TRACY L. DELIBERTY Assistant Professor, Climatology Department of Geography College of Arts and Sciences University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716 voice: (302) 831-4084 fax: (302) 831-6654 email: tracyd@udel.edu

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. University of Oklahoma. Norman, OK. 1994.
• M.A. University of Arizona. Tucson, AZ. 1989.
• B.A. Shippensburg University. Shippensburg, PA. 1987.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• 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.

TEACHING

• GEOG 412 Physical Climatology
• GEOG 471/671 Advanced Geographic Information Systems
• GEOG 474 Introduction to Environmental Remote Sensing/GEOG 666 Special Problem - Environmental Remote Sensing

• GEOG 672 Seminar in Geographic Information Systems
• GEOG 674 Satellite Climatology

CURRENT PROJECTS AND RESEARCH

• 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).

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