Jessica L. O'Connell - Assistant Professor
Jessica is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Marine Science at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research is centered around her passion for landscape ecology and relies on interdisciplinary methods that span the fields of ecology, remote sensing, geospatial informatics, and data science. Her goals are to create research products that facilitate landscape-scale ecosystem conservation. Jessica is a proponent of the open science philosophy and strives to conduct research that reduces the barriers to accessing scientific results and products. She is also a proponent of long-term ecological research and serves as a Co-PI on the Georgia Coastal Ecosystems Long-Term Ecological Research Project (GCE-LTER).
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Jessica is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Marine Science at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research is centered around her passion for landscape ecology and relies on interdisciplinary methods that span the fields of ecology, remote sensing, geospatial informatics, and data science. Her goals are to create research products that facilitate landscape-scale ecosystem conservation. Jessica is a proponent of the open science philosophy and strives to conduct research that reduces the barriers to accessing scientific results and products. She is also a proponent of long-term ecological research and serves as a Co-PI on the Georgia Coastal Ecosystems Long-Term Ecological Research Project (GCE-LTER).
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Saket Gowravaram - Postdoctoral researcher
Dr. Saket Gowravaram is interested in tackling exciting earth science problems using advanced remote sensing and data analysis. In February 2022, he will join the O’Connell Lab at UT Austin Marine Science Institute to study wetland ecosystems using multi-scale remote sensing data from satellites and UAS. Before joining UTMSI, he earned his Ph.D. from the Aerospace Engineering department at the University of Kansas, where he mainly focused on UAS multispectral remote sensing for the mapping and measurement of environmental processes and natural disasters with an emphasis on UAS and satellite data fusion. During his Ph.D., he designed, developed, and demonstrated several UAS remote sensing missions in wildland fires, post-disaster damage assessment, and vegetation monitoring scenarios. Having made important contributions to the UAS remote sensing and grassland ecosystem community, he now aims to benefit the wetland ecosystem community through his research and associated findings.
Dr. Saket Gowravaram is interested in tackling exciting earth science problems using advanced remote sensing and data analysis. In February 2022, he will join the O’Connell Lab at UT Austin Marine Science Institute to study wetland ecosystems using multi-scale remote sensing data from satellites and UAS. Before joining UTMSI, he earned his Ph.D. from the Aerospace Engineering department at the University of Kansas, where he mainly focused on UAS multispectral remote sensing for the mapping and measurement of environmental processes and natural disasters with an emphasis on UAS and satellite data fusion. During his Ph.D., he designed, developed, and demonstrated several UAS remote sensing missions in wildland fires, post-disaster damage assessment, and vegetation monitoring scenarios. Having made important contributions to the UAS remote sensing and grassland ecosystem community, he now aims to benefit the wetland ecosystem community through his research and associated findings.
Kyle Runion - PhD student
Kyle is interested in coastal resilience and in combating climate-change related stressors on wetlands. He joined UTMSI in January 2021 as a PhD student in Marine Science and studies landscape-scale wetland dynamics through remote sensing techniques. Prior to joining the O'Connell Wetland Landscape Ecology Lab, he researched the beneficial use of dredge material for the purpose of wetland restoration with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and in his home state of Maryland, Kyle worked with the Chesapeake Bay Program in watershed-scale habitat restoration. He holds a M.S. degree in Marine Studies from the University of Delaware where his thesis research focused on understanding sediment transport in a recently restored tidal salt marsh and a B.S. degree in Environmental Science and Technology from the University of Maryland. Wetland research allows Kyle to combine his passions of nature and data science to promote ecosystem resilience.
Kyle is interested in coastal resilience and in combating climate-change related stressors on wetlands. He joined UTMSI in January 2021 as a PhD student in Marine Science and studies landscape-scale wetland dynamics through remote sensing techniques. Prior to joining the O'Connell Wetland Landscape Ecology Lab, he researched the beneficial use of dredge material for the purpose of wetland restoration with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and in his home state of Maryland, Kyle worked with the Chesapeake Bay Program in watershed-scale habitat restoration. He holds a M.S. degree in Marine Studies from the University of Delaware where his thesis research focused on understanding sediment transport in a recently restored tidal salt marsh and a B.S. degree in Environmental Science and Technology from the University of Maryland. Wetland research allows Kyle to combine his passions of nature and data science to promote ecosystem resilience.
Former O'Connell lab Postdoctoral Scholars: Hossein Sahour - 2020-2021
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