John A. Callahan

Affiliations

• Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences
• Center for Environmental Monitoring & Analysis
• Center for Research in Wind
• Water Science and Policy Program
• Data Science Institute

Education

• Ph.D. Climatology, Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences, University of Delaware; Title: Skew Surge and Extreme Coastal Flooding Events in the Delaware and Chesapeake Bays of the U.S. Mid-Atlantic Coast for 1980 – 2019
• M.Sc. Geography, University of Delaware; Title: Estimation of Precipitable Water Over the Amazon Basin Using GOES Imagery
• B.Sc. Physics, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
  
• B.Sc. Mathematics, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

Research Interests

Meteorological drivers of storm surge and coastal flooding; tides and tidal data analysis; climate change and sea-level rise in the US Mid-Atlantic; coastal storm frequency and their impacts; regional atmospheric circulation patterns and teleconnections; natural hazards and coastal resilience; coastal inundation mapping; water resources; dendrochronology and climate-tree growth relationships; environmental data collection and distribution; satellite remote sensing of the atmosphere and land surface; time series and spatial statistics; machine learning and predictability; digital elevation models and watershed analysis; Lidar and GPS; uncertainty in lidar elevation estimates in coastal salt marshes; geographical information systems

Publications

Please see Google Scholar or ResearchGate for a list of my published works.

More Information

• Curriculum Vitae
• Personal website
  
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• Delaware Resilient & Sustainable Communities League (RASCL), Science & Research Committee
• Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) Chapter Author (Coastal Effects)
• US Climate Variability and Predictability Program (CLIVAR) Predictability, Predictions, and Applications Interface (PPAI) Panel
• Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) Advisory Committee on Climate Change (ACCC)
• Delaware State Hazard Mitigation Council
• Chair of Delaware Sea-Level Rise Technical Committee (2015 – 2017)
• American Meteorological Society (AMS)
• American Geophysical Union (AGU)