Allan Frei
Professor, Chairperson, and Deputy Director, CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities

Prof. Frei’s main educational interests have been in curriculum development for the Environmental Studies and Physical Geography branches of the department. Along with colleagues, he helped create the curriculum for the new Environmental Studies Major, and he played a major role in developing the Earth System Science course sequence. He continues to play an active role in updating the curriculum as the needs of the students and department evolve. Prof. Frei has taught a number of courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, mostly in physical and quantitative geography. In addition, Prof. Frei has served on the advisory committees for a number of graduate students, and has taught numerous independent studies to Graduate students.

• Acharya, Nachiketa, Allan Frei, Jie Chen, Leslie DeCristofaro, Emmet Owens, 2017, Evaluating stochastic weather generators for climate change impact studies of New York City’s primary water supply, Journal of Hydrometeorology, V18, p. 879-896, DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-16-0169.1
• Hall, D.K., A. Frei, N.E. DiGirolamo, J. H. Porter and G.A. Riggs, 2016: Snow cover and extreme streamflow events in the Catskill/Delaware watershed, New York, Proceedings of the IAHR, 31 May – 3 June, 2016, Ann Arbor, MI.
• Acharya, Nachiketa, Allan Frei, Emmet Owens, 2015, Analysis of Weather Generators: Extreme Events, (extended abstract) in Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Climate Informatics: CI 2015. J. G. Dy, J. Emile-Geay, V. Lakshmanan, Y. Liu (Eds.). September 2015. ISBN: 978-0-9973548-0-5, https://www2.cisl.ucar.edu/events/workshops/climate-informatics/2015/workshop-proceedings, (2 pages)
• Porter, James, Adao Matonse, Allan Frei, 2015, The New York City Operations Support Tool (OST): Managing water for millions of people in an era of changing climate and extreme hydrological events, Journal of Extreme Events, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2015) 1550008 (23 pages)