Jeffrey Dozier

Professor, Bren School

Contacts

Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5131

tel: (805) 893-5889
fax: (805) 893-7612
dozier@bren.ucsb.edu

Research Description

Dozier’s research and teaching interests are in the fields of snow hydrology, Earth system science, remote sensing, and information systems. He has pioneered interdisciplinary studies in two areas: one involves the hydrology, hydrochemistry, and remote sensing of mountainous drainage basins; the other is in the integration of environmental science and computer science and technology.

In addition, he has played a role in development of the educational and scientific infrastructure. He founded UCSB's Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and served as its first Dean for six years. He was the Senior Project Scientist for NASA’s Earth Observing System in its formative stages when the configuration for the system was established. He helped found the MEDEA group, which investigates the use of classified data for environmental research, monitoring, and assessment.

Biography

Dozier, who served for six years as the founding dean of the Bren School and was instrumental in the “greening” of Bren Hall, has authored pioneering interdisciplinary studies on the hydrology, hydrochemistry, and remote sensing of mountainous drainage basins, and on the integration of environmental science and computer science. He served as senior project scientist in the early days of NASA’s Earth Observing System, which integrates satellite images of Earth, data systems, and science to increase understanding of the planet as an integrated system. Dozier currently investigates how climate change affects the mountain snowpack and the management of water from snowmelt.n addition, he has played a role in development of the educational and scientific infrastructure. He founded UCSB's Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and served as its first Dean for six years. He was the Senior Project Scientist for NASA’s Earth Observing System in its formative stages when the configuration for the system was established. He helped found the MEDEA group, which investigates the use of classified data for environmental research, monitoring, and assessment.

Awards/Honors

• Pecora Award from the Department of Interior and NASA, 2005
• NASA Public Service Medal

Selected Publications

• Spatially distributed temperatures at the base of two mountain snowpacks measured with fiber optic sensors, Journal of Glaciology, 54 (187), 2008, 673-679, Tyler, S.W., S.A. Burak, J.P. McNamara, J.S. Selker, and J. Dozier
• A parameterized multiple-scattering model for microwave emission from dry snow, Remote Sensing of Environment, 11, 2007, 357-366, Jiang, L., J. Shi, S. Tjuatja, J. Dozier, K. Chen, and L. Zhang
• Earth Science and Applications from Space: National Imperatives for the Next Decade and Beyond, National Academies Press, 2007, 400 pgs, National Research Council
• Remote sensing of Greenland ice sheet using multispectral near-infrared and visible radiances, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, 2007, Chylek, P., M. McCabe, M. K. Dubey, and J. Dozier
• Scanning electron microscopy of impurity structures in snow, Cold Regions Science and Technology, 47, 2007, 80-89, Rosenthal, W., J. Saleta, and J. Dozier
• Measuring the expressed abundance of the three phases of water with an imaging spectrometer over melting snow, Water Resources Research, 42, 2006, Green, R. O., T. H. Painter, D. A. Roberts, and J. Dozier
• Mountain hydrology of the western United States, Water Resources Research, 42 (8), 2006, Bales, R. C., N. P. Molotch, T. H. Painter, M. D. Dettinger, R. Rice, and J. Dozier
• Estimating the spatial distribution of snow water equivalent in an alpine basin using binary regression tree models: the impact of digital elevation data and independent variable selection, Hydrological Processes, 19 (7), 2005, 1459-1479, Molotch, N. P., R. C. Bales, M. T. Colee, and J. Dozier
• Multispectral and hyperspectral remote sensing of alpine snow properties, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 32, 2004, 465-494, Dozier, J., and T. H. Painter
• ncorporating remotely sensed snow albedo into spatially distributed snowmelt modeling, Geophysical Research Letters,, 31, 2004, Molotch, N. P., T. H. Painter, R. C. Bales, and J. Dozier