He is also Faculty Research Engineer and head of the Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Renewable Energy (EFRE) Laboratory at IIHR - Hydroscience & Engineering. His research focus is on improving measurement and prediction of environmental boundary-layers, with applications to air and water resource sustainability, land-atmosphere and air-water interactions, and renewable energy. In particular, his group studies the atmospheric boundary layer, and interactions with aquatic systems to better characterize interfacial fluxes mediated by turbulence in complex heterogeneous terrain to improve environmental prediction and optimize sustainable renewable energy potential.