Mark Raleigh

As a native of Colorado, Mark has had a long-standing affinity for the allure of the mountains. Working in the Lundquist Mountain Hydrology Research Group he has been involved with the NOAA HMT project in the American River Basin of California. His research interests include: deploying temperature sensors to monitor the freezing level during winter storms; analysis of rain-on-snow events; surface parameter estimation techniques; scaling precipitation data using snow disappearance date; snow models and flood forecasting.

Mark holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Gonzaga University (Spokane, WA, 2005). He expects to receive a M.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington in June 2009, and plans to continue as a PhD student in the Lundquist Research Group. He is the current UW student chapter president of the American Water Resources Association and also the president of the UW chapter of Engineers Without Borders.

In his free time Mark enjoys snowboarding, hiking, backpacking, traveling the world, and making homebrew. It is rumored that he can bake a mean chocolate chip cookie.

Exciting News! Mark was just awarded a 2009 NASA Earth System Science Graduate Student Fellowship. This will support his PhD research for the next three years.