Terry Schwarz

Email:tcs33@cornell.edu
Office: 165 Riley Robb Hall
Advisor: Todd Walter
Degree Program: MPS
Year: Spring 2006

Hi. Thanks for checking out the web page. I am a grad student in the Soil and Water Lab. I came down from the small but wonderful University of Alaska Southeast, in Juneau, AK, where I received a degree in Environmental Science in 2001. After graduating, I stuck around to manage the Multidisciplinary Lab (MDL) on campus, get a minor in mathematics, and conduct research in glacial hydrology. Now, I am in Ithaca, NY and who knows what will happen from here.

Currently, I am looking into snow redistribution with particular respect to boundaries of different land use types. The idea is to come up with a simple model, that with least inputs (wind direction and velocity, snow accumulation and distributed vegetation coverage), will predict snow water equivalent (SWE) in a watershed scale. Also, I am going to be running around out the snow this winter to collect SWE measurements to verify and tune this model. I am also working on compiling InSAR (Interferometeric Synthetic Aperture Radar) images from Southeast Alaska with Matt Pritchard.