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News & Updates

August, 2021 

  • Chelsea Dandridge was awarded the Metropolitan Washington Chapter of Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (MWC/ARCS) Foundation Scholar scholarship.

  • Jessica Besnier joined the lab under the NRT Fellowship at UVA.

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June, 2021

  • Hyunglok Kim published a research article titled ‘First attempt of global-scale assimilation of subdaily scale soil moisture estimates from CYGNSS and SMAP into a land surface model’ in the journal of Environmental Research Letters. (https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac0ddf)

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May, 2021

  • Runze Zhang published a research article titled ‘Evaluation of Global Surface Water Temperature Data Sets for Use in Passive Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture’ in the journal of Remote Sensing. (https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13101872)

 

April, 2021

  • Ben Goffin was awarded the Distinguished Fellowship from UVA Engineering.

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March, 2021

  • Gigi Pavur was awarded fellowship under the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).

  • Ben Goffin was awarded the Peter and Crisler Quick Fellowship from the Jefferson Scholars Foundation.

 

February, 2021

  • Prakrut Kansara published an article titled ‘An Assessment of the Filling Process of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and Its Impact on the Downstream Countries’ in the journal of Remote Sensing. (https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13040711)

 

December, 2020 

  • Hung Manh Le published a research article titled 'Assessment of drought conditions over Vietnam using standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index, MERRA-2 re-analysis, and dynamic land cover' in the journal of Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2020.100767)

 

October, 2020 

  • Runze Zhang published a research article titled ‘Identifying Relative Strengths of SMAP, SMOS-IC, and ASCAT to Capture Temporal Variability’ in the journal of Remote Sensing of Environment. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112126)

 

August, 2020

  • Robin Kim joined the lab under the Dean's Scholar Fellowship & NRT-CPS Fellowship. 

  • Chelsea Dandridge was awarded University of Virginia GAANN Fellowship.

  • Gigi Pavur was awarded the Peter and Crisler Quick Jefferson Fellowship. 

  • Gigi Pavur was awarded the Dean's Fellowship in the Department of Engineering Systems and Environment, UVA.

  • Gigi Pavur was awarded the Bicentennial Fellowship at UVA.

  • Gigi Pavur was awarded the NSF National Research Traineeship (NRT).

  • Hung Manh Le was awarded William L. Ballard Jr. Endowed Fellowship.

  • Hyunglok Kim published a research article titled ‘Global scale error assessments of soil moisture estimates from microwave-based active and passive satellites and land surface models over forest and mixed irrigated/dryland agriculture regions’ in the journal of Remote Sensing of Environment. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112052)

  • Hyunglok Kim was selected for the Korean American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA) Graduate Scholarship.

  • Hyunglok Kim was awarded the travel award given for the 8th International Conference on Flood Management, National Science Foundation (NSF).

  • Hyunglok Kim was awarded Virginia Engineering Foundation Graduate Fellowship.

  • Hyunglok Kim was awarded AGU Horton Research Grant funded by the Robert E. Horton Fund for Hydrologic Research.

 

June, 2020

  • Chelsea Dandridge successfully completed her internship at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

  • Hyunglok Kim published a research article titled ‘Combination of SMAP and Sentinel-1A/B-Derived Soil Moisture Estimates With Land Surface Model Outputs in the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain’ in the journal of IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9113694)

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May, 2020

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March, 2020

  • Hung Manh Le published a research article titled 'Adequacy of Satellite-derived Precipitation Estimate for Hydrological modeling in Vitenam Basins' in the journal of Journal of Hydrology. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.124820)

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December, 2019

  • Chelsea Dandridge published a research article titled ‘Downscaling of SMAP Soil Moisture in the Lower Mekong River Basin’ in the journal of Water. (https://doi.org/10.3390/w12010056)

  • Hyunglok Kim was awarded Outstanding Student Presentation Award at AGU Fall Meeting.

  • Chelsea Dandridge published a research article titled ‘Evaluation of Satellite-Based Rainfall Estimates in the Lower Mekong River Basin (Southeast Asia)’ in the journal of Remote Sensing.

 

August, 2019

  • Hyunglok Kim was awarded fellowship under Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology, NASA.

  • Hyunglok Kim was awarded Bicentennial Graduate Fellowship, University of Virginia.

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July, 2019

  • Hyunglok Kim successfully completed his internship as a Visiting Scholar at USDA-ARS-Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory.

  • Chelsea Dandridge successfully completed her internship at NASA Langley Research Center under the DEVELOP program.

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February, 2019

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