Brent Yarnal 
EESI Associate
Brent Yarnal
Ph.D., Simon Fraser University, 1982
Contact Information:
Department of Geography
302 Walker Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 863-4894
email: alibar@essc.psu.edu
Dept. website: http://www.geog.psu.edu/people/yarnal/
Current Research Interests:
In press. Sustainable Communities on a Sustainable Planet: The Human-Environment Regional Observatory Project, by B. Yarnal, C. Polsky, and J. O’Brien, Editors. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England.
In press. Integrating scientific modeling and supporting dynamic hazard management with a GeoAgent-based representation of human environment interactions: A drought example in Central Pennsylvania, USA, by C. Yu, A.M. MacEachren, D.J. Peuquet, and B. Yarnal. Environmental Modelling and Software.
In press. A framework for using GIS and stakeholder input to assess vulnerability to coastal-inundation hazards: A case study from Sarasota County, Florida, by T. Frazier, N. Wood, and B. Yarnal. In: Spatial Planning as a Strategy for the Mitigation of Risk from Natural Hazards, U. Fra Paleo, editor, Elsevier, Oxford, England.
In press. Integrated regional assessment: Overview and framework. In: Integrated Regional Assessment, by B. Yarnal. In: C.G. Knight and J. Jager, editors, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England.
2009. Putting adaptive capacity into the context of people’s lives: A case study of two flood-prone communities in Puerto Rico, by T. López-Marrero and B. Yarnal. Natural Hazards, DOI 10.1007/s11069-009-9370-7.
2008. Decision-support experiments within the water resource management sector, by D.L. Feldman, K.L. Jacobs, G. Garfin, A. Georgakakos, J. Kochendorfer, B. Morehouse, R. Webb, B. Yarnal, C. Rosenzweig, M. Sale, B. Udall, and C. Woodhouse. In: Decision-Support Experiments and Evaluations using Seasonal-to-Interannual Forecasts and Observational Data: A Focus on Water Resources. A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, N Beller-Simms, H Ingram, D Feldman, N Mantua, KL Jacobs, and A Waple, editors, NOAA National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC, 65-100.
2008. Making decision-support information useful, useable, and responsive to decision-maker needs, by D.L. Feldman, K.L. Jacobs, G. Garfin, A. Georgakakos, B. Morehouse, P. Restrepo, R. Webb, B. Yarnal, D. Basketfield, H.C. Hartmann, J. Kochendorfer, C. Rosenzweig, M. Sale, B. Udall, and C. Woodhouse. In: ibid, 101-140.
2007. Community water system managers’ perceptions of climate vulnerability, by K Dow, R O’Connor, B Yarnal, GJ Carbone, and CL Jocoy. Why Worry? Global Environmental Change 17, 228–237.
2007. Vulnerability of Hampton Roads, Virginia to storm-surge flooding and sea-level rise, by L. Kleinosky, B. Yarnal, and A. Fisher. Natural Hazards 40, 43-70.
2007. Universities and climate change mitigation: Advancing grassroots climate policy in the US, by S. Knuth, B. Nagle, C. Steuer, and B. Yarnal.. Local Environment 12, 485-504.
2007. Building comparable global change vulnerability assessments: The Vulnerability Scoping Diagram, by C. Polsky, R. Neff, and B. Yarnal. Global Environmental Change 17, 472-485.
2007. Vulnerability and all that jazz: Addressing vulnerability in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, by B. Yarnal. Technology in Society 29, 249–255.
2007. Teaching global change in local places: The HERO Research Experiences for Undergraduates program, by B. Yarnal and R. Neff. Journal of Geography in Higher Education 31, 413-426.
2006. Building a geocollaboratory: Supporting Human–Environment Regional Observatory (HERO) collaborative science activities, by A.M. MacEachren, W. Pike, C. Yu, I. Brewer, M. Gahegan, S.D. Weaver, and B. Yarnal. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 30:201-225.
2005 Feeling at-risk matters: Water managers and the decision to use forecasts, by R.E. O’Connor, B. Yarnal, K. Dow, C.S. Jocoy, and G. Carbone. Risk Analysis 25:1265-1275.
2005. Retooling collaboration: A vision for environmental change research, by W. Pike, B. Yarnal, A. MacEachren, M. Gahegan, and C. Yu. Environment 47 (2), 8-21.
2005. A greenhouse gas emissions inventory for Pennsylvania, by A. Rose, R. Neff, B. Yarnal, and H. Greenberg. Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association 55:1122-1113.
2003. The impact of local versus national framing on willingness to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: A case study from central Pennsylvania, by B. Yarnal, R.E. O’Connor, and R. Shudak. Local Environment 8, 457-469.
2002. Who wants to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions? by R.E. O’Connor, R.J. Bord, B. Yarnal, and N. Wiefek. Social Science Quarterly 83, 1-17.
2002. Vulnerability of coastal communities to sea-level rise: A case study of Cape May County, New Jersey, by S.-Y. Wu, B. Yarnal, and A. Fisher. Climate Research 22, 255-270.