Curriculum Vitae
Education:
University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA.
PhD in Geography
Thesis Title: Remote sensing of river mobility: Quantifying the Controls, Timescales, and Stratigraphic Record of River Movement
Pennsylvania State Univeristy, State College, PA.
M.S. in Geosciences
Thesis Title: Reconstructing river mobility from ancient deposits: Case study from the Willwood Formation (Paleocene-Eocene, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA)
Macalester College, St. Paul, MN.
B.A (Hons.) in Geology
Thesis Title: Soil Geochemistry and Mineral Exploration over Solution Collapse Breccia Pipes in Northwest Arizona
Publications:
Greenberg, E., Chawick, A., J., Li, G., Ganti, V., Channel Mobility and Floodplain Reworking Across River Planform Morphologies. Geophsycial Reseach Letters. 2024; In Review. Link.
Greenberg, E., Ganti, V., The Pace of Global River Meandering Influenced by Fluvial Sediment Supply. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 2024; 634 (2024): 118674. Link.
Greenberg, E., Chadwick, A. J., Ganti, V., A Generalized Area‐Based Framework to Quantify River Mobility From Remotely Sensed Imagery. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 2023; 128.9 (2023). Link.
Chawick, A., J.., Greenberg, E.*, Ganti, V., Remote sensing of riverbank migration using particle image velocimetry. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 2023; 128.7 (2023). Link.
Greenberg, E., D. R. Thompson, D. J. Jensen, P. A. Townsend, N. Queally, A. Chlus, C. G. Fichot, J. Harringmeyer, Simard, M, An improved scheme for correcting remote spectral surface reflectance simultaneously for terrestrial BRDF and water-surface sunglint in coastal environments. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 2022; 127. Link.
Greenberg, E., Ganti, V., Hajek, E., Quantifying bankfull flow width using preserved bar clinoforms from fluvial strata. Geology. 2021; 49 (9): 1038–1043. Link.
Research Experience:
NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, Imaging Spectroscopy, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Los Angeles, CA
August 2024 - Present
- Software development supporting imaging spectroscopy
- Method development for estimating water quality parameters from imaging spectroscopy data.
Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Geography, Univerisy of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
September 2019 - May 2024
- Developing remote sensing methods to evaluate river morphology and mobility
Research Intern, Imaging Spectroscopy, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Los Angeles, CA
July 2022 - September 2022
- Research project focused on aerosol characterization and sensitivity testing for atmospheric correction
- Supported the EMIT mission
Research Intern, Imaging Spectroscopy, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Los Angeles, CA
June 2021 - August 2021
- Developing algorithms to apply combined terrestrial and water surface corrections for AVIRIS-NG data
- Supported the Delta-X mission
Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
August 2015 - December 2017
- Research on historical fluvial sedimentology, incorporating field-work, visual representation and numerical analyses, culminating in a presented thesis
- Numerical modeling of meandering and braided river dynamics
Professional Experience:
Data Engineer, Engineering, Blackwood Seven, Los Angeles, CA
September 2018 - August 2019
- One of three-member team in charge of company-wide data pipelines
- ETL development, code deployment, and automated QA/QC
- Application development to build internal data processing products for cross-team use
- Tools used included major components within AWS evosystem, Apache Airflow, and Apache Spark.
Developer Analyst, Data Science, Blackwood Seven, Los Angeles, CA
January 2018 - September 2018
- Developed machine learning products for business modeling
- Developed front-end and back-end design for data visualization used for client reporting
- Tools used included Scikit-Learn, proprietary deep-learning framework, PostgreSQL, and MySQL
Exploration Geology Intern, Technical Consulting, Big Rock Exploration LLC., Minneapolis, MN
May 2013 - May 2014
Engineering Geology Intern, Baltimore City Red Line Light Rail Project, Parsons Brinkerhoff, Baltimore, MD
May 2012 - August 2012
Presentations:
Greenberg, E., Chadwick., A., J., Li, G., Ganti, V., (2023) River Planform Control on River Mobility and Floodplain Reworking. Paper presented at American Geophysical Union 2023 Fall Meeting
Greenberg, E., Ganti, V., (2021) Fluvial Sediment Supply Controls Reach-Scale Migration Rates for Meandering Rivers Globally. Paper presented at American Geophysical Union 2021 Fall Meeting
Greenberg, E., Thompson, D., Jensen, D., Townsend, P., Queally, N., Chlus, A., Fichot, C., Harringmeyer, J., (2021) Combined Sun Glint and Vegetation BRDF Correction over Heterogeneous Wetland Land Cover. Paper presented at American Geophysical Union 2021 Fall Meeting
Greenberg, E., Ganti, V., (2020) Quantifying bankfull flow widths of single-threaded rivers from preserved bar clinoforms. Paper presented at American Geophysical Union 2020 Fall Meeting
Greenberg, E., Hajek, E.A., (2017) Reconstructing fluvial channel mobility through the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (Willwood Formation, Bighorn Basin, WY). Paper presented at 11th International Conference on Fluvial Sedimentology
Greenberg, E., Hajek, E.A., Chamberlain, E., (2016) Evaluating river response to climate change using channel-bar reconstructions in the Willwood Formation, Paloecene-Eocene, Bighorn Basin, WY. Paper presented at Geological Society of America 2016 conference meeting
Greenberg, E., , (2014) Soil geochemistry and mineral exploration over solution collapse breccia pipes in northwest Arizona. Paper presented at Society of Economic Geologists 2014 conference meeting
Teaching Experience:
Teaching Assistant, Statistical Methods for Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
September 2020 - December 2020
Teaching Assistant, Physical Geography 2, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
March 2020 - June 2020
Teaching Assistant, Geomorphology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
January 2019 - March 2020
Teaching Assistant, Physical Geography 1, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
September 2019 - December 2019
Teaching Assistant, Oil and Gas Geology, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
September 2016 - December 2016
Presenter, Public Programs, Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, MD
September 2014 - May 2015
Field Work:
Technology I've Used:
Python, AWS (S3, Lambda, Glue, etc.), SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, PrestoDB), Matlab, Excel, Tableau, R, HTML/CSS, Apache Spark, Javascript, Structure-from-Motion, LIDAR, Fortran, Bash