This document summarizes the education and experience of Jack Tarricone. He is currently a PhD student studying hydrologic sciences at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on snow hydrology and remote sensing. He has received several awards and scholarships for his research. Tarricone has extensive field experience, including work on NASA SnowEx campaigns and publishing related software and presentations.
This document summarizes the education and experience of Jack Tarricone. He is currently a PhD student studying hydrologic sciences at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on snow hydrology and remote sensing. He has received several awards and scholarships for his research. Tarricone has extensive field experience, including work on NASA SnowEx campaigns and publishing related software and presentations.
This document summarizes the education and experience of Jack Tarricone. He is currently a PhD student studying hydrologic sciences at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on snow hydrology and remote sensing. He has received several awards and scholarships for his research. Tarricone has extensive field experience, including work on NASA SnowEx campaigns and publishing related software and presentations.
This document summarizes the education and experience of Jack Tarricone. He is currently a PhD student studying hydrologic sciences at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on snow hydrology and remote sensing. He has received several awards and scholarships for his research. Tarricone has extensive field experience, including work on NASA SnowEx campaigns and publishing related software and presentations.
Email: jtarricone@nevada.unr.edu Address: 1664 N. Virginia St., Mackay Science 204, Reno, NV 89521
EDUCATION University of Nevada, Reno August 2019 - May 2023 (expected) PhD, Graduate Program of Hydrologic Sciences (GPHS) Thesis: Advancing the Monitoring Capabilities of Mountain Snowpack Fluctuations at Various Spatial and Temporal Scales Advisor: Dr. Anne Nolin Current GPA: 3.94 University of Colorado, Boulder August 2012 - May 2016 BA, Geography magna cum laude, Hydrology Certificate Thesis: Optimizing Hydrologic Model Selection for Low-Flows Advisor: Dr. Nick Bond, Dr. Matt Burns, Dr. John Pitlick Overall GPA: 3.71
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE University of Nevada, Reno August 2019 - Present Graduate Research Assistant Reno, NV
NASA SnowEx August 2019 - Present
Graduate Research Assistant Reno, NV
Honors Thesis, University of Colorado Boulder August 2015 - May 2016
Undergraduate Researcher Boulder, CO
CU Boulder Mountain Research Station (MRS) January - May 2016
Snow Hydrology Research Intern Boulder, CO
Waterway Ecosystem Research Group (WERG) April - May 2015
Hydrologic Modeling Research Intern, University of Melbourne Melbourne, VIC, Australia
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
Awards Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA), Cryosphere Section, AGU Fall Meeting 2021 Instrumentation Discovery Travel Grant (IDTG), CUAHSI 2022 GPHS Outstanding Student, UNR 2022 Scholarships Wilson, Jerry, & Betty Hydrology Scholarship, UNR 2022 Graduate Student Access Grant, UNR 2022 Robert E. Dickenson Scholarship, UNR 2021 V. John Eisinger Memorial Endowed Scholarship, UNR 2021 Hydrologic Sciences Scholarship Endowment, UNR 2020 Snow Measurement Field School Travel Grant, CUAHSI 2020
RESEARCH INTERESTS Snow hydrology, Remote Sensing, Hydrology, Mountain Hydroclimatology, Water Resource Management, Cli- mate Change, Open Source Data Science PUBLICATIONS ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9499-3354 Google Scholar Under Review: [1] J. Tarricone, R Webb, H. Marshall, A. Nolin, and F. Meyer. “Estimating Snow Accumulation and Ablation with L-band InSAR” (Nov. 2022). doi: 10.5194/tc-2022-224. In Preparation: [2] J. Tarricone, K. Rittger, H. Marshall, and A. Nolin. “Optimizing InSAR and optical data fusion for tracking changes in snow water equivalent”. 2022. [3] J. Tarricone, A. Harpold, and A. Nolin. “Physiographic controls on the declining Sierra Nevada, CA snowpack”. 2022.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS *Oral Presentation [4] J. Tarricone, K. Rittger, H. Marshall, and A. Nolin. “Optimizing InSAR and optical data fusion for tracking changes in snow water equivalent”. AGU Fall Meeting. Chicago, IL, 2022. [5] A. Arendt, H. Marshall, S. Henderson, C. Vuyovich, C. Haley, G. Reckase, J. Scheick, L. Setiawan, N. Alterman, J. Tarricone, E. Ofekeze, D. Boyd, B. Osmanoglu, R. Piunno, E. Holmes, M. Sandusky, C. Ackroyd, N. Adebisi, M. Mason, M. Johnson, Z. Keskinen, M. Wrzesien, X. Xu, N. Cristea, I. Olalekan Alabi, and J. Meyer. “Lessons Learned from SnowEx 2022 Hackweek for Fostering Open Science Com- munities”. AGU Fall Meeting. Chicago, IL, 2022. [6] R. Bonnell, D. McGrath, H. Marshall, J. Tarricone, R. Webb, T. Meehan, Z. Zeller, E. Bump, C. Duncan, and A. Olsen-Mikitowicz. “Evaluating Changes in SWE from 2020–21 NASA UAVSAR with Ground-Penetrating Radar at Cameron Pass, Colorado”. AGU Fall Meeting. Chicago, IL, 2022. [7] H. Marshall, Z. Keskinen, J. Johnson, S. Havens, J. Tarricone, E. Deeb, J. Lund, and R. Forester. “Avalanches in L-band InSAR imagery during the 2020-21 NASA SnowEx Mission”. AGU Fall Meeting. Chicago, IL, 2022. [8] J. Tarricone, R. Webb, H. Marshall, A. Nolin, and F. Meyer. “Monitoring snow accumulation and ablation with L-band InSAR”. NISAR Science Community Workshop. Pasadena, CA, 2022. [9] H. Marshall, E. Deeb, R. Forester, C. Vuyovich, K. Elder, C. Hiemstra, J. Lund, J. Tarricone, N. Adebisi, and Z. Keskinen. “Finding the signal in snow: 2017-2021 NASA SnowEx UAVSAR Experiment”. NISAR Science Community Workshop. Pasadena, CA, 2022. [10] Z. Keskinen, H. Marshall, J. Tarricone, and N. Adebisi. “Comparison of UAVSAR snow retrievals with in-situ and airborne observations, enabled by a new python package”. NISAR Science Community Workshop. Pasadena, CA, 2022. [11] H. Marshall, E. Deeb, R. Forester, C. Vuyovich, K. Elder, C. Hiemstra, J. Lund, J. Tarricone, N. Adebisi, and Z. Keskinen. “SnowEx 2020-2021 L-band InSAR Time Series: depth change retrieval at Grand Mesa, Colorado”. Western Snow Conference. Salt Lake City, UT, 2022. [12] R. Bonnell, D. McGrath, L. Zeller, A. Olsen-Mikitowicz, E. Bump, C. Duncan, J. Tarricone, T. Mee- han, H. Marshall, and R. Webb. “Comparing L-band UAVSAR Phase Change in Snow with Ground Penetrating Radar and In Situ Observations at Cameron Pass, Colorado”. Western Snow Conference. Salt Lake City, UT, 2022. [13] *J. Tarricone, R. Webb, H. Marshall, A. Nolin, and F. Meyer. “SWE retrievals from L-band InSAR: A case study from SnowEx 2020 in the Jemez River Basin”. Western Snow Conference. Salt Lake City, UT, 2022. [14] J. Tarricone, R. Webb, H. Marshall, A. Nolin, and F. Meyer. “Using radar to monitor mountain snowpack”. Nevada Water Resources Association Annual Conference. Las Vegas, NV, 2022. [15] J. Tarricone, R. Webb, H. Marshall, A. Nolin, and F. Meyer. “InSAR and Optical Sensor Fusion for SWE Retrievals: A case study in the Jemez River Basin, NM”. AGU Fall Meeting. New Orleans, LA, 2021. [16] J. Tarricone, H. Marshall, R. Webb, A. Nolin, and F. Meyer. “Validating L-Band InSAR SWE Retrievals in the Jemez River Basin, New Mexico”. Western Snow Conference. Bozeman, MT (Online), 2021. [17] *J. Tarricone, A. Nolin, and A. Harpold. “Quantifying Snowpack Metric Trends in the California Sierra Nevada”. Nevada Water Resources Association Annual Conference. Las Vegas, NV (Online), 2021. [18] J. Tarricone, A. Nolin, and A. Harpold. “Quantifying Snowpack Metric Trends in the California Sierra Nevada”. AGU Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA (Online), 2020. [19] J. Tarricone and A. Nolin. “SnowEx 2020 Field Campaign at Sagehen Creek Field Station, CA”. NASA Terrestrial Hydrology Program Snow Virtual Meeting. (Online), 2020.
SOFTWARE J. Tarricone (2022), “Estimating snow accumulation and ablation with L-band InSAR: R and Python code for analysis and figure creation”, doi:10.5281/zenodo.7199791 Z. Keskinen & J. Tarricone, (2022), “uavsar pytools”, doi:10.5281/zenodo.6578276
INVITED TALKS SnowEx Hackweek Virtual Seminar Series October 2022 UAVSAR Tutorial, Online NASA SnowEx Community Meeting May 2022 “Tracking snow water equivalent losses with L-band InSAR: A SnowEx 2020 UAVSAR case study in the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico”, Online NASA Terrestrial Hydrology Program February 2022 “L-band InSAR Working Group Update”, Online (1 Slide Presented) GPHS Gradventure February 2022 “Tarricone PhD Research Overview”, Reno, NV
TEACHING EXPERIENCE Teaching Assistant Spring 2021 Climate Solutions: Local to Global Perspectives (GEOG 422/622), UNR
InSAR/SAR Project & Tutorial Lead July 2021
NASA SnowEx HackWeek, eScience Institute, University of Washington
UAVSAR Tutorial Lead July 2022
NASA SnowEx HackWeek, eScience Institute, University of Washington
TECHNICAL & COMPUTATIONAL SKILLS
Programming: R, Python, Unix Shell Scripting, CRBasic Mapping: GDAL, QGIS, ArcGIS, ENVI Cloud Computing: Google Earth Engine, Microsoft Planetary Computer Publishing: LATEX, RMarkdown, Jupyter Notebook Version Control: Git/Github Operating Systems: macOS, Linux, Windows FIELD CAMPAIGNS Measurement in the Atmosphere January - May 2022 Field methods course on programming and installing weather stations Reno, NV
Caldor Fire Snow Survey February 2021
Supporting A. Koshin with data collection Shaver Lake, CA
NASA SnowEx UAVSAR Campaign January - March 2020
Sagehen Creek SnowEx Site co-leader with Dr. Anne Nolin Truckee, CA
MEDIA & OTHER PUBLICATIONS
AGU Hydrology Section Newsletter, Remote Sensing Technical Committee October 2022
MEMBERSHIPS, SERVICE, OUTREACH, & TRAINING
Memberships American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2019 - Present Western Snow Conference (WSC) 2021 - Present Nevada Water Resources Association (NWRA) 2020 - Present Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2022 - Present
Working Groups & Committees
NASA L-band InSAR SWE Working Group 2020 - Present NASA Snow Microwave Scattering Working Group 2022 - Present Snow International (SINTER) 2022 - Present AGU Hydrology Section Remote Sensing Technical Committee 2022 - Present
Synergistic Activities UAVSAR Research Team Visit, NASA JPL August 2022 Boise UAVSAR Hackweek, Boise State University June 2022 NASA L-band InSAR SWE Working Group Meeting, University of Utah April 2022 National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) Ground Data Support March 2022 Airborne Snow Observatory (ASO) Truckee River Ground Data Lead March 2022 AGU Cryosphere Flash Freeze Competition December 2021
Training NASA SnowEx HackWeek, eScience Institute, University of Washington July 2022 NASA JPL ISCE Training, Boise State University (Online) June 2022 UNAVCO InSAR Short Course (ISCE, ARIA-Tools, and MintPy) August 2021 NASA SnowEx HackWeek, eScience Institute, University of Washington July 2021 CUAHSI Snow Measurement Field School January 2020
