Climate Change Research

Climate Change

Research Groups

•    Climate Variations and Change Research Group (CLIVAC)
•    Climate Hazards Group
•    Biogeography Lab

Current Projects and Collaborations

•    Global Climate Change, Human Security & Democracy, Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies
•    Ecological Effects of Climate Change Working Group, NCEAS

Individuals

•    Bodo Bookhagen, Geography: Research includes understanding climate change by investigating geomorphic processes, landscape evolution and tectonic processes.

•    Mark Brzezinski, Ecology Evolution & Marine Biology: Marine/ Phytoplankton ecology; specific focus on the role of diatoms and their relationship to carbon dioxide in the ocean

•    Craig Carlson, Ecology Evolution & Marine Biology: Marine microbial ecology; dissolved organic cotton; marine biogeochemistry

•    Leila Carvalho, Geography: Climate variations and changes; investigating the interactions between Earth’s atmosphere, oceans, land, biosphere and ice.

•   Oliver Chadwick, Geography: Developing spatially explicit models that describe the distribution of Earth-surface properties and processes in relationship to changes in driving processes along environmental gradients.

•    David Cleveland, Environmental Studies: Research focuses on sustainable agriculture and its role in responding to climate change, resource scarcities, and demands for social justice.

•    Scott Cooper, Ecology Evolution & Marine Biology: Research investigates what factors determine the distribution and abundances of organisms as well as climate and land use change, oil pollutants, and acidic deposition on freshwater systems.

•    Lorraine Lisiecki, Earth Science: Quantitative historical analysis of the paleoclimate

•    Olivier Deschênes, Economics: Economic effects of climate change

•   Jeff Dozier, Bren: Snow hydrology and climate change

•    Steve Gaines, Ecology Evolution & Marine Biology/ Bren: Population and community ecology; marine biogeography and biodiversity; carbon dioxide in the ocean

•    Catherine Gautier, Geography: Research includes nderstanding global and regional climate change by investigating atmospheric variables and developing and implementing climate computer modeling software.

•   Gretchen Hofmann, Ecology Evolution & Marine Biology: Ecological physiology of marine organisms

•    Sally Holbrook, Ecology Evolution & Marine Biology: Population dynamics of marine species; temporal patterns in reef communities; impact of climate change on reef communities/ marine species

•    Jennifer King, Geography: Research focuses on investigating biogeochemical processes and natural and human-induced environmental changes to address questions relating to terrestrial ecology.

•    Charles Kolstad, Economics and Bren: Environmental economics of climate change and energy markets

•    David Lea, Earth Science: Research investigates key factors linking global climate and changing ocean composition

•    Jonathan Levine, Ecology Evolution & Marine Biology: Exotic plant invasions; species diversity and ecosystem function; mechanisms underlying rare plant persistence; plant  community responses to climate change; determinants of commonness, rarity, and coexistence

•    Lorraine Lisiecki, Earth Science: Quantitative historical analysis of the paleoclimate

•    Hugo A. Loaiciga, Geography: Water/ energy sustainable development; planning, design, and analysis of water resource systems; climate change in regards to sea level rise and its impact on freshwater aquifers

•   David Lopez-Carr, Geography: Human dynamics of global climate change with a regional focus in Latin America (rural poverty and development, health, population, land use/ cover change)

•    Sally MacIntyre, Ecology Evolution & Marine Biology: Physical-biological coupling; physical limnology and oceanography; tropical, temperate and arctic lakes; flow in kelp forests and coral reefs

•    Joe McFadden, Geography: Land-use/ land-cover change; biosphere and atmosphere interactions; Earth system science; sustainability science, urban ecology

•    John Melack, Ecology Evolution & Marine Biology/ Bren: Research investigates ecological processes in lakes, wetlands and streams; nutrient inputs and carbon dioxide uptakes by forests.

•    Joel Michealsen, Geography: Climatology; meteorology; statistics

•    John Perona, Chemistry and Biochemistry: Biogeochemistry; t-RNA; climate change

•    Barbara Prezelin, Ecology Evolution & Marine Biology: Marine biology; ocean topography; climate change impacts on primary production in coastal waters

•    Simone Pulver, Environmental Studies: Research focuses on the participation of developing-country firms in India and Brazil in the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism and the use of scenarios in global environmental governance.

•    Josh Schimel, Environmental Studies and EEMB: Research strives to understand the dynamics of soil organic matter in the Arctic, investigating carbon in the Arctic soil and its relationship to climate change.

•    Russell Schmitt, Ecology Evolution & Marine Biology: Population dynamics of marine species, population and community responses to environmental forcing

•   Alex Simms, Earth Science: Regional and global sea-level change

•    Chris Still, Geography: Research investigates carbon cycling, ecological climatology, sustainable science, and climate change using models and studies of stable isotopes

•    Christina Tague, Bren: Research focuses on interactions between hydrology and ecosystem processes, and how eco-hydrologic systems are altered by changes in land use and climate.

•   Bruce Tiffney, Earth Science: Evolution of plant ecosystems; terrestrial plant response to climate change

•  Syee Weldeab, Earth Science: Uses marine sediment cores to understand the linkages between tropical oceans and high latitude climate, and their interaction with and effect on the monsoon systems.

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