Christina (Naomi) Tague
CRML Affiliated Faculty
Professor, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management
Naomi uses advanced data science techniques to understand interactions among water, ecosystems and people in a rapidly changing world. She investigates how water availability is changing for both people and for plants – and how this impacts fires, floods, droughts, ecosystem health, groundwater and rivers in the landscapes that we live in. Much of her research involves designing and applying advanced physically based simulation models that integrate data from multiple sources including field and lab experiments and data from remote sensing technologies. This data-model integration utilizes machine-learning, data- assimilation and interactive visualization to address a wide range of questions related to environmental change.
Naomi Tague is a Professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California Santa Barbara. She holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Toronto and a BSc in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada. She is the lead developer and architect of RHESSys a widely used community earth system model that has been used to investigate climate and landuse change impacts in watersheds throughout the globe. She is an active member of CUASHI (Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc) where she served as chair of CUASHI’s informatics committee and has been a regular instructor for the Master Class in Advanced Techniques and as part of their virtual university. Her research is highly collaborative, linking field scientists, remote sensing experts, theoretical hydrologists and ecologists, artists and data scientists. She regularly contributes to synthesis activities including serving as a contributing author for the California’s Fourth Climate Change Impact Assessment.