CESSRST Graduate Scholar Recognized for Top 5 Winner! at UTEP GradExpo 2025
CESSRST II Fellow Leah Porras has received recognition as a Top 5 Winner at the University of Texas at El Paso GradExpo 2025. Leah’s award winning poster was titled ” Using Machine Learning to Detect Seals and Polar Bears in MultiSpectral Aerial Imagery” which utilizes annotated UV, IR and RGB imagery to develop a detection model that can identify polar bears and white coat...Read More
Keneshia Hibbert receives Prestigious Graduate Fellowship Program (GFP)
Keneshia Hibbert, a Ph.D. student Fellow from CESSRST II Cohort 2 was selected for the NOAA EPP/MSI Graduate Fellowship Program (GFP) in June 2024. Her year-long engagement in the GFP starts on September 1, 2024, at NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service’s Center for Satellite Applications and Research (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR) in College Park, MD, under the mentorship...Read More
EPP/MSI CESSRST Graduate Scholar, Stephanie Marquez Recognized for Outstanding Contributions to Geological Sciences and Environmental Research
Stephanie Marquez, a CESSRST-II Fellow, is making waves in the field of geological sciences with her innovative investigation into multi-scale changes in soil moisture using remote sensing and geophysics techniques in the Chihuahuan Desert of North America. Her research has been highlighted in the July 2023 Newsletter of AGU’s Near-Surface Geophysics (NSG) Section. Having recently...Read More
CESSRST Graduate Scholar Recognized for Outstanding Paper at ASEE Environmental Division Conference
CESSRST II fellow Isabel Lopez has been honored for her exceptional contributions to the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Environmental Division conference. Lopez’s paper, titled “How Active Rainwater Harvesting may help Reduce Nuisance Flooding: Flood Analysis and Social Barriers to Adoption,” has earned the 2023 Best Diversity Paper for the EED division....Read More