Trent Biggs
Associate Professor
PhD University of California, Santa Barbara (2003)
Office: Geography Annex 204
Email: tbiggs@mail.sdsu.edu
Research Interests
Impacts of land use and climate change on watershed processes, including water, nutrients, and sediment. My research areas have included:
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 PRODUCTION, MEXICO AND UNITED STATES:
- Mapping land surface properties in the Tijuana River Watershed
- Sediment budgets during urbanization
- Socioeconomics of sediment production
- Stream channel change following urbanization
LAND BASED POLLUTION OF CORAL REEFS, AMERICAN SAMOA:
- Sediment and nutrient loading 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
GEOG 596: Advanced Watershed Analysis
Theses supervised
Master's
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 (Graduated 2011)
Cleo Neculae - Stream temperature modeling along a forest-agriculture-urban gradient (Graduated 2011)
Sean Cook - Glacial lake mapping, Bhutan
Alex Samarin - Crop responses to drought in southern India
Alex Messina - Evapotranspiration measurement using satellite imagery (Continued on PhD program, Fall 2011)
Raymond Lee - Thermal and nutrient dynamics in a eutrophied lake, San Diego County
Kris Taniguchi - Channel enlargement following urbanization in San Diego County
PhD
Michael Beland - Mapping oil-estuary interactions in the Gulf Coast
Alex Messina - Sediment and nutrient loading to the coastal zone in American Samoa
Other Interests:
International Water Management Institute
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