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Professor and Chairman
Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering
313 Ames Hall,
The Johns Hopkins University,
34th and Charles Streets, Baltimore, Maryland, 21218-2686
Email: hugh.ellis@jhu.edu
Vitae
Education
Ph.D. (1984), M.A.Sc. (1981), B.A.Sc. (1979), Civil Engineering, The University
of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Professional Experience
1996 - Chairman, Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, The
Johns Hopkins University
1994 - Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, The
Johns Hopkins University; Joint Appointment, Department of Civil Engineering
1990 - 1994 Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental
Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University
1984 - 1989 Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental
Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University
Selected Professional Activities
Associate Editor, Environment and Natural Resources, Operations Research
Member, Air Quality Control Advisory Committee, Air and Radiation Management
Administration, Maryland Department of the Environment
National Research Council, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, member of the
Committee for Measuring and Improving Infrastructure Performance, August, 1993 - September
1994.
Chair of the Technical Committee on Ground Level Ozone, Baltimore Regional Environmental
Forum, May, 1993.
National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program (NAPAP), Integrated Assessment Reviewer,
International Conference on Acidic Deposition: State of Science and Technology, Hilton
Head, South Carolina, February, 1990.
U.S. EPA-sponsored technical representative, EMEP Workshop on Combined Analysis of
Measurements and Model Results with Special Emphasis on NOx/VOC/Oxidants, Halifax, Nova
Scotia, September, 1991.
U.S. EPA-sponsored technical representative, United Nations Economic Council for Europe
(UNECE) Sixth Meeting of the Task Force on Integrated Assessment Modeling, Geneva,
Switzerland, November, 1990.
U.S. EPA-sponsored technical representative, United Nations Economic Council for Europe
(UNECE) Fourth Meeting of the Task Force on Integrated Assessment Modeling, Geneva,
Switzerland, November, 1989.
U.S. EPA-sponsored technical representative, United Nations Economic Council for Europe
(UNECE) Workshop on Critical Load Impact Modeling and Scenario Setting, Nuneham Park,
Oxfordshire, U.K., October, 1989.
Research Interests
Environmental systems analysis, stochastic, multiobjective models for
environmental management, decision making under uncertainty, monitoring network design,
partially observable Markov decision process modeling, optimal control approaches to
environmental management, stochastic structural analysis, parameter identification for
ambient vibration studies, optimization of bridge inspection, maintenance and repair.
 | Selected Publications
 | Holmes, K.J. and J.H. Ellis, An Integrated Analysis of Future Halocarbon
Emissions and Their Potential Environmental Impacts, submitted to Environmental Science
and Technology, March, 1995. |
| Ellis, J.H. and M. L. Bowman, 1994. Critical Loads and development of acid rain
control options. ASCE Journal of Environmental Engineering, v. 2, pp. 273-290. |
| Watanabe, T. and J.H. Ellis, 1993. Stochastic programming models for air quality
management. Computers and Operations Research, v. 20, pp. 651-663. |
| Trujillo-Ventura, A., and J.H. Ellis, 1992. Nonlinear optimization of air
pollution monitoring networks: algorithmic considerations and computational results.
Engineering Optimization, v. 19, pp. 287-308. |
| Ellis, J.H., 1988. Acid rain control strategies: options exist despite scientific
uncertainties. Environmental Science and Technology, v. 22, pp. 1248-1255. |
| Watanabe, T. and J.H. Ellis, 1993. Robustness in stochastic programming models.
Applied Mathematical Modeling, v. 17, pp. 547-554. |
| Cardwell, H. and J.H. Ellis, 1993. Stochastic dynamic programming models for
water quality management. Water Resources Research, v. 29, pp. 803-813. |
| Trujillo-Ventura, A., and J.H. Ellis, 1991. Multiobjective air pollution
monitoring network design. Atmospheric Environment, v. 25A, pp. 469-479. |
| Ellis, J.H., 1988. Multiobjective mathematical programming models for acid rain
control. European Journal of Operational Research, v. 35, pp. 365-377.
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Collaborators
William Ball, Edward Bouwer, Grant Garven, Charles O’Melia, Lynn Roberts,
Eugene Shchukin, Alan Stone, Ross Corotis, Nick Jones
Current and Pending Support
Current
· National Science Foundation, Improved System Identification and Assessment
Procedures for Direct Sensing, Analysis and Real-time Diagnosis, co-PI's: N.P. Jones and
J.H. Ellis, 2 years, $150,000.
· National Science Foundation, Mathematical Programming Models for
Environmental Management, J.H. Ellis - PI, $272,900, 3 years, beginning 9/1/93.
· NOAA, An Integrated Assessment Model for Global Climate Change, J.H. Ellis -
PI, $174,151, 3 years, beginning 8/1/93.
Pending
· National Science Foundation, New Methods for Decision-Focused Integrated
Assessment: Multiple Objectives, Risk Evaluation and Visualization (Co-PI with B. Hobbs)
· National Science Foundation, Dynamic Decision Support Models with Partial
Observability: Applications to Environmental Management
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