Rowan Biessel
PHD Student at Cornell University
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRowan Biessel is a PhD student and radar interferometry specialist with eight years of experience studying how subtle land surface changes—soil moisture, vegetation dynamics, and heterogeneous permafrost degradation—affect Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) signals. Based in Ithaca and affiliated with Cornell and the University of Alaska Fairbanks, he blends field-informed geophysics with remote sensing and microwave expertise developed through roles at Alaska Satellite Facility and an internship at NASA JPL. Rowan focuses on teasing systematic SAR responses from noisy, real-world surfaces, translating complex geophysical processes into actionable InSAR interpretations. His work emphasizes the understudied impacts of fine-scale heterogeneity on SAR coherence, a perspective that improves both scientific understanding and operational monitoring of changing Arctic landscapes.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Geophysics & Microwave Remote Sensing, Master's degree, Geophysics & Microwave Remote Sensing at University of Alaska Fairbanks
Github Skills (14)
geodesy9
earthquake9
insar9
geophysics8
sar8
geoscience7
eigenvector7
time-series6
python5
snow5
gps3
defense2
tower2
scientific-computing1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rbiessel/InSAR-Soil-Moisture-Model
Apr 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
rbiessel/CovSAR
Oct 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:10 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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