SAMUEL E. TUTTLE
Boston University
Department of Earth & Environment
685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
stuttle@bu.edu
Research Interests
Large-scale hydrology: soil moisture, evapotranspiration, precipitation, water
balance, characterization & coupling of processes
Remote sensing of soil moisture: validation, impacts of vegetation on signal
Land-atmosphere interactions: water and energy balance processes
Education
Ph.D. (expected completion August 2015), Department of Earth and Environment
(Hydrology). Boston University, Boston, MA. Thesis Topic: Soil Moisture
Remote Sensing. Thesis Advisor: Guido Salvucci.
M.A., Department of Earth Sciences (Hydrology). Boston University, Boston, MA.
May 2011. Thesis Title: Thesis Advisor: Guido Salvucci.
B.A., cum laude, Williams College, Williamstown, MA. Major: Geoscience. Honors
Thesis Title: Water resources of part of the west coast of Vinalhaven Island,
Penobscot Bay, Maine. Advisors: Reinhard Wobus and David Dethier.
Employment History
Graduate Student. Boston University, Boston, MA. September 2009-present.
Teaching Fellow, September 2009-December 2011. Research Assistant, January
2012-present.
Engineer II. GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc, Norwood, MA. July 2008-July 2009.
Leadership in Environmental Consulting Intern. EA Engineering, Science, and
Technology, Warwick, RI. October 2007-March 2008.
Research Associate. NAGT-USGS Cooperative Summer Geosciences Internship
Program, United States Geological Survey (USGS), Water Resources Division,
West Trenton, NJ. June-September 2007.
Teaching Experience
Teaching Fellow. Boston University, Boston, MA. September 2009-December 2011.
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Other Research Experience
Student Researcher. KECK Geology Consortium Research Project, Vinalhaven, ME.
June-July 2006.
Awards and Honors
Outstanding Student Paper Award (OSPA). Hydrology section. American
Geophysical Union (AGU), Fall Meeting. 2013. Presentation Title: Using LargeScale Precipitation to Validate AMSR-E Satellite Soil Moisture Estimates by
Means of Mutual Information.
Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award (Earth Sciences). Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA. Academic Year 2010-2011.
NAGT-USGS Cooperative Summer Geosciences Internship. June-September 2007.
Nominated and selected for work during University of Pennsylvania–Yellowstone
Bighorn Research Association (Penn-YBRA) Geology Field Camp, Red Lodge,
MT (July-August 2006).
American Mineralogist Undergraduate Award. Williams College, Williamstown,
MA. 2006.
Inducted into Sigma Xi (June, 2007).
Journal Publications
Tuttle, S. E., & Salvucci, G. D. (2014). A new approach for validating satellite
estimates of soil moisture using large-scale precipitation: Comparing AMSR-E
products.
Remote
Sensing
of
Environment,
142,
207-222,
doi:10.1016/j.rse.2013.12.002.
Tuttle, S. E., & Salvucci, G. D. (2012). A new method for calibrating a simple,
watershed scale model of evapotranspiration: Maximizing the correlation between
observed streamflow and model inferred storage. Water Resources Research,
48(5), doi:10.1029/2011WR011189.
Conference Presentations
Tuttle, S. E., & Salvucci, G. D. (2013). Using Large-Scale Precipitation to Validate
AMSR-E Satellite Soil Moisture Estimates by Means of Mutual Information.
Abstract H31F-1253 presented at 2013 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif.,
9-13 Dec.
Tuttle, S. E., & Salvucci, G. D. (2012). A New Approach for Validating Satellite
Estimates of Soil Moisture Using Large-Scale Precipitation: Comparing AMSR-E
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Products. Abstract H11N-02 presented at 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, San
Francisco, Calif., 3-7 Dec.
Tuttle, S. E., & Salvucci, G. D. (2011). A new method for calibrating a simple,
watershed-scale model of evapotranspiration: maximizing the correlation between
observed streamflow and model-inferred storage. Abstract H31F-1239 presented
at 2011 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 5-9 Dec.
Tuttle, S. E., & Salvucci, G. D. (2010). A model for estimating evapotranspiration on
a watershed scale. Abstract H11C-0815 presented at 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU,
San Francisco, Calif., 13-17 Dec.
Tuttle, Samuel E. (2007). Water Resources of Part of the West Coast of Vinalhaven
Island, Penobscot Bay, ME. In Twentieth Annual Keck Symposium in Geology
Proceedings. The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH, 12-15 Apr. 2007, p. 218223.
Pritchard, N.E., Lorenz, A., Tuttle, S.E., De Wet, A.P., and Gambrel, S. (2006).
Water Resources on Vinalhaven, Maine. Geological Society of America Abstracts
with Programs, Vol. 38, No. 7, p. 224. Poster presented at the Geological Society
of America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 23 Oct. 2006, Session No. 86,
Booth No. 66.
Academic Service
Williams Geoscience Student Advisory Committee. 2006-2007.
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