Daniel Short Gianotti

Research Scientist
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Daniel Short Gianotti is a Land Surface Systems (LSS) scientist who works at the land interface with the atmosphere, the biosphere, the global water cycle, energy cycle, and carbon cycle, and relationship between weather and climate. His primary research goals are to develop new theory on land surface behavior at a systems level, and to use this theory to inform our understanding of the larger Earth System.

Land Surface Systems combines theory and data from hydrology, geography, ecology, meteorology, controls systems, engineering, human systems, remote sensing, and observational field theory. Much of this work is across-scales, as a basic principle of the LSS is that most physical and empirical relationships are scale-dependent. Daniel is an early developer of the LSS field, and works to define and broaden its theoretical knowledge-base while connecting to neighboring disciplinary traditions.

Daniel currently works at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Parsons Laboratory for Environmental Science and Engineering in the School of Engineering.

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