S. MCKENZIE SKILES
801-808-2337
E-mail: skiles@jpl.nasa.gov

EDUCATION

BS, Environmental Studies, University of Utah (2008)
BS, Geography, University of Utah (2008)
GIS Certificate-Remote Sensing and Applied GIS, University of Utah (2008)
MS, Geography, University of Utah (2010)
PhD, Geography, UCLA

RESEARCH

Radiative forcing by dust and black carbon in snow, remote sensing of the cryosphere, snow hydrology and snowmelt modeling, cryosphere-climate interaction.

PUBLICATIONS

Skiles, S. M., T. H. Painter, J. S. Deems, A. C. Bryant, and C. C. Landry (2012), Dust radiative forcing in snow of the Upper Colorado River Basin: 2. Interannual variability in radiative forcing and snowmelt rates,
Water Resources Research, 48, W07522, doi:10.1029/2012WR011986.

Painter, T. H., S. M. Skiles, J. S. Deems, A. C. Bryant, and C. C. Landry (2012), Dust radiative forcing in snow of the Upper Colorado River Basin: 1. A 6 year record of energy balance, radiation, and dust concen- trations, Water Resoures Research, 48, W07521, doi:10.1029/2012WR011985.

Painter, T. H., S. M. Skiles, A. C. Bryant (2012), Radiative Forcing by light absorbing impurities in snow from MODIS surface reflectance data, Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L17502, doi:10.1029/2012GL052457.

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Outstanding Student Paper Award- American Geophysical Union (AGU) Conference, 2010.

Skiles et. al. (2012) in WRR chosen as Editor's Highlight and featured on cover.

ADVISORS

Thomas H. Painter (JPL, Caltech)
Greg Okin (UCLA)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Interannual Variability in Radiative Forcing by Desert Dust in Snowcover in the
Colorado River Basin. Presented at American Geophysical Union (AGU) Conference.
San Francisco, December 16th, 2009.

Interannual Variability in Radiative Forcing by Desert Dust in Snowcover in the
Colorado River Basin. Presented at Western Snow Conference. Logan, UT April
2010.

Interannual Variability in Radiative Forcing by Desert Dust in Snowcover in the
Colorado River Basin. Presented at American Geophysical Union (AGU) Conference.
San Francisco, December 14th, 2010.

Interannual Variability in Dust Deposition, Radiative Forcing, and Snowmelt Rates in the Colorado River Basin. Presented at American Geophysical Union (AGU) Conference.
San Francisco, December 8th, 2011.

Dust in Snow in the Colorado River Basin: Spatial Variability in Dust Concentrations, Radiative Forcing, and Snowmelt Rates. Presented at American Geophysical Union (AGU) Conference. San Francisco, Dec 7th, 2012.