Jeanette Newmiller

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Position Title
Graduate Student Alum

  • Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • UC Davis Data Science Initiative
Bio

Other Skills: HEC-RAS Flow 3D R Programming Language AR Sandbox About: While a graduate student at UC Davis in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and student researcher at the UCD Center for Watershed Sciences, Jeanette focused her studies on river hydraulics. During this time she worked on the development of surface water models of the Yolo Bypass in California and the Dulcepamba River in Ecuador. Her interests include the creative use of engineering design for the reconciliation and integration of human and ecological needs and teaching others about the opportunities available in engineering. See the links below for further information about the projects that Jeanette worked on. California Water Blog: Visualizing Flows - A Sandbox Experience with Modeling Conference Presentations: 2017 EWRI World Environmental and Water Resources Congress, Abstract for Education Session: Visualizing Watersheds A Water Resources Educational Module 2016 Bay Delta Science, Poster Session: Methods for Preparing Spatial Data for 1D/2D Hydraulic Model of Yolo Bypass Other: MS Thesis: River Hydraulics on a Steep Slope Can a 2D Model Push the Limits of the Hydrostatic Assumption? MS Thesis Abstract Science News for Students: Cool Jobs: Doing real science in virtual worlds: Moving rivers UC Davis Magazine: Run of the River R Shiny app for outreach class data collection

Research Interests & Expertise
  • Hydrodynamic Modeling
  • Ecohydrology
  • Riparian Reconciliation
  • Engineering Outreach