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Katherine Mistick

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Education

 Bachelor of Arts in Earth and Planetary Science: Geology

Washington University in St. Louis, May 2018 

Master of Science in Geography

University of Utah, May 2022

Experience

May 2022 - Present 

Seattle, WA

August 2020 - May 2022 

Salt Lake City, UT

January 2020 - April 2020 

Pocatello, ID

May 2018 - December 2020 

St. Louis, MO

September 2017 - May 2018 

St. Louis, MO

Student Research ConsultantInterdisciplinary Environmental Clinic

January 2018 - May 2018 

St. Louis, MO

January 2017 - June 2017

Christchurch, New Zealand

Conference Participation 

International Association of Wildland Fire: Fire & Climate 

“Mapping fire and firefighter visibility for improving situational awareness” 

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NASA Exploration Science Forum 

“Determining the Age of an Unnamed Lunar Impact Crater in South Pole-Aitken Basin Using Boulder Size-Frequency Distributions.” 

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49th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 

“Boulder distributions around young lunar impact craters: Case study of South Ray crater”. 

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Geologic Society of America Annual Meeting 

“How primary volcanic emplacement and cooling mechanisms influence rockfall hazard”. 

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May 2022

Pasadena, CA

August 2019

Moffet Field, CA

March 2018

The Woodlands, TX

October 2017

Seattle, WA

Publications

K.A. Mistick, M.J. Campbell, M.P. Thompson, P.E. Dennison. Using airborne lidar and machine learning to predict visibility across diverse vegetation and terrain conditons. International Journal of Geographical Information Science (provisionally accepted for publication, 02-June-2023). 

 

M.J. Campbell, J.F. Eastburn,  K.A. Mistick, A.M. Smith, A.E. StovallMapping individual tree and plot-level biomass using airborne and mobile lidar in piñon-juniper woodlands. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 2023, 118, 103232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2023.103232.

K.A. Mistick, P.E. Dennison, M.J. Campbell, M.P. Thompson. Using Geographic Information to Analyze Wildland Firefighter Situational Awareness: Impact of Spatial Resolution on Visibility Assessment. Fire 2022, 5, 151. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire5050151.

K.A. Mistick, R.N. Watkins, B.L. Jolliff, R.R. Ghent, R.L. Korotev, R.A. Zeigler. Determining the age of Vaughan, a potential source crater for lunar meteorites, using boulder size-frequency distributions. Icarus, Volume 376, 2022, 114888,ISSN 0019-1035, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2022.114888.

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