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 (Research Specialist)
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
Audrey Thellman (Postdoctoral Researcher)
DEGREES: University of Notre Dame (B.S.), Duke University (Ph.D.)
RESEARCH AREAS: SWOT, river and lake ice, primary productivity
CONTACT AT: athellma@unc.edu
WEBSITE: https://audreythellman.weebly.com/
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
Lexi Henny (Postdoctoral Researcher)
DEGREES: California Institute of Technology (B.S.), University at Albany (M.S., Ph.D.)
RESEARCH AREAS: Extreme precipitation, atmospheric rivers, streamflow anomalies (tentative)
CONTACT AT: alexahen@unc.edu
Jack Dechow (Postdoctoral Researcher - CoReSSD Project)
DEGREES: Knox College (B.S.), Ohio State University (Ph.D.)
RESEARCH AREAS: Snow hydrology, Land Surface Modeling, Constrained Optimization, Least Squares
CONTACT AT: jldechow@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
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