Holly J. Oldroyd

Holly J. Oldroyd is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Davis. She is affiliated with the UC Davis College of Engineering and focuses on research in atmospheric turbulent transport, land-water-atmosphere interactions, and environmental fluid dynamics in complex terrain. Her work integrates field experiments, remote sensing (e.g., Doppler lidar), and numerical modeling to address challenges in climate resilience, wildfire dynamics, and ecosystem health. She advises graduate and undergraduate researchers and leads projects on redwood forest observatories, greenhouse gas emissions, and slope flow dynamics.

Research interests include turbulent transport mechanisms in forests and steep terrains, katabatic flow modeling, and hydroacoustic analysis of reservoir emissions. Her team has deployed advanced instrumentation in mountainous regions and agroecosystems, contributing to climate adaptation strategies. She collaborates on multidisciplinary efforts to improve land-atmosphere coupling models and carbon neutrality solutions.

Her publications emphasize innovative methods like integrated quadrant analysis for turbulence studies and data-driven wall models for simulating complex flows. Current and former advisees include Matt Miksch (PhD), Wilton Gray IV (MS), and Mary Rose Mangan (MS), among others. Her lab engages in field campaigns such as MATERHORN and leverages machine learning for agro-meteorological data integration.