Spatial Analysis of Watershed & Landscape Systems Group
Scott N. Miller, Associate Professor, Spatial Processes Hydrologist
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Research Links
Sustainable Management of Watersheds
Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment
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Syllabi for Miller Classes
Project Links
Flamingos in Lake Nakuru National Park Home of the SUMAWA project.
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Scott Miller is the director of SAWLS, a professor in the Department of Renewable Resources at the University of Wyoming. My job title is "spatial processes hydrologist" and I teach and pursue research in the general domain of watershed hydrology. Long-term research interests lie at the intersection of human use, process-based understanding on hydrolical and geomorphic processes, and sustainable development. Short research blurbs can be read by following the links on the left. Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies in Hydrology / Water Resources at Univ. of Wyoming Dr. Miller is the Chair of the PhD program in Hydrologic Sciences and the MS program in Water Resources at the University of Wyoming. These are two interdisciplinary graduate programs for students pursuing research and education in hydrology / water resources and are opportunities for students to expand their education and research outcomes by interacting with other students and faculty from across campus.
Summary of the
SAWLS Research Program
Over the past several years we
have been working on a variety of projects in which we have
developed research applications related to both basic and
applied research in hydrology and watershed management. In
addition to field-based empirical research we construct GIS tools for automating hydrologic,
geomorphic and ecological
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Free to Contact Me Scott N. Miller
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Welcome to the SAWLS home page.
We are a multidisciplinary group focused on watershed hydrology housed within the College of
Agriculture, Department of Renewable Resources at the University
of Wyoming. The group is composed of several graduate
students, faculty and post-docs working on a variety of field
applications, GIS and remote sensing research related to
hydrologic modeling, impacts of
land cover change, and sustainable watershed management. This
site is intended to provide a brief overview of the ongoing
projects in SAWLS. If you have any follow-up questions, please
feel free to 
modeling processes. While
GIS approaches have provided useful advances for watershed
management, they have proven to be most beneficial in providing
a means for advancing our understanding of watershed processes.
Specifically, the focus has been on projects involving multi-scale
(both temporal and spatial) modeling for landscape assessment;
the effects of watershed complexity on model results;
information entropy and process representation as a function of
scale; and remote sensing misclassification error in hydrologic
investigations. Prior research projects have investigated linkages between watershed hydrology
and fluvial dynamics, scale issues in watershed response, the
sensitivity of hydrologic models to spatial data, and the
impacts of map scale on geomorphic research. 
Emerging technologies are
developed to serve as tools that allow us to probe questions
that could not be addressed in their absence. However, the focus
of this research has been on watershed processes and core
hydrologic research, not on the technologies themselves. Many of
the critical research issues in watershed hydrology and
environmental science are multi-disciplinary and complex, and
our
research has benefited from a collaborative, inter-disciplinary
approach.
