Dr. Toby Dogwiler

Details

Education

• PhD Geology, University of Missouri-Columbia
• MS Geosciences, Mississippi State University
• BA Geology, Wittenberg University

Teaching

• GEO 657 Fundamentals of Geospatial Science
• GEO 569 / 669 Landscape Analysis
• GLG 350 Speleology
• GLG 547 / 647 Water Resources
• GLG 572 / 672 Geohydrology
• GRY 137 / 138 Meteorology: Understanding Weather and Climate (Lecture and Lab)

Professional experience

Selected Peer-Reviewed Articles

Conley, Ethan W.GR, Eric W. Peterson, Toby J. Dogwiler and John C. Kostelnick, 2026, Distinguishing Areas of Cave Collapse: A Case Study Applied to Carter Caves State Resort Park, Kentucky, USA: Geosciences, v. 16, n. 3, p. 16, https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences16030102.

Donkor, Daniel, Toby Dogwiler, Jun Luo and Asif Ishtiaque, 2026, Plant hardiness zone mapping for the conterminous USA using the Empirical Bayesian Kriging Regression Prediction method: Applied Geography, v. 189, n. April 2026, p. 103927, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2026.103927.

Jerin, Tasnuba, Joshua Hess, Marc Owen, Robert Pavlowsky, Toby Dogwiler, Xiaomin Qiu and Kyle Steele, 2025, Novel parameters for sinkhole mapping in the anthropocene: Example from a karst-dominated landscape of the Missouri Ozarks, USA: Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment, v. 50, n. 3, p. 333–354, https://doi.org/10.1177/03091333251409572.

Hess, Joshua W., Robert T. Pavlowsky and Toby Dogwiler, 2024, UAV Imagery for Measuring Large Wood Volume and Distribution: Ground Truthing Results and Sources of Error: Southeastern Geographer, v. 64, n. 1, p. 11–29, https://doi.org/10.1353/sgo.00001.

Martin, Derek J., Robert T. Pavlowsky, Jacob Bendix, Toby Dogwiler and Josh HessGR, 2023, Impacts of an extreme flood on large wood recruitment and transport processes: Physical Geography, v. 44, n. 1, p. 55–83, https://doi.org/10.1080/02723646.2021.1980958.

Pavlowsky, R.T., J.W. Hess, D.J. Martin, T. Dogwiler and J. Bendix, 2023, Large wood loads in channels and on floodplains after a 500-year flood using UAV imagery in Mark Twain National Forest, Ozark Highlands, Missouri: Geomorphology, v. 431, n. 15, p. 108672, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2023.108672.

Hostens, Daniel S., Toby Dogwiler, Joshua W. Hess, Robert T. Pavlowsky, Jacob Bendix and Derek T. Martin, 2022, Assessing the Role of sUAS Mission Design in the Accuracy of Digital Surface Models Derived from Structure-from-Motion Photogrammetry: sUAS Applications in Geography, Cham, Switzerland, p. 123–156, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-01976-0_6.

Research and professional interests

I am broadly trained in field-based and remote monitoring of surficial processes and watershed dynamics with an emphasis on applied questions of environmental and water resource issues in karst terrains and agricultural areas, especially in the Missouri Ozarks.

Currently, my primary research focuses on (i) the development and application of methodologies for drone-based remote sensing related to environmental, agricultural, and conservation problems and on (ii) water quality and stream process geomorphology in the Ozarks.

The following themes are incorporated into my current research projects:

* Developing and refining methodologies for three-dimensional drone-based mapping and imaging in RGB, multispectral, and Lidar bands and applying these to research questions involving geological, agricultural, and conservation systems.
* Assessing geomorphic, agricultural, and conservation systems using drone-based structure from motion (SfM) photogrammetry and Lidar methodologies to generate orthoimagery, three-dimensional models, and digital elevation models.
* Quantifying and detecting changes in environmental, agricultural, and conservation systems in support of resource management objectives.

Awards and honors

• 2025 - CNAS Student-Nominated Awards for Excellence - Faculty
• Remote Pilot Certification, licensed under US Federal Aviation Administration Part 107 for operation of small unmanned aerial systems.

Additional resources

• Curriculum Vitae
• School of Earth, Environment and Sustainability