Roni Avissar, Ph.D., became dean of the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science in 2009. Dr. Avissar is an internationally recognized atmospheric scientist who has started his career in academia in 1989. His research has been widely published in peer-reviewed journals and he has pioneered the development and evaluation of various numerical and analytical models to study ocean-land-atmosphere interactions at different spatial and temporal scales. A commercial helicopter ...