Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering and the School of the Environment
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Cross-Appointments
Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
Fields of Study
- Climate Science
- Hydrology
- Oceanography
- Water & Waste
Areas of Interest
- Hydrologic variability and ocean basin dynamics
- Land and sea hydrological processes
- Earth’s hydrologic cycle
- Water resources
Biography
My main research interests are in hydrological modeling and improving our understanding of the physical relations between the lower atmosphere and the earth’s surface. These relations couple the atmosphere with the land-surface and sea-surface divisions of Earth’s hydrological cycle. Mechanical description of the temporal and geographical fluctuations of water and heat in this cycle underlie many infrastructure systems, e.g., water and electricity supply, irrigation, fisheries, transportation etc. In recent work I examined the stability of the regimes of ocean-atmosphere dynamical exchange in arid regions, with application to seawater desalination.
Education
BA, Mathematics, Amherst College
MA, Political Economy of Resources, Colorado School of Mines
MSc, Hydrology, Colorado School of Mines
PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology