I'm an Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Geography, Environment and Society at the University of Minnesota, where I also serve as the Director of Graduate Studies. I'm also a Fellow with Minnesota's Institute on the Environment and Institute for Advanced Study, and a Humboldt Research Fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany). I am a physical geographer who specializes in environment volatility and its short-, intermediate- and long-term impacts on water resources, natural hazards, and human society.