Brent Yarnal 
EESI Associate
Brent Yarnalf
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1998
Contact Information:
Department of Meteorology
509 Deike Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 865-
email: alibar@essc.psu.edu
Dept. website: http://www.geog.psu.edu/people/yarnal/
Current Research Interests:
Climate variation and change, Land-use/land-cover change, Natural hazards, Interaction of environmental hazards, global environmental change, and socioeconomic development, Local greenhouse-gas emissions and mitigation action planning, Vulnerability assessment
Selected Publications:
In press L Kleinosky, B Yarnal, and A Fisher. Vulnerability of Hampton Roads, Virginia to storm-surge flooding and sea-level rise. Natural Hazards.
In press L Kleinosky, D O’Sullivan, and B Yarnal. A method for constructing a social vulnerability index: An application to hurricane storm surges in a developed country. Mitigation and Ad-aptations Strategies for Global Change.
In press B Yarnal and R Neff. Teaching global change in local places: The HERO Research Experi-ences for Undergraduates program. Journal of Geography in Higher Education.
2006 AM MacEachren, W Pike, C Yu, I Brewer, M Gahegan, SD Weaver, and B Yarnal. Building a geocollaboratory: Supporting Human–Environment Regional Observatory (HERO) collaborative science activities. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 30:201-225.
2005 RE O’Connor, B Yarnal, K Dow, CS Jocoy, and G Carbone. Feeling at-risk matters: Water managers and the decision to use forecasts. Risk Analysis 25:1265-1275.
2005 W Pike, B Yarnal, A MacEachren, M Gahegan, and C Yu. Retooling collaboration: A vision for environmental change research. Environment 47 (2), 8-21.
2005 A Rose, R Neff, B Yarnal, and H Greenberg. A greenhouse gas emissions inventory for Pennsylvania. Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association 55:1122-1113.
2004 B Yarnal, and R Neff. Wither parity? The need for a comprehensive curriculum in human-environment geography. The Professional Geographer 56, 28-36.
2003 B Yarnal, RE O’Connor, and R Shudak. The impact of local versus national framing on willingness to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: A case study from central Pennsylvania. Local Environment 8, 457-469.
2002 RG Crane, B Yarnal, EJ Barron, and B Hewitson. Scale interactions and regional climate: Examples from the Susquehanna River Basin. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment 8, 147-158.
2002 RE O’Connor, RJ Bord, B Yarnal, and N Wiefek. Who wants to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions? Social Science Quarterly 83, 1-17.
2002 S-Y Wu, B Yarnal, and A Fisher. Vulnerability of coastal communities to sea-level rise: A case study of Cape May County, New Jersey. Climate Research 22, 255-270.
2002 Z Yu, EJ Barron, B Yarnal, MN Lakhtakia, RA White, D. Pollard, and DA Miller. Evalua-tion of basin-scale hydrologic response to a multi-storm simulation. Journal of Hydrology 257, 212-225.
2001 B Yarnal, AC Comrie, BJ Frakes, and DP Brown. Developments and prospects in synoptic climatology. International Journal of Climatology 21, 1923-1950.
2000 R Neff, H Chang, CG Knight, RG Najjar, B Yarnal, and HA Walker. Impact of climate variation and change on Mid-Atlantic Region hydrology and water resources. Climate Re-search 11, 207-218.
2000 C Polsky, J Allard, N Currit, R Crane, and B Yarnal. The Mid-Atlantic Region and its cli-mate: Past, present, and future. Climate Research 11, 161-173.
2000 B Yarnal, MN Lakhtakia, Z Yu, RA White, DA Miller, D Pollard, and W Lapenta. A linked meteorological and hydrologic model system: The Susquehanna River Basin Experiment (SRBEX). Global and Planetary Change 25, 149-161.