Richard Kelly Professor and Associate Chair, Graduate Affairs Geography and Environmental Management Contact Information: Phone: +1-519-888-4567 ext. 35451 Office: EV1 - 119 Email: rejkelly(at)uwaterloo.ca Personal Homepage: Visit website CV: Read more

Degrees:

Ph.D.	Physical Geography, University of Bristol, United Kingdom, 1995
M.A.	Geography, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, 1990
B.Sc.	University of Manchester, United Kingdom, 1988

Research Interests:

• Remote sensing of snow and ice
• Numerical modelling of the cryosphere
• Mountain snowpacks
• Visualising cryospheric data
• Validation of remote sensing observations
• Arctic climate change

Research Projects:

• Snowtweets Project
  • This new project is concerned with the application of web-based digital technologies to map snow depth through community participation. In other words, we have set up an environment to enable people to 'tweet' snow depth measurements which we map.
• Estimating snow water equivalent in mountain terrain using a combined energy balance hydrologic model and remote sensing observations (WP1.2)
  • Funded by: GC-IPY/NSERC
  • This is a sub-project of the Environment Canada Project "Variability and Change in the Canadian Cryosphere — A Canadian Contribution to “State and Fate of the Cryosphere”. The sub-project is entitled “Estimating snow water equivalent in mountain terrain using a combined energy balance hydrologic model and remote sensing observations (WP1.2)”. The project seeks to identify snow data sources in Canada that can be used in the National Snow Analysis (NOAA) model. The project is leveraging expertise from NOAA.
• Global Snow Mapping Project
  • Funded by: NASA/NSERC
  • As the co-PI for NASA on the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - EOS (AMSR-E) I am involved with estimating snow water equivalent (SWE) from satellite passive microwave observations at the regional to global scale. I am also the PI for the JAXA AMSR snow depth product currently in operation in Japan.
• Arctic Carbin Dynamics Project
  • Funded by: NSERC
  • This project aims to investigate the response of pan-Arctic vegetation to recent climate change in Arctic regions (N of 60N). Arctic vegetation contains up to a third of the world's carbon store and are predicted to undergo the greatest changes under global warming.
• Radar Remote Sensing Project
  • Funded by: CFI/CSA/NSERC
  • With Prof. Claude Duguay, we are funded to procure a Ku- and X-Band scatterometer system to measure the backscatter from snow. This work is part of the preparatory work for the CoReH2O mission currently in competition at ESA which aims to accurately measure terrestrial seasonal snow and unpreceneted spatial resolution.
• Tracking Ice in NWP
  • For the past two years we have been using the MODIS Earth surface reflectance (MOD09) product to map the clearing of ice from the NWP in Canada. This is also done by students each year too in my GEOG 603 class.

Contact Richard Kelly for more information on research opportunities.

Graduate Student Supervision:

	# of students currently supervising/co-supervising	Total # of student supervisions/co-supervisions
Masters	5	7
PhD	1	4
Post Doc.	1	1

Recent/Key Publications:

• Slaymaker, H.O. and Kelly, R.E.J. (2007) The Cryosphere and Global 
  Environmental Change, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, ISBN 1-4051-2976-X.
• Kelly, R.E.J., Drake, N. A. and Barr, S.L. (Editors), 2004, Spatial 
  Modelling of the Terrestrial Environment, Chichester, John Wiley & 
  Sons Ltd. ISBN 0-470-84348-9.
• Foster, J.L., D.K. Hall, J.B. Eylander, G.A. Riggs, S.V. Ngheim, M. 
  Tedesco, E. Kim, P. Montesano, R.E.J. Kelly, K. Casey and B. Choudhury 
  (in press) A blended global snow product using visible, passive 
  microwave and scatterometer satellite data, submitted to International 
  Journal of Remote Sensing.
• Kelly, R.E.J. (2009) The AMSR-E Snow Depth Algorithm: Description and 
  Initial Results, Japanese Journal of Remote Sensing. 29(1): 307-317. 
  (GLI/AMSR Special Issue).
• Foster, J. L., D. K. Hall, R. E. J. Kelly, and L. Chiu (2009) Seasonal 
  Snow Extent and Snow Mass in South America Using SMMR and SSM/I 
  Passive Microwave Data (1979-2003), Remote Sensing of Environment.
• Luus, N. and R.E.J. Kelly (2008) Assessing Productivity of Vegetation 
  in the Amazon using Remote Sensing and Modeling, Progress in Physical 
  Geography 32(4): 363-378.
• Cline, D., Yueh, S., Chapman, B., Stankov, B., Gasiewski, A., Masters, 
  D., Elder, K., Kelly, R.E.J., Painter, T.H., Miller,S., Katzberg, S. 
  and Mahrt, L. (2008): NASA Cold Land Processes Experiment (CLPX 2002–
  2003): Airborne Remote Sensing. Journal of Hydrometeorology, DOI: 
  10.1175/2008JHM883.1.
• Foster, J., Kelly, R., Rango, A., Armstrong, R., Erbe, E.F., Pooley, 
  C. and Wergin, W.P. (2006) Use of Low-Temperature Scanning Electron 
  Microscopy to Compare and Characterize Three Classes of Snow Cover, 
  Scanning, 28, 191–203.
• Chang, A.T.C., Kelly, R.E.J., Josberger, E.G., Armstrong, R.L., Foster 
  J.L. and Mognard, N. (2005), Analysis of Gauge-measured and Passive 
  Microwave Derived Snow Depth Variations of Snowfields, J. 
  Hydrometeorology, 6: 20-33.
• Kelly, R.E.J., Chang, A.T.C. and Koike, T. (2005) Comparisons of AMSR-
  E derived snow depth and GAME-Siberia Ground Based Measurements, 
  Revista Italiano di Telerilevamento, 30/31: 87-100.

Read a complete list of publications

Courses Taught:

• GEOG 102: Geography of Our Planetary Environment (2008 only)
• GEOG 371: Advanced Remote Sensing Techniques
• GEOG 376: Environmental Remote Sensing (2006 only)
• GEOG 471: Remote Sensing Project
• GEOG 603: Remote Sensing and Earth System Science
• GEOG 675: Special Topics in Geography

 

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