Amilcare Porporato

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

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

Office: E-Quad, 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.

News

  • Ammonia fuel offers great benefits but demands careful action

  • Graphic with text "Commendation for Outstanding Teaching".

    Faculty commended for outstanding teaching

  • Switching to hydrogen fuel could prolong the methane problem

  • Portrait of researcher

    Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe, hydrologist who forged a new science linking water to ecosystems, dies at 80

  • landscape with clouds and forest

    Planting forests may cool the planet more than thought

  • Desert landscape

    Climate change could lead to less sun for regions banking on solar power

Research

  • Energy and Environment

Affiliations

  • Three students look closely at a model of an architectural structure.

    Civil and Environmental Engineering

  • Princeton campus and Guyot Hall

    High Meadows Environmental Institute