Undergraduate students advised
B.S. intern advisor, Morgan Erlich, University of Colorado, Dept. Earth and Atmos. Sci., Denver, CO. Quantifying statistical relations between grades and tonnages of strategic commodities (5/2009-8/2009).
B.S. intern advisor, Akbar Eshfani, University of Colorado, Department of Mathematics, Denver, CO. Stochastic, data mining, and time series modeling in earth science (4/2010-9/2010).
Master students advised
M.S. co-advisor, Elizabeth Murphy, University of Illinois, Dept. Env. Eng., Champaign, IL. Predicting hydrologic variables in watersheds along an urban gradient (2000– 2002).
M.S. co-advisor, Chuenamol Sethaputra, Dept. Env. Sci., University of Colorado, Denver, CO. Dual porosity techniques for predicting macropore transport, (2003 – 2004).
M.S. co-advisor, Maria Stearns, Dept. Geog. Env. Sci., University of Colorado, Denver, CO. Effects of coal-bed methand discharge waters on the vegetation and soil ecosystem in Powder River basin (2003-2004)
M.S. co-advisor, Justin Little, Dept. Geog. Env. Sci., University of Colorado, Denver, CO. Importance of scaling: laboratory versus field scale hysteretic measurements for a coarse sandy soil (2004-2006)
M.S. co-advisor, Maria A. Figueroa, Dept. Geog. Env. Sci., University of Colorado, Denver, CO. A Comparison of dO18 Composition of Water Extracted from Suction Lysimeters, Centrifugation, and Azeotropic Distillation (2005-2007)
M.S. co-advisor, Akbar Eshfani, University of Colorado, Department of Mathematics, Denver, CO. A two-step hybrid approach to forecasting global climate change (2010-present).
Doctoral students advised
Ph.D. committee, Mark E. Smith, Dept. Water Resour. Plan. Mgt., Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO. Application of prediction methodologies for coastal and urban water flooding in ungauged basins of El Salvador (2004 - 2007).
Ph.D. committee member, Oderson A. De Souza Filho (oderson.souza@cprm.gov.br), Grupo de Geotecnologias. Instituto de Geociências, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil, Dados Aerogeofisicos e GeolOgicos Aplicados a Selecáo de Areas Favoràveis para Agua Subterränea no Dominic Cristalino do Cearà, Brasil, August 29, 2008 (2007-2008).
Ph.D. co-advisor, Andréa Koga Vicente (andrea.kvicente@gmail.com), Grupo de Geotecnologias, Departmento de Geografia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil, Uncertainty in spatialization of extreme precipitation events near Serra do Mar. (2008 - 2010).
Ph.D. co-advisor, Fabio Iwashita (budafbi@gmail.com), Grupo de Geotecnologias. Instituto de Geociências, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil, Joint prediction of water quality in central Brazil from hydrogeologic and airborne geophysical measurements using data mining and knowledge discovery techniques (2008-2011). Research advisor while a visiting scientist at the USGS, 2009-2010.
Ph.D. co-advisor, Lucas P. Moriera (lucas.paes.moreira@gmail.com), Grupo de Geotecnologias. Instituto de Geociências, Universidade Estadual de Brasilia, Brazil (UnB), Joint inversion of receiver functions and surface water measurements to improve crustal imaging (2009-2011). Research advisor while a visiting scientist at the USGS, 2010-2011.
Ph.D. co-advisor, Çan Ertekin (can_ertekin@yahoo.com), Department of Geosciences, University of Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Çanakkale, Turkey, Data-driven modeling of random correlated variables for improvements to groundwater inverse problems (2011-present). Research advisor while a visiting scientist at the USGS, 2011-2012.
