Research Assistant
More Hall, Box 352700
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Washington
Seattle, WA. 98195-2700
Email: rbranch@uw.edu
Water has fascinated me since I was a child growing up on the shores of Puget Sound. My first job as a scientist was to use infrared instruments to study waves, foam, and sea surface temperature at the Applied Physics Laboratory. In 2015 I was awarded a NASA earth and space sciences fellowship to study remote sensing of river discharge by pursuing a PhD in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington. This work will help NASA determine how to measure river discharge from space using a satellite altimeter.
Publications
Gaube, P., C. C. Chickadel, R. Branch, A. Jessup (2019), Satellite observations of SST-induced wind speed perturbation at the oceanic submesoscale, Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 2690-2695.
Branch, R., A. R. Horner-Devine, C. Akan, C. Chickadel, G. Farquharson, A. Hudson, S. A. Talke, J. Thomson, A. T. Jessup (2018), Airborne LiDAR measurements and model simulations of tides, waves, and surface slope at the mouth of the Columbia River, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 99, 1-11.
Hudson, A., S. Talke, R. Branch, C. Chickadel, G. Farquharson, A. Jessup (2017), Remote measurements of tides and river slope using an airborne Lidar instrument, J. Atmos. and Ocean. Technol., 34, 897-904.
Branch, R., C. C. Chickadel, and A. T. Jessup (2016), Infrared emissivity of seawater and foam at large incidence angles in the 3-14 µm wavelength range, Remote Sensing of Environment, 184, 15-24.
Asher, W. E., A. T. Jessup, R. Branch, and D. Clark (2014), Observations of rain-induced near-surface salinity anomalies, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 119, 5483-5500, doi:10.1002/2014JC009954
Branch, R., C. C. Chickadel, and A. T. Jessup (2014), Thermal infrared multipath reflection from breaking waves observed at large incidence angles, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, 52,249-256.
Pfaff, M. C., G. M. Branch, E. A. Wieters, R. A. Branch, and B. R. Broitman (2011), Upwelling intensity and wave exposure determine recruitment of intertidal mussels and barnacles in the southern
Benguela upwelling region, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 425, 141-152.
Plant, W. J., R. Branch, G. Chatham, C. C. Chickadel, K. Hayes, B. Hayworth, A. Horner-Devine, A. Jessup, D. A. Fong, O. B. Fringer, S. N. Giddings, S. Monismith, and B. Wang (2008), Remotely sensed river surface features compared with modeling and in situ measurements, J. Geophys.
Res., 114, C11002.
Branch, R., W. J. Plant, M. Gade, and A. T. Jessup (2008), Relating Microwave modulation to microbreaking observed in infrared imagery, IEEE Geosci. and Remote Sens. Lett., 5, 364-367.
Branch, R., A. T. Jessup, P. J. Minnett, and E. L. Key (2008), Comparisons of shipboard infrared sea surface skin temperature measurements from the CIRIMS and the M-AERI, J. Atmos. and Ocean. Technol., 25, 598-606.
Jessup, A. T. and R. Branch (2008), Integrated ocean skin and bulk temperature measurements using the Calibrated Infrared In Situ Measurement System (CIRIMS) and through-hull ports, J. Atmos. and Ocean Technol., 25, 579-597.
Branch, R. and A. T. Jessup (2007), Infrared signatures of microbreaking wave modulation, IEEE Geosci. and Remote Sens. Lett., 4, 372-376.
Nalli, N. R., P. Clemente-Colon, P. J. Minnett, M. Szczodrak, V. Morris, E. Joseph, M. D. Goldberg, C. Barnet, W. W. Wolf, A. Jessup, R. Branch, R. O. Knuteson, and W. F. Feltz (2006), Ship-based measurements for infrared sensor validation during Aerosol and Ocean Science Expedition 2004, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D09S04.