people

The combined team of HIRS lab and EOI lab on Virginia Tech's campus on a sunny day after our weekly group meeting, April 2023.

Searches

We are generally looking for students interested in a Ph.D. program in our lab. If you have hands-on experiences with machine learning, hydrology, geodesy (e.g., satellite gravimetry and positioning systems), optical satellite imagery, water resources, and/or related fields, please contact swerth @ vt.edu .

For open positions (if listed below), please apply by sending a cover letter, your CV, and contact information for two references via email to swerth @ vt.edu. All applications will be answered, but this will be done in clusters, hence, it may take a few weeks before you receive a response. Your patience is appreciated.

Note: The recently announce postdoc and Ph.D. positions have been filled and applications are no longer accepted.

Lab Members

Dr. Susanna Werth

Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech.

E-mail: swerth"at"vt.edu

Susanna Werth is a Geodesist/Engineer specialized in satellite gravimetry, large-scale hydrology and water resource management. Her research interests are the time-dependent Earth and planetary gravity field, hydrology, terrestrial water cycle and resources management, interaction of the water, climate, environmental and human societies as well as signal processing. A main focus of her research is on monitoring, modeling and forecasting the Earth’s water mass budget variations using remote sensing data. This multifaceted research effort includes: Enhancing techniques for monitoring water mass budget variations with a focus on gavity and deformation data; Obtaining and analyzing large-scale estimates of temporal changes in continental water mass budget; And investigating impact of changes in water availability on environment, human societies as well as crisis management.

Google Scholar Profile

ORCID Profile

Dr. Manoochehr Shirzaei

Lab FriendProfessor at VT Geosciences,
Earth Observation Lab

Esther Omotayo Oyedele

Ph.D. Candidate
UCAR/NCAR fellow

Nitheshnirmal Sadhasivam

Ph.D. Cndidate

Jonathan Lucy

Ph.D. Student

Nivedita Kamaraj

Ph.D. Student

Sushrita Dutta

Ph.D. Student

Olasunkanmi "Ola" Olorunsaye
Ph.D. Student

Florence Onyike

Ph.D. Candidate

Clayton Wise

Ph.D. Candidate

Carmen Atkins

Ph.D. Candidate

Shivprasad More

Postdoctoral Scholar

Former Lab Members

Dr. Grace Carlson

Former Graduate Student, NSF NSPIRES awardee,Then Postdoctoral Researcher at
Girotto Lab, UC Berkeley,Now Assistant Professor at Indiana University

Dr. Sonam Sherpa

Former Graduate Student. Then Postdoctoral Researcher at Prof. L. Smith's Northern Change Research Lab, Brown University;NSF postdoc fellow; Now Assistant Professor at University of Utah