I am an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability (DGES) at the University of Oklahoma Norman (Link). My research interests range from evapotranspiration modeling to understanding crop-climate-human-water interactions and tackling agricultural sustainability, food, and water security issues in the face of climate change.

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Afshin Shayeghi Moghanlou is a second year PhD student and research assistant in Geography and Environmental Sustainability. He has water resources and agricultural engineering background and currently honing his remote sensing skills to undersatnd the impact of climate change on crop production and water use efficiency, as well as assessing several evapotranspiration products using various tools. Originally from Ardebil, Iran, Afshin holds a master’s degree in Agricultural Engineering with a specialization in Water Resources from IKIU University and a bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Engineering - Water from Mohaghegh Ardabili University. For his PhD he is interested in exploring how global climate and evapotranspiration products can help detect drought signals across a wide range of agricultural systems and will focus on developing tools that can help farmers tackle extreme weather and drought to sustain crop production in a changing climate.

Afshin has won several departmental, university, and national level (e.g., ASPRS) awards. 

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Nastaran is an Ph.D. student in DGES and her research focuses on understanding the land cover changes and biophysical effects of hydraulic fracturing in the Permian Basin.

Aiyesha is a MS student in DGES. She is using machine learning algorithms on Landsat, Sentinel-1, and Sentinel-2 data to map Sagittaria Lancifolia in Florida and Puerto Rico.

Reeya is currently a first year Master's student at the University of Oklahoma, studying Geography and Environmental Sustainability. Her journey in this field began with a Bachelor’s in environmental science from Kathmandu University in Nepal, where the growing impacts of climate change in her home country caught her attention. Nepal, with its unique and remote geography, is particularly vulnerable to these changes, and this sparked her interest in GIS and remote sensing. She is looking forward to using these tools to better understand how climate change affects both the environment and the people.

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Aarati is a first year master’s student in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability at the University of Oklahoma. Her research interest lies in assessing climate change impacts using GIS and Remote Sensing techniques. 

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Kaliegh will be working on integrating Soil Moisture and OKlahoma Mesonet Data in the Surface Energy Balance model in Oklahoma. She will be using Google Earth Engine.

Xichital is studying impacts of climate change on farm revenues across Oklahoma. She will be using Google Earth Engine, USDA NASS Data, several climate data, and panel fixed effect regression models.

Python and GEE coding

Capstone supervisor of three DGES students Richard Garcia (Irrigation mapping), Ryan Penic (Image classification), and Tim White (Flood susceptibility Mapping), all graduated in 2023.

Undergraduate Students Mentored at the University of Michigan: Julia Stuart (University of Michigan, Mechanical Engineering, Currently Mechanical Engineer at Remora; coauthor in RSE paper). Shon Harris (University of Michigan, Middle Eastern & North African Studies; BA International Studies, Recently Graduated from Umich Ross School); Reene Jia Er Siew (University of Michigan, Mathematics, Data Science, and Statistics currently, Commercial & Business Development Analyst @ PETRONAS)