Education

B.S. (Earth Science, The Pennsylvania State University 1981 Geology emphasis)

M.S. The Pennsylvania State University 1987 (Agronomy/Remote Sensing)

Ph.D. (Soil Science) The Pennsylvania State University 1999

Academic and Professional Experience

1992 - Present Research Associate and NASA EOS SRBEX Project Manager Earth System Science Center The Pennsylvania State University

1988 - 1992 Research Assistant Office for Remote Sensing of Earth Resources The Pennsylvania State University

1987 Graduate Research Assistant Office for Remote Sensing of Earth Resources The Pennsylvania State University

1984 - 1987 NASA Graduate Trainee Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, California

1982 - 1984 Graduate Research Assistant Office for Remote Sensing of Earth Resources The Pennsylvania State University

1981 - 1982 Geologist General Engineering Associates Inc. Clarion, PA

Selected Publications

Miller, D.A. and R.A. White, 1997: A Conterminous United States multi-layer soil characteristics data set for regional climate and hydrology modeling. Submitted to Earth Interactions.

White, R.A. and D.A. Miller, 1997: Processing soil survey information with Perl. Submitted to Computers and Geosciences.

Miller, D.A. and M.N. Lakhtakia, 1994: Quantification of soil physical and hydraulic properties for regional atmospheric modeling. Preprints of the 10th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction, AMS, 18-22 July 1994, Portland, Oregon, USA, J12-J13.

Lakhtakia, M.N. D.A. Miller, R.A. White & C.B. Smith, 1993: GIS as an integrative tool in climatologic and hydrologic modeling. Second International Conference/Workshop on Integrating Geographic Information Systems and Environmental Modeling, September 26-30, Breckenridge, Colorado, USA.

Hamlett, J.M., D.A. Miller, R.L. Day, G.W. Petersen, G.M. Baumer, and J. Russo, 1992: Statewide GIS-based ranking of watersheds for agricultural pollution prevention. J. Soil and Water Cons. 47(5):399-404.

Miller, D.A., B.M. Yarnal and G.W. Petersen, 1991: GIS as an integrative tool in Earth system science research. Proc. Seventh Int. Con. on Interactive Inform. and Process. Systems for Meteor., Ocean., and Hydrology, 71st Annual Meeting - American Meteorological Society, January 13-18, 1991, New Orleans, LA. pp. 273-275.

Current Support :

NOAA Climate and Global Change Program - Office of Global Programs, 4/1/95 - 8/30/97, $172,000, 25% of time, "Integration and Testing of High-Resolution Soils Information in a Coupled Soil Hydrology and Regional-Scale Atmospheric Modeling Environment". The Pennsylvania State University , Earth System Science Center. (Co-Principal Investigator).