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.

Reeya Completed her MS in summer 2026. Her research focused on evaluating three evapotranspiration products in Oklahoma, mapping rice water use in Bangladesh, and providing valuable insights into monitoring farm-scale crop water use using remote sensing approaches. Reeya holds a Bachelor’s in environmental science from Kathmandu University in Nepal (2023), 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.

Reeya recently won the AGU Ecohydrology Tiny Award to attend AGU 2025 Fall meetings. Reeya has presented her work at AGU (2025) and AAG (2026) annual conferences. Reeya recently attended GeoField organized by AidData 

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Aiyesha completed her MS from DGES in Summer 2025. Her thesis used machine learning algorithms on Landsat, Sentinel-1, and Sentinel-2 data to map Sagittaria Lancifolia in Florida and Puerto Rico. She is currently working for the US Forest Service.

University of Oklahoma

2026: Peter Mueller(OU Geography): NISAR soil moisture, ET modeling, python and GEE coding.

2025: Xichital Hidalgo (Meterology, OU) studied impacts of climate change on farm revenues across Oklahoma. SHe also used Google Earth Engine, USDA NASS Data, several climate data, and panel fixed effect regression models.

2025: Kaleigh Dennis (Meterology, GIS Minor)- OK Mesonet and soil moisture data processing.

2024: Sujal Shrestha (computer Science, OU) - python and GEE coding.

2023: Richard Garcia (Irrigation mapping), Ryan Penic (Image classification), and Tim White (Flood susceptibility Mapping)

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)