Congratulations to Xiaoyong Xu

Friday, September 11, 2015

Congratulations to Xiaoyong Xu who successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Assimilation of Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture in the MESH Model” on September 11, 2015. The committee members are Professor. James Craig from the Department of Civil Engineering, Professor. Jonathan Price from the Department of Geography and Environmental Management, Professor. William Quinton from the Department of Geography,Wilfrid Laurier University, and external examiner Professor. Jing M Chen from the Department of Geography at University of Toronto. Xiaoyong is supervised by Professor. Jonathan Li and Professor. Bryan Tolson from the Department of Civil Engineering. His PhD thesis explored a novel assimilation of Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS), Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-Ea

Xiaoyong's abstract
rth Observing System (AMSR-E) and the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) soil moisture in the MESH model. The abstract is as following: