People

Environmental Remote Sensing Group

Director:
Dr. Ronald Calhoun

Research Scientist:
Dr. Raghu Krishnamurthy

Doctoral Students:
Kai Zhou
Nihanth Wagmi Cherukuru
Lara Thurman
Sreevatsan Bhaskaran

Under-graduate Students:
Shawn Mills
Brenton Berge
Kevin Tracy
Amir Vahidi
Chad Stewart

Trent Hoffman
John Hoffman
Luis Oblea
Julia Dyer

Visiting Scholars:
Dr. James Doyle (Navy Research Laboratory (NRL))
Christina Stawiarski (PhD Student @ Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))
Jim Blatchford (California Integrated System Operator (CAISO)) – Smart grid Solutions Manager

Past Students:
Ph.D_3.  Raghu Krishnamurthy, ” Coherent Doppler lidar for wind farm characterization and control”.  Ph.D Dissertation, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State University, April, 2013.
Ph.D_2Aditya Choukulkar, “Coherent Doppler Lidar for Boundary Layer Studies and Wind Energy”.  Ph.D Dissertation, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State University, February, 2013.
Ph.D_1.  Charles Retallack,”Stratified Flows in Complex Terrain”, Ph.D. Dissertation, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State University, August, 2010.
M11.  Beth Magerman, “Correlation Study for Energy Content ahead of Wind Farm to Predict Wind Power using Doppler LiDAR Measurements “, Master’s Thesis, Mechanical Engineering, Arizona State University, November, 2014.
M10.  Anandram Venkatasubramanian, “Observations of turbulent transfer process over a plant canopy by single Doppler lidar and sonic anemometer”, Master’s Thesis, Mechanical Engineering, Arizona State University, August, 2009.
M9.  Aditya Choukulkar, “Analysis of Dispersion of Smoke Puffs in the Atmosphere using Lidar ”, Master’s Thesis, Mechanical Engineering, Arizona State University, December, 2008.
M8.  Shantanu Kongara, “Velocity Field Retrievals using Optimal Interpolation of Lidar Data”, Master’s Thesis, Mechanical Engineering, Arizona State University, December, 2008.
M7.  Raghavendra Krishnamurthy, “Retrieval of the Dissipation of Turbulent Kinetic Energy from Coherent Doppler Lidar Data”, Master’s Thesis, Mechanical Engineering, Arizona State University, 2008.
M6.  Michael Hill, “Co-planar Doppler Lidar Retrieval of Rotors from T-REX 2006 “, Master’s Thesis, Mechanical Engineering, Arizona State University, 2008.
M5.  Mattegunta, Anupama, “An Estimation of Turbulent Kinetic Energy Dissipation Rate from Coherent Doppler Lidar Measurements”, Master’s Thesis, Mechanical Engineering, Arizona State University June, 2006.
M4. Heap, Robert, “Postprocessing of coherent Doppler lidar data from Joint Urban 2003”, Master’s Thesis, Mechanical Engineering, Arizona State University, December 2005.
M3. Yadav, Abhishek, “Lattice Boltzmann Simulations of Magneto-Rheological Suspensions”, Master’s Thesis, Mechanical Engineering, Arizona State University, August, 2004.
M2. Waskowsky, Richard, “Optimizating the Geometry of a Paramagnetic Particle Based Flow-Through Sensor”, Master’s Thesis, Mechanical Engineering, Arizona State University, December 2004.
M1. Saha, Sanjoy, “Simulated behavior of magnetic and nonmagnetic particles in a rotating magnetic field,” MS, Mechanical, August, 2003.

Remote Sensing for Wind Energy