Alexandria Gartside McCombs, Ph.D.

As of Fall 2020, I am an Assistant Professor at Salisbury University (SU) in Salisbury, MD in the Department of Geography and Geosciences. I am looking forward to setting up my lab and research at SU working on footprint modeling and ecosystem carbon modeling in agricultural and coastal regions of the DelMarVA peninsula. 

 

Prior to my position at SU I was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Colorado-Boulder and NOAA in Boulder, CO modeling carbon fluxes in the great plains. 

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I completed by Ph.D. in the Department of Geography at the University of South Carolina in 2017 working under Dr. April Hiscox. As a PhD student I  had the opportunity to serve as the President and Vice President of the Geography Graduate Student Association, was the student representative for a faculty hire, be the sole instructor of an undergraduate course, and had opportunities to collaborate with colleagues on projects inside and outside of the University. 

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I consider myself an ecological meteorological who focuses on carbon exchanges in changing land covers. More specifically, I focus on synthesizing ground observed carbon fluxes/energy balance observations using the Eddy Covariance technique and remote sensing/GIS that point observations can be upscaled to represent larger spatial areas. 

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I am also a graduate of the Department of GeoInformatics (M.S., 2013) and School of Meteorology (B.S., 2008) at the University of Oklahoma. During my time at the University of Oklahoma I worked as a Quality Assurance Meteorologist and student employee at the Oklahoma Mesonet, which is where I developed an appreciation and interest in the challenges  of data quality, micro-scale measurements, and agriculture. 

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When I am not working I love to knit, hike mountains, walk the beach, and drink a good craft beer or bourbon.