Research

Current projects:

• Integrating social, political and technical dynamics into climate change modeling
  • Lower uncertainty in local climate projections arising from physical and socio-economic constraints
  • Emissions pathways arising from a model coupling the energy, social, and climate system 
  • Review article on the integration of human systems into climate modeling
• Quantifying the implications for human welfare of climate-change effects on natural systems with Xiaoli Dong and Marc Conte
  • Funded through the Coupled Natural-Human Systems Program at NSF – read more here
  • Review of the intersection between natural capital and climate change damages
  • Climate change effects of endangered species listing and spending in the U.S.
  • Incorporating natural capital into a classic climate-economy model
• Improving the scientific foundation of climate change damages in climate-economic models
  • Fully updated social cost of carbon estimates
  • Mortality damage functions at the country level
  • Incorporating econometric estimates of climate change impacts on economic growth into DICE 
  • Reviewing the scientific basis of IAM damage functions and scope for improvement
  • Updating damage functions for the agricultural sector to improve the social cost of carbon
• Understanding people’s experience of climate change through their perception of weather with Nick Obradovich
  • Using Twitter data to measure the frequency of US coastal flooding
  • Using Twitter data to measure shifting baselines in a changing climate
  • Models and experiments exploring how people learn about climate change from weather
• Quantifying the economic impacts of climate change effects on agriculture with Thomas Hertel and Uris Baldos
  • Including labor productivity impacts to assessments of climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Comparing the yield and welfare effects of climate change using process-based vs empirical agricultural models
  • Updating damage functions for the agricultural sector to improve the social cost of carbon
  • Understanding the drivers of welfare changes from climate change impacts on agriculture
• Determining the rate and effectiveness of adaptation to climate change in agriculture
  • Documenting the adaptive effects of historical crop migration
  • Quantifying the potential for adaptation in European agriculture
• Characterizing farmer response to recent drought in California
  • Role of agricultural water markets in managing drought impacts
  • Role of groundwater banking in managing drought for perennial crops
• Statistically detecting the effect of climate change on social and economic systems
  • A review of econometric approaches for estimating the impacts of climate change using weather fluctuations
  • Identifying the effect of climate change on European crop yields