Trent Biggs
Associate Professor
PhD University of California, Santa Barbara (2003)
Office: Storm Hall 317
Email: tbiggs@mail.sdsu.edu
Research Interests
Impacts of land use and climate change on watershed processes, including water, nutrients, and sediment. My main research areas have included:
STREAM CHEMISTRY, AMAZON BASIN:
- Regional deforestation impacts on stream biogeochemistry
- Application of geographic theory to interpretation of regional water quality data
IRRIGATION AND WATER RESOURCES, SOUTHERN INDIA:
- Basin-scale irrigation development and hydrological impacts
- Thermal satellite imagery for estimation of potential and actual evapotranspiration
- Land cover change and hydrological processes during drought
- Urban effects on water balance, soil chemistry and water quality
HIGH ALTITUDE LAKES, INDIAN HIMALAYA:
- High altitude wetlands and climate change
URBANIZATION AND SEDIMENT, MEXICO:
- Mapping land surface properties in the Tijuana River Watershed
- Sediment budgets during urbanization
- Socioeconomics of sediment production
LAND BASED POLLUTION OF CORAL REEFS, AMERICAN SAMOA:
- Sediment and nutrient flux to coral reefs
Teaching
GEOG 101: Principles of Physical Geography
ENV S 100: Introduction to Environmental Science
GEOG 375: Environmental Hydrology
GEOG 483: Watershed Analysis
GEOG 574: Water Resources
Theses supervised
Master's Level
Terressa Whitaker - Snowmelt hydrology in the Merced River Basin (Graduated 2009)
Shannon Webber - 210Pb dating of sediment cores, Tijuana Estuary (Graduated 2010)
Heather D'Anna - Copper contamination of San Diego Bay (Graduated 2010)
Rebecca Lesher - Water balance of a high altitude lake in the Himalaya (Graduated 2011)
Emily Perkins - Irrigation and water vapor in India
Sean Cook - Glacial lake mapping, Bhutan
Alex Samarin - Crop responses to drought in southern India
Alex Messina - Evapotranspiration measurement using satellite imagery
PhD
Michael Beland - Mapping oil-estuary interactions in the Gulf Coast
Alex Messina - Sediment and nutrient flux to coastal zone in American Samoa
Other Interests: