M.S. Student
Civil Engineering

Oregon State University

Email: quinnba _at_ oregonstate _dot_ edu

Biography

Hi! My name is Baird and I am a master’s student in Geomatics Engineering. I enjoy spending time outdoors, and my love of snow and maps brought me to CryoSIGHT. With the team I hope to improve modeled snowpack patterns and understand the multitude of ways to remotely sense snow. You can usually find me “productively procrastinating,” whether that’s learning the banjo, playing jazz piano, or learning about geology, ornithology, or ecology…

Research Interests

snow hydrology, mountain hydrology, remote sensing, geospatial analysis, machine learning, water resources management

Project Summary

Seasonal snow depth varies at fine (≤100 m) spatial scales, but many operational snow models produce estimates at resolutions too coarse (1-10 km) to capture this heterogeneity. More complex, process-based models can produce fine-scale estimates, but at great computational cost. This research looks at providing a more efficient alternative to these physical models by combining coarse models, lidar data, machine learning, a variety of traditional and emerging remote sensing inputs to downscale daily snowpack estimates to fine spatial scales.