Rate My Professor Umesh Haritashya

Umesh Haritashya is a Professor of Geosciences and Director of the Sustainability Program in the Department of Earth and Environmental Geosciences at the University of Dayton, where he has been full-time faculty since joining in 2008. He earned his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, India, in 2005, focusing on glacier hydrology, modeling, and remote sensing image analysis. Prior to his appointment at the University of Dayton, Haritashya completed a postdoctoral research position at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, working on NASA's international GLIMS project and a USAID project. His research integrates field-collected and satellite-borne data to examine the impacts of climate change on the cryosphere, including snow, ice, and glaciers in regions such as the Himalaya, High Mountain Asia, New Zealand, Alaska, and the Andes. Key areas include glacier morphology and ice dynamics, mountain geomorphology and surface processes, glacier hydrology and sedimentology, snow and glacier melt runoff modeling, and high-mountain hazards like glacial lake outburst floods, landslides, debris flows, and floods. His interdisciplinary work also addresses sustainability, human rights, and social connections, supported by over $3 million in research grants received by his group in the past decade-plus, including multiple NASA awards totaling nearly $3 million.