HELLO! I’M ROSANGELA CARREON
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My Background
ABOUT
Originally a southern California native, now living in Reno, Nevada pursuing a PhD in Geography. My interest in water resources did not arise from living in an environment prone to receiving much influx of precipitation. I did not develop a true appreciation for water resources until I took an undergraduate remote sensing course. During that time there was much talk about drought, and notifications were given imposing stricter water restrictions due to the severity of limited water supply. I combined my enjoyment of studying landscapes, more specifically Earth’s physical topography, with addressing the issue of limited water supply to then study water resources. I have conducted several projects assessing dynamic changes to enclosed bodies of water such as the Salton Sea in California and Lake Chad in Africa, to formulate an understanding of external factors potentially susceptible to such dynamic changes. Along with, extracting snow cover data from satellite images, for the San Gabriel Mountains in southern California, by isolating spectral properties representative to those of snow. Now as a graduate student, I am estimating evapotranspiration in Nicaragua to perform an accountancy of the water budget on a tropical region.
MY PROJECTS
ESTIMATING EVAPOTRANSPIRATION IN NICARAGUA
Drought monitoring and water budget analysis
Using remote sensing products (MOD11 and GLDAS) and applying the SSEBop model to measure ET.
SNOW COVER ON THE SAN GABRIEL MOUNTAINS
Remote sensing climatic impact on snow cover and surface water discharge
From 1988-2011, a linear relationship was present, as temperature increased the number of pixels identified to contain snow declined. Maximum temperature and snow cover resulted in a 40.47%  accountancy.
COURSE PROJECTS
Lake change detection
I used ENVI to determine physical changes to the Salton Sea, California and Lake Chad, Africa. Although there are many factors that influence the size change of a lake, for the Salton Sea I sought to focus on the evident increase in salinity, greatly influenced from increasing farming activities, if at all, as a factor attributing to the lake’s loss of water. From the little salinity data made available to me the following observation was determined for the years 1995, 1998, and 2005- salinity levels increased year-to-year as the size of the Salton Sea, that was remotely sensed, decreased year-to-year. The project regarding Lake Chad, under the advisement of Dr. Yongkang Xue, revealed that not one particular climate source (temperature, precipitation, specific humidity, shortwave radiation, pressure, or wind speed) was consistent with the size fluctuation of all three studied areas (northwest, northeast, and south) of Lake Chad in the years 1980-2006.
MY EXPERIENCE
Background & Expertise
GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCHER, LABORATORY FOR CONSERVATION BIOGEOGRAPHY, UNR
Jan 2018 - Present
GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCHER, MOUNTAIN ECOHYDROLOGY LAB, UNR
Aug 2016 - Aug 2017
GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCHER, CSUF
Aug 2012 - May 2014
GRADUATE ASSISTANT, CURRICULUMÂ DEVELOPMENT, CSUF
Jan 2014 - May 2014
LIASON TO THE UNITED TRIBES TRIBAL COLLEGE STUDENTS AND KLAMATH ECOLOGICAL FORECASTING DEVELOP TEAM, NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER
June 2013 - August 2013
RESEARCH ASSISTANT, NASA PAN-ARCTIC LAKE DYNAMIC MAPPING TEAM MEMBER, UCLA
Jan 2011 - Dec 2011
EDUCATION
BA UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
August 2007 - December 2011
Geography/Environmental Studies, minor in Geospatial Information System and Technologies
MS CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FULLERTON
August 2012 - May 2014
Environmental Studies, emphasis Science and Technology
PHD UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO
August 2016 - Present
Geography, certificate in Future Faculty Teaching with Technology
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"A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans"
Aldo Leopold
Conservationist Environmentalist
