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Kyle Randall Knipper    Research Physical Scientist  /ARSUserFiles/80420510/images/people/KyleKnipperHeadshot_crop.jpg
**Kyle Knipper, PhD*****Research Physical Scientist*****USDA, ARS, Sustainable Agricultural Water Systems Unit****239 Hopkins Road****Davis, CA 95616****Voice: 1 (530) 754-3345****Kyle.Knipper@usda.gov**  **Research Interests:** Evaluation of thermal-based energy balance/evapotranspiration models for agricultural landscapes.
Development and application of remotely sensed products.
Evapotranspiration and soil moisture dynamics.
Hydrologic and atmospheric model applications of remotely sensed data.  **Education:** 2016: Ph.D. (Hydrologic Science and Engineering) Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO.
2015: M.S. (Hydrologic Science and Engineering) Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO.
2013: B.S. (Meteorology) Iowa State University, Ames, IA.  **Professional Experience:** 2017 - Present: Post-doctoral researcher, USDA-ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Lab, Beltsville, MD.  **Awards:** 2014: Sussman Foundation Grant.
2013-2014: Poate Young Investigator Fellowship.  **Selected Publications:** (please contact the author to determine reprint availability) (view author's publications/interpretive summaries/technical abstracts since 1999) Knipper, K.R., T.S. Hogue, and A. Kinoshita, “Evaluation of a moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer triangle-based algorithm for evapotranspiration estimates in subalpine regions,” *J. Appl. Remote Sens.***10**(1), (2016), doi: 10.1117/1.JRS.10.016002. Knipper, K.R., T.S. Hogue, and K.J. Franz, “Downscaling SMAP and SMOS Soil Moisture with MODIS Visible and Infrared Products over Southern Arizona,” *in review.* Knipper, K.R., T.S. Hogue, K.J. Franz, and R.L. Scott, “Evapotranspiration Estimates Derived Using Multi-platfrom Remote Sensing in a Semiarid Region,”**in review.**


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