Wade Ross Email & Phone Number

River Road, Nc, Us

Greenville, Nc, Us

Athens, Ga

Principle Investigator for Joint Fire Science (FOA 21-2-02) Reducing damages and losses to valued resources from wildfire. -Project lead on quantifying use of prescribed fire for reducing wildfire impacts to natural resources.-Developed new lidar metric to monitor habitat restoration in response to prescribed-fire treatments.-Designed spatial analysis workflows and predictive data modeling using R and Python.-Responsible for project management, budgeting, outreach, grant writing, and scientific publications.-Other responsibilities include cleaning, processing, and analyzing lidar point-cloud data to develop surface and elevation models and to characterize forest structure.

Las Cruces, New Mexico Area

Co-investigator for “Improving estimates of vegetation structure and biomass in global savannasand drylands with ICESat-2" (Studies with ICESat-2, NASA 2018 Strategic Plan and 2014 Science Mission Directorate Science Plan).-Improved estimates of woody biomass across sub-Sahran Africa by 31%.-Modeled distribution of vegetation in response to climate-change scenarios across sub-Saharan Africa.-Developed the HYSOGs250m global soil dataset to support rainfall runoff and hydrological modeling.-Managed projects, assisted with grant proposals and reports, and published in peer-reviewed journals. -Oversaw the coordination and development of research assistants and weekly academic discussions.

Gainesville, Fl.

-Forecasted soil and forest carbon storage in response to climate change projections for southeast US. -Developed data mining framework for geospatial modeling of soil properties on forest lands. -Presented research findings at professional societies and produced primary-author publications.

Gainesville, Fl

Responsibilities included developing lab assignments and exams, lecturing, and grading for SWS 4720C.

Gainesville, Florida Area

-Evaluated the effects of land-use change on soil carbon storage in the St. Johns River Basin. -Managed logistics, field data collection, and lab analysis of soil and vegetation samples across Florida. -Developed proficiency in R reporting, geographic information systems, MS Office, Word, PowerPoint.

Palatka, Fl.

-Gained experience with coastal, ocean, estuary, and wetland ecology; assisted with technical reports.-Assisted with data collection and water quality sampling at Regional Stormwater Treatment areas.

Palatka

-Assisted with surveys of fish, submerged aquatic vegetation, and wetlands; performed data entry.-Maintained deployed ISCO auto-samplers, field equipment, research vessels, and boat trailers.

Bs, Agricultural Operations Management

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Soil, Water, And Ecosystem Sciences