Dr. Arne Bomblies - Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the School of Engineering, UVM - Biographical Sketch


Arne Bomblies is Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the School of Engineering at the University of Vermont. He earned his PhD in Environmental Engineering from MIT in 2009. Dr Bomblies’ research focuses on the impacts of climate variability and change. He has recently spent almost two years in Niger and Ethiopia researching the connection of malaria transmission and climatic variability using field observations and hydrology models. This research has yielded much detailed, mechanistic insight into hydrologic processes linking malaria, mosquito populations, and climate. Dr Bomblies also has conducted field research in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. There, he measured nutrient delivery to closed-basin lake ecosystems, and has identified recent climate change signals in the hydrology of a lake using data derived from a survey conducted by Robert F Scott’s party in 1903. More recently, he has begun studying the impacts of climate change on watersheds in Vermont, under Vermont EPSCoR. In addition to research activities, Dr Bomblies has four years of professional engineering experience in the field of groundwater remediation prior to beginning his PhD.