Ethan Welty

 

Ph.D. Student

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ENVS Graduate Program - Secondary Core prior to Fall 2012

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Ethan began his Ph.D. in Environmental Studies in Fall 2009. He arrived with B.S. degrees in Physics and Mathematical Biology from the University of Washington in Seattle, and two years of experience working as a geographer for the US Geological Survey (USGS), conducting fish and habitat surveys in Pacific Northwest rivers. He now works as a research assistant for Professor Tad Pfeffer at the Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR). His PhD research includes extracting high-resolution time series of tidewater glacier dynamics from time-lapse photographs, harnessing crowdsourcing platforms to tackle some of his difficult-to-automate image processing needs, and evaluating internet photo collections as records of subtle landscape changes. A side project, building an inventory of Boulder urban arable land with corresponding yield estimates, is supported in 2011-2012 by a CU Green Fund Scholarship. He is also an award-winning photographer.

Ethan Welty Photography

April 26 2011

Ph.D. Student Ethan Welty Receives CU Green Fund Scholarship