EDUCATION:
Ph.D. - Watershed Science, 2021
Fort Collins, CO 80523
Dissertation - Uncertainty In Hydrological Estimation
M.S. Watershed Science Program, Snow Hydrology, 2006
Fort Collins, CO 80523
Thesis - Geostatistical Methods for Estimating Snowmelt Contribution
to the Seasonal Water Balance in an Alpine Watershed (pdf)
B.A. (Geography and Hydrology Certificate), 2003
Boulder, Colorado 80309
BIOGRAPHY:
Currently I am working toward my Doctor of Philosophy degree in Earth Science from Colorado State University (CSU). My research will provide a quantitative understanding on the impacts of snowpack sublimation on seasonal water balances, the importance of spatial rainfall data to stream runoff modeling, and the accuracy of snow sampling design methods for mountain catchments. I earned a Master of Science degree in Watershed Science from Colorado State University (CSU), and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physical Geography and a Hydrology Certificate from the University of Colorado (CU).
My work experience includes employment with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Alpine Hydrology Research Group (AHRG), the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), the U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station (RMRS), Metstat, Inc, and HydroMeteorologic Solutions. At these positions, I have coordinated and managed interdisciplinary research between several investigators and institutions. I have managed and applied the scientific method in order to design, collect, test, analyze, document, and present scientific results. My research interest deal with scale and spatial variability in precipitation processes as related to hydrology and hydrometeorology. My research and passion are in modelling the spatial variability in snowpack processes and rainfall as function of terrain parameters and atmospheric energy to better understand and model hydrologic regimes.