Department of Geological Engineering and Sciences
Michigan Technological University
Ph.D. Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI - 1997 - Biological Sciences. Dissertation: Satellite Remote Sensing of Great Lakes Water Quality: Case Studies of Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron and Western Lake Erie.
M.S. University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI - 1989 - Interdepartmental Program in Water Resources Science. Thesis: Distributed Costs of Environmental Contamination.
B.S. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI - 1985, with distinction - Natural Resources.
Hydrology, Fluid Mechanics, GIS Applications for Engineers, Satellite Limnology, Remote Sensing in Water Resources Management, Global Climate Change.
Remote sensing of surface water quality - visible and thermal infrared remote sensing, lake optical properties, scientific data visualization, and numerical modeling. Image analysis, statistical modeling, and laboratory experiments are utilized to study surface temperatures, suspended sediments cycling and seasonal and interannual changes in chlorophyll concentrations in the Great Lakes.
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Engineering and Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, September 1997-Present. Projects: Keweenaw Interdisciplinary Transport Experiment in Superior (KITES) and Episodic Events-Great Lakes Experiment (EEGLE) (funded jointly by NSF and NOAA). Co-Principal Investigator spearheading remote sensing aspects of two five-year, multimillion dollar, interdisciplinary projects aimed at understanding nearshore-offshore transport processes in Lakes Superior and Michigan. Administration of grants in excess of $1M.
Research Scientist, Department of Biological Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, October 1996-August 1998. Project: Toxicity, ecological impact, monitoring, causes and public awareness of Microcystis blooms in Lake Erie. MTU PI for two-year, multi-institution project whose focus was understanding the causes and effects of toxic Microcystis blooms in the lower Great Lakes.
Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Biological Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, May 1991-October 1996. Project: Evaluating the impacts of zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) on Great Lakes water quality using satellite remotely sensed data.
Professional Staff, U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Oceanography, Great Lakes, and the Outer Continental Shelf, Washington, DC, January 1990-April 1991. Issues: coastal pollution, coastal management, global climate change, and federal agency budget oversight. Direct oversight of NOAA's research, coastal management, and fisheries programs, among other activities.
Responsibilities: Counsel to Subcommittee Chairman and Members of Congress; liaison with EPA, NOAA, NASA, USFWS and other federal and State agencies; drafted and analyzed legislation; prepared statements, briefings and Committee reports.
National Marine Policy Fellow, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Washington, DC, January-December 1989. Issues and responsibilities as above.
Congressional Observer, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Geneva Switzerland October, 1989. Participated in multinational negotiation leading to the development of an international convention on climate change.
Physical Scientist Trainee, USDOC/NOAA/Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI, January 1988-January 1989. Assessed government clean-up expenditures and environmental costs of pollution for case study sites in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions.
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Michigan Interdepartmental Program in Water Resources Science September-December 1988. Teaching assistant for graduate level course in environmental policy.
Administrative Assistant, Friends of the Rouge River, Dearborn, Michigan, January-September 1987. Coordinated annual river clean-up day involving over 2,000 volunteers. Developed high school biology and social studies materials and enlisted the support of teachers to participate in Rouge River Educational Project.
Community Education Specialist, Michigan Department of Public Health, Lansing, MI, September 1985-August 1987. Provided information and educational materials to citizens regarding possible exposure to toxic materials. Drafted bill for Vietnam Veterans Agent Orange Program for State legislative committees.
NASA Ph.D. Fellowship, September 1993-August 1996, nationally competitive dissertation research award from the NASA Graduate Student Researcher Program, NASA Ames Research Center, Sunnyvale, CA.
Scholarship, June 1991, to attend summer oceanography field course, University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories, San Juan, WA.
Legislative Fellow, October 1991, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA.
Grants, June - August 1983 and 1988, to attend intensive field study program, University of Michigan Biological Station, Pellston, MI.
Budd, J.W. (PI), C. Chen, S.A. Green, W.C. Kerfoot (Co-PIs), Ecosystem Mosaics: Modeling Pattern and Process Using Remotely Sensed Imagery Michigan Sea Grant, $209,602 from 1/1/01 to 12/31/02.
Kerfoot, W.C. (PI), J.W. Budd and R.P. Stumpf (Co-PIs), "EEGLE: Episodic Events-Great Lakes Experiment: Understanding the Historical Magnitude of Spring Turbidity Plumes in Southern Lake Michigan," NSF and NOAA, $724,893 total grant, $539,089 to JWB from 9/1/97 to 8/31/02.
Green, S.A. (PI), J.W. Budd, N.A. Auer, M.T. Auer, W.C. Kerfoot, N.R. Urban (Co-PIs), "KITES: Keweenaw Interdisciplinary Transport Experiment in Superior," NSF and NOAA, $4.7M total grant, $521,825 to JWB from 9/1/97 to 8/31/02.
Budd, J.W. (PI), V. Ransibrahmanakul, W.C. Kerfoot, "A New Method for Estimating Surface Chlorophyll Transport Using SeaWiFS Imagery," Michigan Sea Grant, $30,000 Program Development Grant 3/31/00 to 12/31/00.
Bluth, G.J. (PI), J.W. Budd and 10 others (Co-PIs), "Center of Environmental Remote Sensing Education for Engineers and Scientists at MTU," NASA, $833,444 total award, $46,945 to JWB from 12/1/97 to 11/30/98.
Drummer, T.D. (PI) and J.W. Budd (Co-PI), "Modeling Great Lake Water Quality Using Retrospective Remotely Sensed Imagery," MTU Research Excellence Fund, $20,492 from 10/1/97 to 9/30/98.
Budd, J.W. (PI) and W.C. Kerfoot, Toxicity, ecological impact, monitoring, causes and public awareness of Microcystis blooms in Lake Erie," Ohio Lake Erie Environmental Protection Fund, $21,230 from 9/1/97 to 8/31/98.
Budd, J.W. (PI) , W.C. Kerfoot and A.L. Maclean, "Satellite remote sensing studies of zebra mussel impacts in the Great Lakes," NASA Ames Research Center, Graduate Student Researchers Program, $66,000 from 9/1/93 to 8/31/96.
Kerfoot, W.C., A.L. Maclean, and J.W. Budd (Co-PI), "Remote sensing studies of zebra mussel impacts in Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron," USDOC/NOAA Michigan Sea Grant College Program through the Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystem Research, $176,063 from 9/1/93 to 8/31/96.
Kerfoot, W.C., A.L. Maclean, J.W. Budd (Co-PI), "Remote sensing studies of zebra mussel impacts in Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron," Michigan Department of Natural Resources through the Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystem Research, $20,000 from 9/1/92 to 8/31/93.
Budd, J.W. and T.D. Drummer. In Press. "Remote sensing of biotic effects: Zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) influence on water clarity in Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron," Limnol. and Ocean.
Budd, J.W., W.C. Kerfoot, A.N. Pilant, L.M. Jipping. 1999. "The Keweenaw Current and Ice Rafting: Use of Satellite Imagery to Investigate Copper-Rich Particle Dispersal," J. Great Lakes Res. 25(3): 642-662.
Chen, C., E. Ralph, S.A. Green, J.W. Budd. In Press. "Prognostic Modeling Studies of the Keweenaw Current in Lake Superior. Part I: Formation and Evolution. Journal of Physical Oceanography.
Zhu, J., C. Chen, E. Ralph, S.A. Green, and J.W. Budd. In Press. "Prognostic Modeling Studies of the Keweenaw Current in Lake Superior. Part II: Formation and evolution," Journal of Physical Oceanography.
Budd, J.W., W.C. Kerfoot and A.L. Maclean. 1998. "Documenting Complex Surface Temperature Patterns from Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) imagery of Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron," J. Great Lakes Res. 24(2): 582-594.
Budd, J.W., A.M. Beeton, D.A. Culver, W.C. Kerfoot, and R.P. Stumpf. In press. "Satellite observations of Microcystis blooms in western Lake Erie," International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology: Proceedings of the 27th Congress, August 9-14, 1998.
Bogdan, J.J., J.W. Budd, and K.C. Hornbuckle. In review. "The effect of a large resuspension event in southern Lake Michigan on the short-term cycling of organic contaminants." Env. Sci. & Technol.
Ji, R., C. Chen, D.J. Schwab, D. Beletsky, J.W. Budd, G.L. Fahnenstiel, T.H. Johengen, H. Vanderploeg, B.J. Eadie, M. Bundy, In review. "Influence of Suspended sediments on the ecosystem in Lake Michigan: A 3-D coupled bio-physical modeling experiment.
Budd, J.W., R.P. Stumpf, D.S. Warrington, and V. Ransibrahmanakul. In prep. "Episodic events and trophic pulses: Satellite-derived estimates of chlorophyll and sediment concentrations in southern Lake Michigan," Limnol. Ocean.
Clites, A.H., Fontaine, T.D., and Wells, J.R., 1995, Distributed costs of environmental contamination, Maximum Power, The Ideas and Applications of H.T. Odum, pp 175-182.
Clites, A.H., Fontaine, T.D., and Wells, J.R., 1991, Distributed costs of environmental contamination, Ecological Economics, 3: 215-229.
SELECTED ABSTRACTS AND PRESENTATIONS (1996 to PRESENT)
Warrington, D.S., J.W. Budd, R.P. Stumpf, and S.A. Green. "Satellite-derived chlorophyll and turbidity estimates using SeaWiFS (Sea-Viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor) Imagery," 43RD Annual IAGLR Conference Great Lakes, Great Rivers 2000 - A vision for tomorrow, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, May 21-26, 2000.
Chye, J.D., Budd, J.W., Ullman, D., and Johnson, J.A., 2000. "Automated Edge Detection for Remotely Sensed Imagery," 43RD Annual IAGLR Conference Great Lakes, Great Rivers 2000 - A vision for tomorrow, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, May 21-26, 2000.
Budd, J.W., D.S. Warrington, V. Ransibrahmanakul, J.D. Chye, "Episodic events and trophic pulses: Estimating surface chlorophyll concentrations and Transport Using SeaWiFS Imagery," 2000 Ocean Sciences Meeting of the Am. Society of Limnology and Oceanography and Am. Geophysical Union. San Antonio, TX Jan 24-28, 2000.
Ji, R., C. Chen, D.J. Schwab, J.W. Budd, D. Beletsy, "Influences of suspended sediments on the ecosystem in Lake Michigan," 2000 Ocean Sciences Meeting of the Am. Society of Limnology and Oceanography and Am. Geophysical Union. San Antonio, TX Jan 24-28, 2000
Bogdan, J.J., K.C. Hornbuckle, and J.W. Budd. "Increased atmospheric deposition of SOCs due to large-scale sediment resuspension in southern Lake Michigan," 3rd EEGLE/KITES Workshop. Minneapolis, MN. Oct 27-30, 1999.
Warrington, D.S., J.W. Budd, R.P. Stumpf, "Remote Sensing of Great Lakes Water Quality Using SeaWiFS (Sea-Viewing Wide Field-of-View) Imagery, Limnology and Oceanography: Navigating into the Next Century, The 1999 Aquatic Sciences Meeting of American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Santa Fe, New Mexico Feb. 1-5, 1999.
Budd, J.W. and J.D. Chye, "Retrospective Studies of Great Lakes Water Quality using Satellite Remotely Sensed Imagery," Limnology and Oceanography: Navigating into the Next Century, The 1999 Aquatic Sciences Meeting of American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Santa Fe, New Mexico Feb. 1-5, 1999.
Budd, J.W., A.M. Beeton, D.A. Culver, W.C. Kerfoot, and R.P. Stumpf. Satellite observations of Microcystis blooms in western Lake Erie, 27th Congress of the
International Association of Limnology, Dublin, Ireland, August 9-24, 1998. (Invited).
Budd, J.W. Use of satellite-derived reflectances to monitor changes in water quality brought about by the zebra mussel in Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron. 39th Annual Conference of the International Association of Great Lakes Research, Erindale College, University of Toronto, Canada, May 1996. (Invited).
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
International Association of Great Lakes Research
V. Ransibrahmanakul, Ph.D. Louisiana Tech. University
T. Yu, Ph.D. Michigan Technological University
D. S. Warrington, M.S. Geological Engineering and Sciences (Graduated May, 2001)
J. D. Chye, M.S. Physics (Graduated May, 2001)
D. J. Osterberg, Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering
H. Li, Ph.D. Computational Sciences and Engineering
W. Haibo, Ph.D. Geological Engineering and Sciences
UNDERGRADATE RESEARCH ASSISTANTS
Ken A. Thiemann, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Sue Ellen Bunzendahl, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Erin N. Naughton, Department of Biological Sciences
Liz M Ross, Department of Geological Engineering and Sciences
Antonio J. Jenkins, Department of Electrical Engineering
Taylor A. Klipp, Department of Mining Engineering
Scott Diehl, NSF/REU, University of Michigan
Tianxu Yu, Ph.D. 10/00, Dept. of Geological Engineering and Sciences
Haitao Sun, MS 10/98, Department of Computer Science.
Margaret Ballachowski, MS 8/98, Department of Mathematical Sciences
Ashok Agarwal, MS 5/98, Dept. of Geological Engineering and Sciences
Greg J. Wright, M.S. Pending, School of Forestry and Wood Products
Journal of Geophysical Research, Oceans Section
Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing
International Association of Great Lakes Research
NASA-Earth Sciences Enterprise
Wisconsin Sea Grant College Program
Georgia Sea Grant College Program
International Program Committee, Seventh International Conference on Remote
Sensing for Marine and Coastal Environments, May 20-22, 2002.
Computer Committee, Dept. of Geological Eng. and Sciences, 1998-Present.
GAANN Advisory Committee, Dept. of Geological Eng. and Sciences, 2000.
UN 1001, Perspective on Inquiry - Global Climate Change, Fall 2000
BL 5580, Limnological Applications of Remote Sensing, Spring 2001
UN 4001, Remote Sensing Institute Lecture Series, 1998, 1999, 2000
MTU Educators' Science and Mathematics Institute, June 1999, 2000
PACE Girls+Math+Science=Choices Video Conference, April 12, 1998
Introductory Oceanography, Michigan Technological University, 1997
Data Visualization and Satellite Observations of Water Color in the Great Lakes, 39th Annual Conference on Great Lakes Research, International Association of Great Lakes Research, Erindale College, University of Toronto, Canada, May 1996.
Ecosystem Effects of Invasive Species in Lakes, 27th Congress of the International Association of Limnology, Dublin, Ireland, August 9-24, 1998.
Isle Royal National Park Service Planning for RV Ranger III Lectures and Research, March, 1999 - present.
Board Member, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Houghton County 1993-1994.