Localizing Climate Projections: Putting High Resolution Climate Projections to Work for Wildlife Conservation
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 2:30 to 4:00PM EDT

Instructor: Katherine Hayhoe Bibliography

Katharine Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist whose research focuses on quantifying the potential impacts of human activities at the regional scale. A professor in the Department of Geosciences at Texas Tech University and CEO of the scientific consulting company ATMOS Research, she is an expert in climate change issues related to global modeling, regional impacts, and science-policy interface.

Katharine’s research focuses on evaluating the ability of coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation models to simulate real-world phenomena and developing new techniques to generate scientifically robust, high-resolution projections. She then collaborates with colleagues from the physical and social sciences to apply these regional climate projections to assess the potential effects of climate change on a broad range of impacts including forests and crops, energy and water, and health and infrastructure.

Her past assessments for California, the Great Lakes, and the Northeast have been cited in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, presented before Congress, and highlighted by state and federal agencies as motivation for the implementation of policies to reduce human emissions of greenhouse gases. Currently, Katharine is leading climate impact assessments for the U.S. Midwest and the Eastern Mediterranean, and serving as Lead Author for the upcoming CCSP State of Knowledge report, "Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States."

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