About Me

Michael Talbot

Engineer, hydrologist, cartographer, programmer and full-stack web developer

Engineering led me to GIS, GIS led me to data analysis, data analysis led me to programming, and programming led me to web development. What's next?

There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.
Wendell Berry

Experience

Emmons & Olivier Resources, Inc.

Water Resources Engineer, since October 2013

St. Paul, Minnesota

Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering Department, University of Minnesota

Research Specialist, September 2010 to August 2013

St. Paul, Minnesota

U.S. Geologic Survey

Graduate Research Contractor, January 2010 to August 2010

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Department, University of Minnesota

Undergraduate Research Assistant, August 2005 to May 2010

St. Paul, Minnesota

Department of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University (ČVUT)

Visiting Research Assistant, Summer 2009

Prague, Czech Republic

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.
Aldo Leopold

Education

University of Minnesota

MS, Bioproducts and Biosystems Science, Engineering, and Management, 2019

BBAE, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, 2009

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein

Skills

Modeling and Data Analysis

SWMM
SWAT
SLAMM, MIDS
HEC-RAS

R
VBA
Python

Terrain Analysis
Cartography
ArcGIS, QGIS
SAGA GIS, GRASS GIS, PostGIS

Microsoft Word
Zotero
Latex

Web Development and Database Management

Git/GitHub

HTML
CSS
Javascript
PHP
Bootstrap, JQuery

Shiny
Plotly, D3.js

Ubuntu Linux
NGINX
PostgreSQL
MySQL

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
Richard Feynman

Publications

Talbot MT. 2019. Comparison of Evapotranspiration Estimation Methods and Implications for Water Balance Model Parameterization in the Midwestern United States. http://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/211721.
Talbot MT, McGuire O, Olivier C, Fleming R. 2016. Parameterization and Application of Agricultural Best Management Practices in a Rural Ontario Watershed Using PCSWMM. Journal of Water Management Modeling. doi:10.14796/JWMM.C400. https://www.chijournal.org/C400.
Sands GR, Canelon D, Talbot MT. 2015. Developing optimum subsurface drainage design procedures. Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica, Section B — Soil & Plant Science. 65(sup1):121–127. doi:10.1080/09064710.2014.997788.
Talbot MT, Sands G, Coulter J. 2014. Evaluating and Estimating DRAINMOD’s Effective Rooting Depth for Corn. In: ASABE Meeting Presentations. Raleigh: ASABE.