Inci Güneralp

Biography

Educational Background

• PhD Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• MS Civil Engineering, Istanbul Technical University
• BS Civil Engineering, Istanbul Technical University

Industry Experience

• • Water Faculty, in Water Management and Hydrological Science, Interdisciplinary Graduate Water Degree Program, Texas A&M University (Jan 2009–Present)
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University (Jan 2008–Present)
  • Graduate Research Assistant, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Aug 2002–Aug 2007)
  • Graduate Research Assistant, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Civil Engineering, Istanbul University (Aug 1998–Aug 2000)
  • Project Engineer, IMECE Water Resources Management and Environmental Technologies, Istanbul, Turkey (Jun 1994–Aug 1997)

Awards & Honors

• G.K. Gilbert Award for Excellence in Geomorphological Research, Association of American Geographers (AAG), Geomorphology Speciality Group (2012)
• Reds Wolman Student Research Award, AAG, Geomorphology Speciality Group (2006)
• Graduate Teacher Certificate Award, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (2006)
• Excellence in Teaching, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (2005)
• Best Student Paper Award, AAG, Graduate Student Affinity Group (2005)
• Charles S. Alexander Fellowship for Women in Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (2004–2005)
• Marion G. Russell Graduate Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (2002–2003)

Selected Publications

• • Filippi AM, Güneralp, Randall J* (In press), Estimation of floodplain aboveground biomass using multispectral remote sensing and nonparametric modeling, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation.
  • Filippi AM, Güneralp I, Randall J* (2014), Hyperspectral remote-sensing of aboveground biomass on a river meander bend using multivariate adaptive regression splines and stochastic gradient boosting, Remote Sensing Letters 5(5), 432-441, doi:10.1080/2150704X.2014.915070.
  • Güneralp I, Filippi AM, Hales BU* (2014), Influence of river channel morphology and bank characteristics on water surface boundary delineation using high-resolution passive remote sensing and template matching, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, doi: 10.1002/esp.3560.
  • Castillo CR*, Güneralp I, Güneralp B (2014), Influences of Changes in Developed Land and Precipitation on Hydrology of a Coastal Texas Watershed, Applied Geography 47: 154–167, doi: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2013.12.009. 
  • Güneralp B, Güneralp I, Castillo CR*, Filippi AM (2013), Land Change in the Mission-Aransas Coastal Region, Texas: Implications for Coastal Vulnerability and Protected Areas. Sustainability 5(10):4247–4267, doi: 10.3390/su5104247.
  • Filippi AM, Güneralp I (2013), Influence of shadow removal on image classification in riverine environments,Optics Letters 38(10), 1676–1678, doi: 10.1364/OL.38.001676.
  • Güneralp I, Filippi AM, Hales BU* (2013), River flow boundary delineation from digital aerial photography and ancillary images using Support Vector Machines, GIScience & Remote Sensing 50(1): 1–25, doi: 10.1080/15481603.2013.778560.
  • Güneralp I, Marston R (2012), Process-form Linkages in Meander Morphodynamics: Bridging Theoretical Modeling and Real World Complexity, Progress in Physical Geography 36(6), 718–746, doi: 10.1177/0309133312451989.
  • Abad JD, Güneralp I, Zolezzi G, Hooke J (Editors) (2012), Meandering Channels, Geomorphology 163–164, 1–118. Link
  • Güneralp I, Abad JD, Zolezzi G, Hooke J (2012), Meandering channels: Advances and challenges in research,Geomorphology 163, 1–9, doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.04.011.
  • Filippi AM, Bhaduri BL, Naughton T, King AL, Scott SL,  Güneralp I (2012), Hyperspectral aquatic radiative transfer modeling using a high-performance computing-based approach, GIScience & Remote Sensing 49(2), 275–298,doi: 10.2747/1548-1603.49.2.275.
  • Güneralp I, Rhoads BL (2011), Influence of floodplain erosional heterogeneity on planform complexity of meandering rivers, Geophysical Research Letters 38, L14401, doi: 10.1029/2011GL048134.
  • Güneralp I, Rhoads BL (2010), Spatial autoregressive structure of meander evolution revisited, Geomorphology120(3–4), 91–106, doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.02.010.
  • Güneralp I, Rhoads, BL (2009), Empirical analysis of planform curvature–migration relation of meandering rivers,Water Resources Research 45, W09424, doi: 10.1029/2008WR007533.
  • Abad JD, Rhoads BL, Güneralp I, García MH (2008), Flow structure at different stages in a meander-bend with bendway weirs, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering 134(8), 1052–1063, doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9429(2008)134:8(1052).
  • Güneralp I, Rhoads BL (2008), Continuous characterization of the planform geometry and curvature of meandering rivers, Geographical Analysis 40(1), 1–25, doi: 10.1111/j.0016-7363.2007.00711.x.