SCOTT W. TYLER
Foundation Professor Emeritus
Dept. of Geologic Sciences and Engineering
University of Nevada, Reno
styler [@] unr [.] edu

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EDUCATION

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut; Storrs, Connecticut. June 1978

M.S. Hydrology, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; Socorro, New Mexico
Thesis Title: Field Results of Borehole Infiltration Tests. June 1983

Ph.D. Hydrology/Hydrogeology, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada
Dissertation Title: Fractal Applications to Soil Hydraulic Properties.  August 1990

PROFESSIONAL ASSIGNMENTS

2010-Present
Director, Centers for Transformative Environmental Monitoring Programs

2006-Present
Professor, Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering and Director of Graduate Studies

2005
Visiting Professor, Catholic University of Chile and EPFL, Lausanne Switzerland

2000-2005
Professor and Director, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences, Graduate Program of Hydrologic Sciences

1998-1999
Professor, Desert Research Institute and Department of Environmental and Resource Sciences

1992-1998
Associate Professor, Desert Research Institute and Department of Environmental and Resource Sciences

1986-1992
Assistant Research Soil Scientist, Water Resources Center, Desert Research Institute, University and Community College System of Nevada

1983-1985
Staff Hydrologist, Water Resources Center, Desert Research Institute

1982-1983
Research Engineer, Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory

FIVE  RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Tyler, S.W., J. Kent, S. P. Anderson, P.D. Brooks, A.I. Packman, R. Uijlenhoet, A. W. Western and X. Zeng, (2023). Reflections and thoughts on the future of science from AGU Hydrology Section fellows. Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023CN000206

Tyler, S.W., J. Selker, N. Van de Giesen, T. Bogaard and J. Aguilar-Lopez. (2022). Distributed Fiber-optics Hydrogeophysics. In The Groundwater Project Series. https://doi.org/10.21083/978-1-77470-031-0.

Dotto, T.S., K.J. Heywood, R.A.Hall, T. A. Scambos, Y. Zheng, Y. Nakayama, S. Hyogo, T. Snow, A. Wahlin, C. Wild, M. Truffer, A. Muto, K. E. Alley, L. Boehme, G. A. Bortolotto, S.W. Tyler and E. Pettit. (2022) Ocean variability beneath Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf driven by the Pine Island Bay Gyre strength. Nature Communications, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35499-5.

Tyler, S.W. (2020) Are arid regions always that appropriate for waste disposal? Examples of complexity from Yucca Mountain Nevada. Geosciences.10(1) https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences10010030

Fisher, A.T., K. Mankoff, S. Tulaczyk, S. Tyler, N. Foley, and the WISSARD Science Team. 2015. High Geothermal Heat Flux Measured below the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Science Advances. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1500093

FIVE RELEVANT PRODUCTS

Assouline, S., Li, D., Tyler, S., Tanny, J., Cohen, S., Bou-Zeid, E., Parlange, M. and Katul, G. G. (2015) On the variability of the Priestley-Taylor coefficient over water bodies. Water Resour. Res. doi:10.1002/2015WR017504

Kobs, S.,D.Holland, V. Zagorodnov,A. Stern,and S. Tyler (2014), Novel monitoring of Antarctic ice shelf basal melting using a fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing mooring, Geophys. Res. Lett., 41,doi:10.1002/2014GL061155

Tyler, S.W., J.S. Selker, M.B. Hausner, C.E. Hatch, T. Torgersen and S. Schladow. Environmental temperature sensing using Raman spectra DTS fiber optic methods. 2009. Water Resources Res. DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007052.

Tyler, S.W., J. B. Chapman, S. Conrad, D. Hammermiester, D. Blout, J. Miller, M. Sully and J. Ginanni (1996), Soil Water Flux on the Nevada Test Site: Temporal and Spatial Variations over the Last 120,000 Years. Water Resources Research. 32(6): 1481-1499.

Wheatcraft, S.W. and W. Tyler (1988), An Explanation of Scale-Dependent Dispersivity in Heterogeneous Aquifers using Concepts of Fractal Geometry. Water Resources Research, Vol. 24(4): 566-578.

SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES

Dr. Tyler has conducted field research on hydrologic cycles in a wide variety of climates and environments, and has extensive experience developing interdisciplinary field teams and field experiments. Recently, he has become a leader in the application of Raman spectra fiber-optic temperature measurements (DTS), working on snow basal temperatures, stream/groundwater interactions, soil temperature and mixing in deep lakes and was co-founder of NSF’s Center for Transformative Environmental Monitoring Programs (www.ctemps.org). Dr. Tyler has extensive experience deploying fiber sensing systems in the Antarctic to monitor ice shelf melting.

Students: W. Albright, DRI; B. Andraski, USGS; C. Cooper, DRI; P. Hartsough, UC-Davis; K. Font, Or. DEQ; S. Kampf, Colo. State Univ.; D. Decker, DRI; J. Leising, SNWA; S. Kranz, D. Prudic, USGS; E. Twom, F. Ramsing, G. Webb, J. Green, J. Kinder, F. Suarez, J. Aravena, M. Hausner, L. Williamson, B. Serpa, S. Kobs, T. OHalloran

INTERNATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Dr. Tyler has conducted and published research from each of the seven continents in the area of hydrology and water resources. He speaks modest French and rudimentary Spanish.