Faculty
PROGRAM DIRECTOR
FRED MOSHARY
Professor and Deputy Chair of Electrical Engineering
Atmospheric Remote Sensing: Multi-Wavelength Lidar/DIAL, Optical Sensors, Fiber-optic Amplifiers
PROGRAM DEPUTY DIRECTOR
JEFFREY STEINER
Professor of Geochemistry and Petrology
Characterization and evolving properties of solid PM2.5, Detection of spores and bacteria
PARTICIPATING FACULTY
SAMIR AHMED
Herbert Kayser Professor of Electrical Engineering
Lasers and applications, remote-sensing, optical communications
TERESA BANDOSZ
Professor of Chemistry
Adsorption in porous solids, application of adsorption phenomena to environmental problems
SANJOY BANERJEE
Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering
Director of CUNY Energy Institute
Thermal/Fluid Sciences: environmental and multiphase transport phenomena
KARIN BLOCK
Assistant Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
VASIL DIYAMANDOGLU
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering
Water Quality, Bacterial Regrowth in Drinking Water, Biostability, Water Treatment Processes, Disinfection
JOHN FILLOS
Professor of Civil Engineering
Environmental Engineering, Biological Treatment Processes, Biological Nitrogen Removal, Sludge Stabilization
STANLEY GEDZELMAN
Professor of Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics
Hurricane dynamics and isotope variations within hurricanes
ALEXANDER GILERSON
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Ocean Optics, Satellite Remote Sensing of Coastal Regions, Optical Sensors
IRINA GLADGOVA
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Waveform design, signal processing, Data compression, Numerical analysis
JORGE GONZALEZ
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Fluid Mechanics, Numerical Weather Models, Aerosol Cloud Interactions, Climate Change
BARRY GROSS
Associatet Professor of Electrical Engineering
Nonlinear optics, photonic devices, soliton communications
MICHAEL GROSSBERG
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Computer Vision, Graphics, and Machine Learning
URS JANS
Associate Professor in Environmental Organic Chemistry
Aquatic environmental organic chemistry
PATRICIA KENYON
Professor of Geophysics
Techniques for exploring the subsurface using geophysical instrumentation, and magma migration at ocean spreading centers
REZA KHANBILVARDI
NOAA Chair Professor of Civil Engineering
Groundwater Technology Pollution and Transport, Pollution, Risk Assessment, and Remediation in Groundwater Systems
NIR KRAKAUER
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering
Hydrology and Biogeochemistry
JAE LEE
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Reactive Separation and Gas Hydrate Separation/Storage
ZHENGSHAO (JOHNNY) LOU
Assistant Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Satellite Hydrometeorology
SHAYESTEH MAHANI
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering
Satellite and air-born remote sensing, GIS and image processing for mapping, topographically, surficial processes, land use and land cover changes.
FEDERICA RAIA
Associate Professor of Volcanology and Science Education
Liquid inclusions in Vesuvian lavas, Methods for improving earth system science education
IRVEN RINARD
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Process Systems Engineering, Process Design, Process Simulation, Process Control, Energy Systems Engineering
WILLIAM ROSSOW
Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering
Cloud physics and dynamics, atmospheric radiative transfer, atmospheric general circulation, climate and satellite remote sensing of all components of Earth's climate system
LEONID ROYTMAN
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Systems theory, stability of multidimensional system
HANSONG TANG
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering
Environmental Hydrodynamics
MARCO TEDESCO
Assistant Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
microwave radiative transfer models of snow, ice, and frozen soil. Climate Change Applications
YIGLI TIAN
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Imaging and Image Processing, Surveillance and Remote Sensing, Hyperspectral Imaging
CHARLES VOROSMATRY
Presidential Professor of Civil Engineering
Global Hydrology, Climate Change
MARGARET WINSLOW
Professor of Structural and Engineering Geology
Tectonic boundaries, Geographic Information Science
BETH WITTIG
Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering
Instrument design, ambient air quality chemistry and transport/dispersion, indoor air quality transport/dispersion, engineering pedagogy
PENGFEI ZHANG
Professor of Hydrology and Groundwater Systems
Geology and engineering consideration of surface water flow, Geochemical and geobiological remedies for contaminated water systems
ADJUNCT PROFESSORS
BRIAN CAIRNS
Research Scientist, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Polarimetry, Satellite Remote Sensing of Aerosols and Clouds, Optical Remote Sensing
JACEK CHOWDHARY
Research Scientist, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Radiative Transfer, Ocean Optics, Aerosols and Clouds
ANTHONY DINARDO
Northrop Grumman, Chief Engineer, Space Based Infrared System
MID-IR Earth Observation and Surveillance
ARNOLD GRUBER
Project Manager, NOAA/NESDIS
Applications of Satellite Remote Sensing Data to Weather and Climate
PAUL MENZEL
Verner Suomi Distinguished Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Multi-wavelength Remote Sensing
RESEARCH SCIENTISTS
MARK AREND
Chief Engineer, NYC Meteorological Network. Fiber-Optic Remote Sensors
AMIR ESHRAGHI AZAR
Remote Sensing of Ice and Snow
BENJAMIN HERMAN
Data Inversion Techniques, Multi-wavelength Lidar
MATHIS JERG
Radiative Transfer, Satellite Data Analysis
TRAENDRA LAKHANKAR
Satellite remote sensing application for Water Resources
MAROUANE TAMIMI
Hydrology
BRIAN VANTHULL
Satellite Application to Clouds/Aerosols, Weather Forecasting and Nowcasting
YONGHUA WU
Remote Sensing of Aerosols and Clouds, Multi-wavelenght Lidar
JING ZHOU
Multiwavelength Optical Sensing, Ocean Optics, Coastal Remote Sensing
