I currently have openings for a postdoc and a PhD student to join our research group. Note that the positions and projects listed below are rough outlines, so if you don’t quite fit, but are passionate about something similar or have your own ideas for an exciting project, I’d love to discuss further.
Our group focuses on big remote sensing and geospatial data analysis problems, primarily involving digital terrain models, landscape evolution, and the Earth’s cryosphere. Within CEE, we are part of the Hydrology and Hydrodynamics group. Beyond CEE, there are many opportunities for potential coadvising and close collaboration with faculty and research scientists at the eScience Institute, the UW Applied Physics Lab (APL), the Department of Earth and Space Sciences (ESS), and elsewhere on campus.
The UW CEE deadline for graduate student applications is December 15, but rolling applications are accepted year-round. For additioinal information, see:
Active projects
- Stereo2SWE: deriving regional snow depth from very-high-resolution satellite stereo DEMs, NASA
- ICESat-2 data pipeline development and analysis for seasonal snow depth and glacier elevation change in mountain environments, NASA
- Systematic regional geodetic glacier mass balance from high-resolution DEMs (High-mountain Asia, North America), NASA, USGS
- Digital Glacier Time Machine: extracting decadal DEM time series for North American glaciers using historical aerial photographs and declassified spy satellite imagery, UW Innovation Award, USGS
- Photogrammetry workflow development for range of sensors (commercial very-high-resolution satellite imagery from DigitalGlobe/Maxar and Planet, historical aerial/satellite imagery, modern UAV platforms), NASA
- Optimizing data storage and processing in high-performance computing (HPC) and commercial cloud (AWS, GCP, etc.) environments, NASA
- Ice-ocean interaction: remote observation of ice shelf basal melting and ice stream dynamics, NASA
- Rapid satellite and/or UAV data collection, processing and analysis to support natural disaster response, UW
If interested, please contact me via email, introduce yourself, and include a resume/CV.