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Limnology - Remote Sensing

Dr. Judith Wells Budd, Research Associate Professor
Department of Geological Engineering and Sciences
Michigan Technological University

Education

B.S., Natural Resources, The University of Michigan
M.S., Water Resources, The University of Michigan
Ph.D., Biology, Michigan Technological University

 Judith Wells Budd (Right)

Research and Teaching Interests

Dr. Budd’s research focuses on the application of remote sensing techniques for large lakes and inland seas. She is a regional leader in developing high quality limnological remote sensing products for the Great Lakes and has served as co-principal investigator or project director for more than $2 million in extramural research supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Michigan Sea Grant College Program. She has authored or co-authored 14 papers in the peer-reviewed scientific literature and advised 4 M.S. and 1 Ph.D. research theses. Dr. Budd teaches courses in limnological remote sensing, global climate change, and environmental science.

Related Activities

Member, Remote Sensing Institute, Michigan Technological University http://www.rsi.mtu.edu/
Curator, Great Lakes Imagery Archive, http://www.geo.mtu.edu/great_lakes/lakersi/cgi-bin/greatlakesarchive.cgi

Selected Publications

Budd, J.W. 2004, In Press. Large Scale Transport Phenomena in the Keweenaw Region of Lake Superior: the Ontonagon Plume and the Keweenaw Eddy. Journal of Great Lakes Research - Special Issue on Lake Superior.

Budd, J.W. and D.S. Warrington. 2004, In Press. Satellite-based Sediment and Chlorophyll a Estimates for Lake Superior. Journal of Great Lakes Research - Special Issue on Lake Superior.

H. Li, J.W. Budd, S. Green. 2004, In Press. Evaluation and Regional Optimization of Satellite-based Chlorophyll a Algorithms for Central Lake Superior, Journal of Great Lakes Research - Special Issue on Lake Superior.

Budd, J.W., T.D. Drummer, G.L. Fahnenstiel, T. Nalepa. 2001. "Remote sensing of biotic effects: Zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) influence on water clarity in Saginaw Bay," Limnol. Ocean. 46(2): 213-223.

Chen, C., E. Ralph, S.A. Green, J.W. Budd, F.Y. Zhang. 2001. "Prognostic Modeling Studies of the Keweenaw Current in L. Superior. Part I: Formation and Evolution. J. Phys. Ocean. 31: 379-395.

Budd, J.W., W.C. Kerfoot, A.N. Pilant, L.M. Jipping. 1999. "The Keweenaw Current and Ice Rafting: Use of Satellite Imagery to Investigate Copper-Rich Particle Dispersal," J. Great Lakes Res. 25(3): 642-662.