John "Jake" Dialesandro
PhD 2021, University of California, Davis
As a remote sensing scientist I am interested in using geospatial technology to examine the impact on water resources and local climate from urban development and anthropogenic climate change. This work is informed by my training in statistics, climatology, geography and geospatial technologies. I also serve as a science advisor for the NASA DEVELOP program at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.
Prior to joining Santa Clara University I was a postdoctoral research fellow at UCLA's Luskin Center for Innovation. I was fortunate to work using remote sensing and geospatial data to solve urban climate and environmental justice issues. I graduated with a Ph.D. in geography from UC Davis with a focus on urban climatology and remote sensing.
Before joining the Geography Graduate Group at UC Davis, I was a geospatial research analyst for two years with the USDA Southwest Climate Hub in Las Cruces, New Mexico at the Jornada LTER Research site studying climate change impacts in agriculture and snowpack in the Southwestern U.S. Jake also served five terms with NASA DEVELOP as an assistant center lead and project lead at the Tempe, Arizona and Pocatello, Idaho nodes. I hold a Master’s of Applied Geography degree from New Mexico State University and Bachelor’s degree in GIS and Climatology from Kent State University.
- ENVS 5 My Environment
- ENVS 116 Intro to GIS
- ENVS 101 Capstone Seminar
- ENVS 110 Environmental Statistics
- ENVS 197 Remote Sensing
Publications:
- Dialesandro, J. & V. Kelly Turner. (Currently in Review). Shade inequity and the impacts of different local climate zones on the urban thermal environment.
- Dialesandro, J., Brazil, N., Wheeler, S., & Abunnasr, Y. (2021). Dimensions of Thermal Inequity: Neighborhood Social Demographics and Urban Heat in the Southwestern US. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(3), 941.
- Turner, V Kelly., Rogers, M. L., Zhang, Y., Middel, A., Schneider, F. A., Ocón, J. P., & Dialesandro, J. (2022). More than surface temperature: mitigating thermal exposure in hyper-local land system. Journal of Land Use Science, 17(1), 79-99.
- Turner, V. K., French, E. M., Dialesandro, J., Middel, A., Hondula, D. M., Weiss, G. B., & Abdellati, H. (2022). How are cities planning for heat? Analysis of United States municipal plans. Environmental Research Letters, 17(6), 064054.
- Dialesandro, J. M., Wheeler, S. M., & Abunnasr, Y. (2019). Urban heat island behaviors in dryland regions. Environmental Research Communications, 1(8), 081005.
- Wheeler, S. M., Abunnasr, Y., Dialesandro, J., Assaf, E., Agopian, S., & Gamberini, V. C. (2019). Mitigating urban heating in dryland cities: A literature review. Journal of Planning Literature, 34(4), 434-446.
- Caitriana Steele, John Dialesandro, Darren James, Emile Elias, Albert Rango, Max Bleiweiss: Evaluating. MODIS snow products for modeling snowmelt runoff: Case study of the Rio Grande headwaters. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 12/2017; 63:234-243., DOI:10.1016/j.jag.2017.08.007
- Kerr, A., Dialesandro, J., Steenwerth, K., Lopez-Brody, N., & Elias, E. (2018). Vulnerability of California specialty crops to projected mid-century temperature changes. Climatic change, 148(3), 419-436.
- Elias, E., Marklein, A., Abatzoglou, J. T., Dialesandro, J., Brown, J., Steele, C., Rango, A. & Steenwerth, K. (2018). Vulnerability of field crops to midcentury temperature changes and yield effects in the Southwestern USA. Climatic change, 148(3), 403-417.