Overview of the SAWLS Group: People, Places & Awards

         Where in the world do SAWLS team members come from?

         Where does the SAWLS team work?

             Download a Google Earth Tour of our research sites (kmz file; download, unpack and run in Google Earth)

         Current team members

         Graduates of the program

         Student awards

Home Towns of the SAWLS Group

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Locations of Active SAWLS Project

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People in the SAWLS Program

Name

Title

Research Group

Project Title

 

 Dr. Scott N. Miller

Assistant Professor of Watershed Management / Director of the SAWLS Group

 

 

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Tracy Baldyga

PhD Student, Renewable Resources. Graduate Research Assistant

SUMAWA project

Assessing land cover change impacts using remote sensing and hydrologic modeling

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Kelsha Anderson

MS Student, Renewable Resources. Graduate Research Assistant

BLM - APD Toolkit

Surface disturbance and salinity transport associated with coalbed methane natural gas development in the Upper Colorado River Basin.

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Carrie Martin

MS Student, Renewable Resources. Graduate Research Assistant

SUMAWA project

Gender-based assessment of households and intervetion strategies in Kenya.

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Aparna Venkatasamy

MS student, Computer Science

Weed invasion mapping

Internet-based mapping of invasive weeds in Wyoming

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Phil Baigas

MS Student, Renewable Resources. Graduate Research Assistant

Snowy Range Moose

Habitat mapping of moose (alces alces) using GPS collars and GIS in the Snowy Range, Wyoming

Teale Wyckoff

BS student, Environment and Natural Resources

DOE Task 10

Spatial and temporal trends in coalbed methane development, Powder River Basin, Wyoming

 

Brian Flemister

BS student, Geography

SAWLS support

Project support for mutliple research efforts.

 

 

Those who Have Graduated and Moved on

Name

Title

Research Group

Status

 

Dr. Li Zou

Post Doctoral Research Scientist

West Nile Virus Risk Assessment (powder.uwyo.edu)

Working in the field of internet-based GIS consulting in Chicago.

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Abhishek Sunil Tilaye

MS, Renewable Resources

Internet Map Server for Invasive Weeds in Wyoming

Expected Graduation Aug. 2007 - Employed by ESRI in their environmental sciences division, Lakewood, CO.

 

Sudhir Raj Shrestha

MS, Renewable Resources

Heuristic Soil Property Estimation using GIS and Remote Sensing

Graduated, May 2007-

Employed by City of Merced, CA in GIS division

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Hannah Griscom

MS, Renewable Resources

 The Drying of the Luvuvhu River, South Africa; Distinguishing the Roles of Dams and Land Cover Change

Graduated, May 2007 -

Employed by Wyoming Natural Diversity Database as Field Manager

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Vishnu Vangapally

MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Integrated soil moisture and hydrologic modeling

Graduated in December 2004 - Currently working in Columbus, Ohio for Hewlett Packard

 

Prashant Patil

MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering

APD toolkit & Weed Mapping IMS

 

Graduated in May, 2005 - Currently employed doing SQL Server work at Microsoft in Seattle

 

 Colleen Boodleman

BS, Agroecology

Sustainable Management of Watersheds: The River Njoro, Kenya (www.sumawa.org)

Graduated in May, 2005 - Now a MS grad student at University of Arizona School of Renewable Resources.

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Tracy Baldyga

MS, Renewable Resources

Sustainable Management of Watersheds: The River Njoro, Kenya (www.sumawa.org)

Finished her MS in July, 2005 - Now working on her PhD with us in SAWLS.

Tracy is hooded!

 

SAWLS Graduate Student Awards 
 
1.����������� Griscom, H., 2006.National Garden Clubs Scholarship ($4,000)
2.����������� Venkatasamy, A., 2006.University of Wyoming International Student Scholarship ($1,000)
3.����������� Shrestha, S.R., 2006.G.A. "Jim" and Marian Berger Endowed Graduate Scholarship.University of Wyoming College of Agriculture ($2,000)
4.����������� Shrestha, S.R., 2006.Rocky Mountain Region American Association of Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Student Scholarship ($1,000).
5.����������� Griscom, H., 2005.Garden Club Scholarship ($2,000)
6.����������� Freeman, D., 2005.Rocky Mountain Region American Association of Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Student Scholarship ($1,000).
7.����������� Shrestha, S.R., 2005.Rocky Mountain Region American Association of Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Student Scholarship ($1,500).
8.����������� Griscom, H., 2005.Rocky Mountain Region American Association of Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Student Scholarship ($1,000).
9.����������� Cockrell, A.J., 2005.Rocky Mountain Region American Association of Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Student Scholarship ($500).
10.��������� Griscom, H., 2005.Graduate Student Committee Travel Award ($500).
11.��������� Shrestha, S.R., 2004.Graduate Student Committee Travel Award ($500).
12.��������� Baldyga, T.J., 2004.Graduate Student Committee Travel Award ($500).
13.��������� Baldyga, T.J., 2004.Willard C and Elaine N. Rhoads Scholarship ($1,500).
14.��������� Baldyga, T.J., 2004.UW Women�s Club Scholarship ($2,000)