Jan Kleissl
Assistant Professor, Environmental Engineering
Dept of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
9500 Gilman Dr, EBUII - 580
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA, 92093-0411

cell: (443) 527-2740
off: (858) 534-8087
fax: (858) 534-7599
email: jkleissl at ucsd.edu

PhD., Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 2004
M.Sc. Water Resources Engineering and Management, University of Stuttgart, Germany, 2001
B.S., Environmental Engineering ("Umweltschutztechnik"), University of Stuttgart, Germany, 2000

 Movies

Fly through the UC San Diego campus and view my wireless sensor network!
Environmental Sustainability efforts at UCSD
Water conservation using Scintillometery. From the Economist Artificial Turf and urban energy use. A contribution to Voice of San Diego. Kleissl's students critical in bringing $154 Million in Clean Renewable Energy Bonds to San Diego to build 20 MW of solar PV projects.

Graduate Research Assistantships
Undergraduate Research Assistants / Summer Internships

Teaching: MAE125A Fall quarters: Flow and Transport in the Environment
MAE126B Spring quarters: Advanced laboratory research for Environmental Engineers
MAE207 / MAE255 Spring quarters: Boundary Layer and Renewable Energy Meteorology

I research Environmental Fluid Mechanics, particularly transport in the atmospheric boundary layer, through field experimental (scintillometry, wireless sensor networks) and computational (large eddy simulation, radiative transfer) techniques. The research is focused on increasing environmental sustainability through energy and water efficiency. Sample applications are water conservation through irrigation optimization and artificial turf, energy conservation through urban heat island mitigation, and solar power resource mapping and forecasting. Please contact me if you have any questions.