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BenZaitchik
Professor

email: zaitchik at jhu.edu
office: 222 Olin Hall
phone: 410-516-4223
fax: 410-516-7933 [CV]

My research is directed at understanding, managing, and building resilience to climatic and hydrologic variability and change. Understanding variability and change requires examination of the natural and anthropogenic phenomena that drive climate and surface processes. Managing variability and change relates to our ability to control anthropogenic influences on climate and hydrology at local, regional, and global scales. Building resilience to variability and change includes improved forecast systems, impacts projections, 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.

You can also listen to my interview on the People Behind the Science podcast.

Teaching:

[Introduction to Global Environmental Change (AS 270.103)]

[Climate & Health (AS 271.311)]

[Remote Sensing of the Environment (AS 270.318/618)]

[Present and Future Climate (AS 270.378/678)]

[Climate Science & Policy (AS 271.360)]

[Modeling the Hydrological Cycle (AS 270.405)]

[The Water, Energy, Food Nexus (SA 680.792 / AS 271.402)]

[Atmospheric Science (AS 270.379/679)]

[Environmental Data Analysis (AS 270.654)]

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