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usgs_staff_profile:

 meta:
   status_code: 200
   timestamp: '2023-09-30T17:17:01.471596'
   url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/meredith-m-reitz
 profile:
   abstracts: []
   affiliations: []
   education: []
   email: mreitz@usgs.gov
   expertise_terms:
   - remote sensing
   - hydrology
   - water budget
   - hydrodynamics
   - mathematical modeling
   - geographic information systems
   - water cycle
   - computational methods
   - sediment transport
   - image analysis
   honors: []
   intro_statements:
   - Meredith Reitz is a Research Hydrologist for the USGS Water Resources Mission
     Area.
   name: Meredith M Reitz, PhD
   name_qualifier: null
   orcid: 0000-0001-9519-6103
   organization_link: https://www.usgs.gov/mission-areas/water-resources
   organization_name: Water Resources Mission Area
   personal_statement: "Dr. Meredith Reitz received a B.S. in Physics from Arizona\
     \ State, with minors in Math, Astronomy, Political Science, and English. She\
     \ completed a PhD in Physics at the University of Pennsylvania, where her advisor,\
     \ Prof. Douglas Jerolmack, was a geomorphologist in the Earth and Environmental\
     \ Science department. She then received a postdoctoral fellowship to work at\
     \ Columbia University\u2019s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory for two years.\
     \ She has been with the USGS in Reston since August 2014, and works using remote\
     \ sensing and ground-based data to estimate water cycle quantities of interest\
     \ across the US.Dr. Reitz\u2019s work has generally focused on understanding\
     \ the physical processes that drive dynamics of water and landscapes. Topics\
     \ she has pursued have included methods for constraining remotely sensed evapotranspiration\
     \ using ground-based data sources; the process and timescale of river channel\
     \ movements on alluvial fans and braided rivers; the effect of vegetation on\
     \ the stability and shape of sand dunes; and the interaction between river and\
     \ tectonic systems. She has used a variety of methods in her research, including\
     \ running physical experiments, analyzing time series images, topography, and\
     \ remote sensing data with scripts written in Python (and ArcGIS/ ArcPy), MATLAB,\
     \ and ImageJ, proposing new analytical treatments, and writing numerical models.Current\
     \ workIn her current research, Dr. Reitz is working toward estimating evapotranspiration,\
     \ recharge, and runoff rates across the contiguous U.S., combining various methods\
     \ and remote sensing as well as ground-based data sources.She is a part of the\
     \ team working on the Mississippi Alluvial Plain groundwater availability study.\
     \ The project aims to improve our understanding the dynamics of groundwater\
     \ availability in the water-stressed agricultural region of the Mississippi\
     \ Alluvial Plain. Dr. Reitz\u2019s work will further the water budget aspect\
     \ of the project.https://www2.usgs.gov/water/lowermississippigulf/map/Dr. Reitz\
     \ is also a PI on two Powell Center synthesis projects. The first one aims to\
     \ better understand the utility of GRACE data (from the Gravity Recovery And\
     \ Climate Experiment satellites) for remotely measuring water storage change,\
     \ by bringing together GRACE data developers with researchers working on regional\
     \ and national-scale groundwater modeling and field monitoring in a synthesis\
     \ project. The second one aims to better understand the impacts of anthropogenic\
     \ influence on global river basins, using remotely sensed and other data to\
     \ develop a framework to better quantify the impacts of land use changes on\
     \ ET and the water cycle."
   professional_experience: []
   title: Research Hydrologist