Essayas Kaba Ayana
Columbia University
Columbia
Biography
Essayas Kaba Ayana was born in 1971 and grew up in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. After he completed high school at Entoto Academic, Technical and Vocational Secondary School, he joined the then Arba Minch Water Technology Institute in 1998. During his four year stay at the institute, he became interested in GIS and remote sensing supported hydrologic modeling. He got his Bachelor of Science degree in Hydraulic Engineering in 2002. He then became a faculty member at Bahir Dar University, Engineering Faculty. After working for three years he was awarded a Dutch scholarship to study GIS and remote sensing at the International Institute for Geo – Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) in Enschede, the Netherlands and earned a master’s degree in integrated catchment and water resources management. In his MSc. research he evaluated the performance of radar altimetry data over Lake Tana, a source to the Blue Nile River. Up on return he served as chair of the Department of Water Resources Engineering at Bahir Dar University. In addition, he taught courses in the area of GIS and remote sensing. He then became a vice dean for the Engineering Faculty in 2009. He joined Cornell University in fall 2009 to start his Ph.D. in the Biological and Environmental Engineering Department.
Abstract
Abstract : Estimating total suspended sediment (TSS) budget of a freshwater lake using remote sensing