Corey Scher

PhD Student in Earth and Environmental Sciences

City University of New York

Biography

I’m a PhD student in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the CUNY Grad Center. The technical depth of my work is rooted in the science of Earth observation. The breadth of my work spans applications in terrestrial hydrology and cryospheric sciences to the physical and environmental aspects of geopolitical conflict.

I was born and raised in Berkeley, CA and am currently based in New York City. I sit at the City College of New York (CCNY) in West Harlem.

Interests

Remote sensing
Synthetic aperture radar
Hydrology
Critical physical geography

Education

PhD in Earth and Environmental Science, (expected 2023)
Graduate Center at the City University of New York
MS in Geology, 2019
City University of New York
Bachelors in Geology, 2017
University of California, Berkeley

Projects

NASA Applied Remote Sensing Training (ARSET) in Humanitarian Applications

Co-teaching the first of four sessions on the use of NASA open-source earth observation data for monitoring damage during military conflict

Subsidence monitoring in transboundary aquifers

Monitoring sustainability of shared groundwater resources using interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR)

Herbicide drift from Israel to Gaza

Remote sensing of decreases in normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) coincident with Israeli military spraying of herbicide along the Gaza siege perimeter