Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University
of Delaware, Newark, DE. 1995 to present.
Research Associate, National Research Council Research
Associate Program at the Center for Meteorological Satellite Studies/Space
Science and Engineering Center, Madison, Wisconsin. 1994 -1995.
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Climatology, Hydrology, Physical Geography, Soils, Remote
Sensing, Digital Image Processing, and Geographic Information Systems.
Investigation of the moisture budget in the Amazon Basin
using remotely sensed variables.
Examination of the spatial and temporal variability of soil
moisture and its impact on climate.
PUBLICATIONS
DeLiberty, T.L. 1999. Mesoscale moisture variations associated
with cold surges in southern Brazil. Proceeding of the 23rd Conference
on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Dallas. January 11-15, 1999.
DeLiberty, T.L. 1998. A GIS-based analysis of tropical convection
and precipitation in the Amazon Basin. GIS/LIS 1998 Annual Conference
Proceedings,
Forth Worth. November 10-12, 1998.
DeLiberty. T.L. 1998. A regional-scale investigation
of tropical convection and precipitation over the Amazon Basin. Professional
Geographer, submitted August 1998.
Legates, D.R., and T. L. DeLiberty. 1996. Precipitation in
the Southern Great Plains: Observations and model simulations of present-day
and doubled atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Global Climate Change Response
Program. U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation. Denver,
Colorado. 97pp.
DeLiberty, T.L. 1995. Spatial and temporal variability of
soil moisture in Oklahoma. Publications in Climatology, 447(2),
77pp.
DeLiberty, T.L. and D.R. Legates. 1995. A regional-scale
investigation of soil moisture variability. Conference on Hydrology,
75th AMS Annual Meeting, January 15-20, Dallas, TX. 115-120.
Legates, D.R., T.L. DeLiberty, J.M. Salisbury. 1994. The
Implications of Doubled Trace Gas Concentrations on Summer Precipitation
Variability in the Southern Great Plains. Symposium on the Effect of
Human-Induced Changes on Hydrologic Systems. Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
755-762.
DeLiberty, T.L. 1993. The Spatial and Temporal Variability
of Soil Moisture in Oklahoma. PhD Dissertation, University of Oklahoma,
Norman, Oklahoma. 175pp.
Legates, D.R. and T.L. DeLiberty. 1993. Precipitation Measurement
Biases in the United States. Water Resources Bulletin, 29(5):855-861.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Association of American Geographers
American Geophysical Union
American Meteorological Society
American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
HONORS
Recipient of the Olson Scholarship Award, 1991.
Judy Achuff Scholarship Award, 1986.
Last modified August 1999 by Tracy DeLiberty (tracyd@udel.edu).