Climate
and Earth Systems Research Group
Department of Physical Sciences
Kutztown
University of Pennsylvania
The Climate and Earth Systems
Research Group currently has two main foci:
Changing Climate
and Wildlife Conservation
Making plans to address the impacts of future climate change is a challenging task that is often hampered by the lack of spatially explicit climate forecasts. Working with the Conservation Management Institute at Virginia Tech and supported by the National Wildlife Federation and the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, we are developing high resolution climate forecasts for the state if Virginia at 50 and 100 year planning horizons. These climate forecasts will be integrated with species modeling to estimate the potential impacts on Virginia species of greatest conservation need and those estimates will be incorporated into a revised State Wildlife Action Plan.
Making plans to address the impacts of future climate change is a challenging task that is often hampered by the lack of spatially explicit climate forecasts. Working with the Conservation Management Institute at Virginia Tech and supported by the National Wildlife Federation and the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, we are developing high resolution climate forecasts for the state if Virginia at 50 and 100 year planning horizons. These climate forecasts will be integrated with species modeling to estimate the potential impacts on Virginia species of greatest conservation need and those estimates will be incorporated into a revised State Wildlife Action Plan.
Cretaceous Climate
Dynamics
The Cretaceous (144 - 65 Ma) was a time of changing continental configurations, atmospheric composition, and climate. We are using coupled, earth system models to simulate the Campanian climate of interior North America in an effort to understand atmospheric circulations, water mass trajectories, and paleoelevations along the proto-Rocky Mountain front.
The Cretaceous (144 - 65 Ma) was a time of changing continental configurations, atmospheric composition, and climate. We are using coupled, earth system models to simulate the Campanian climate of interior North America in an effort to understand atmospheric circulations, water mass trajectories, and paleoelevations along the proto-Rocky Mountain front.