
CMS TEAM


DR. ANNE NOLIN
Professor, Department of Geography
Dr. Anne Nolin is a Professor in the Geography Department at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her research focuses on snow hydrology and climate, snow-forest interactions, and mountains as social-ecological systems. Nolin has three decades of experience in remote sensing, field measurements, and modeling of changing snow and ice. She and her students have published on “at risk” snow, impacts of wildfire on snow, new snow metrics in a warming world, melting snow and glaciers from Greenland to Alaska to the Andes, and new ways of mapping snow and ice from space. In new work, Nolin and students are exploring how declining snow cover in mountain watersheds across the West influence forest health and fire vulnerability and how post-fire conditions affect snow and watershed hydrology.

Griffin Shelor
M.S. CANDIDATE - GEOGRAPHY
Griffin received a B.S. in Biology and Natural Resources Management from Green Mountain College in 2018. After a summer internship with the NASA DEVELOP National Program, he became inspired by the power of remote sensing to help scientists understand our environment and how it is responding to climate change. After a few more years in the workforce, he finally decided to pursue a M.S. in Geography here at the University of Nevada, Reno. His thesis research is focused on understanding the representatively of snow sampling sites used by NASA in their SnowEx program.
Griffin's research interests include:
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Remote Sensing
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Snow Hydrology
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Mountain snowpack
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Geostatistics

Merlyn Krause
M.S. CANDIDATE - GEOGRAPHY
Originally from Germany, Merlyn received a B.S. in Environmental Science in 2024 from the University of Nevada, Reno. She is inspired by mountains and the complex environmental processes shaping them. Her thesis research uses advanced satellite remote sensing data and digital image processing methods to understand how snow extremes affect the growing season length for moisture-stressed evergreen forests in the Sierra Nevada and beyond.
Merlyn's research interests include:
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Remote Sensing
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Snow Hydrology
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Mountain Geography
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Western US Water Policy and Management
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Rhino protection and rewilding in South Africa
Interested in joining the Computational Mountain Studies research group?
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I accept well-qualified students interested in the MS and PhD programs in Geography, Hydrologic Sciences, and Atmospheric Sciences. Applications are due no later than December 15th.
Funding depends on available grant funds and teaching assistantships.
You need to have experience in one or more of the following areas:
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Mountain Geography
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Snow Hydrology
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Climate Science
and you need to have demonstrated experience in one or more of the following techniques:
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Remote Sensing
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Algorithm Development
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Data Science
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Numerical Methods