Meet U of I’s Climate Change Experts

Expertise: Climate change policy; national adaption plans; impact of climate change on smallholder agriculture

Expertise: Impacts of climate change on irrigation water requirements and evapotranspiration, crop phenology; crop models used in climate change studies

Expertise: Glacier change; glacier flow; ice sheets; ice/ocean interactions; glacier hydrology; geophysics; Greenland; Alaska

Expertise: Global long term fire monitoring; climatic drivers of global fire regimes; and fire end greenhouse gas emission inventories

Expertise: Thermal ecology of fishes; climate impacts on fish and wildlife populations; bioenergetics; prespawn mortality and disease in salmon in relation to temperature; work with regional agencies on fish migration issues including effects of water temperature; thermal refuges on salmon migration; and genetic responses of rainbow trout to changing climate and environments

Expertise: Climate change impacts on forest insects and high elevation forests.

Expertise: Climate change and agriculture; interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary applied climate change research; climate change and insect pests

Expertise: Effect of climate change on buildings and cities; modeling building performance under different climate scenarios; design and planning to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions; and carbon sequestration in mass timber buildings

Expertise: Climate change skepticism and denial; climate change and human populations; role of identity, ideology, politics and culture on human behaviors that drive climate change

Expertise: Dendrochronology (tree-ring science); climate impacts on drought, tropical cyclones, wildfire, hydrology and vegetation

Expertise: Climate change and water rights and indigenous rights; interrelationship of law and science

Expertise: Climate change impacts on plants, animals, carbon cycle, forests, forest disturbances, insect outbreaks; climate change assessments for the IPCC, US, Idaho, City of Moscow.

Expertise:  urban design and planning under climate change; sustainable design strategies for urban and rural communities; urban policies and governance on climate change; socially and culturally sustainable development, worked globally including in east Asia and Middle-east on urban development for climate adaption.

Expertise: Carbon cycle science; biogeochemistry; land use change; disturbance regimes; mitigation; North American Carbon Program; AmeriFlux; ecosystem modeling; review editor for the 2018 State of the Carbon Cycle Report

Expertise: Cultural aspects of climate change; climate change in fiction and film; the role stories and story-telling play in mitigating climate change; co-PI of the Confluence Lab, which studies climate change in Idaho

Expertise: Climate change and sustainable agriculture

Expertise: Bioenergetics of fish and implications of thermal stress and adaptation

Expertise: Emotions about climate change, including fear, anxiety, nostalgia, solastalgia, resilience and ecological grief; apocalyptic and climate change fiction and film; public memory and tourism in the U.S. West; co-PI of the Confluence Lab, which studies climate change in Idaho

Expertise: Natural resource management; environmental policy; social-ecological systems; bioeconomic modeling; member of working group on climate change in Idaho

Expertise: Impact of climate change on agriculture and public health, especially concerning pest populations

Expertise: Snow hydrology; watershed hydrology; ecohydrology; climate change indicators in Idaho; works with regional agencies and stakeholders on the potential effects of climate change on hydrological systems

Expertise: Effects of climatic variation on behavior and physiology of mammals

Expertise: Plant community susceptibility to invasion models that include climate related variables

Expertise: Climate variability and change; climate impacts on mountain snowpack and evapotranspiration; satellite remote sensing of snow; consults with state and federal agencies on climatic impacts on hydrology

Expertise: climate change denial; climate communication; risk perception; trust

Expertise: Climate change communication; climate literature; climate change pedagogy in the humanities; perception of hyperobjects and slow violence

Expertise: Vegetation response to climate change; land use, ecosystem carbon allocation and climate change; satellite imagery and vegetation productivity related to climate; fossil evidence of past climate histories.

Expertise: Effects of climate change on river morphology and stability, sediment transport and aquatic habitat