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Driven, focused, and hard-working Strategic Leader with several years of experience and a stellar educational background which includes a Ph.D. in Geography and Master s Degree in Civil Engineering. Experienced in working with cross-functional teams, managing data science strategies, and completing detailed statistical analysis. Highly adept in increasing organizational productivity in addition to maintaining strong communication with others.

  Supported a variety of research related functions which included creating a gridded snow dataset which utilized both remote sensing and ground observation data

  Played a lead role in obtaining full funding from NASA for 3 years of research in addition to obtaining a Fellowship for a 2-month research stay at the University of Chile

  Maintained a complex network of automated environmental sensors which increased data collection capabilities and decreased sensor failure rate from 60% to less than 10%

  Held several teaching positions within the university which included Co-Instructor of Advanced Snow Measurements , Teaching Assistant for Intro to Hydrology, Lecturer, Mountain Geography, and Teaching Assistant, Climate and Vegetation

  Identified individualized student needs and provided individual tutoring in addition to assisting with administrative needs within the classroom

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  Handled several technical operations which included calibrating analytical equations which were used to predict evapotranspiration from green roof vegetation

  Created innovative technical weighing instrumentation which improved precision from 2mm to 1 mm of water

Science Outreach:

  Wyoming State Engineer s Office, 2016-2017

  Participant, NASA Airborne Snow Observatory Workshop, 2016

  Participant, Snowpack Monitoring for Streamflow Forecasting and Drought Planning Workshops

  Data Technician, Long-Term Ecological Research Program at Niwot Ridge (2013-2015)

Engineering Experience:

  Visiting Student, Jet Propulsion Lab Visiting Student Research Program (2014)

  Project Coordinator, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (2007-2009)

  Hart, S. J., T. T. Veblen, D. Schneider, and N. P. Molotch (2017), Summer and winter drought drive the initiation and spread of spruce beetle outbreak, Ecology, n/a n/a, doi:10.1002/ecy.1963.

  Baker, E.H., D. Schneider, N.P. Molotch, T.H. Painter, A. Meddens, and J. Hicke (2017), Quantifying insect-related forest mortality with the remote sensing of snow. Remote Sensing of the Environment

  Schneider, D. and Molotch N.P. (2016) Estimating Real-time Spatially Distributed Snow Water Equivalent in the Upper Colorado River Basin using Historical MODIS-based SWE Distributions and SNOTEL Data, Water Resources Research. 52(10), 7892 7910, doi:10.1002/0000 xxxxxx xxxx , xxxx , xxxxx 000007

  Barnhart, T. B., N. P. Molotch, B. Livneh, A. A. Harpold, J. F. Knowles, and D. Schneider (2016), Snowmelt Rate Dictates Streamflow, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43(15), 8006 8016, doi:10.1002/2016GL069690.

  Livneh, B., J. S. Deems, B. Buma, J. J. Barsugli, D. Schneider, N. P. Molotch, K. Wolter, and C. A. Wessman (2015), Catchment response to bark beetle outbreak and dust-on-snow in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, J. of Hydrology, 523, 196 210, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.01.039

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  Livneh, B., J. S. Deems, D. Schneider, J. J. Barsugli, and N. P. Molotch (2014), Filling in the gaps: Inferring spatially distributed precipitation from gauge observations over complex terrain, Water Resources. Res., 50(11), 8589 8610, doi:10.1002/2014WR015442.

  Wadzuk, B., Schneider, D., Feller, M., & Traver, R. (2013). Evapotranspiration from a Green Roof Stormwater Control Measure. J. Irrig. Drain Eng. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)IR.1943-4774.0000643

  Kitto, M. E., Parekh, P. P., Torres, M. A., & Schneider, D. (2005). Radionuclide and chemical concentrations in mineral waters at Saratoga Springs, New York. J. Environ. Radioact. (UK), 80(3), 327 39. doi:10.1016/j.jenvrad.2004.10.006