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Ana's research interests include orographic cloud and precipitation processes; rainfall microphysics; meteorology and hydrology of mountainous areas; regional aspects of the water cycle, climate change and variability; scaling issues in hydrometeorology; land-atmosphere interactions; vegetation dynamics; soils-vegetation-hydrology interactions in land-margin environments; remote-sensing (retrieval algorithms and data integration); environmental physics and transport phenomena in interface environments; predictability; hydrometeorological forecasting and information technology; risk assessment and life-line infrastructure; land-use and land-cover change and anthropogenic environmental change; engineering sustainability and adaptation. Sensors and sensing systems.
Education
PhD University of Washington, Seattle, 1993
(Civil Engineering – major in Hydrology, minor in Atmospheric Sciences)
MSc Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, 1990
(Environmental Science and Engineering)
MSc University of Porto, Portugal, 1988
(Hydraulics - Ocean Engineering)
Diploma University of Porto, Portugal, 1985 (summa cum laude)
(Civil Engineering, 5-year degree, double major in Structures and Hydraulics)
Selected
Honors and Awards
AMS Sigma-Xi Distinguished Lecturer 2014-2015
WIMEK Research Fellowship, 2013
Editors’ Citation for Excellence in Refereeing for Reviews of Geophysics- 2011
Professional Appointments
2013- Professor, Earth & Ocean Sciences, Nicholas School of the Environ., Duke Univ.
2011- Senior Fellow, Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas
2011- Director, Karsh International Scholars Program, OUSF, Duke University
2004- Professor, Civil &Env. Eng., Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University
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La Dra. Barros se graduó en Ingeniería Civil (Hidrología y Ciencias Atmosféricas) por la Universidad de Washington. Su campo de investigación incluye los procesos de precipitación orográfica, la microfísica de nubes, meteorología e hidrología de áreas montañosas, interacción suelo- vegetación-hidrología, entre otros. Ha tenido diversos cargos académicos en la Universidad de Duke donde actualmente es profesora en el Nicholas School of Environment. |
