Dr. Brian Wardlow
Professor School of Natural Resources University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Contact
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HARH 316 south
Lincoln NE 68583-0973 - Phone
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402-472-6729 On-campus 2-6729
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bwardlow2@unl.edu
Dr. Brian Wardlow is a Professor in the School of Natural Resources and the Director of the Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies (CALMIT), which is a center of excellence focused on use of remote sensing and other spatial technologies (GIS and GPS) for agricultural and natural resource applications. Dr. Wardlow’s research interests include the use of multi-scale remote sensing (satellite, airborne and ground) observations to study drought impacts on vegetation, the detection of other types of plant stress, climate-vegetation interactions and plant phenology and classification and environmental change detection in agricultural landscapes that include crops, grasslands and forest.
He is a native Nebraskan from Falls City, NE and is still actively involved in farming in southeast Nebraska. He incorporates his professional remote sensing expertise and real-world agricultural experience into his courses, research and advisement of students.
Dr. Wardlow also teaches two courses that are often taken by students in the DPH programs and interested in plant health and vegetation monitoring that include Introduction to Remote Sensing (NRES 818) and Applications of Remote Sensing in Agricultural and Natural Resources (AGRO 819/NRES 820).
Education
Dr. Wardlow has a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Kansas, M.A. in Geography from Kansas State University and a B.S. in Geography and Geology from Northwest Missouri State University. Prior to joining UNL, he was a remote sensing scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Earth Resource Observation Science (EROS) Center in Sioux Falls, SD and a NASA Earth System Science Graduate Fellow during his doctoral program.