I was born in Medellin, Colombia (1983). In 2005 I got my B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the Universidad Nacional of Colombia at Medellin. During my undergraduate program, I worked on an independent thesis project studying multifractal properties of rainfall over the tropical Andes of Colombia, under the guidance of Dr. German Poveda. In addition, I was employed by the graduate department in Water Resources. Upon graduation, I moved on to New Mexico Tech in May of 2006 to begin my M.S. under the guidance of Dr. Jan Hendrickx.
Currently, my research is mainly focus in two topics related to the quantitative estimation of evapotranspiration using remote sensing. First, the implementation of a remote sensing based algorithm for the estimation of insolation under cloudy conditions from inexpensive GOES images, and second, the validation of SEBALNM, which is an algorithm used to estimate evapotranspiration from satellite images (MODIS and LandSat), using scintillometry. The goal of this work is to contribute in the estimation of soil properties as improved input data in the distributed hydrologic models, the improvement of precision agriculture and water management decision techniques. |
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| Programming skills: Java, IDL, R, MATLAB.
Text processor: LaTex, MS Word, MS Excel Knowledge about GIS: ArcGIS, ERDAS, AutoCAD, Surfer, Idrisi, ENVI, Multispect and Gslib |
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| Ivanhoe Fellowship: 2007
Research Assistantship: New Mexico Tech; Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 2006-present |
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| American Meteorological Society
American Geophysical Union, Hydrology Section and Environmental Sciences, 2006-present |
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