BACKGROUND


In 2004, I began my current position as an assistant professor in the Geography Department at KU.

From Fall 2002 to Fall 2004, I was a postdoc at Duke University working with John Albertson in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Dept.

From 1998-2002 I was pursuing a PhD in Biometeorology with an emphasis in remote sensing with Rob Gillies at Utah State University. The title of the dissertation is "An examination of scale issues involved with remotely sensed data". The focus was on estimation of spatially variable surface energy fluxes from different resolutions of airborne and satellite sensors for the incorporation into numerical weather prediction and global circulation models.

I received a B.S. in Earth and Planetary Sciences from University of New Mexico in 1997 and worked as a research associate there maintaining Bowen ratio stations in Central NM as part of a project to examine paleo-lake fluctuations.