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Professional Title:
Graduate Student Researcher
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Education:
B.S Environmental Science and Management – University of California Davis
Awards:
NASA's FINESST 3-Year Grant Awardee - $135,000
Bio:
Brittany is a PhD candidate interested in the effects of wildfire on lake and reservoir water quality in California. In order to conduct such a large scale in a multi-decadal time series, she uses satellite data from Landsat and Sentinel-2 & 3 to measure turbidity, chlorophyll-a and cyanobacteria. This study incorporates multiple environmental and climatic variables (i.e land cover class, impervious surface, distance of fire to nearest drainage, etc.) that may influence water quality changes in order to determine their degree of influence.
She has also led field work and analyzed chlorophyll blooms at San Luis Reservoir, which is a major instrument in California’s State Water Project.
