of Sciences Gulf Research Program early career research fellowship in 2022 to examine hurricane effects on Gulf of Mexico groundwater responses. In 2024, he was awarded a $399,799 two-year grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior to develop a tracer tool for assessing drinking water blending ratios and recycled stormwater persistence in north Texas distribution systems during extreme weather.