U.S. Geological Survey
Dr. Meredith Reitz received a B.S. in Physics from Arizona State, and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania, where her thesis research focused primarily on rivers and landscape evolution. She then received a postdoctoral fellowship to work at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory for two years. She has been with the USGS in Reston, Virginia since August 2014, where she works primarily on developing estimates of evapotranspiration, recharge, and surface runoff using a variety of remote sensing and ground-based data sources.