Dr. Kilic has been a professor of Civil Engineering and School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE since 2004. She is a pioneering and accomplished researcher, teacher and professional enthusiast in irrigation and drainage engineering systems. Dr. Kilic has helped lead the evolution of national and global production of satellite-based irrigation water consumption mapping and has been strategic in evolving new spatial structures in computer applications for irrigation.
Dr. Kilic’s contributions include more than seventeen years of development work on the METRIC spatial evapotranspiration (ET) model. The METRIC model is widely used in irrigation water management and water rights management throughout the western USA and abroad and has been adopted as the ET model of choice in quantifying irrigation water consumption by the competing states of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico in the Upper Colorado River Basin . Dr. Kilic is a primary science team member of the OpenET consortium. OpenET provides free access to satellite-based field-scale ET information for much of the United States.
In addition to METRIC in OpenET, Dr. Kilic has been a leader for the development of the Google EEFlux version of METRIC that provides free web-based production of ET information https://eeflux-level1.appspot.com/. Ayse was a member of the national Landsat Science Team from 2012-2017, a member of the NASA Energy and Water Cycle Science Team, and is a current member of the NASA ECOSTRESSS Science Team and OpenET Science Team. She has worked with NASA and USGS to develop specifications for thermal imagers on future Landsat satellites and created the Google GEARUP App for mapping and conserving water in residential and agricultural landscapes http://residentialwateruse.appspot.com/ on the Google Earth Engine.
Dr. Kilic has pioneered transformational developments to geographic information system (GIS) applications for water resources and hydrologic systems and she has trained hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students to use these developments. Dr. Kilic is an innovative, enthusiastic, and effective teacher in GIS, hydrology, water resources, irrigation mapping and spatial analyses. She teaches university courses in Surface Hydrology, GIS in Water Resources, GIS and Remote Sensing in Natural Resources, and Python Programming in Natural and Water Resources.
Dr. Kilic has served as Team Leader of the Environmental Science Mission Area of the School of Natural Resources at UNL and has helped to create and chair the ASCE-EWRI Task Committee on Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration. She has served as chair of the ASCE-EWRI Technical Committee on Evapotranspiration in Irrigation and Hydrology. She has M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Agricultural and Biological Engineering from the University of Florida.
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Tuesday, May 21, 2024
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
Royce J. Tipton Award and Lecture
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT