Many faculty members are evaluating the potential impact of climate change on their respective field of interest. Climate change research spans the range disciplines within the School of Environmental Sciences. Research studies evaluate potential climate change impacts on various ecosystems; possible changes in adaptations, mitigation, and management as a result of climate change; and utilizing models and other predictive tools to assess effect of climate change.
- Emmanuelle Arnaud [1] (glacial geology)
- Rebecca Hallett [2] (climate change impacts on crop pests)
- Jonathan Newman [3] (ecological impacts of climate change)
- Claude Wagner-Riddle [4] (greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture)
Faculty in other academic units/departments working on Climate Change are:
- Aaron Berg [5] (climate change and water resources)
- Elizabeth (Liz) Boulding [6] (exotic species introductions, extinctions, evolutionary adaptation, climate change)
- Ze'ev Gedalof [7] (climatic variability) [2]
- Andrew MacDougall [8] (global carbon sequestration in semi-arid prairie [3] [4])
- Jaclyn Coburn [9] (paleoclimatology)