THE GLOBAL HYDROLOGY TEAM

 
Tamlin Pavelsky (Associate Professor)

DEGREES: UCLA (Ph.D., M.A.), Middlebury College (B.A.)

CONTACT AT: pavelsky@ unc.edu

 
Camryn Kluetmeier (Research Specialist)

DEGREES: Middlebury College (B.A.)

RESEARCH AREAS: Remote Sensing, SWOT, Alpine Hydrology, Rock Glaciers

CONTACT AT: ckluet@unc.edu

WEBSITE: https://ckluetmeier.github.io

 
Elizabeth H. Altenau (Research Specialist)

DEGREES: UNC Chapel Hill (Ph.D.), Holy Cross (B.A.)

RESEARCH AREAS: Remote Sensing, Flood Modeling, Surface Water Hydrology, SWOT

CONTACT AT: ealtenau@unc.edu

 
Chao Wang (Research Assistant Professor)

DEGREES: University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras (Ph.D.), Anhui Normal University (M.S, and B.S.)

RESEARCH AREAS: Interdisciplinary research fields of Ecohydrology; Remote Sensing (e.g., LiDAR, Radar, and image spectrometer)

CONTACT AT: chao.wang@unc.edu

WEBSITE: https://chaowanglulcc.weebly.com/

 
Angélica M. Gómez (Postdoctoral Researcher)

DEGREES: UNC Chapel Hill (Ph.D), Universidad de Antioquia (M.S., B.S.), Institution Universitaria de Envigado (B.S.)

RESEARCH AREAS: Tropical hydrology; Remote sensing; Ecohydrological Modeling

CONTACT AT: amgomez@live.unc.edu

 
Elyssa L. Collins (Postdoctoral Researcher)

DEGREES: UNC Chapel Hill (B.S.), North Carolina State University (Ph.D.)

RESEARCH AREAS: SWOT, River modeling, Global hydrology

CONTACT AT: elyssac@ad.unc.edu

 
Julianne Davis (Ph.D. Student)

DEGREES: Syracuse University (M.S.), State University of New York at Geneseo (B.A.)

RESEARCH AREAS: Suspended Sediment Transport, Remote Sensing of Sediment, Arctic Rivers/Deltas

CONTACT AT: jmsdavis@email.unc.edu

WEBSITE: https://geosci.unc.edu/people/graduate-students/julianne-davis/

 
Marissa Dudek (Ph.D. Student)

DEGREES: UNC Chapel Hill (M.S.), James Madison University (B.S.), Northern Virginia Community College (A.S.)

RESEARCH AREAS: Global Hydrology, River Discharge, Remote Sensing

CONTACT AT: mjdudek@email.unc.edu

 
J. Daniel Vélez (Ph.D. Student)

DEGREES: Universidad de Antioquia (M.S., B.S.), Medellín - Colombia

RESEARCH AREAS: Remote Sensing, Water Quality, Hydrology, River Morphology

CONTACT AT: davelez@unc.edu

WEBSITE: https://jdavecas.github.io/

 
Kica Solomon (Ph.D. Student)

DEGREES: Makerere University (B.S.)

RESEARCH AREAS: Wetland hydrology, Remote Sensing of Wetlands, Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite mission

CONTACT AT: kica@unc.edu

 
Isabela M. Arauz (M.S. Student)

DEGREES: Colorado State University (B.S.)

RESEARCH AREAS: Coastal flooding, remote sensing (Radar), and hydrology

CONTACT AT: iarauz@unc.edu

PREVIOUS MEMBERS

Stefan Sobolowski, Postdoc (Now research scientist at Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research

Colleen Long, M.S. 2012 (Now a GIS Specialist at Barr Engineering Co.)

Deniz Kustu, Postdoc

Zach Miller, M.S. 2013 (Now a Geologist at Oxy)

Kevin Quinlan, M.S. 2014 (Now at Connexient)

Christine Lion, Postdoc (Now in Sydney, Australia)

George Allen, Ph.D. 2017 (Now an Assistant Prof. at Virginia Tech)

Melissa Wrzesien, Postdoc (Now an Associate Scientist at NASA GSFC/UMD)

Matt Ross, Postdoc (Now an Assistant Prof. at Colorado State University)

PREVIOUS MEMBERS CONT.

Sarina Little, M.S. 2020 (Now a Hydrologic Technician at USGS)

Shuai Zhang, Postdoc (Now a Postdoc at USF)

Arik Tashie, Ph.D. 2021 (Now a Solutions Data Scientist at ClimateAi)

Simon Topp, Ph.D. 2021 (Now a Mendenhall Research Fellow at USGS)

John Gardner, Postdoc (Now an Assistant Prof. at University of Pittsburgh)

John Mallard, Postdoc (Now a Postdoc at USFS)

Xiao Yang, Postdoc (Now Assistant Professor at Southern Methodist U.)

COLLABORATORS

Larry Smith, Brown University

Mike Durand, Ohio State

Colin Gleason, University of Massachusetts

Sarah Cooley, University of Oregon

Emily Eidam, Oregon State

Dongmei Feng, University of Cincinnati

Mirela Tulbure, NC State

Marc Simard, JPL

Jean-Francois Cretaux, CNES

Faisal Hossain, University of Washington

Emily Bernhardt, Duke University

Sheikh Ghafoor, Tennesee Tech

Chris Arp, University of Alaska

Katie Spellman, University of Alaska

Emily Stanley, U. Wisconsin