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D. Scott Mackay
Professor
Department of Geography
State University of New York
105 Wilkeson Quadrangle
Buffalo, NY 14261 USA
Phone: +1-716-645-0477
Fax: +1-716-645-2329
dsmackay at buffalo dot edu
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April 2023:
Bhaskar Mitra (PhD 2011) starts new tenure track
position at
James Hutton Institute
September 2022:
New DOE grant to study
hydraulic redistribution and
rhizosphere processes
PhD student Greg Bream
joins the group
Plant, Cell & Environment
paper explores
physiological trait networks
March 2022:
Nature Reviews E & E paper
on woody-plant mortality
June 2021:
Welcome Do Hyoung Kim!
Postdoctoral Associate
January 2020:
Diane Wang starts new
faculty position at
Purdue University
November 2019:
Paper by X. Tai, in JGR
adds a plant hydraulic
mechanism for trees
survival of bark beetles
July 2019:
Paper in New Phytologist
suggests conifers survive
drought using deep roots
March 2019:
JXB paper by Diane W.
advances integration
of genomics and
biophysical modeling
August 2018:
Xiaonan joins
University of Utah
as Post Doc
June 29 2018:
Xiaonan and Jon
successfully defend
their dissertations
June 2017:
Welcome Diane Wang!
Postdoctoral Associate
April 2017:
Jon Pleban awarded
CAS Diisertation Fellow
April 2017:
Xiaonan Tai a finalist
in UB 3-minute thesis
January 2017:
Xiaonan Tai awarded
CUAHSI Pathfinder
for field research
September 2016:
New NSF grant on
biophysical modeling
and plant genomics
July 2016:
New paper on roles of
plants hydraulics and
topography on SAD
Tai et al New Phytol.
June 2016:
Phil Savoy joins the
Biology Department at
Duke University
as a post doc
June 2016:
Phil Savoy successfully
defended his PhD
dissertation
December 2015:
New paper on
Massive Conifer Mortality
Nature Climate Change
Report at
LANL
AGU's From the Prow:
The Next 50 Years of WRR
August 2015:
New paper on coupling
plant hydraulic traits
and canopy process
published in
Water Resources Research
May 2015:
Two new NSF grants
from Plant Genome
and Integrated Ecology
Physiology programs
April 2015:
Phil Savoy awarded
CAS Dissertation Fellow
May 2014:
Jon Pleban receives
Abrahams-Woldenberg
award for field research
August 2013
Huicheng Chien
joined SUNY New Paltz
as Assistant Professor
August 2012:
Mike Loranty
joined Colgate U.
as Assistant Professor
April 2012:
Jonathan Pleban
awarded an IGERT
fellowship
February 2011:
Bhaskar Mitra
joins the U. Arizona
as a Post Doc
Huicheng Chien
successfully defends
his Ph.D. dissertation
October 2010:
Bhaskar Mitra
successfuly defends
his Ph.D. dissertation
May 2009:
Bhaskar Mitra receives
Abrahams-Woldenberg
award for field research
March 2009:
Mike Loranty's PhD
reported by NSF
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Ecohydrology
Group's Personnel
Faculty
D.
Scott Mackay (Ph.D.
1997, University of Toronto)
Professor & Department Chair
ORCID ID 0000-0003-0477-9755
Postdoctoral
Associates (Current)
Do Hyoung Kim (June 1, 2021 to present)
Funding: NSF, UB CAS
Ph.D. Students
(Current)
Greg Bream (Ph.D., Geography,
2027 anticipated)
Dissertation title:
Funding: CAS, NSF
Mitchell
Hitchcock (Ph.D., Ecology, Evolution &
Behavior, 2024 anticipated)
Dissertation title:
Funding: CAS, NSF, DOE
Awards: Schomburg Fellow
Master's Students
(Current)
Noah Deer (M.S., Geographic Information
Science, February 2025, anticipated)
Undergraduate
Students
Alumni
Douglas
E. Ahl (Ph.D. 2002; Post-Doc 2002;
UW-Madison)
Dissertation title: A measurement and
modeling perspective on requirements for
future remote sensing vegetation indices and
classification
Funding sources: USDA McIntire-Stennis, NASA;
Previous positions: Technical Director, Energy
Center of Wisconsin;
Director
of research, Seventhwave
Current position: Vice
President of Information Technology,
Slipstream LLC
Kathryn M. Brown (M.A. 2014)
Project title:
Investigating the death of a river:
Identifying correlation between channel
processes and state of channel decline
Current position: Teacher, Fredonia Central
School District
Sean
N. Burrows (Ph.D. 2002; UW-Madison)
Dissertation title: Geostatistical
estimation of leaf area index and net
primary production of five North american
biomes
Funding sources: USDA McIntire-Stennis, NASA;
Current position: Chief Technology Officer and
co-founder of Ascend Analytics
Zeshing Cai (M.S. 2013)
Project title: TOPMODEL add-in: A GIS
extension for ArcMap that implements TOPMODEL
to simulate streamflow within a watershed
Ryan Cassens (M.A. 2009)
Thesis title: Using Aster L1A
data to identify locations of Japanese
knotwood (Fallopia japonica) along the West
Kill and Schoharie creeks in Green County,
NY
Erin
Cavagnaro Beyer (M.A. 2014)
Current position: Management Consultant,
ARCADIS, Buffalo & New York City
Shana Chapman
(M.A. 2015)
Project title: Comparison of
side scan sonar substrate classification
methods to assess accuracy
Eileen Chen (M.S. 2002; UW-Madison)
Project
title: Effects of combining
non-spatial simulation units and
explicit models of sediment delivery on
an agricultural nonpoint source
pollution model
Funding source: USDA Hatch
Current position: Groundwater Resources
Scientist, Alameda County Water District,
Fremont, California
Matthew Chen
(M.S. 2016)
Zhuo Chen (M.A.
2012)
Current position: Software
engineer, Apple Corporation
Huicheng Chien
(Ph.D. 2011)
Dissertation title: Time-series analysis
of watershed scale predictions of water
quantity and quality export from
agricultural watersheds
Funding sources: EPA, NSF Hydrology
Previous position: Post-doc, University of
Saint Louis
Current position: Associate Professor,
SUNY New Paltz
Brian Conley
(M.A. 2012)
Current position: GIS Research
Analyst, University at Buffalo Regional
Institute
Jose
Covarrubias Rocha (M.A. 2007)
Thesis title: Multi-temporal
Remote Sensing Evaluation of vegetal
coverage in the Bolivian Andean Plate
(Kori Kollo Mine)
Larry Cutforth (M.S., 2003;
UW-Madison)
Current position: GIS State Coordinator,
Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade,
and Consumer Protection, Madison, Wisconsin
Brian
W. Dudek (M.A. 2009)
Thesis
title: Water stress and scarcity in
metropolitan Phoenix using the Water
Poverty Index: An examination of
vulnerability
Brent
E. Ewers
(Postdoctoral Fellow, 1999-2002;
UW-Madison)
Funding source: NASA
Current position: Professor &
Department Head, Department of Botany and
Program in Ecology, University of Wyoming
Thomas W. FitzHugh (M.S. 1999;
UW-Madison)
Thesis title: Spatial aggregation of an
agricultural nonpoint source pollution
model
Funding source: Wisconsin Department of
Natural Resources
Current position: Supervising Water
Resources Scientist, MWH Global, Bellevue,
WA, 2015-present
Previous positions: Water Resources Modeler, Bureau
of Reclamation; Global Freshwater Water Management
Analyst, The Nature Conservancy; GIS
Analyst, The Nature Conservancy
Mary (Freiss) Masse
(NSF REU Summer 2010)
Project: Modeling plant
hydraulic strategies under drought
conditions in a northern hardwood
forest
Funding source: NSF REU
Current: Ph.D. student, Department of
Geology, University at Buffalo
Michael
Graham (M.A. 2007)
J. Lynn
Hickerson (NSF REU Summer 2014)
Project: Quantifying the
stress response of Brassica rapa
genotypes, with experimental drought
in two nitrogen treatments
Funding
sources: NSF REU
Sanhanat Isama Ael
Rtn (M.S. Geographic
Information Science, 2024)
Current position: GIScience
Instructor, Thailand Navy
Alexander
Jackson (M.A. 2012)
Shikai Jin
(M.S. 2013)
Project: Analysis of crime
cases distribution pattern of Buffalo
City, NY: On spatial and space-time
scale
Past position: MS Computer Software
Engineering, San Jose State University
Current position: Software development
engineer, Amazon, Sunnyvale, CA
Steven Knapp (M.A. 2004)
Current position: Geologist at National Fuel
and Gas, Amherst, NY
Previous position: GIS Analyst, Verdi &
Company, Buffalo, NY
Chang Liu (M.S. Geographic
Information Science, 2023)
Yang
Liu (M.S. GIScience,
2020)
Michael M. Loranty
(Ph.D. 2009)
Dissertation title: Towards a
mechanistic understanding of spatial
patterns of forest transpiration, and
its implications for scaling
See NSF Discoveries: Taking
the pulse of the forest
Funding sources: NSF Hydrology
Awards: NSF IGERT Fellow, UB Dissertation
Fellowship
Past position: Post Doc, Woods Hole
Research Center, Falmouth, MA
Current position: Professor, Department of
Geography, Colgate University (see Loranty Lab)
Kristina M. Macro
(Summer 2014)
Past
position: MS Environmental
Engineering, University at Buffalo
Current position: Hydroinformatics
Engineer at Xylem, Buffalo, NY
Judy Malas (NSF REU Summer
2017)
Project:
Quantifying chloroplast movement
as part of a broader use of rapid
phenotyping in understanding crop
produciivty responses to the
environment
Funding
sources: NSF REU
Current position: PhD student,
University of Illinois Chicago
Shelby Marshall (NSF
REU Summer 2011)
Project: Spatial dynamics
of nitrate in Conewango Creek, New
York
Funding
sources: NSF REU
Bhaskar Mitra
(Ph.D. 2011)
Dissertation title:
Role of plant hydraulics in
influencing the spatial distribution
of carbon flux across the
sagebrush-steppe ecosystem: A
quantitative analysis
Funding sources: DOE NICCR
Awards: Presidential
Fellowship,
Abrahams-Woldenberg Scholarship, Mark
Diamond Fellowship
Past positions:
Post Doc, The University of Arizona,
NC State / Texas
A&M / Northern Arizona
University
Current position: James Hutton Institute,
Tenure-Track
Chukwumerije Bryson Okeoma (M.A. 2006)
Jonathan R. Pleban (Ph.D., 2018,
Post-doc Aug-Dec 2018)
Dissertation title:
Advances in phenotyping photosynthesis: An
experiment modeling approach using crop
species Brassica rapa
Funding: NSF (IGERT, ISEP, PGRP)
Awards: NSF IGERT Fellow
Spencer
Podsiadlo (M.A Geography, 2018)
Research:
David E. Roberts (M.S.
2012)
Thesis title: Development
of a coupled ecosystem exchange plant
hydraulic model to explore drought
related plant mortality
Funding source: NSF Hydrology,
DOE NICCR
Current position: Senior Software Engineer,
Resource Data Inc., Portland, OR
Michael Ruffino (M.A. 2014)
Thesis title:
A survey of recovery, and geography
in the program of Alcoholics
Anonymous: A case study of location
and recovery from alcoholism
Current position: Information
Technology Engineer - GIS, Erie
County Division of Sewerage
Management, Buffalo, NY
Xiaohan Rui (M.S.
GIS, 2018)
Research:
Sudeep Samanta (M.S. 2001, Ph.D.
2005; UW-Madison)
Ph.D. dissertation title: Bayesian
analysis of a conceptual transpiration
model with a comparison of canopy
conductance sub-models
M.S. thesis title: Influence of event
characteristics on predictive uncertainty
of a hydrologic model
Funding sources: UW Graduate School,
USDA Hatch, NASA, NSF
Current position: Assistant Scientist, Woods
Hole Research Center
Philip
Savoy (Ph.D. 2016)
Research:
Modeling the seasonal course of canopy
dynamics: Incorporating physiology into
phenological models
Funding: College of Arts & Sciences
Awards: CAS Dissertation Fellow
Past position: Post Doc, Duke University,
USGS
Current position: Physical Scientist, USGS
Aga Shirazi (B.A. 2005)
Funding source: NSF
Previous position: GIS Analyst, First
American Flood and Data Services, Virgina
Current position: Sr. Task Leader, Undus
Corporation, Washington D.C.
Marta Szumski (B.S.
Biology, 2018)
Project: Leaf
growth dynamics of Brassica rapa
Funding
sources: CAS
Current position: Science Teacher,
Buffalo Academy of Science Charter
School, Buffalo, NY
Warit Silavisesrith
(Ph.D. 2008)
Dissertation title: Contextually-based
framework for improved data reduction in
regional scale analytic element
groundwater models
Current position: Senior GIS
Applications Developr, Wendel Companies,
Buffalo, New York.
Ryan Stotz
(M.S. 2012)
Current position: Asset manager,
Veolia Water North America, Buffalo, NY
Xiaonan
Tai (Ph.D., 2018)
Dissertation
title: Spatial variations of
drought-induced forest mortality:
Integrating plant hydraulics and
distributed hydrology
Funding: NSF IOS, State
Awards: UB Presidential Fellow, CUAHSI
Pathfinder, 3MT finalist
Past position: Postdoctoral Associate,
University of Utah
Current position: Assistant Professor,
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Kevin Tan (B.S. GIS,
2018)
Project: Using
Forest Inventory and Analysis
data to quantify and predict
tree mortality responses to
drought
Funding
sources: CAS
Taryn V.
Tomasik (M.A. 2011)
Funding source: DOE NICCR
Current position: New York Department of
Conservation
Patricia
Trawinski (Ph.D., 2007)
Dissertation title: Spatio-temporal
landscape models for West Nile Virus
vector population abundance and
distribution
Current position: Assistant
Professor, Erie Community College,
Buffalo, NY
Danqing
Wang (M.S. GIScience, 2019)
Project title:
Diane R.
Wang (Post doc, June 2017 to
December 2019)
Funding:
NSF PGRP, CAS
Current position: Assistant
Professor, Purdue University
Jiaqi Wang (M.A.
2013)
Aileen Zebrowski (NSF REU, summer 2016)
Project: Influences of nitrate
concentration on the productivity of four Brassica
rapa genotypes
Funding sources: NSF REU, NSF PGRP
Current position: Environmental Engineer, K.
Singh & Associates, Inc, Madison,
Wisconsin
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