Dr. Enrico Zorzetto
Assistant Professor, Hydrology
Earth and Environmental Science
- enrico.zorzetto@nmt.edu
- Office MSEC 242
Education
Ph.D., Earth and Ocean Sciences, Duke University, September 2020
M.Sc. Civil Engineering, University of Padova, March 2015
B.Sc. Civil Engineering, University of Padova, September 2012
Professional Engineer (Italy) June 2015
Research Interests
- Statistical modelling of hydrological extremes
- Representation of land hydrology and snow in global climate models
- Boundary layer turbulence, land-atmosphere interactions
Professional experience
- Assistant Professor, New Mexico Institute of Mining and technology, Socorro, NM (January 2024-present) - Research in hydroclimatology, lecturer, student supervision
- NOAA Affiliate (December 2020-present): Collaboration with the land surface model development team at the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ. Development and implementation of model components for representing snow, ice and fine-scale topography in the GFDL Earth System Model
- Postoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University (December 2020- January 2024), Princeton, NJ. Research on cryosphere and land surface modelling.
- Lecturer (Fall 2020, remote) in water resources engineering, University of Padova and National School of Public Works of Cameroon.
- Duke University (2017 - 2020), Durham, NC. NASA Earth and Space Science Fellow. Research on remote sensing of rainfall and statistical modelling of rainfall extremes.
- Duke University (2015 - 2017), Durham, NC. Teaching assistant in coastal geomorphology and data analysis.
Current and previous research
see my webpage: https://enricozorzetto.github.io/