Daniel Beene
- Student -
2023 Open House Coordinator
I am geography PhD student focusing on GIScience modeling in the domain of public and environmental health. The majority of my research focuses on the legacy of uranium mining in and around the Navajo Nation, where environmental/racial trauma and poor health outcomes are closely intertwined. As part of the UNM Superfund Research Program interdisciplinary group, I’m working to develop spatiotemporal models of Uranium and other contaminant transport and resuspension through environmental media with a critical human/physical geographic lens. My other research endeavors include hydrosocial modeling of water adjudication and hydrologic ramifications in the Lower Rio Grande Basin in New Mexico with colleagues from New Mexico Tech and Elephant Butte Irrigation District, and a statistical analysis of pan-sharpening image fusion techniques for vegetation monitoring.
