Brian D. Wardlow

Brian D. Wardlow received the B.S. degree in geography and geology from Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, in 1994, the M.A. degree in geography from Kansas State University, Manhattan, in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree in geography from The University of Kansas, Lawrence, in 2005. He is currently an Assistant Professor and a GIScience Program Area Leader with the National Drought Mitigation Center, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Previous positions included NASA Earth System Science Graduate Student Research Fellow during his Ph.D. program and Remote Sensing Scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey's Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, where he worked as part of the National Land Cover Data Set team. His primary research interests are the application of remote sensing for drought monitoring, land-use/land-cover classification, vegetation phenology assessment, and estimation of biophysical vegetation characteristics.