Faculty Profile for Dr. John P Tiefenbacher

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Dr. John P Tiefenbacher
Professor — Dept of Geography & Environmntl Studies
ELA 361
phone: (512) 245-8327

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Ghanian, M., Ghoochani, O. M., Mohammadzadeh, L., Cotton, M., Özerol, G., & Tiefenbacher, J. P. (2023). Interactions Between Changing Climates and Land Uses: The Case of Urmia Lake, Iran. In M. Basu & R. DasGupta (Eds.), Indigenous and Local Water Knowledge, Values and Practices (pp. 139–159). Singapore, Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9406-7_9
  • Zolghadr-Asli, B., Jahromi, M. N., Enayati, M., Jahromi, M. N., Pourghasemi, H. R., & Tiefenbacher, J. P. (2023). Uncovering the depletion patterns of inland water bodies via remote sensing, data mining, and statistical analysis. Water, 15(8), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.3390/w15081508
  • Janizadeh, S. S., Bateni, S. M., Jun, C., Pal, S. C., Band, S. S., Chowdhuri, I., … Mosavi, A. (2023). Potential impacts of future climate on the spatio-temporal variability of landslide hazard in Iran using machine learning algorithms and CMIP6 climate-change scenarios. Gondwana Research, 124, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2023.05.003
  • Nohani, E., Khazaei, S., Dorjahangir, M., Mahdavi, A., Hatamiafkoueieh, J., & Tiefenbacher, J. P. (2023). Delineating flood-prone areas using advanced integration of reduced error pruning tree with different ensemble classifier algorithms. Acta Geophysica, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11600-023-01238-7
  • Hatamiafkoueieh, J., Heddam, S., Khoshtinat, S., Khazaei, S., Osmani, A.-B., Nohani, E., … Tiefenbacher, J. P. (n.d.). Enhanced Forecasting of Multi-Step Ahead Daily Soil Temperature Using Advanced Hybrid Vote-Algorithm Based Tree Models. Journal of Hydroinformatics.

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Invited Member, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society. October 23, 2023 - Present
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Honorary Professor of International Studies, International Studies Program. January 1, 2008 - 2021
  • Award / Honor Recipient: College of Liberal Arts Achievement Award for Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activity., College of Liberal Arts, Texas State University. January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Teaching Award of Honor, Texas State University. January 2020 - May 2020
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Favorite Professor Award, The Alfred H. Nolle Chapter of the Alpha Chi National College Honor Society. April 2016

Selected Grants

  • Faroughi, Salah Aldin (Principal), Tesic, Jelena (Co-Principal), Tiefenbacher, John P (Co-Principal). ESMs Latent Space Exploration for Uncertainty Quantification and Spatiotemporal Downscaling, DOE-BER, Federal, $150000. (Funded: August 2022 - June 2024). Grant.
  • Tiefenbacher, John P. Research Enhancement Grant. "Geographic Assessment of Roadway Hazards at Water Crossings during Flash-Flood Events in Central Texas.", Research Enhancement Program, Institutional (Higher Ed), $8000. (Funded: 2005). Grant.
  • Tiefenbacher, John P. Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center--Quick Response Grant. (Funded: 2000). Grant.
  • Faroughi, Salah Aldin (Principal), Sharif Khodaei, Zahra (Co-Principal), Tamir, Dan (Co-Principal), Tiefenbacher, John (Co-Principal). Big Data Compression, Reduction, and Intelligent Fusion for Technology-enhanced Infrastructures, TXST MIRG, Texas State University, $30000. (Funded: August 2022 - September 2023). Grant.
  • Tiefenbacher, John P (Principal). Assessing Vulnerability to Disaster Due to Disability in a City in the Russian Arctic, Research Enhancement Program, Texas State University, $5597. (Funded: January 1, 2022 - June 1, 2023). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Member
Texas State Family Campaign
January 2021-Present
Guest Editor of Special Issue "Sustainability of Wine in the Face of Global Warming and Climate Change"
Sustainability
September 2019-Present
Editorial Review Board Member
Journal of Geographical Research
September 2018-Present
Editorial Review Board Member
International Journal of Wine Research
July 15, 2017-Present
Editorial Review Board Member
Environmental Hazards
1998-Present