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Patagonia Ice Fields are Vulnerable to El Niño Events
Demián Gómez, Assistant Professor in the School of Earth Sciences (SES) and Byrd Center researcher at The Ohio State University, recently co-authored a report published in the journal…
Byrd Water Cycle Research Group Receives Two NASA Grants!
Congratulations to Michael Durand and his team, recent recipients of two grants from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)! One of the two grants is Adopting…
A Conversation with Dr. Michael Durand about his NASA funded SnowEx Fieldwork in Alaska
In March, Professor Michael Durand traveled to Alaska for snow fieldwork. He joined a group of a dozen researchers from around the country, for a scouting trip to support a much larger…
SnowEx 2019 workshop
I’m presenting a poster on Blender, our algorithm to merge multiple kinds of observations for SWE estimation. Here’s a flowchart of how it works (link). The first version of the algorithm was…
Congratulations Apoorva Shastry
Congratulations Apoorva Shastry for successfully defending her thesis entitled “Improving Topography Data for Flood Modeling: A Case Study in the Logone Floodplain”.
Eastern Snow Conference 2019
I’m excited for the 2019 Eastern Snow Conference meeting! You can find a draft paper written in support of the poster presentation. The final poster is available.
New paper by Steve T
One goal of the Measuring the Water Cycle research group is to improve global estimates of river discharge by utilizing remote sensing data to fill gaps in gaging networks. With currently available…
New paper by Apoorva
Apoorva Shastry has just had a paper accepted in Frontiers. Describing it, she writes: According to the World Disasters Report, over 59,000 people were killed with 865 million people…
AGU 2018
The Water Cycle group had a strong showing at AGU 2018. Here is a link to my slides on a strategy to integrate gages and SWOT measurements using Lagrangian multipliers.