"Por el camino va el dorado de mi pasado
Cuenta la leyenda de sequías y subiendas
Y su esperanza y condena
Brillan por el Magdalena"

Mónica Giraldo

About me

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill working on fluvial hydrology and morphology. I joined the Global Hydrology Lab (GHL) in August 2022 after earning a Fulbright Scholarship.

I was born in Medellin - Colombia, the second larger city in Colombia and home of the Universidad de Antioquia, where I got my B.S. in Sanitary Engineering and my master's in Environmental Engineering.

Currently, I'm using Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite -SWOT- satellite to derive some river properties such as rivers' cross-sectional variation (width to depth ratio) worldwide and flow depth.


Cauca
Cauca River - Colombia

Projects and Recent Work

Water quality and remote sensing

Science education

Infographics to communicate basic concepts about Remote sensing and water.

Curriculum Vitae

Erosion and progradation in the Atrato River delta: A spatiotemporal analysis

I analyzed the geomorphological changes in the shoreline of the Atrato River Delta in Northwestern Colombia, associated with erosion and progradation, using Landsat imagery, image segmentation, and Google Earth Engine (GEE) to automatically identify the changes on an annual basis over 33 years (1986–2019). Click on the title to download it.

Unlike NDVI, Total Suspended Sediment (TSS) indices from remote sensing do not work well universally on inland waters

Like NDVI Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) in remote sensing of land, researchers have been looking for universal Total Suspended Sediments (TSS) water quality indices.

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