Tyler H. Doane, PhD

I am a geomorphologist who combines quantitative and probabilistic methods with field data to understand the processes that shape Earth’s surface. My work informs how land surfaces encode weather, ecology, and land-use, and uncovers the physical processes that lead to land surface evolution. Today, Earth scientists have access to unprecedented data in terms of coverage and resolution, and my research develops probabilistic and mathematical theory that takes full advantage of emerging data sets. In contrast to classic deterministic models that rely on averaged values, my approach embraces the variability of natural systems to reveal new information about processes. As society continues to face new challenges from climate change, and as our field continues to collect more and higher resolution data, such process-based approaches are critical for understanding our changing world. I was recently a postdoctoral researcher at Indiana University Bloomington. I am currently an assistant research professor at the Desert Research Institute.

Feel free to reach out to me at doanet@iu.edu