Melissa R. Dumas

Melissa Allen-Dumas is a Senior Research Scientist in the Computational Urban Sciences Group in the Computational Sciences and Engineering Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She holds a PhD in Energy Science and Engineering and a MS in Environmental Engineering from the University of Tennessee. Her expertise includes global and regional modeling and analysis of atmospheric species transport and the impacts of urban morphology on urban micrometeorology. She has performed statistical and dynamical downscaling of various earth system model output to examine direct and indirect effects of large weather events on electricity demand and supply, and on other national and civic critical infrastructures.