Rebekah Magness received the Best Poster Presentation Award at the 20th Annual GeoSymposium at UNLV. Congratulations!
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Best Student Presentation Award
Eunice Ledres received the Best Student Presentation Award at the American Meteorological Society 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions for her presentation on work she performed during a summer internship at Brookhaven National Laboratory on “Aerosol, Cloud, and Radiation Properties over the Amazon Rainforest across Synoptic Regimes defined using Machine Learning”. Congratulations!
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New WaterSMART grant
In collaboration with the Southern Nevada Water Authority we received a new Bureau of Reclamation WaterSMART grant on “Applying Backcasting to Identify Potential Future Water Quality Changes in the Colorado River Basin”.
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New Group Member: Eunice Ledres
MS Student Eunice Ledres is joining the Arid Lands Hydrology Group. Eunice will work on modeling water quality in Lake Mead. Welcome!
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New Group Member: Ivet Escamilla
MS Student Ivet Escamilla is joining the Arid Lands Hydrology Group. Ivet will work on modeling evaporation fluxes in arid lands. Welcome!
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New Group Member: Rebekah Magness
MS student Rebekah Magness is joining the Arid Lands Hydrology Group. Rebekah is an Active Duty Air Force Officer attending graduate school through the United States Air Force Academy Faculty pipeline. Upon completion of her M.S. she will return to the United States Air Force Academy to instruct undergraduate geoscience courses. Welcome!
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Rhynhardt Mudde: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Rhynhardt Mudde received the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) award by the UNLV Office of Undergraduate Research for his project on measuring surface albedo changes due to biological soil crusts. Congratulations, Rhynhardt!
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New Group Member: Rhynhardt Mudde
Undergraduate student Rhynhardt Mudde is joining the Critical Zone Hydrology group for a research project over the summer.
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UNLV CoS New Interdisciplinary Research Award
Together with Nicole Pietrasiak and Michael Nicholl we received the UNLV College of Sciences New Interdisciplinary Research Award for a project on “The Impact of Heterogeneous Biological Soil Crusts on Dryland Evaporation”.
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Two MS Student Positions in Geoscience
Update: We do not accept any new applications for Fall 2024.
We invite applications for two MS Student positions in the Department of Geoscience at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). The graduate students will participate in a collaboration with the Desert Research Institute (DRI) utilizing the SEPHAS Lysimeters in a project on “Upscaling heterogeneous evaporation fluxes in arid lands”.
The project:
- Will address the challenge of upscaling evaporation fluxes from heterogeneous soil surfaces and their changes due to developing cyanobacterial surface crusts.
- Extend the measurement capabilities of the SEPHAS Lysimeters operated by the DRI through thermal infrared cameras.
- Determine spatially variable evaporation fluxes by combining thermal images with the available lysimeter data.
- Develop effective upscaled representations through employing process-based modeling and machine learning.
The graduate students will closely interact with an international team of researchers at UNLV and DRI. The positions are funded through Teaching Assistant positions with the potential for Research Assistant positions (depending on the availability of funding).
The ideal candidates will have a background in hydrologic modeling or remote sensing, as well as excellent communication skills. Experience with programming and machine learning methods is desirable.
The positions will remain open until filled and begin either Fall 2024 or Spring 2025.
If you are interested in one of the positions or if you have any questions about the positions, please contact Hannes Bauser (hannes.bauser@unlv.edu). We strongly encourage applications from veterans, individuals with disabilities, women, minorities, and members of other underrepresented groups.
