My work involves the analysis of large-scale climate datasets and model simulations to investigate regional climate and ecosystem dynamics. To address these questions, I draw from my diverse training in climatology, land surface processes, and ecology. I am particularly interested in using long-term observations and the paleo record to better understand variability and risks of extreme events (droughts), and applying mechanistic models to the same problems to investigate the underlying physical processes. The complementary union of empirical data and mechanistic models offers significant advantages, providing opportunities to evaluate and potentially improve models while also helping us better understand the processes driving past, modern, and future events. Such an approach is critically needed in order to place climate projections within the broader context of natural variability and to determine whether processes important in the past will continue to play a major role in a much warmer future.
Contact
EMAIL, TWITTER
Links
cv, GOOGLE SCHOLAR, ResearcherID
Other Publications & Research Highlights
"Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought"
New paper in science led by Park Williams, demonstrating that climate contributed 30-50% of the total drying to the 2000-2019 drought in the western US (press release)
"Diversity buffers winegrowing regions from climate change losses"
Our new study in PNAS, investigating the potential for shifting grape varieties to increases reslience to climate change (press release)
"Twentieth-century hydroclimate changes consistent with human influence"
Our new study in NATURE, find connections between climate change and drought as early as the first half of the twentieth century (press release)
NEW DROUGHT & CLIMATE CHANGE REVIEW PAPER
"Drought-An Interdisciplinary Study"
MY BOOK, published by Columbia University Press, NOW AVAILABLE
Climate change is already making droughts worse
Carbon Brief Guest Post (May 14, 2018)
Global warming is pushing wine harvests earlier – but not necessarily for the better
The Conversation (March 21, 2016)
NASA Finds Drought in Eastern Mediterranean Worst of Past 900 Years
NASA (March 1, 2016)
NASA Study Finds Carbon Emissions Could Dramatically Increase Risk of U.S. Megadroughts
NASA (February 12, 2015)
Addresses
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
2880 Broadway
New York, N.Y. 10025 U.S.A.
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
61 Route 9W
Palisades, N.Y. 10964-8000 U.S.A.
Contact
EMAIL, TWITTER
Links
cv, GOOGLE SCHOLAR, ResearcherID
Other Publications & Research Highlights
"Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought"
New paper in science led by Park Williams, demonstrating that climate contributed 30-50% of the total drying to the 2000-2019 drought in the western US (press release)
"Diversity buffers winegrowing regions from climate change losses"
Our new study in PNAS, investigating the potential for shifting grape varieties to increases reslience to climate change (press release)
"Twentieth-century hydroclimate changes consistent with human influence"
Our new study in NATURE, find connections between climate change and drought as early as the first half of the twentieth century (press release)
NEW DROUGHT & CLIMATE CHANGE REVIEW PAPER
"Drought-An Interdisciplinary Study"
MY BOOK, published by Columbia University Press, NOW AVAILABLE
Climate change is already making droughts worse
Carbon Brief Guest Post (May 14, 2018)
Global warming is pushing wine harvests earlier – but not necessarily for the better
The Conversation (March 21, 2016)
NASA Finds Drought in Eastern Mediterranean Worst of Past 900 Years
NASA (March 1, 2016)
NASA Study Finds Carbon Emissions Could Dramatically Increase Risk of U.S. Megadroughts
NASA (February 12, 2015)
Addresses
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
2880 Broadway
New York, N.Y. 10025 U.S.A.
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
61 Route 9W
Palisades, N.Y. 10964-8000 U.S.A.
