Summary
Dr. Anne Nolin is a Professor in the Geography Department at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her research focuses on snow hydrology and climate, snow-forest-fire interactions, and mountains as social-ecological systems. Nolin has three decades of experience in remote sensing, field measurements, and modeling of changing snow and ice. She and her students have published on “at risk” snow, impacts of wildfire on snow, new snow metrics in a warming world, melting snow and glaciers from Greenland to Alaska to the Andes, and new ways of mapping snow and ice from space.
Research interests
- Snow hydrology
- Mountain studies
- Social-environmental systems
- Remote sensing
- Modeling
Courses taught
- GEOG 491/691, Snow Hydrology
- ATMS/GEOG 121, Climate Change and Its Environmental Impacts
- GEOG 438/638, Western Water Resources and Management
Education
- Ph.D, Geography, University of California-Santa Barbara, 1993
Selected publications
- Koshkin, A., B. Hatchett, and A. W. Nolin (2022). Wildfire impacts on western United States snowpacks. Frontiers in Water, 26.
- Nolin, A. W., E. A. Sproles, D. E. Rupp, R. L. Crumley, M. J. Webb, R. T. Palomaki, and E. Mar (2021). New snow metrics for a warming world. Hydrological Processes, 35(6), e14262.
- Wilson, A. C., A. W. Nolin, K. Bladon (2021). Assessing the role of snow cover for post-wildfire revegetation across the Pacific Northwest. J. Geophys. Research–Biogeosciences, 126, e2021JG006465.
- Steger, C., J. A. Klein, R. S. Reid, S. Lavorel, C. Tucker, K. A. Hopping, R. Marchant, T. Teel, A. Cuni-Sanchez, T. Dorji, G. Greenwood, R. Huber, K-A. Kassam, D. Kreuer, A. Nolin, A. Russell, J. L. Sharp, M. Šmid Hribar, J. P.R. Thorn, G. Grant, M. Mahdi, M. Moreno, D. Waiswa (2021). Science with society: Evidence-based guidance for best practices in environmental transdisciplinary work. Global Environmental Change, 68.
- Hu, J. M., and A. W. Nolin (2020). Widespread warming trends in storm temperatures and snowpack fate across the Western United States. Environmental Research Letters, 15.
- Crumley, R. L., R. T. Palomaki, A. W. Nolin, E. A. Sproles, and G. Mar (2020). SnowCloudMetrics: snow information for everyone. Remote Sensing, 12, 3341.
- Hu, J. M., and A. W. Nolin (2019). Snowpack contributions and temperature characterization of landfalling atmospheric rivers in the Western Cordillera of the United States. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 6663–6672.
- Nolin, A. W. and E. Mar (2019). Arctic sea ice surface roughness estimated from multi-angular satellite reflectance imagery. Remote Sensing.
- Roth, T. R. and A. W. Nolin (2019). Characterizing maritime snow canopy interception in forested mountains. Water Resources Research, 55.
- Sproles E. A. and A. W. Nolin (2018). SnowCloudHydro—A new framework for forecasting streamflow in data scarce regions. Remote Sensing.
- Jaeger, W. K., A. Amos, D. P. Bigelow, H. Chang, D. Conklin, R. Haggerty, C. Langpap, K. Moore, P. Mote, A. Nolin, A. J. Plantinga, C. Schwartz, D. Tullos, and D. Turner (2017). Finding water scarcity amid abundance using human-natural system models. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.