People
BenZaitchik
Assistant Professor
email: zaitchik at jhu.edu
office: 222 Olin Hall
phone: 410-516-4223
fax: 410-516-7933
My research is directed at understanding, managing, and coping with climatic and hydrologic variability. Understanding variability requires examination of the natural processes that drive climate and surface change. Managing variability relates to our ability to control anthropogenic influences on climate and hydrology at local, regional, and global scales. Coping with variability includes improved forecast systems and methods of risk assessment. In each of these areas of research I employ a combination of observation--both in situ and remotely sensed--and numerical modeling techniques.
Teaching:
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Postdoctoral Fellows
Beth Feingold
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Beth Feingold is the Pim Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Change in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department at Johns Hopkins University and an Affiliate at the Duke Global Health Institute at Duke University. Beth’s research interests are in the use of geospatial methods to understand the link between landscapes and health, with particular interest in issues related to industrial food animal production, climate and health, land use change, environmental justice, and urban environmental health. She is currently working on two projects in the Peruvian Amazon on the impacts of climate and migration on population health, namely malaria. She earned her PhD in Environmental Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She earned a Master’s of Environmental Science and a Master’s of Public Health in Environmental Health from Yale University and a Bachelor’s in Geology from Vassar College.
Amin Dezfuli
Cormack Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow
Graduate Students
Erin Urquhart, PhD student
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Research Interests
• Application-oriented coastal/estuarine remote sensing
• Environmental public health
• Coastal/estuarine water quality modeling/monitoring
• Modeling of ecological habitats (harmful algae/ Vibrio /sea nettles)
• Observational applications of ecological models
Saleh Satti, PhD student
Jose Molina, PhD student and NSF-IGERT intern
Jose's research interests include but it are not limited to climate dynamics and ocean-atmosphere interactions, statistical modeling, and surface hydrologic processes and their interactions with human-dominated ecosystems. current research work focuses on statistically-based climate modeling for North African countries. Before joining Johns Hopkins, Jose conducted research on stochastic simulation and hydrological disaggregation in western US. Jose has also worked in other engineering/research projects in the following areas: hydraulic modeling of subsurface-water flow in urban and agricultural regions, hydrologic frequency analysis, water budget estimation, assessment of space-time distribution and use of available water resources for agriculture, water rights engineering, research and technology transfer in fog and rain collection for developing countries, and irrigation and drainage systems evaluation and design among others. Jose is also an active FogQuest member (www.fogquest.com), a Canadian organization dedicated to planning and implementing water projects in developing countries.
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Alumni
Clement Alo - Assistant Research Scientist 2010-2011, working on Nile basin hydrometeorology. Now an Assistant Professor at Montclair State University.
Jong Ahn Chun - Assistant Research Scientist 2011-2012, working on biogeochemical and hydrological modeling. Now a Research Fellow at the APEC Climate Center.
Weston Anderson - JHU undergraduate 2011 and DoGEE MSE 2012, with research on drought monitoring and population modeling. Now working at Risk Management Solutions.
Mark Brennan - JHU undergraduate 2012, with research on greenhouse gas metrics. Now on fellowship in Senegal. Or so he tells us.