Students

I am looking for motivated undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in pursuing research in any of the following areas:
-drought monitoring
-drought prediction
-climate variability/climate change
-climate forecasting
-long-term trends in hurricane occurrence & intensity
 -hydroclimatology (floods and droughts)
-hurricanes and climate change
-hurricane wind field modeling
-precipitation bias adjustment
-soil moisture monitoring/modeling
-crop growth monitoring/modeling
 -any aspect of applied climatology

Please contact me to find out more about existing research opportunities and undergraduate and graduate research assistanships (squiring@geog.tamu.edu).

Graduate students can pursue an MS or PhD in Geography or an MS or PhD in Water Management and Hydrological Sciences.

Graduate Advising (ongoing):
  • picture of LeiLei Meng (co-chair), Ph.D. (Geography), “Soil moisture and predicting drought in the Northern Great Plains”, 2006–present
  • picture of AnnaAnna Nordfelt (chair), M.S. (Geography), “Anthropogenic modification of precipitation around the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex”, 2006–present
  • Walter Cox (co-chair), Ph.D. (Geography), "Quantifying hurricane risk in the Caribbean Basin", 2007-present
  • Seung-Ryong Han (committee member), Ph.D. (Civil Engineering), “Statistical modeling of hurricane power outages and hurricane damage to power systems”, 2006–present
  • Bailiang Li (committee member), Ph.D. (Geography), “Numerical modeling of aeolian saltation”, 2006–present
  • Joni Kincaid (committee member), Ph.D. (Geography), “Assessing water resources in South America using remotely-sensed imagery”, 2007–present
  • Kelin Zhuang (committee member), Ph.D. (Geology & Geophysics), “Impact of climate change on geomorphological processes in China”, 2007–present
  • Allison Cardona (committee member), M.S. (Atmospheric Science), “A cirrus cloud climatology from the Calipso orbiting lidar”, 2007–present


  • Darren Ream (committee member), M.S. (Ecosystem Science & Management),“Feasability analysis of small-scale biofuels technologies”, 2007–present

Graduate Advising (completed):
  • picture of GaneshSrinivasan Ganesh (chair), M.S. (Geography), “Use of satellite-based vegetation indices as indicators of drought”, graduated 2007
  • Katie Collins (committee member), M.S. (Atmospheric Science), “How El Nino affects energy consumption: A study at national and regional levels”, graduated 2007
  • Veronica McNear (substitute committee member), M.S. (Atmospheric Science), “Impact of urban heat island and sea breeze on convergence, rainfall, and lightening in the Houston area”, graduated 2007
  • Douglas Brent McRoberts (committee member), M.S. (Atmospheric Science), “Drought over the past century in Texas and New Mexico: Reducing inhomogeneties in long-term climate records via statistical methods to study drought”, graduated 2008

Undergraduate (U) & Graduate (G) Research Assistants:
  • Kelly Kay Clark (U), Fall 2006, Project = Center for Teaching Excellence Incentive Grant
  • Darrell Jackson (U), Fall 2006, Project = Center for Teaching Excellence Incentive Grant
  • John Tarlton (U), Spring 2007, Project = Center for Teaching Excellence Incentive Grant
  • Ryan Brown (U), Spring 2007, Project = Center for Teaching Excellence Incentive Grant
  • Philip Points (U), Fall 2007-present, Project = Funded by a major Gulf Coast utility company
  • Jeff Hankamer (U), Fall 2007, Project = Funded by a major Gulf Coast utility company
  • Anna Nordfelt (G), spring 2006–present, Project = Drought Monitoring Index for Texas, Funded by Texas Water Development Board
  • Lei Meng (G), Fall 2006, Summer 2007, Fall 2007, Projects = Drought Monitoring Index for Texas, Funded by Texas Water Development Board; Pan-Caribbean Research
  • Srinivasan Ganesh (G), summer 2006, Project = Drought Monitoring Index for Texas, Funded by Texas Water Development Board
  • Shawn Marino (U), summer 2006, Project = Modeling power outage risk during hurricanes, Funded by a major Gulf Coast utility company
  • Weslee Copeland (U), summer 2006, Project = Drought Monitoring Index for Texas, Funded by Texas Water Development Board
  • Sarah Nuse (U), spring 2006, Project = Digital Climatic Atlas for Texas, Funded by Texas Water Development Board