Dam: You're Really Disrupting the Flow

For this project, we performed global analyses examining relationships between dam types and river connectivity characte...

Drought, dieback, and wildfire in southern California

With the help of Natasha Stavros and Joe McGlinchy of CU Boulder, I've been building a model that looks at how drought c...

Development Patterns Increase Hazard Risk in the U.S.

Our recent paper in the AGU journal Earth’s Future (open access) tracks the history of U.S. development in natural hazar...

Crop Yield Forecasting with Landsat Imagery

A general spatial approach to predicting crop yield for broadacre cropping with cloud processing of remote sensing image...

Tracking the Healing of a Scarred Landscape

Revegetation and the McKinley Mine

Landscape Area Measurements for Urban Outdoor Water Budgets

This project will outline an approach for retailers to remotely calculate the total landscaped area of CII properties us...

Got Nitrates?

Why care about nitrogen?

The Problem of Defining Drought

“The problem of defining drought… has never been resolved to the satisfaction of all. ” -Kelly Redmond

Wetland Identification

Accurate, high-resolution wetlands maps make it easier for interdisciplinary land management teams to communicate about ...