Publications
Peer-Reviewed Manuscripts
T.W. Robinett, J. Kolassa, M. Zhao, Y. Liu, A. Shiklomanov, A.G. Konings. Parameterizing stomatal marginal water use efficiency based on local environment improves land surface model predictions of streamflow and evapotranspiration. In review at the Journal of Advances in Modeling the Earth System. This work was highlighted for its success by NASA's Science Managed Cloud Environment.
N. Kumar, M.S. Mim, M. Levis, M. Unger, G. Miranda, T.W. Robinett, and J.J. Zartman (2024). Piezo regulates epithelial topology and promotes precision in organ size control. Cell Reports 43(7).
N. Kumar, F.J. Huizar, K.J. Farfan-Pira, P.A. Brodskiy, D.K. Soundarrajan, T.W. Robinett, M. Nahmad, and J.J. Zartman (2022). MAPPER: An Open-Source, High-Dimensional Image Analysis Pipeline Unmasks Differential Regulation of Drosophila Wing Features. Frontiers in Genetics, 13:869719.
D.K. Soundarrajan, F.J. Huizar, R. Paravitorghabeh, T.W. Robinett, and J.J. Zartman (2021). From spikes to intercellular waves: Tuning intercellular calcium signaling dynamics modulates organ size control. PLoS Computational Biology, 17(11): e1009543.
Works in Progress
T.W. Robinett, E. Biju, D. Feng, A.G. Konings. A long-term, deep learning-based dataset of live fuel moisture content from combined microwave and optical remote sensing.
T.W. Robinett, G.R. Quetin, D. Feng, A.T. Trugman, A.G. Konings. Differentiable modeling retrieves accurate plant hydraulic traits across the western United States.
Conference and seminar presentations
Fourth Annual Land Data Assimilation Community Virtual Workshop, 2024. "Diversifying stomatal parameters improves predictions of streamflow in the Catchment-CN4.5 land surface model." Link to recorded presentation.
NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office Land Group Meeting, 2024. "Diversifying stomatal parameters improves predictions of evapotranspiration and streamflow in the Catchment-CN4.5 land surface model."
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2023. "Improving the spatial representation of vegetation-water interaction parameters in the Catchment-CN land surface model."
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2022. "Use of an environmental filtering parameterization of stomatal conductance in the Catchment-CN4.5 land surface model."
Honors and awards
Honorable Mention by the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), 2022.
Best Undergraduate Thesis, University of Notre Dame Bioengineering Program, 2021.
University of Notre Dame Honors Biology Program, 2019-2021.
Relevant professional experiences
I partipicated in the Community Earth System Model Tutorial during the Summer of 2024. I learned from the developers of the Community Earth System Model during this week-long tutorial hosted at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
During the 2023 academic year, I was a member of the Stanford Rising Environmental Leaders Cohort. As part of this cohort, I travelled to Washington, DC for a week-long climate policy intensive where we met with policymakers and members of NGOs. Additionally, as part of this cohort, I travelled to Sacramento, California to connect with local lawmakers about the current state of California climate policy.
Over the summer of 2022, I travelled to upstate New York for the soil moisture active passive validation experiment. Throughout the month of July I took soil moisture measurements to validate the soil moisture and vegetation optical depth retrievals from the soil moisture active passive satellite.
Service
Reviewer for Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences (2025)
Financial Officer for the Stanford Alpine Club (2023-2025)