Associate Professor

Grand Valley State University
Annis Water Resources Institute
740 West Shoreline Drive
Muskegon, MI 49441
Phone: (616) 331-8799
E-mail: [email protected]

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Curriculum Vitae

Research

• Watershed hydrology and modeling
• Climate and land use change 
• Ecosystem goods and services
• Geospatial analysis and remote sensing

Recent Publications and Preprints

• Jalali, J., Bhattarai, N., Greene, J., Liu, T., Marko, O., Radulović, M., Sears, M., & Woznicki, S. A. (2025). Climate change threatens water resources for major field crops in the Serbian Danube River Basin by the mid-21st century. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 59, 102404. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2025.102404
• Long, J., Liu, T., Woznicki, S. A., Marković, M., Marko, O., & Sears, M. (2025). From Time-series Generation, Model Selection to Transfer Learning: A Comparative Review of Pixel-wise Approaches for Large-scale Crop Mapping (arXiv:2507.12590). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.12590 (pre-print)
• Moore, E. K., Keck, B. L., Karol, K. G., Woznicki, S. A., & Hamsher, S. E. (2025). Growth of starry stonewort (Nitellopsis obtusa (Desvaux) J. Groves, Characeae) in two Michigan, USA, drowned river mouth lakes. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 102687. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2025.102687
• Rizwan, N., Jalali, J., Sears, M., Woznicki, S. A., Liu, T., Marko, O., & Radulović, M. (2025). Irrigation adoption in a changing landscape: A combined economic and hydrologic approach. https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.175252698.87861139/v1 (Pre-print)
• Woznicki, S. A., Barber, J., Butcher, J. B., Essoka, J., Harris, M., Mehaffey, M., Pluta, B., Shabani, A., & Whung, P. Y. (2025). Compound Impacts of Fluvial Flooding and Sea-Level Rise on Benzo[a]pyrene Transport in the Lower Darby Creek Area Superfund Site, Pennsylvania, USA. ACS ES&T Water, 5(7), 3613–3627. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.4c00814
• Mader, M. M., Ruetz, C. R., Woznicki, S. A., & Steinman, A. D. (2023). Land cover and water quality of drowned river mouths: Evidence of an environmental gradient along the eastern Lake Michigan shoreline. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 102237. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2023.09.008
• Moore, E. K., Woznicki, S. A., Karol, K. G., & Hamsher, S. E. (2023). Modeling of suitable habitats for starry stonewort (Nitellopsis obtusa) in inland lakes in the Midwest and northeast U.S.A. Biological Invasions, 25(10), 3307–3322. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-023-03111-6
• Woznicki, S. A., Kraynick, G., Wickham, J., Nash, M., & Sohl, T. (2023). Modeling future land cover and water quality change in Minneapolis, MN, USA to support drinking water source protection decisions. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 59(4), 726–742. https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.13109

Teaching in the 2025-2026 Academic Year

• GPY 100: Physical and Environmental Geography (Fall 2025)
  • Spatial patterns of weather and climate, landforms, vegetation, soils, and water resources, and their changes, interactions, and impacts on human life and society.
• GPY 307: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (Winter 2026)
  • Introduces basic concepts and techniques of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and their essential role in geographic research. Provides hands-on experience in spatial analysis and the use of GIS software.

Education

• Postdoctoral, 2015-2019, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC
• Ph.D., Biosystems Engineering, 2015 - Michigan State University
• M.S., Biosystems Engineering, 2011 - Michigan State University
• B.S., Biosystems Engineering, 2009 - Michigan State University