William Easterling 
EESI Associate
William Easterling
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1984
Dean, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
Contact Information:
College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
116 Deike Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 865-6546
email: billeasterling@psu.edu
Dept. website: http://www.geog.psu.edu/people/easterling/
Current Research Interests:
The potential for agriculture in developed and developing countries to adapt to climate variability and change
The role of scale in understanding the vulnerability of complex systems, especially agro-ecosystems, to environmental change
How land use change may influence the uptake and release of carbon in the terrestrial biosphere
The use of experimental long-term climate forecasts to assist decision making under conditions of uncertainty
The development of methodologies for detecting the impacts of observed 20th century climate change on natural and managed ecosystems
Selected Publications:
Easterling, W. E., J. R. Brandle, C. J. Hays, Q. Guo, and D. S. Guertin. 2001. Simulating the impact of human land use change on forest composition in Great Plains agroecosystems with the Seedscape model. Ecological Modeling, 140: 163-176.
Mearns, L. O., W. Easterling, C. Hays, and D. Marx. 2001. Comparison of agricultural impacts of climate change calculated from high and low resolution climate change scenarios: part I. The uncertainty due to spatial scale. Climatic Change, 51: 131-172.
Easterling, W. E., L. O. Mearns, C. J. Hays, and D. Marx. 2001. Comparison of agricultural impacts of climate change calculated from high and low resolution climate change scenarios: part II. Accounting for adaptation and CO2 direct effects, Climatic Change, 51:173-197.
Polsky, Colin and W. Easterling. 2001. Adaptation to climate variability and change in the U. S. Great Plains: A multi-scale analysis of Ricardian climate sensitivities. Agriculture, Ecosystems, and the Environment, 83:133-144.
Weiss, A., Cynthia J. Hays, Qi Hu, and William E. Easterling. 2001. Incorporating bias error in calculating solar irradiance: Implications for crop yield simulations, Agronomy Journal, 93: 1321-1326.
Tsvetsinskaya E., L.O. Mearns, and W.E. Easterling. 2001. Investigating the Effect of Seasonal Plant Growth and Development in 3-Dimensional Atmospheric Simulations. Part I: Simulation of Surface Fluxes Over the Growing Season. Journal of Climate, 14: 692-709.
Tsvetsinskaya E., L.O. Mearns, and W.E. Easterling. 2001. Investigating the Effect of Seasonal Plant Growth and Development in 3-Dimensional Atmospheric Simulations. Part II: Atmospheric Response to Crop Growth and Development. Journal of Climate, 14:711-729.
Polsky, Colin and William E. Easterling. 2001. A Methodology for a Multi-Scale Analysis of Land Use with an Application to the U. S. Great Plains. Agriculture, Ecosystems and the Environment, 85: 133-144.