Positions
- Assistant Professor, Earth, Environment, and Planning, College of Arts and Sciences
- Contact Info
Matthew J Sirianni
Affiliation
Publications
selected publications
presentations
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presentation
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Tracking Salt Plume Migration Beneath Drainage Ditches in Coastal Agricultural Landscapes
, WRRI Annual Conference -
Characterizing the Spatial and Temporal Salinity Variability on Shackleford Banks, NC: Implications for Freshwater Availability and Barrier Island Habitat
, American Geophysical Union Meeting -
Empowering Undergraduate Research Through LoRaWAN-Enabled Sensor Networks: A Coastal Salt Marsh Case Study from the FS3 Critical Zone Summer Program
, American Geophysical Union Meeting -
Fresh Solutions to Salty Struggles: Hands-On Hydrogeophysics Training for Investigating Salinization in the Coastal Critical Zone
, Florida Undergraduate Research Conference -
Geophysical Insights into Saltwater Intrusion and Soil Salinization in Agricultural Regions of Eastern North Carolina
, Water Science Conference 2024 -
Hydrogeophysical investigation of Shackleford Banks using electrical reistivity tomography examining freshwaterwater avalibility and quality
, ECU Research and Creative Achievements Week -
Integrating Traditional Soil Testing with Electromagnetic Induction for Precision Mapping of Electrical Conductivity in Coastal
, NC Water Resources Research Institute Conference
NC Agricultural Fields -
SCORE through WaterCorps: Scaffolding Community Outreach and Research Experiences to build the geoscience workforce
, American Geophysical Union Meeting -
Towards the development of a drone-based frequency-domain electromagnetic mapping system for environmental monitoring
, American Geophysical Union Meeting -
Upstream and Downstream Controls on Freshwater Salinization along the Tar River, NC
, WRRI Annual Conference -
Using Frequency Domain Electromagnetic Induction and Hydrologic Monitoring to Investigate Salinity Dynamics and Drainage Interactions in an Agricultural Field of Coastal North Carolina
, American Geophysical Union Meeting -
Using electromagnetic geophysical methods to characterize shallow and deep subsurface salinity dynamics on Shackleford Banks, Cape Lookout National Seashore, North Carolina
, ECU Research and Creative Achievements Week -
Water Quality-Flow Relationships and Sea Level Rise Influence along the Tar-Pamlico River: Implications for Salinity Intrusion
, North Carolina Water Resources Research Institute Conference -
WaterCorps ~ A Student-Led Environmental Consulting Organization:Updates and Opportunities
, ECU Research and Creative Achievement Week -
You can lead a horse to water, but it might be salty: Monitoring water use by feral horses in a changing coastal environment
, American Geophysical Union Meeting - Comparison of stream discharge estimates obtained using in-situ tilt meters versus acoustic doppler current profilers (ADCP), American Geophysical Union Meeting
- Role of drainage ditches in facilitatingsaltwaterintrusion: Insights from innovative geophysical methods, North Carolina Water Resources Research Institute Conference
- Disappearing Peat: Understanding mechanisms and implications of peat collapse in the Florida Everglades, Stan and Ann Riggs Professional Seminar Series
- Multi-method geophysical characterization of karst dissolution structures in an urban South Florida wellfield, Fouth International Meetings for Applied Geoscience & Energy Expanded Abstracts
- Quantifying recent storm-induced change on a small fetch-limited barrier island along North Carolina's Crystal Coast using aerial imagery and LiDAR, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting
- Saltwater Intrusion in Coastal NC Agricultural Fields, DCS-GPE Symposium
- Using electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) to investigate the role of artificial channels on saltwater intrusion, Hyde County, NC, American Geophysical Union Meeting
- Using electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) to investigate the role of drainage ditches on saltwater transport, Hyde County, NC, Fouth International Meetings for Applied Geoscience & Energy Expanded Abstracts
- WaterCorps ~ A Student-Led Environmental Consulting Organization:Updates and Opportunities, North Carolina Water Resources Research Institute Conference
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Research
principal investigator on
- ORE-CZ: Fresh Solutions to Salty Struggles: Unraveling Processes of Saltwater Intrusion and Soil Salinization in the Coastal Critical Zone awarded by NSF - Directorate for Geosciences (GEO) 2025 - 2027
- The influence of coastal dynamics on freshwater wetland hydrology on Shackleford Banks: An evaluation of freshwater availability for ecosystem services awarded by DOI - National Park Service (NPS) 2024 - 2026
- WalkTEM Equipment Upgrade awarded by East Carolina University Water Resources Center 2022
co-principal investigator on
Service
professional service activities
- Journal of Hydrology Reviewed 1 article forJournal of Hydrology. 2025
- JGR: Biogeosciences Reviewed 1 article forJGR: Biogeosciences. 2025
- AGU Fall Meeting Advances in Critical Zone Geophysics Poster Session Chair 2024 - 2025
- Agricultural and Forestry Meteorology Reviewed 1 artcile forAgricultural and Forestry Meteorology. 2024
- International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE) 2024 Student Poster Judge. 2024
- IMAGE24 Critical Zone Geophysics Special Session Chair 2023 - 2024
- IMAGE Technical Program Committee Member of the IMAGE Technical Program Committee. Periodic meetings to update on status and plan for IMAGE24 activities. 2023 - 2024
- IMAGE 2024 Near-Surface Geophysics Subcommittee Organized and chair special sessionproposal on Critical Zone Geophysicsfor IMAGE24. 2023
- Geophysical Research Letters Reviewed 1 article for Geophysical Research Letters. 2023
- Water Resources Research Reviewed 1 article for Water Resources Research. 2023
- American Geophysical Union's (AGU) Near-Surface Geophysics Section Executive Committee Early-Career Representative. 2022
Background
education and training
- B.S. in Environmental Geology, Bucknell University
- Ph.D. in Geoscience, Florida Atlantic University