Albertson, John D.
(919) 660-5468
john.albertson@duke.edu
Box 90287
Durham, NC 27708-0287
Ciemas, Rm 2465
Durham, NC 27708

Webpages

Courses

ENVIRON 590: Special Topics
CEE 780: Internship
CEE 690: Advanced Topics in Civil and Environmental Engineering
CEE 463L: Water Resources Engineering

John D. Albertson

Adjunct Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor in the Division of Environmental Sciences and Policy
Faculty Network Member of The Energy Initiative

John Albertson received his B.S. in civil engineering from SUNY Buffalo; an MBA in Finance from the University of Hartford; a Masters in hydrology from Yale; and a Ph.D. in hydrologic science from the University of California at Davis. Before coming to Duke, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia.

Dr. Albertson's research interests include surface hydrology and boundary layer meteorology; semi-arid vegetation dynamics; Large eddy simulation of turbulence and turbulent transport; urban air quality; hydroclimatic controls on infectious disease dynamics.

Research Areas

Education

  • Ph.D., University of California at Davis (1996)

Publications

A probabilistic description of entrainment instability for cloud-topped boundary-layer models (01/2017)
Simulating the spatio-temporal dynamics of soil erosion, deposition, and yield using a coupled sediment dynamics and 3D distributed hydrologic model (09/2016)
A Mobile Sensing Approach for Regional Surveillance of Fugitive Methane Emissions in Oil and Gas Production. (03/2016)
Estimation of point source fugitive emission rates from a single sensor time series: A conditionally-sampled Gaussian plume reconstruction (08/2015)
Approximate Analytical Solution to Diurnal Atmospheric Boundary-Layer Growth Under Well-Watered Conditions (07/2015)
Climatic, ecophysiological, and phenological controls on plant ecohydrological strategies in seasonally dry ecosystems (06/2015)
Climatic, ecophysiological, and phenological controls on plant ecohydrological strategies in seasonally dry ecosystems (01/2015)
Modelling changes in grassland hydrological cycling along an elevational gradient in the Alps (12/2014)
Optimal root profiles in water-limited ecosystems (09/2014)
Interplay of climate seasonality and soil moisture-rainfall feedback (07/2014)

Mailing Address

Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability
Box 90467
Durham, NC 27708

Street / Delivery Address

Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability
140 Science Drive
Gross Hall, Suite 101
Durham, NC 27708

919-613-1305