{"id":4,"date":"2012-09-04T13:39:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T17:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/template\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-08-12T15:04:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T15:04:44","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/emullens\/home\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\"><div class=\"container px-0\"><div class=\"row align-items-start\"><div class=\"col-12\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Esther Mullens<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/emullens\/files\/2018\/09\/DSC5760bw-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163\" style=\"width:300px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/emullens\/files\/2018\/09\/DSC5760bw-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/emullens\/files\/2018\/09\/DSC5760bw-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/emullens\/files\/2018\/09\/DSC5760bw-1-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/emullens\/files\/2018\/09\/DSC5760bw-1-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Assistant Professor, Department of Geography<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BSc (Honors) Meteorology, University of Reading, United Kingdom (2007)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PhD Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, USA (2014).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Interests<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Precipitation variability, extreme rainfall, drought. Impacts of climate on water resources, infrastructure, and society. &nbsp;Basic and applied climate science, science translation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I approach these problems primary though the atmospheric sciences &#8211; using tools, models and analyses common to the fields of meteorology and physical climatology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact Information<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Email: emullens@ufl.edu<br>\nPhone: Please use email.<br>\nOffice\/Address: Turlington Hall Rm 3138, 330 Newell Dr, Gainesville, FL<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Media: <a href=\"https:\/\/experts.ufl.edu\/experts\/esther.mullens4572\/\">https:\/\/experts.ufl.edu\/experts\/esther.mullens4572\/&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Office Hours. Please contact me by email to set an appointment or check your office hours schedule on Canvas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Spring 2026 Teaching<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>GEO3334\/6335 Managing for a Changing Climate<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MET4450 Atmospheric Physics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fall 2026 Teaching<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>GEO2336 People and Places in a Changing Climate (Quest 2)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MET4500C Synoptic Meteorology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Spring 2027 Teaching<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>GEO3334\/6335 Managing for a Changing Climate<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":991,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/emullens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/emullens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/emullens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/emullens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/991"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/emullens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/emullens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":790,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/emullens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/emullens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}