People
Faculty
D.
Scott Mackay (Ph.D. 1997, University of Toronto)
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Students
Huicheng Chien (Ph.D. 2010, anticipated)
Dissertation title: Improving sediment and phosphorus prediction
and uncertainty analysis in distributed watershed models
Funding
sources: EPA, NSF Hydrology
Bhaskar Mitra (Ph.D. 2011, anticipated)
Dissertation title:" "
Funding sources: State, Presidential
Fellow,
DOE NICCR
Master's Students
Kathryn Brown (M.A. 2011, anticipated)
Alexander Jackson (M.A. 2009, anticipated)
David E. Roberts (M.S. 2010, anticipated)
Funding
source: NSF Hydrology, DOE NICCR
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Ryan Stotz (M.S. 2011, anticipated)
Taryn V. Tomasik (M.S. 2010, anticipated)
Funding
source: DOE NICCR
Undergraduate Students
Alumni
Douglas
E. Ahl (Ph.D. 2002, UW; Post-Doc 2002)
Dissertation title: A measurement and modeling perspective
on requirements for future remote sensing vegetation indices
and
classification
Funding sources: USDA McIntire-Stennis, NASA;
Current position: Assistant Research Scientist, UW-Madison
Sean
N. Burrows (Ph.D. 2002, UW)
Dissertation title: Geostatistical estimation of leaf area
index and net primary production of five North american biomes
Funding
sources: USDA McIntire-Stennis, NASA;
Current position: Consultant, Co-owner of Ascend Analytics
Ryan
Cassens (M.A. 2009)
Thesis title: Using Aster L1A data to identify locations
of Japanese knotwood (Fallopia japonica) along the West Kill
and Schoharie creeks in Green County, NY
Eileen Chen (M.S. 2002, UW)
Project title: Effects
of combining non-spatial simulation units and explicit models
of sediment delivery on an agricultural nonpoint source pollution
model
Funding source: USDA
Hatch
Current position: Research Geologist, Alameda County Water District,
Fremont, California
Jose
Covarrubias Rocha (M.A. 2007, UB)
Thesis title: Multi-temporal Remote Sensing Evaluation
of vegetal coverage in the Bolivian Andean Plate (Kori Kollo Mine)
Larry Cutforth (M.S., 2003, UW)
Current position: GIS State Coordinator, Wisconsin Farm Service
Agency
Brian W. Dudek (M.A. 2009, UB)
Thesis title: Water stress and scarcity in metropolitan Phoenix using the Water Poverty Index: An examination of vulnerability
Brent
E. Ewers (Postdoctoral Fellow, 1999-2002,
UW)
Funding source: NASA;
Current position: Associate Professor, Botany Department, University
of Wyoming
Thomas
W. FitzHugh (M.S. 1999, UW)
Thesis title: Spatial aggregation of an agricultural nonpoint
source pollution model
Funding source: Wisconsin Department
of Natural Resources
Current position: Water Management Analyst, Sustainable Waters
Program, The Nature Conservancy
Michael
Graham (M.A. 2007, UB)
Steven Knapp (M.A. 2004, UB)
Current position: GIS Analyst, Verdi & Company, Buffalo, NY
Michael
M. Loranty (Ph.D. 2009)
Dissertation title: Towards a mechanistic understanding of spatial patterns of
forest transpiration, and its implications for scaling
Funding sources: NSF
Hydrology, NSF IGERT
Current position: Post Doc, Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth,
MA
Chukwumerije Bryson Okeoma (M.A. 2006, UB)
Aga Shirazi (B.A. 2005, UB)
Current position: GIS Analyst, First American Flood and
Data Services, Virgina
Sudeep Samanta (M.S. 2001, Ph.D. 2005, UW)
Dissertation title: Bayesian Analysis of a conceptual transpiration
model with a comparison of canopy conductance sub-models
Thesis
title: Influence of event characteristics on predictive
uncertainty of a hydrologic model
Funding sources: UW Graduate School, USDA Hatch, NASA,
NSF;
Current position: Assistant Scientist, Woods Hole
Research Center
Warit
Silavisesrith (Ph.D. 2008, UB)
Dissertation title: Contextually-based framework for improved data reduction
in regional scale analytic element groundwater models
Patricia
Trawinski (Ph.D., 2007, UB)
Dissertation title: Spatio-temporal landscape models for West
Nile Virus vector population abundance and distribution
