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Dimitris A. Herrera (PI)

Assistant Professor | Department of Geography & Sustainability | University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA.
Adjunct Associate Professor | Department of Geography | Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Dimitris is a climate scientist from the Dominican Republic and holds a Ph.D. in atmospheric science from Cornell. His research aims to understand hydroclimate effects on society, especially emerging hydroclimate hazards because of climate change. That includes, but is not limited to, drought, extreme precipitation events, and detection and attribution analysis. Dimitris currently holds the position of Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography & Sustainability at the University of Tennessee–Knoxville. Additionally, he is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.
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Sieda Nazifa Tasneem (Ph.D. student)

After completing a bachelor’s and master’s degree from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh in Geography and Environment, Nazifa moved to the US and completed her second master’s at Auburn University, AL in Geography. Currently, she is pursuing her PhD at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her research focuses on hydroclimate variability in Bangladesh from 1950 to near present. She uses observational and modeled climate data to calculate drought metrics including the self-calibrated Palmer Drought Severity Index (scPDSI) and Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI).

Research Interest: Climate Extremes, Water Quality

Karson Holiday (Undergraduate Research Assistant)

Karson is a senior from the University of Tennessee–Knoxville. She is currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Geography with a focus in Climate and a minor in Math. After graduation, she wants to pursue a Master's degree in Atmospheric Sciences. Her research mainly concerns the effect had by climate change on transportation.

Research Interest: Climate change impacts, transportation, programming.

OUR PARTNERS

The Emergent Climate Risk Lab (ECRL)

We collaborate with Dr. Toby Ault and the Emergent Climate Risk Lab (ECRL) at Cornell University mainly in three areas: (1) prolonged drought and megadrought occurrence, (2) tropical Pacific decadal variability, and (3) near-term weather prediction using novel systems for collecting near real-time data.

Ortiz-Bobea Lab

We collaborate with Dr. Ariel Ortiz-Bobea at Cornell University...

Climate Studies Group at the University of West Indies-Mona (Jamaica)

We collaborate with Drs. Michael Taylor and Tannencia Stephenson and other members of the Climate Studies Group at the University of West Indies-Mona mainly in three areas: (1) drought dynamics and thermodynamics in the Caribbean, (2) climate change perception in the Caribbean, and (3) generating high-resolution climate data in the Caribbean Islands.