EDUCATION
PhD in Environmental Engineering
Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering University at Buffalo Feb. 2007
MS in Remote Sensing Imaging Science
Rochester Institute of Technology May 2000
BA in Physics, Minor in Mathematics State University of New York at Geneseo May 1995
FELLOWSHIPS and AWARDS
1999-2005 IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training) Fellowship National Science Foundation fellowship designed to encourage interdisciplinary research involving Geographic Information Systems.
2004 Geographic Information Science Certificate Certification administered by the SUNY at Buffalo Department of Geography for completion of coursework related to geographic information science.
1994 Physics and Astronomy Alumni Award
FUNDED PROPOSAL
Principal Author ($14,147) – Environmental Modeling of Burn Scars for Erosion Risk Assessment. Awarded by the Environment & Society Institute (ESI), University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2007 Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO Research Associate Optimization of noise metrics for satellite based Lidar data in order to map tree canopy heights in the Amazon Basin.
2006 Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO USGS student contractor for Sue Cannon Creation of a potential post-fire burn severity map for potential landslide hazard map of the western US utilizing historical fire weather data and FOFEM the First Order Fire Effects Model.
2005 Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO Research Associate III Development of modeling techniques for predicting post-fire erosion yields for forest lands of the Western US using physically based models.
2002 USDA Rocky Mountain Fire Lab Missoula, MT Remote Sensing Specialist Validation of fire products derived from AVHRR and MODIS sensors. Algorithm development for burn scar mapping for use in predicting smoke plume transport.
2001 Syracuse Research Corporation Syracuse, NY System Engineer Co-op Signal Processing of UHF data to determine bistatic radar cross sections of Suburban ground clutter, and radar tracking optimization.
1996-1999 Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY Research Assistant for Dr. John Schott I assisted in the development of a new Geographic Information System (ESRI) database of the Great Lakes, processed imagery, and carried out analysis of water samples.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Spring 1996-1999 RIT PhD Imaging Lab III Lab Instructor/Teaching Assistant Introduction to microcontrollers and serial communication, students designed and built small imaging systems with data loggers. Example projects included a sun tracker, small sonar system, and a toy car that followed an optical path.
Winter 1999 RIT Undergraduate Imaging Systems Lab Teaching Assistant I supervised the labs for upper level undergrad students. Labs covered optics, image analysis, tone transfer functions, color science, and densitometry.
Fall 1995 and 1996 RIT Introduction to Imaging Science Teaching Assistant I taught and graded the introductory freshman Imaging Science lab.
Spring 1994 SUNY Geneseo Science of Sound Teaching Assistant I supervised one lab section of Science of Sound and assisted the Instructor with grading.
1993-1994 Physics Tutor SUNY Geneseo Physics I helped lower division undergrads with their homework problems.
COMPUTER SKILLS
PC, Macintosh, Linux, and Sun Stations Extensive Programming experience: IDL, ENVI, ArcView/ArcGIS/ArcInfo, Matlab, SWAT, WEPP, GeoWEPP, Arc Avenue Proficient with: Erdas Imagine, Oracle/SQL, Fortran, LaTeX, and Microsoft Office, Minitab, SAS, Auto-it, Ostrich Some experience: C, C++, Mathematica, Visual Basic, BASIC
LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
Rope’s course and Rock Climbing instructor for RIT’s Red Barn Program
RELEVANT COURSEWORK
University at Buffalo GPA 3.8/4.0 Environmental Engineering, Water Quality Modeling, Environmental Fluid Mechanics, GIS and Environmental Modeling, Advanced Mathematics, Environmental Chemistry, GIS Design, Sediment Transport and Hydrology (audits)
Rochester Institute of Technology GPA 3.5/4.0 Principals of Remote Sensing Analysis I,II, and III, Special Topics in Remote Sensing, Intro to Digital Image Processing, Geometrical Optics, Basic Principals & Techniques for Imaging Science, Linear Systems I and II, Fundamentals of Statistics I and II, Regression Analysis State University of New York at
Geneseo GPA 3.72/4.0 Alpine & Arctic Environments, Quantum Mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism I and II, Probability and Statistics, Remote Sensing, Partial Differential Equations, Advanced Mechanics, Statistical Thermodynamics, General Chemistry, Geography of North America, Geography of Tourism PROFESSIONA
AFFILIATIONS
American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing (ASPRS) American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE) Environment and Society Institute (ESI) American Geophysical Association (AGU) Phi Sigma Phi Phi Eta Sigma
PUBLISHED PROCEEDINGS
Miller, M.E. and L.H. MacDonald, Predicting Post-fire Forest Erosion in the Western U.S. (in preparation) 37p. 2008.
Miller, M.E., J. Atkinson, and C.S. Renschler, “The Utilization of Remote Sensing, GIS, and Physical Models to support Wild Fire Remediation”. ASPRS Specialty Conference "Images to Decisions; Remote Sensing Foundations for GIS Applications", 2004, Kansas City, Missouri.
Miller, M.E. and C.S. Renschler, “Assessment of MODIS Imagery for Fire Severity Mapping in Support of Wildland Fire Rehabilitation,” ISRSE 2003, Honolulu, November 2003
Schott, J.R., J.A. Barsi, N. Raqueño, M.E. Miller, and D. DeAlwis, "Application of Landsat 7 data to Great Lakes water resource assessment," ASPRS 2000, Pecora14, Denver, December 1999
PRESENTATIONS
Miller, M.E., M. Lefsky and Y. Pang, 2007, “Optimization of Geoscience Laser Altimeter System Waveform Metrics to Support Vegetation Measurements”, Eos Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract B42B-07
Pang, Y., M. Lefsky, M.E. Miller, K. Sherrill and H. Anderson, 2007, “Automatic Tree Crown Delineation Using Discrete Return Lidar and its Application in ICEsat Vegetation Product Validation”, Eos Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract B42B-05
Miller, M.E. and L.H. MacDonald, “Modeling Post-fire Erosion in the Western US”, Hydrology Days 2006, Fort Collins, CO, March 2006
Miller, M.E. and L.H. MacDonald, 2005, “Large Scale Predictions of Potential Post-fire Erosion”, Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H34C-05
Miller, M.E., “Optimization of a Post-Wildfire Hillslope Erosion Model” Hydrology Days 2005, Fort Collins, CO, March 2005
Schott, J.R., Nordgren, B., Miller, M., and Barsi, J., "Improved mapping of thermal bar phenomena using remote sensing," presented at IAGLR 1999 Conference, Case Western Reserve, May 1999
Schott, J.R., Nordgren, B.L., Miller, M.E., Barsi, J.A., "Improved mapping of thermal bar phenomena using remote sensing," presented at the International Association for Great Lakes Research (IAGLR) Annual Conference, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, May 1998
Schott, J.R., Raqueño, N.G., Barsi, J.A., Miller, M.E., Nordgren, B.L., "The generation of a GIS database for the support of Great Lakes Studies," presented at the International Association for Great Lakes Research (IAGLR) Annual Conference, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, May 1998 |
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