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photo of John D. Albertson
John D. Albertson

Professor
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Location: Hollister Hall, Room 113
Phone: 607/255-9671
Email: albertson@cornell.edu

 

 

 

 

 


Current Students

Alexander Young

PhD Candidate
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Location: Hollister Hall, Room 118
Email: ay434@cornell.edu

 

 

 

 

Current Post-Docs

Photo of Ahmad MomeniAhmad Momeni

Post Doctoral Associate
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Location: Hollister Hall, Room 115
Email: amomeni@cornell.edu

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo of Sahil BhandariSahil Bhandari

Post Doctoral Associate
Atkinson Postdoctoral Science Fellow
Environmental Defense Fund & Cornell University
Email: sbhandari@edf.org

 

 

 

 

 

 


Past Students

Xiao Peng, Ph.D. (2021) “Applications of interpretable data-driven approaches in climate, hydrology, and water resource management.” (Now a research fellow at the National University of Singapore)

Amir Montazeri, Ph.D. (2021) “Physics-guided inference from gas emission data for source characterization and air pollution mapping.” (Now a data scientist at Google)
Tiffany Wilson , Ph.D. (2017) “Climate Impacts on Mediterranean Water Resources.”
Tan Zi , Ph.D. (2017), “Local and non-local impacts of rainfall on soil water erosion.”
Xiaochi Zhou , Ph.D. (2015), “Novel Sensing and Inference Techniques in Air and Water Environments.” (Now air resources engineer from California Air Resources Board’s Research Division)
Jun Yin , Ph.D. (2015), “Land-atmosphere Interaction: from Atmospheric Boundary Layer to Soil Moisture.” (Now Prof in the Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, NUIST)
Tierney Foster-Wittig , Ph.D. (2015), “Mobile Sensors: Assessment of Fugitive Methane Emissions from Near and Far-Field Sources.”
Jing Huang , Ph.D. (2010), “Coherent Structures in Land-Atmosphere Interaction”
Darren Drewry , Ph.D. (2007), “Constraining Land-Atmosphere Interaction Across Scales” (Now Assistant Prof in the Ohio State Univ)
Christopher Williams , Ph.D. (2004), “Hydrologic Controls on Vegetation Function and Structure in Water-Limited Systems” (Now Prof in the Clark Univ)
Ryan Emanuel , M.S. (2003) (Now Prof in the North Carolina State Univ)
Todd Scanlon , Ph.D. (2002), “The role of water availability in controlling coupled vegetation-atmosphere dynamics” (Now Associate Prof of the Univ of Virginia)
Scott Dusterhoff , M.S. (2001)
Laura Murray , M.S. (1999)


Past Post-docs
Nicola Montaldo , Ph.D. 1999, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. (2000 – 2001) (Now Associate Prof in the University of Cagliari, Italy)
Nathaniel Brunsell , Ph.D. 2002, Utah State University (2002 –2004) (Now Prof in the Kansas Univ)
Davide Poggi , Ph.D. 2002, Politecnico di Torino (2002 – 2006) (Now Prof in the Politecnico di Torino, Italy.)
Massimo Cassiani , Ph.D. 2002, Università degli Studi di Urbino (January 2005 – 2008) (Now Scientist in the Norwegian Institute for Air Research)
Giacomo Bertoldi , Ph.D., 2005, University of Trento, (August 2005 – 2008) (Now Senior Researcher in the Institute for Alpine Environment, EURAC)
Xiaochi Zhou , Ph.D. 2015, Duke University, (January 2016-2018) (Now air resources engineer from California Air Resources Board’s Research Division)