{"id":9559,"date":"2018-02-28T14:02:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T19:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/?post_type=person&#038;p=9559"},"modified":"2025-09-23T11:35:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T15:35:36","slug":"dan-obenour","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/people\/dan-obenour\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Obenour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dan uses geospatial analytics to<\/strong>\u00a0study complex environmental systems; his primary focus is on water quality dynamics in streams, lakes and coastal areas.\u00a0<strong>He develops\u00a0spatial and spatiotemporal geostatistical models <\/strong>to study hypoxia, harmful algal blooms and other aquatic phenomena.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>These models help characterize the extent of water quality impairments while also assessing key drivers of spatial and temporal variability.<strong>\u00a0Other interests include\u00a0<\/strong>environmental forecasting 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