Ryan Engstrom

Title — Assistant Professor

Address — 1922 F Street, NW

Office — Room 214

Phone — 202-994-7979

E-mail — rengstro@gwu.edu

Areas of Expertise —

Remote Sensing
GIS
Climate Change
Arctic Environments
Population Estimates

Education

Ph.D. (San Diego State - UC Santa Barbara)

Background

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

Engstrom, R. and Hope, A.S. Parameter Sensitivity of the Arctic BIOME BGC Model for Estimating Evapotranspiration (In Press) Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research

Engstrom, R., Ashcroft, E., Jewell, H., and Rain, D. (In Press) Using Remotely Sensed Data to Map Variability in Health and Wealth Indicators in Accra, Ghana. Joint Urban and Remote Sensing Event Proceedings, Munich, Germany

Rain, D., Engstrom, R., Ludlow C., and Antos, S. (In Press). Accra Ghana: A City Vulnerable to Flooding and Drought-Induced Migration, in Global Report on Human Settlements 2011: Cities and Climate Change, UN Publications.

Azar, D., Graesser, J., Engstrom, R ., Comenetz, J., Leddy, R., Schechtman, and Andrews, T. (2010) Spatial Refinement of census population distribution using remotely sensed estimates of impervious surface in Haiti. International Journal of Remote Sensing . 31: 21, 5635-5655 DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2010.496799

Fu, L., Cowan, N., McLaren, R., Engstrom, R, and Teach, S. (2009) Is spatial accessibility to primary care providers associated with vaccination coverage among children with Medicaid insurance? Pediatrics 124(6) pp. 1579-1586; DOI: 10.1542/peds.2009-0233

Engstrom, R., Hope, A.S., Kwon, H. and Stow, D. (2008) The Relationship between Soil Moisture and NDVI near Barrow, Alaska, Physical Geography . 29(1), pp. 38-53; DOI: 10.2747/0272-3646.29.1.38

Stow, D., Peterson, A., Hope, A., Engstrom. R. and Coulter L. (2007) Greenness Trends of Arctic Tundra Vegetation in the 1990s: Comparison of Two Normalized Difference Vegetation Index Data Sets from NOAA Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer Systems International Journal of Remote Sensing. Vol. 28 Issue 21, p4807-4822, 16p; DOI: 10.1080/ 01431160701264284; (AN 27217146 )

Sitch, S., McGuire, A. D., Kimball, J., Gedney, N., Gamon, J., Engstrom, R.N., Wolf, A., Zhuang, Q. and Clein, J. (2007) Assessing the circumpolar carbon balance of arctic tundra with remote sensing and process-based modeling approaches. Ecological Applications. 17(1), pp. 213–234

Engstrom, R.N. , Hope, A.S., Kwon, H., Harazano, Y., Oechel, W.C., and Mano, M (2006) Modeling evaporation in Arctic coastal plain ecosystems using a modified version of BIOME BGC. Journal of Geophysical Research - 111, G02021, doi:10.1029/2005JG000102

Engstrom, R. N., Hope, A.S., Kwon, H., Stow, D.A. and Zamolodchikov, D. (2005) Spatial distribution of near surface soil moisture and its relationship to microtopography in the Arctic coastal plain. Nordic Hydrology, 36 (3): 219-234.

Hope, A.S., Engstrom, R., and Stow, D.A. (2005) Relationship between AVHRR surface temperature and NDVI in Arctic Tundra Ecosystems. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 26:8, p. 1771-1776.

Vourlitis, G.L., Verfaille, J., Oechel, W.C., Hope, A.S., Stow, D.A. and Engstrom, R. (2003) Spatial variation in regional CO2 exchange for the Kuparuk river basin, Alaska over the summer growing season. Global Change Biology 9, p. 930-941.

Engstrom, R. N., Hope, A. S., Stow, D.A., Vourlitis, G. L., and Oechel, W. C. (2002) Co-variability of the Priestley-Taylor alpha coefficient and regional NDVI in Arctic landscapes, Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA), 38:6, p. 1647-1659.

Classes Taught

GEOG 002 - Physical Geography
GEOG 106 - Intermediate GIS
GEOG 107 - Introductory Remote Sensing
GEOG 136 - Water Resources
GEOG 196 - Field Methods in Geography
GEOG 221 - Geospatial Techniques