Satellite and Earth System Studies

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Executive Team

Daniel Tong
SESS Director, Associate professor of Atmospheric Chemistry

Research focus:

Air-surface exchange, Atmospheric Composition, Remote Sensing

Patrick Campbell
Associate Director, Research Associate Professor

Research focus:

Meteorological and air quality modeling, Air-Surface Exchange, Reactive Nitrogen Emissions/Deposition, and Air Quality Forecasting

Affiliated Faculty

David Straus
Professor of Climate Dynamics

Research focus:

Mid-latitude atmospheric circulation response to tropical heating; large-scale forcing of extremes

Paul Dirmeyer
Professor

Research focus:

Land-atmosphere interactions; numerical modeling of land and atmosphere; predictability and prediction skill on sub-seasonal time scales

James Kinter
Professor
Chair, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Earth Sciences
Director, The Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies

Research focus:

Atmospheric Processes; Atmospheric Science

Bohua Huang
Professor

Research focus:

Ocean-atmosphere interaction,  climate variability, coupled model simulation, seasonal prediction and predictability 

Karen Akerlof
Assistant Professor
Science Communication, Environmental Social Science, Sustainability

Research focus:

Usability of Science; Communication of science with policymakers; Climate change communication; Public participation in environmental decision-making 

Celso Ferreira
Associate Professor

Research focus:

Coastal, riverine and urban flood hazards modeling; Storm surge field monitoring; Flood hazards real time forecasting 

Jenna Krall
Assistant Professor

Research Focus:

Biostatistics; Environmental Epidemiology; Air pollution; Source apportionment

Natalie Burls
Associate Professor

Research focus:

Ocean Dynamics, Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Climate Variability, and Climate Modeling

Zhong Liu
Research Professor

Research focus:

Satellite-based global precipitation and uncertainty; Remote sensing applications; Interdisciplinary data management and services; Education and outreach activities; Weather and climate

Ling Ren
Research Assistant Professor

Research focus:

Phytoplankton dynamics and nutrient cycling in coastal and estuarine ecosystems; algal identification and taxonomy; phytoplankton index of biotic integrity (P-IBI); and phytoplankton DNA sequencing. 

Benjamin Cash
Research Professor

Research focus:

High-resolution climate modeling; seasonal to interannual variability and predictability; application of ensemble techniques; drought; climate impacts on human health.

Lance Sherry
Director, Center for Air Transportation Systems Research
Associate Professor

Research Focus:

Air Transportation

Liping Di
Professor

Research focus:

Satellite data systems; satellite data management; decision support science and systems; geoinformation science and standards; data science; cyberinfrastructure; remote sensing applications (drought, flood, severe weather and other natural disasters; agriculture; public health); land use and land cover; land surface modeling; artificial intelligence; large project management

Liying Guo

Research focus:

Land use land cover; remote sensing of agriculture, public health, ecosystem, and natural disasters; Geoinformation science 

Eugene Yu
Research Associate Professor
Ziheng Sun
Research Assistant Professor

Research focus:

Geo-information science; remote sensing of agriculture, flood, drought, and natural disasters; large data system development; geospatial cyber infrastructure; artificial intelligence; geospatial web service 

Chul-Su Shin
Research Assistant Professor

Research focus:

Ocean-atmosphere interaction and its variability; Coupled climate modeling; Subseasonal to seasonal prediction and predictability 

 

Timothy DelSole
Professor

Research focus:

Predictability and prediction skill on subseasonal-to-decadal time scales; climate detection and attribution; multi-model forecasting;

Donglian Sun
Professor

Research focus:

Surface and atmosphere remote sensing; remote sensing natural hazards (flood, drought, snow/ice, tropical cyclone); artificial intelligence; numerical simulation and satellite data assimilation; combine remote sensing and numerical simulation for coastal hazard (coastal earthquake, tsunami) study.

Paul Houser
Professor

Research focus:

Geo-information science; remote sensing of agriculture, flood, drought, and natural disasters; large data system development; geospatial cyber infrastructure; artificial intelligence; geospatial web service 

Long Chiu
Associate Professor

Research focus:

Remote sensing of precipitation, lightning, climate diagnostics, near real time data processing and analysis systems

Viviana Maggioni
Associate Professor
Sid and Reva Dewberry Dept of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering, Volgenau

Research Focus:

Environmental Engineering, Water Resources Engineering, Hydrology, Remote Sensing, Land Surface Modeling, Uncertainty Analysis, and Land Data Assimilation Systems

Zafer Boybeyi
Associate Professor

Research focus:

Mesoscale, natural hazards, and air quality modeling

 
Youhua Tang
Senior Researcher
Yunyao Li
Research Scientist

Research focus:

Convective storms, Wildfire emission, Chemical transport modeling, and Data assimilation

John Qu
Professor
ISE Faculty Fellow

Research focus:

Remote Sensing, Wildland Fires, Natural Resource, Climate Science, Soil Moisture and Drought, Clean Energy, Water and Food Security, Environmental Studies, Ecosystem and Carbon

Bok Haeng Baek
Research Professor

Research Focus:

Atmospheric Science; Climate Science; Environmental Science and Conservation; Geospatial Science; Modeling and Simulation; Remote Sensing; Sustainable Earth and Societal Impact

Research Gate Page
Lucas Henneman
Assistant Professor

Research focus:

air pollution and health

Seiyon Lee
Assistant Professor

Research focus:

computational methods for modeling high-dimensional spatial/Spatio-temporal data, statistical methods and algorithms for calibrating complex computer models, and interdisciplinary research in the environmental sciences

Wei-Ting Hung
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Research focus:

Air quality; Wildfire smoke; Fire behaviors; Satellite data analysis; Long-range transport; Machine learning

Beiming Tang
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Research focus:

WRF-Chem modeling; Surface Pollution Estimates via Machine Learning Data Fusion; Dry Deposition