George Burba

George Burba is a at , a Global Fellow at Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute, and Graduate Adjunct Professor at University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
He is a bio-atmospheric scientist, and a leading figure in , ecosystem gas and energy exchange, and the measurements of turbulent transport of greenhouse and other gases, water vapor and energy within , and soil layers, and an author of the multiple books and other publications on the subject.
Burba is an expert on the measurement methods: an author of instrument surface heating concept, related equations known as “Burba corrections”,
and an inventor of the two types of gas analyzers known as “enclosed-path”
and “semi-open-path”, and an inventor of methods for computing gas fluxes from the open-path high-speed laser-based analyzers and from the multiple types of low-speed gas analyzers. He is an elected Senior Member of the .
Education.
Burba was educated at Lomonosov Moscow State University and University of Nebraska where he received a PhD in 2005 in Bio-Atmospheric Sciences for the study of water, light and energy transport in the ecosystems, supervised by Shashi Verma.
Career and research.
After his PhD, Burba worked as a graduate at the University of Nebraska and as a scientist at the . In 2016, he was appointed Global Fellow at Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute, and in 2017, he was appointed to the position of Science Fellow at .
Personal life.
George Burba is a son of George A. Burba and a grandson of Aleksandr A. Burba.