Tobin

Dr. Tobin is a Professor of Geology at Texas A&M International University (TAMIU) and serves as the Director for the Center for Earth and Environmental Studies. He earned his Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1994 and completed a postdoctoral research assistantship at Princeton University before joining TAMIU in 2001.

• Past Research Areas: Geomicrobiology, stable isotope geochemistry, carbonate and chert petrology, cyanobacterial micropaleontology, paleoclimatology, paleoceanography
• Current Research Focus: Hydrology and remote sensing, including the application of evapotranspiration and soil moisture data for hydrologic model calibration and the development of new remotely sensed datasets
• Major Projects: Lead investigator of the NASA-funded SMERGE project since 2016, a root zone soil moisture product for the continental U.S., and former member of the NASA Precipitation Science team for seven years

He has secured $6.2 million in external funding from agencies such as NSF, NASA, NOAA, FEMA, and the U.S. Department of Defense and Education, and has received three institutional awards for his grant-writing productivity.