Institute for a Sustainable Earth

Paul Houser, PhD

Title: Professor, Department of Geography and Geoinformation Sciences

Phone: 301-613-3782

Website: https://science.gmu.edu/directory/paul-houser

Groups: Faculty

Research Focus

I am an expert in local to global land surface-atmospheric remote sensing, in-situ observation and numerical simulation, development and application of data assimilation methods, and global water and energy cycling.

Current Projects

■ HMA-LDAS: Hyper-resolution High Mountain Asia – Land Data Assimilation System.

■ Next-Generation Large-Scale Fractional Freeze/Thaw Analysis.

■ Advancing hydrologic modeling in High Mountain Asia by merging and downscaling satellite-based precipitation products.

■ Enabling Sustainability in High Mountain Asia: Mapping Permafrost Degradation using Satellite Data Assimilation.