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Ben Zaitchik

Adjunct Lecturer in the Energy, Resources and Environment Program

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Dr. Benjamin Zaitchik is an Assistant Professor in the Johns Hopkins University Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Dr. Zaitchik’s research is directed at understanding, managing, and coping with climatic and hydrologic variability. In each of these areas of research he employs a combination of observation-both in situ and remotely sensed-and numerical modeling techniques. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins University he served as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow at the US Department of State where he worked on climate change issues.
 
He holds a PhD in geology and geophysics from Yale University and a MS in crop and soil science from Cornell University. He received his AB in biology from Harvard University.

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