George Burba is an American bio-atmospheric scientist, author, and inventor. Burba is a Science & Strategy Fellow at

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of the

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Group, a Global Fellow at Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute, and a Graduate Adjunct Professor at the

University of Nebraska A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, ...

-Lincoln. Burba is an

experimental An experiment is a procedure carried out to support or refute a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried. Experiments provide insight into cause-and-effect by demonstrating what outcome occurs when a ...

researcher, and a leading figure in micrometeorology,

surface A surface, as the term is most generally used, is the outermost or uppermost layer of a physical object or space. It is the portion or region of the object that can first be perceived by an observer using the senses of sight and touch, and is ...

-to- atmosphere exchange of

greenhouse gasses A greenhouse gas (GHG or GhG) is a gas that absorbs and emits radiant energy within the thermal infrared range, causing the greenhouse effect. The primary greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere are water vapor (), carbon dioxide (), methane ...

water vapor (99.9839 °C) , - , Boiling point , , - , specific gas constant , 461.5 J/( kg·K) , - , Heat of vaporization , 2.27 MJ/kg , - , Heat capacity , 1.864 kJ/(kg·K) Water vapor, water vapour or aqueous vapor is the gaseous p ...

heat In thermodynamics, heat is defined as the form of energy crossing the boundary of a thermodynamic system by virtue of a temperature difference across the boundary. A thermodynamic system does not ''contain'' heat. Nevertheless, the term is ...

and momentum, and the direct real-time measurements of

carbon emission Greenhouse gas emissions from human activities strengthen the greenhouse effect, contributing to climate change. Most is carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels: coal, oil, and natural gas. The largest emitters include coal in China and larg ...

and sequestration, evaporation and

transpiration Transpiration is the process of water movement through a plant and its evaporation from aerial parts, such as leaves, stems and flowers. Water is necessary for plants but only a small amount of water taken up by the roots is used for growth ...

, and turbulent transport within the atmospheric boundary layer. He is an author of multiple books on these subjects, used by universities and teaching institutions across the globe, as well as numerous other publications.

Research and career

Burba is an expert on the in-situ measurement methods: an author of instrument surface heating concept, related equations known as “Burba corrections”, an inventor of two new types of gas analyzers known as “enclosed-path” and “semi-open-path”, a multi-method flux emissions station, and new methods for computing gas fluxes from the open-path high-speed

laser A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation. The word "laser" is an acronym for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation". The fi ...

-based analyzers, and from the multiple types of low-speed gas analyzers. He is an elected Senior Member of the

National Academy of Inventors The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) is a US non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging inventors in academia, following the model of the National Academies of the United States. It was founded at the University of South Florida in 2010. ...

. After his PhD, Burba worked as a graduate faculty at the

and as a scientist at the

. In 2016, he was appointed Global Fellow at Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute. At

, he was appointed to the position of Science Fellow in 2017, and to the position of Science & Strategy Fellow in 2019. The same year he was elected a Senior Member of the

Education

Burba was educated at

Lomonosov Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

and at the

where he received a PhD in 2005 in Bio-Atmospheric Sciences for the study of water, light and energy transport in the natural and agricultural systems, supervised by Professor Shashi Verma.

Personal life

George Burba is a son of ru:George A. Burba and a grandson of Aleksandr A. Burba.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Burba, George Living people Year of birth missing (living people) University of Nebraska alumni Moscow State University alumni Industry and corporate fellows American technology businesspeople Atmospheric scientists Environmental scientists American scientists American textbook writers Science writers 21st-century American inventors