Anne Nolin Professor, Department of Geography She/her/hers Emailanolin@unr.edu Phone(775) 682-6804 Mackay Science <p><span>The Mackay Science Building was dedicated in 1930 to serve the Departments of Physics and Chemistry. The $425,000 building was a gift to the university from Clarence H. Mackay, who, along with his mother, had earlier donated the funding for the Mackay Mines Building. This Georgian-style structure, complete with Ionic pilasters, was designed by Reno architect Frederick De Longchamps. When it opened, Mackay Science was considered one of the most modern science teaching facilities in the West. The building today houses the Department of Geography, which has earned a reputation for its excellence in teaching. Over the years, four members of the geography faculty have earned the F. Donald Tibbitts Award, awarded each year to the University&rsquo;s finest teacher.</span></p> 036 MS 39.5381729368753 -119.813709408044 false /global/images/around-campus/mackay-science.jpg 1930 204 0154 /main/images/colleges-schools/science/geography/profiles/anne-nolin-profile.jpg <p>Dr. Anne Nolin is a Professor in the Geography Department at the ÍƼöÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´. Her research focuses on snow hydrology and climate, snow-forest-fire interactions, and mountains as social-ecological systems. Nolin has three decades of experience in remote sensing, field measurements, and modeling of changing snow and ice. She and her students have published on &ldquo;at risk&rdquo; snow, impacts of wildfire on snow, new snow metrics in a warming world, melting snow and glaciers from Greenland to Alaska to the Andes, and new ways of mapping snow and ice from space.</p> <h2>Research interests</h2> <ul> <li>Snow hydrology</li> <li>Mountain studies</li> <li>Social-environmental systems</li> <li>Remote sensing</li> <li>Modeling</li> </ul> <h2>Courses taught</h2> <ul> <li>GEOG 491/691, Snow Hydrology</li> <li>ATMS/GEOG 121, Climate Change and Its Environmental Impacts</li> <li>GEOG 438/638, Western Water Resources and Management</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Ph.D, Geography, University of California-Santa Barbara, 1993</li> </ul> <h2>Selected publications</h2> <ul> <li>Koshkin, A., B. Hatchett, and A. W. Nolin (2022). <a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2022.971271" target="_blank" title="Wildfire impacts on western United States snowpacks" rel="noopener">Wildfire impacts on western United States snowpacks</a>. Frontiers in Water, 26.</li> <li>Nolin, A. W., E. A. Sproles, D. E. Rupp, R. L. Crumley, M. J. Webb, R. T. Palomaki, and E. Mar (2021). <a href="https://doi-org.unr.idm.oclc.org/10.1002/hyp.14262" target="_blank" title="New snow metrics for a warming world" rel="noopener">New snow metrics for a warming world</a>. Hydrological Processes, 35(6), e14262.</li> <li>Wilson, A. C., A. W. Nolin, K. Bladon (2021). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JG006465" target="_blank" title="Assessing the role of snow cover for post-wildfire revegetation across the Pacific Northwest" rel="noopener">Assessing the role of snow cover for post-wildfire revegetation across the Pacific Northwest</a>. J. Geophys. Research&ndash;Biogeosciences, 126, e2021JG006465.</li> <li>Steger, C., J. A. Klein, R. S. Reid, S. Lavorel, C. Tucker, K. A. Hopping, R. Marchant, T. Teel, A. Cuni-Sanchez, T. Dorji, G. Greenwood, R. Huber, K-A. Kassam, D. Kreuer, A. Nolin, A. Russell, J. L. Sharp, M. SÌŒmid Hribar, J. P.R. Thorn, G. Grant, M. Mahdi, M. Moreno, D. Waiswa (2021). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102240" target="_blank" title="Science with society: Evidence-based guidance for best practices in environmental transdisciplinary work" rel="noopener">Science with society: Evidence-based guidance for best practices in environmental transdisciplinary work</a>. Global Environmental Change, 68.</li> <li>Hu, J. M., and A. W. Nolin (2020). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab763f" target="_blank" title="Widespread warming trends in storm temperatures and snowpack fate across the Western United States" rel="noopener">Widespread warming trends in storm temperatures and snowpack fate across the Western United States</a>. Environmental Research Letters, 15.</li> <li>Crumley, R. L., R. T. Palomaki, A. W. Nolin, E. A. Sproles, and G. Mar (2020). <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346225696_SnowCloudMetrics_Snow_Information_for_Everyone" target="_blank" title="SnowCloudMetrics: snow information for everyone" rel="noopener">SnowCloudMetrics: snow information for everyone</a>. Remote Sensing, 12, 3341.</li> <li>Hu, J. M., and A. W. Nolin (2019). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL083564" target="_blank" title="Snowpack contributions and temperature characterization of landfalling atmospheric rivers in the Western Cordillera of the United States" rel="noopener">Snowpack contributions and temperature characterization of landfalling atmospheric rivers in the Western Cordillera of the United States</a>. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 6663&ndash;6672.</li> <li>Nolin, A. W. and E. Mar (2019). <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328485829_Arctic_Sea_Ice_Surface_Roughness_Derived_from_Multi-Angular_Reflectance_Satellite_Imagery" target="_blank" title="Arctic sea ice surface roughness estimated from multi-angular satellite reflectance imagery" rel="noopener">Arctic sea ice surface roughness estimated from multi-angular satellite reflectance imagery</a>. Remote Sensing.</li> <li>Roth, T. R. and A. W. Nolin (2019). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1029/2018WR024089" target="_blank" title="Characterizing maritime snow canopy interception in forested mountains" rel="noopener">Characterizing maritime snow canopy interception in forested mountains</a>. Water Resources Research, 55.</li> <li>Sproles E. A. and A. W. Nolin (2018). <a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10081276" target="_blank" title="SnowCloudHydro--A new framework for forecasting streamflow in data scarce regions" rel="noopener">SnowCloudHydro&mdash;A new framework for forecasting streamflow in data scarce regions</a>. Remote Sensing.</li> <li>Jaeger, W. K., A. Amos, D. P. Bigelow, H. Chang, D. Conklin, R. Haggerty, C. Langpap, K. Moore, P. Mote, A. Nolin, A. J. Plantinga, C. Schwartz, D. Tullos, and D. Turner (2017). <a href="http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1706847114" target="_blank" title="Finding water scarcity amid abundance using human-natural system models" rel="noopener">Finding water scarcity amid abundance using human-natural system models</a>. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hT-Bz_sAAAAJ&amp;hl=en" target="_blank" title="See Anne Nolin's Google Scholar profile" class="button" rel="noopener">See Anne Nolin's Google Scholar profile</a></p>