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Easan Drury

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Easan Drury is a member of the Energy Forecasting and Modeling Group in the Strategic Energy Analysis Center.

Post-doctoral Research Fellow
On staff since July 2008
Phone number: 303-384-7445
E-mail: easan.drury@nrel.gov

Analysis expertise

  • Modeling the U.S. photovoltaics (PV) market
  • Quantifying the impacts of state and federal incentives on PV adoption
  • Modeling the value of energy storage and enabling technologies

Primary research interests

  • Developing market penetration models for renewable technologies
  • Analyzing large-scale renewable energy deployment

Education and background training

  • Ph.D. in engineering sciences, Harvard University, 2009
  • S.M. in engineering sciences, Harvard University, 2005
  • B.A. in physics, University of California - Berkeley, 2002

Prior work experience

  • Junior Research Associate, Space Sciences Lab, UC Berkeley

Other affiliations

  • Member of the American Geophysical Union
  • Member of the American Solar Energy Society

Selected publications

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Drury, E., P. Denholm, and R. Margolis. (2009). "The Solar Photovoltaics Wedge: Pathways for Growth and Potential Carbon Mitigation in the U.S." Environ. Res. Lett. (In Press)

Drury, E., et al. (2009). "Synthesis of satellite (MODIS), aircraft (ICARTT), and surface (IMPROVE, EPA-AQS, AERONET) aerosol observations over eastern North America to improve MODIS aerosol retrievals and constrain surface aerosol concentrations and sources." J. Geophys. Res. (In Press)

Drury, E., D.J. Jacob, J. Wang, R.J.D. Spurr, and K. Chance (2008). "Improved algorithm for MODIS satellite retrievals of aerosol optical depths over western North America." J. Geophys. Res., 113, D16204, doi:10.1029/2007JD009573

Drury, E., S.B. Mende, H.U. Frey, and J.H. Doolittle, (2003). "Southern Hemisphere poleward moving auroral forms." J. Geophys. Res.. 108, doi:10.1029/2001JA007536. (PDF 654 KB)

Personal interests/hobbies
Mountain biking, snowboarding, hiking, traveling

 

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