As a hydrologist I study the environmental and anthropogenic factors that affect the availability of water as a resource. My particular research focuses on developing data and methodologies that can be used for sustainable water resource management by researchers, governmental agencies, and the general public. To do this I focus on developing better methods for data collection and analysis through the use of remote sensing technology and environmental modeling. I am currently working on the following projects.

  • A MATLAB-based soil moisture modeling and prediction (smMAP) toolbox
  • Climate change impacts on water resources and ecosystem in extremely arid regions
  • Remote sensing of river stage and discharge
  • An online soil moisture based irrigation scheduling tool (SMIST)
  • A spatially distributed hydrological modeling and visualization framework (SDHM)
  • Digital terrain analysis
  • Retrieve soil parameters from satellite measured soil moisture
  • Climate change impacts on the Tibetan lakes