Noah Schmadel
Noah Schmadel is a hydrologist with the USGS Water Resource Mission Area.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Sustainable management of water resources including both water quality and quantity
- Integrated hydro-terrestrial constituent modeling and data collection strategies to forecast regional water quality outcomes
- Dominant river corridor components including hyporheic zones, floodplains, and ponded waters
- Hydrologic and chemical alterations caused by land use and water resource decisions
ENGINEERING AND MODELING TOOLS
- Developing regional water quality models and improving their physical basis (SAS, SPARROW)
- Hydroinformatics including data mining, standardization, preservation, and transferability (R, Python, Matlab, SQL Server, Visual Basic)
- Contaminant and heat transport modeling through surface water and groundwater systems including calibration, sensitivity analyses, and numerical and analytical solution techniques (COMSOL Multiphysics)
- Identifying cumulative and relative effects of river corridor processes (NHD)
- Assessing hydro-chemical alterations caused by land use and water resource decisions (NLCD, NWIS)
- Stream channel and watershed characterization techniques using remotely-sensed imagery and topographic analyses (LiDAR-derived DEMs, thermal infrared imagery, ArcGIS)