Tara J. Troy

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Princeton University

Education

Ph.D. Candidate Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2004 - Present
Under the advisement of Eric F. Wood Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
B.A. Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, 2002 History with minor in Women's Studies
B.S. Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, 2001 Civil Engineering

Research Experience

Research Assistant

Princeton University, 2004-2006
Examined issues of temporal and spatial resolution in hydrological land surface model calibration. Current research focuses on evaluating the retrospective water and energy fluxes across Northern Eurasia.

Teaching Experience

Assistant Instructor

Princeton University, Fall 2006, Fall 2007
CEE 263 "Rivers in a Regional Environment"
Led seminar discussions, attended lectures, graded homework and exams.

Professional Experience

Civil Engineer

Tristate Planning & Engineering, Old Westbury, NJ, 2002-2004
Design and planning for small airports, including, runway, and taxiway design as well as construction supervision.

Journal Publications

Troy, T.J. and E.F. Wood. "Comparison and evaluation of gridded radiation products across northern Eurasia," Environmental Research Letters, 4(4), 2009.

Rennermalm, A., E.F. Wood, and T.J. Troy. "Observed changes in pan-arctic cold-season river discharge," (in review, Climate Dynamics).

Sheffield, J., C.R. Ferguson, T.J. Troy, M.F. McCabe, and E.F. Wood, "Closing the Terrestrial Water Budget from Satellite Remote Sensing," Geophysical Research Letters, 36, 2009.

Troy, T.J., An efficient calibration method for continental-scale land surface modeling, Water Resources Research, 44, W09411, doi:10.1029/2007WR006513, 2008.

Feng, X., A. Sahoo, K. Arsenault, P. Houser, Y. Luo, and T.J. Troy. "The impact of snow model complexity at three CLPX sites," Journal of Hydrometeorology, 9(6), 1464-1481, 2008.

Wojcik, R., K. Andreadis, M. Tedesco, E. Wood, T. Troy and D. Lettenmaier. "Multi-model estimation of snow microwave emission during CLPX'03 using operational parameterization of micro-physical snow characteristics," Journal of Hydrometeorology, 9(6), 1491-1505, 2008.

Hayhoe, K., C.P. Wake, T.G. Hungtington, L. Luo, M.D. Schwartz, J. Sheffield, E. Wood, B. Anderson, J. Bradbury, A. DeGaetano, T.J. Troy, and D. Wolfe. (2007). "Past and future changes in climate and hydrological indicators in the US Northeast," Climate Dynamics, 28(4), 381-407.

Conference and Workshop Presentations

Troy, T.J. and E.F. Wood, Increasing soil heat storage across northern Eurasia, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2009.

J. Sheffield, T.J. Troy, and E.F. Wood, Uncertainty in long-term water and energy budgets across northern Eurasia, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2009.

M. A. Rawlins, M. Steele, M. M. Holland, J. C. Adam, J. E. Cherry, J. A. Francis, P. Y. Groisman, L. D. Hinzman, T. G. Huntington, D. L. Kane, J. S. Kimball, R. Kwok, R. B. Lammers, C. Lee, D. P. Lettenmaier, K. C. McDonald, E. Podest, J. W. Pundsack, B. Rudels, M. C. Serreze, A. I. Shiklomanov, O. Skagseth, T. J. Troy, C. J. Vorosmarty, M. Wensnahan, E. F. Wood, R. A. Woodgate, D. Yang, K. Zhang, T. Zhang, Analysis of the Arctic System for Freshwater Cycle Intensification: Observations and Expectations, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2009.

Wood, E. F., J. Sheffield, C. Ferguson, T.J. Troy, and M. Pan, Observing global and continental terrestrial water and energy budgets using satellite remote sensing, GEWEX/iLEAPS, Melbourne, Australia, August 2009.

Troy, T. J., E. F. Wood, and J. Sheffield, How well can we estimate the water and energy budgets across northern Eurasia? EGU Spring Meeting, Vienna, Austria, April 2009.

Wood, E. F., J. Sheffield, C. Ferguson, R. Vinukollu, T.J Troy, and H. Gao, Continental and global-scale terrestrial water and energy budgets using remote sensing observations, International Conference on Land Surface Radiation and Energy Budgets: Observations, Modeling and Analysis, Beijing, China, March 2009.

Troy, T. J., E. F. Wood, and J. Sheffield (2008), Quantifying the mean, variability, and trends in the water and energy cycles across NEESPI through modeling and observations, Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract GC53C-05.

Wood, E. F., J. Sheffield, C. Ferguson, R. Vinukollu, and T. J. Troy (2008), Continental and Global-Scale Terrestrial Water and Energy Budgets Using Remote Sensing Observations, Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H31I-01 INVITED.

Troy, T.J. A.K. Rennermalm, and E.F. Wood, Land Surface Water and Energy Budgets Assessment Across NEESPI, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2007.

Troy, T.J. and E.F. Wood, Reconstructing the Land Surface Water and Energy Budgets of Northern Eurasia, S4D Workshop (AOMIP/ARCMIP/SEARCH for DAMOCLES Workshop), Paris, France, October 2007.

Troy, T. J., J. Sheffield, and E. F. Wood, Temporal and spatial scales in hydrological model calibration, EGU Annual Meeting, Vienna, Austria, April 2007.

Sheffield, J., L. Luo, T. J. Troy, and E. F. Wood, 2006: Hydrologic Impacts of Future Climates in the Northeast USA, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract A44C-02.

Fellowships and Awards

Gordon Wu Fellow : Princeton University, 2004
Honorable Mention : National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2004
John B. Carson Prize : Lehigh University, 2001

Professional Memberships

American Geophysical Union (2006-present)
Phi Beta Kappa
Tau Beta Pi