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 wetland landscape ecology and relies on interdisciplinary methods that span the fields of ecology, remote sensing, geospatial sciences, 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. 
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Hossein Sahour - Postdoctoral researcher

Hossein’s research interests lie in the fields of remote sensing, machine learning, and hydrology. He uses an interdisciplinary approach that takes advantage of readily available data sets and tools to address a wide range of environmental issues. Hossein completed his Ph.D. in geological and environmental sciences at Western Michigan University. His NASA-funded dissertation focused on the application of machine learning to enhance the spatial resolution of GRACE satellite data. He will be joining UTMSI in September 2020 to develop an open-source process for mapping spatiotemporal variation of depressional wetland surface water dynamics across the Prairie Pothole Region.
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