Rate My Professor John Albertson

Albertson's research is directed toward developing a comprehensive understanding of the exchange rates of mass such as water, CO2, and pollutants, energy, and momentum between the land surface and atmosphere, with primary applications in hydrometeorology and air quality. His work emphasizes the fusion of measurements and models for optimal prediction and spans environmental fluid mechanics, hydrology, computational fluid dynamics, heat and mass transfer, remote sensing, scientific computing, sensors, signal and image processing, sustainable energy systems, and water systems. Notable awards include the Natural Resource Institute Outside Collaborator of the Year Award from USDA-ARS in 2000, the New Investigator Program in the Earth Sciences Award from NASA in 1999, the Hydrology Section Outstanding Student Paper Award from the American Geophysical Union in 1996, and the Northeast Utilities Chairman's Award for Outstanding Performance in 1989. Key publications include "Investigating Long-Range Seasonal Predictability of East African Short Rains: Influence of the Mascarene High on the Indian Ocean Walker Cell" (Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 2020), "Estimation of methane emissions from the U.S. ammonia fertilizer industry using a mobile sensing approach" (Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 2019), "Mobile sensing of point-source gas emissions using Bayesian inference: An empirical examination of the likelihood function" (Atmospheric Environment, 2019), "A probabilistic description of entrainment instability for cloud-topped boundary-layer models" (Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 2017), and "A Mobile Sensing Approach for Regional Surveillance of Fugitive Methane Emissions in Oil and Gas Production" (Environmental Science & Technology, 2016).