Alex Fox

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Wyoming

Biography

My work focuses on providing tools, data pipelines, and field instrumentation to study how landscape processes like energy and water cycles respond to environmental change. My current research at the University of Wyoming focuses on hydrologic modeling, soil-plant-atmosphere interactions, disturbance recovery in snow-dominated ecosystems, and developing pipelines for micrometeorological data processing. I also manage sensor networks to support long-term, high-resolution ecosystem monitoring efforts.

Interests

Watershed and eco-hydrology
Ecoinformatics
Data science
Bouldering, and falling off of bicycles

Education

PhD in Hydrologic Science, 2025
University of Wyoming
BA in Physics and Mathematics, 2018
Oberlin College

Recent Posts

PyOCN

Writing PyOCN: A Library for Generating Simulated River Networks I recently took a shot at building an actual software library, something I haven’t really done before. I’ve made loads of scripts and one-off software projects for my own use or for research use, but never something meant to be distributed to the public.

Last updated on Dec 3, 2025 17 min read

Installing rTREES in a virtual environment using conda

title: “Installing rTREES in a virtual environment using conda” author: Alex Fox draft: false date: 2023-05-10 tags: - Tutorials This tutorial is designed to help you run the TREES model in a “virtual environment,” a quarantine chamber for software, so that it doesn’t interfere with/get affected by your other R projects.

Last updated on May 19, 2023 17 min read

Working in Python with Jupyter and Anaconda

Image source: https://xkcd.com/1987/ I wrote this tutorial to help people in my lab learn how to manage their python and R environments using anaconda. I’ve gotten some positive feedback on it, so hopefully you’ll find it helpful too.

Last updated on Mar 1, 2023 11 min read

Working in Python with Jupyter and Anaconda

Kernza Website

We made some social media pages for the Kernza project! Website: kernzawyoming.org Instagram: @kernzawyoming

Last updated on Feb 19, 2023 1 min read

Kicking off Kernza

Back in October, my partner Hannah Rodgers and I applied for a Western SARE Professional+Producer grant under P.I. Professor Jay Norton, one of Hannah’s PhD Advisors, along with several farmers across eastern Wyoming, with the goal of evaluating the potential benefits for perennial grains in Wyoming, and hopefully adopting them as a commercial crop in the future.

Last updated on Feb 19, 2023 2 min read

Recent Talks and Presentations

Data Driven Approaches for Modeling Hydrologic Fluxes: Dissertation Defense Seminar

I defended my dissertation on November 10. Here’s a recording of the public seminar I presented as part of my defnese.

Nov 30, 2025 4:12 PM

PyC2A package and binary file parsing

Final presentation on my summer work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which looked at predicting the flow states of ephemeral headwater streams.

Aug 28, 2025 4:12 PM

Alex Fox

Impacts of Compound Bark Beetle-Forest Fire Disturbance on the Water Budget of a Subalpine Rocky Mountain Forest Ecosystem

AGU 2024 Poster Download the poster

Feb 7, 2025 4:12 PM

Alex Fox, Brent E Ewers, John M Frank

A High-Throughput Workflow for Exploring Eddy Covariance Data Processing Using EddyPro

AGU 2023 Poster Download the poster

Dec 9, 2023 4:12 PM

Alex Fox, Liudmila Mainzer, Brent E Ewers, John M Frank, Colin Dixon, Tera Swaby

Modeling Sustainability of Annual and Perennial Cropping Systems in Eastern Wyoming

I presented on my perennial grain drought response research at the 2022 Early Career Perennial Grain Researchers Workshop at the Land Institute in Salina, KS

Nov 12, 2023 4:12 PM