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Jamiat Nanteza

Visiting Assistant Professor

jnanteza@tulane.edu

School of Science & Engineering

Office

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Blessey Hall 101A
New Orleans, LA 70118

Courses Taught

EENS-4180/6180– Introduction to Remote sensing
EENS 1110 – Planet Earth
EENS 4300 – Groundwater Hydrology

Education & Affiliations

Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 2016

M.Sc., University of Reading, UK, 2008

Biography

Dr. Nanteza's research interests include Hydrology, The Water cycle in a changing climate, GRACE satellites, Land surface modelling, Groundwater sustainability, Drought, Water security and community adaptation, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Recent Publications

Thomas, B. F., & Nanteza, J. (2023). Global assessment of the sensitivity of water storage to hydroclimatic variations. Science of The Total Environment, 879, 162958. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162958

Nanteza J., Thomas B., Kisembe J., Nakabugo R., Mukwaya P.I., Rodell M (2022). A Google Earth-GIS based approach to examine the potential of the current rainwater harvesting practices to meet water demands in Mityana district, Uganda. PLOS Water 1(11): e0000045. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pwat.0000045

Hu, K. X., Awange, J. L., Kuhn, M., & Nanteza, J. (2021). Inference of the spatio-temporal variability and storage potential of groundwater in data-deficient regions through groundwater models and inversion of impact factors on groundwater, as exemplified by the Lake Victoria Basin. Science of The Total Environment, 800, 149355. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149355

Li,B., Rodell M.,, Kumar S.,, Beaudoing H.K.,, Getirana A., Zaitchik F. B., de Goncalves G. L., Cossetin C., Bhanja S., Mukherjee A., Tian S., Tangdamrongsub N., Long D., Nanteza J., Lee J., Policelli F., Goni B. I., Daira D., Bila M., de Lannoy G., Mocko D., Steele-Dunne C. S., Save H., Bettadpur S (2019). Global GRACE data assimilation for groundwater and drought monitoring: advances and challenges. Water Resources Research, 55(9), 7564-7586. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018WR024618

Thomas, B. F., Caineta, J., & Nanteza, J. (2017). Global assessment of groundwater sustainability based on storage anomalies. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(22), 11-445. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL076005

Nanteza, J., de Linage, C. R., Thomas, B. F., & Famiglietti, J. S (2016). Monitoring groundwater storage changes in complex basement aquifers: An evaluation of the GRACE satellites over East Africa. Water Resources Research. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016WR018846

Matthew Dalva

Phyllis M Taylor Presidential Chair, Director of the Tulane Brain Institute, and Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology

mdalva@tulane.edu

Office Address

201 Flower Hall, 6823 St. Charles Avenue New Orleans, LA 70118

School of Science & Engineering

Education & Affiliations

Duke University, Durham NC, 1996 Ph.D. Neurobiology

Biography

Research Interests

The Dalva laboratory is focused on understanding synaptic development and function.

Yi Wang

Assistant Professor

ywang145@tulane.edu

School of Science & Engineering

Dr. Wang's Website

Office

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Room 211 Blessey Hall
New Orleans, LA 70118

Education & Affiliations

Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2020

B.S., Xiamen University, 2015

Research

Dr. Wang's research interests include Marine Biogeochemistry, Paleoclimatology, Paleoceanography, Trace Metal Cycling, and Isotope Geochemistry.

Recent Publications

R. F. Phillips* (student mentee), Y. Wang, F. Klein, G. Farfan, C. M. Ostrander, H. Gadol, C. M. Hansel, and S. G. Nielsen. The role of manganese oxide mineralogy in thallium isotopic fractionation upon sorption, 2023. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 356, 83-92, doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2023.07.011.

A. Heard**, Y. Wang**, C. M. Ostrander, M. Auro, D. Canfield, S. Zhang, H. Wang, X. Wang, and S. Nielsen. Coupled vanadium and thallium isotope constraints on Mesoproterozoic ocean oxygenation around 1.38-1.39 Ga, 2023. Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 616, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118127. (**co-first author)

K. M. Costa, S. G. Nielsen, Y. Wang, W. Lu, S. Hines, A. W. Jacobel, and D. W. Oppo. Marine sedimentary uranium to barium ratios as a potential quantitative proxy for Pleistocene bottom water oxygen concentrations, 2023. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 343, 1-16, doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2022.12.022.

Y. Wang, S. Bodin, J. S. Blusztajn, C. Ullmann, and S. G. Nielsen, 2022. Orbitally paced global oceanic deoxygenation decoupled from volcanic CO₂ emission during the middle Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 1b (Aptian-Albian transition), Geology, doi: 10.1130/G50553.1.

Y. Wang, W. Lu, K. M. Costa, and S. G. Nielsen, 2022. Beyond anoxia: exploring sedimentary thallium isotopic compositions in paleo-redox reconstructions from a new core top collection, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 333, 347-361, doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2022.07.022.

W. Lu, Y. Wang, D. Oppo, S. G. Nielsen, and K. M. Costa, 2022. Comparing paleo-oxygenation proxies (benthic foraminiferal surface porosity, I/Ca, authigenic uranium) on modern sediments and glacial Arabian Sea, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 331, 69–85.

Y. Wang, and I. L. Hendy, 2021. Reorganized atmospheric circulation during the Little Ice Age leads to rapid Southern California deoxygenation, Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL094469, doi:10.1029/2021GL094469.

Y. Wang, I. L. Hendy, and J. Zhu, 2020. Extreme low-oxygen conditions in the early- to mid-Holocene associated with ventilation shifts in the Northeast Pacific, Quaternary Science Reviews, 238, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106326.

Y. Wang, I. L. Hendy, and R. Thunell, 2019. Local and remote forcing of denitrification in the Northeast Pacific for the last 2000 years. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 34, doi:10.1029/2019PA003577.

Y. Wang, I. L. Hendy, J. C. Latimer, and D. Bilardello, 2019. Diagenesis and iron paleo-redox proxies: new perspectives from magnetic and iron speciation analyses in the Santa Barbara Basin, Chemical Geology, 519, 95-109, doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.04.018.

Y. Wang, I. L. Hendy, and T. Napier, 2017. Climate and anthropogenic controls of coastal deoxygenation on interannual to centennial timescales, Geophysical Research Letters. 44, 11,528–11,536, doi: 10.1002/2017GL075443.