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Current Graduate Students
Pradeep is a hydrologist and working for his Ph.D. His research focuses on climate change and its impacts on land cover and water resources utilizing remote sensing.
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Hydro-Climatic studies. Drought prediction and mitigation in sudan and Sahel region of nigeria.
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Aparna Bamzai is a full-time employee of the South Central Climate Science Center (http://southcentralclimate.org/) and a part-time doctoral student working with Dr. Kirsten de Beurs on vegetation-climate interactions.
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Interests include: Biogeography, Ecological modeling, Climate change impacts on ecology, GIS, Cartography, FOSS4G, and the Customization of GIS software.
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Environmental economics. |
Remote Sensing.
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Darrel is a meteorologist working full-time at the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies at NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory and working towards his Ph.D. with Dr. Kirsten de Beurs. His graduate research involves the multi-sensor identification and evaluation of damage from tornadoes and how land cover contributes to this process.
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Applied Climatology, development of seasonal climate forecasts for agricultural decision-support.
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Geographic information science, spatial analysis, and spatial econometrics.
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Areas of interest include sustainable development, indigenous issues/land rights, social movements, political ecology, environmental sustainability, and natural resource management.
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Chloe holds a Bachelor of Science in Geographic Information Science with a minor in Meteorology. Research includes spatial data applications such as climate and weather impacts and various data mapping. Her academic interests include: hazard mitigation, climate perceptions, and GIS as a decision support system.
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Geography of education and how inequalities affect both urban and regional development, in addition to the need for education in environmental and sustainability movements.
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Interested in applying GIS to a host of spatial problems, including modeling species' distributions, finding misplaced historical sites, inter-species interactions, least-cost paths, etc. Enjoys photogrammetry and using remotely-sensed data (i.e. satellite imagery) to find areas of interest (biomass, moisture, tree species, soils) for further study (or to include as variables in analyses). Current studies use time series of disturbances within watersheds to track land use patterns, and an invasive grass.
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Interests include: political economy and political ecology in Southeast Asia, specifically how less developed ethnic minorities cope with the fact of being in a state regardless that their social organization does not require they to be part of it.
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Darrian Noyes graduated from the University of Oklahoma’s School of Meteorology with a Bachelor of Science in meteorology, as well as a minor in mathematics and GIS. She is a current student in the Geography Master’s program, focusing on applied climatology and climate change resiliency. She currently works with the Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program and the South Central Climate Science Center at OU, with Dr. Mark Shafer and Dr. Renee McPherson.
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Hydrology.
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People-land relationship.
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Angela's dissertation, “Museum Architecture and the Negotiation of Individual, Local, and Public Identities in Downtown Washington, D.C.,” investigates human experiences of the built environment at one dynamic site. This research explores how the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden building affects individuals who work at and visit the site, as well as its effects on the museum’s organizational culture. Additionally, this research situates the Hirshhorn site within its larger political context.
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Relationship between people and place.
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Community sustainability and natural hazard mitigation.
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