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:
2007 Easterling, W. E. Special Feature Editor, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United State of America, Vol. 104, No. 50, pp. 19657-200144, www.pnas.org.

2005 Easterling, W. E. Chapter 11: Assessing the Consequences of Climate Change for Food Security: A View from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in R. Lal (Ed.), Climate Change and Global Food Security, Routledge, Boca Raton, 778 pp.

2005 Easterling W. E., Apps M. Assessing the consequences of climate change for food and forest resources: A view from the IPCC, Climatic Change 70 (1-2): 165-189.

2004 Easterling, W. E., Brian Hurd, and Joel Smith. Coping with Global Climate Change: The Role of Adaptation in the United States, Pew Center on Global Climate Change, Washington, DC.

2003 Easterling, W. E., C. Polsky, D. Goodin, M. W. Mayfield, W. A. Muraco, and B. Yarnal. Changing Places, Changing Emissions: Comparing Local, State, and United States Emissions, in Association of American Geographers Global Change and Local Places Research Team (ed.), Global Change and Local Places—Estimating, Understanding, and Reducing Greenhouse Gases, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 27-56.

2002 Easterling, W. E., N. Chhetri, and X. Niu. Improving the realism of modeling agronomic adaptation to climate change: simulating technological substitution, in Mearns. L. O. (ed.), Issues in the Impacts of Climate Variability and Change on Agriculture—Applications to the southeastern United States, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 149-173. (peer
reviewed)

2002 Easterling, W. E. and Kasper Kok. Emergent Properties of Scale in Global Environmental Modeling: Are There Any? Integrated Assessment, 2-3:233-246.

2001 Convening Lead Authors: Gitay, Habiba, Sandra Brown, William Easterling, and Bubu Jallow (with J. Antle, M. Apps, R. Beamish, T. Chapin, W. Cramer, J. Frangi, J. Laine, Lin Erda, J. Magnuson, I. Noble, J. Price, T. Prowse, O. Sirotenko, T. Root, E. Schulze, B. Sohngen, J. Soussana). Chapter 5. Ecosystems and Their Goods and Services. in McCarthy et al. (eds.) CLIMATE CHANGE 2000–Impacts, Adaptations and Mitigation of Climate Change: Scientific-Technical Analyses. Contribution of Working Group II to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, United Nations Environment Programme-World Meteorological Organization, Cambridge University Press. pp. 235-342. (peer reviewed) 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.

2001 Easterling, W. E., L. O. Mearns, C. J. Hays, and D. Marx 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

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