Denis Mutiibwa

Research Consultant

Long Spring LLC, College Park, MD

​2014 - present

 

• Founded a consultancy to provide innovative solutions in water resources management, environment and agriculture using high performance and smart computing of big geo-datasets.

• Developed a land use classification scheme which was adopted by the state of Nebraska for large scale mapping and monitoring of irrigated lands.

• Implemented remote sensing methodologies to model and map surface energy balance fluxes and atmospheric boundary layer properties for improved integrated water management and monitoring of agricultural water consumption.

 

PostDoc Research Associate

University of Nevada, Reno. Dept. of Geography

Laboratory for Conservation Biogeography

​2012 - 2014

 

• Investigated current and future climate extremes across the United States.

• Investigate the impact of climate extremes on avian ecology in the Southwest United States

• Designed and implemented a micro-climate sensor network in the Southwest United States

 

Key Accomplishments:

• Set put and managed a microclimate sensor network in the Southwest, improving data collection and monitoring of extreme hot climate condition in the Southwest.

• Characterized the spatial and temporal patterns in United States temperature extremes

• Mapped Heat wave and Cold wave events across United States during the recent past decades

• Developed a potent scheme that estimated air temperature from remote sensed Land Surface Temperature

 

PostDoc Research Associate

University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Dept. of Biological Systems Engineering

​August 2011 - 2012

 

• Investigated anthropogenic impacts on climate change

• Planned, designed and implemented a climate and environment monitoring network

• Implemented remote sensing methodologies in modeling and monitoring of environment and agricultural water resources

 

Key Accomplishments:

• Applied remote sensing and satellite imagery to model: Atmospheric boundary layer properties such as aerodynamic resistance, momentum of roughness, friction velocity and Monin-Obukhov Length stability conditions and surface temperature; and surface energy components as such net radiation, sensible heat, latent heat and soil heat flux

• Set up and managed a network of Bowen Ratio Energy Balance Systems; from installation and equipment maintenance through data collection.

• Improved data collection and management for climate, environment and agricultural water resources research.

• Improved agricultural water management by increasing the precision of modeling crop water requirements. 

• Detected and quantified the impacts of Land use/Land cover changes on the regional climate of USA High Plains.

• Identified the trend patterns in the regional climate of the U.S.A. High Plains