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Amilcare Porporato

Thomas J. Wu '94 Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the High Meadows Environmental Institute

Website: https://www.princeton.edu/cee/people/display_person/?netid=aporpora

Email: aporpora@princeton.edu

Office: E-Quad, Room E407

Phone: 609-258-2287

Research interests: Nonlinear and stochastic dynamical systems, hydrometeorology and soil-atmosphere interaction, soil moisture and plant dynamics, soil biogeochemistry, and ecohydrology.

Amilcare Porporato

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