Educational Grants
May 1993 – August 1994: Co-Investigator (Principal Investigators, L. Waks and C. Mitcham, The Pennsylvania State University) Critical Issues in Science, Technology, and Society: An Integrated Course Sequence (NSF).
January 1993 – December 1995: Principal Investigator, Project STICKS–Science and Technology in Classrooms/Keystone State (The Center for Rural Pennsylvania).
Research Grants
July 2009 – June 2013: Co-Principal Investigator (PI M. Thomas; with M. Mann, A. Reed, T. Scott) Quantifying the Influence of Environmental Temperature on Transmission of Vector-Borne Disease (NSF, $1,884,991).
January 2009 – December 2011: Co-Investigator (PI Petra Tschakert; with Christopher Hoadley, Esther Prins, Kenneth Tamminga) Anticipatory Learning for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience. (NSF, $750,000).
January 2009 – December 2009: Co-Investigator (PI James Shortle; with D. Abler, K. Fisher-Vanden, R. Ready, M. McDill, R. Najar, S. Blumsack) Pennsylvania Climate Impact Assessment. (PA Dept. Environmental Protection, $193,854).
August 2008-July 2013: Co-Principal Investigator (with T. Wagener, M. Mann and K. Freeman) A Framework for Probabilistic Projections of Energy‐Relevant Streamflow Indicators under Climate Change Scenarios for the U.S. (U.S. DOE $450,000).
September 2002 – August 2005: Co-Investigator (Principal Investigator, Ann Fisher, The Pennsylvania State University), Consortium for Atlantic Regional Assessment (CARA): Proposed Assessment in the Mid- and Upper-Atlantic Region (MUAR) (EPA, $2,249,930).
January 2002 – December 2004: Co-Investigator (Principal Investigator, B. Hewitson, University of Cape Town), Development of Regional Climate Change Scenarios for Sub-Saharan Africa (Assessment of Impacts and Adaptation to Climate Change Project, Global Environment Facility and United Nations Environment Programme).
January 2001 – December 2003: Co-Principal Investigator (with R. Alley, The Pennsylvania State University), Relating West Antarctic Ice Cores to Climate with Artificial Neural Networks (NSF, $229,206).
July 1998 – June 2001: Co-Investigator (Principal Investigator, A. Fisher, The Pennsylvania State University), Mid-Atlantic Regional Assessment (EPA).
July 1997 – June 1999: Co-Principal Investigator (with P. Schultz and E. Barron, The Pennsylvania State University), A Reduced Form Climate Model and Downscaling Methodology for Integrated Assessment of Climate Change (NIGEC, $59,251).
April 1996 – March 2001: Co-Investigator (Principal Investigator, G. Knight, The Pennsylvania State University), Methods for Integrated Regional Assessment (NSF $1,497,521).
July 1995 – June 2000: Co-Investigator (Principal Investigator, A. Fisher, The Pennsylvania State University), Global Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources and Ecosystems (EPA, $1,872,120).
November 1995 – October 1998: Co-Investigator (Principal Investigator, B. Yarnal, The Pennsylvania State University), Regional Hydrologic Vulnerability and Adaption to Climate: An Integrated Assessment of the Susquehanna River Basin (EPA, $463,155).
September 1993 – August 1995: Principal Investigator, Regional Climates in GCMs (DOE, $57,824).
December 1989 ‑ November 1993: Principal Investigator (Co‑Principal Investigator, John Walsh, University of Illinois), General Circulation Model Simulations of the Polar Regions (NSF, $165,911).
June 1989 ‑ December 1999: Co-Investigator (Principal Investigator, Eric Barron, The Pennsylvania State University), The Global Water Cycle: Extension Across the Earth Sciences (NASA).
May 1989 ‑ October 1991: Principal Investigator, Regional Climate Change Predictions from the Goddard Institute for Space Studies High Resolution GCM (NASA, $101,533).
January 1987 ‑ December 1988: Principal Investigator (Co‑Principal Investigator, Mark Anderson, University of Nebraska), Synoptic Analysis of Ice Melt from Nimbus-7 SMMR (NASA, $84,210).
February 1984 ‑ April 1986: Principal Investigator (Co‑Principal Investigator, R. G. Barry, University of Colorado), Empirical and Modeled Synoptic Cloud Climatology of the Arctic Ocean (NASA, $136,000).
January 1984 ‑ July 1986: Co‑Principal Investigator (Principal Investigator, R. G. Barry, University of Colorado), Surface-Atmosphere Interactions in the Arctic Using Satellite Data Analysis (NSF, $129,334).
July 1982 ‑ June 1984: Research Associate (Principal Investigator, R. G. Barry, University of Colorado) Pilot Study and Evaluation of a Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) Derived Data Base (NASA).
September 1981 ‑ April 1984: Research Associate (Principal Investigator, R. G. Barry, University of Colorado) Cryosphere‑Cloud Interactions Near the Snow/Ice Limit (NSF).
September 1979 ‑ August 1981: Graduate Research Assistant (Principal Investigator, R. G. Barry, University of Colorado) Atmosphere‑Sea Ice Interactions in the Arctic (NSF).
September 1979 ‑ August 1981: Graduate Research Assistant (Principal Investigators, H. Nichols, R. G. Barry, J. Andrews, and J. D. Ives) Climatic Reconstructions of Late‑ and Post‑Glacial Environments: Eastern Canadian Arctic (NSF).
January 1978 ‑ September 1979: Graduate Research Assistant (Principal Investigator, R. G. Barry, University of Colorado) Inventory of Global and Regional Sea Ice and Snow Cover Data and a Survey of User Requirements (NOAA/World Data Center‑A for Glaciology).
June 1977 ‑ December 1977: Graduate Research Assistant (Principal Investigators R. G. Barry, J. T. Andrews and G. H. Miller, University of Colorado) The Physical Coastal Environment of Southern Baffin Island and Northern Labrador (Imperial Oil Ltd, Aquitaine Company of Canada Ltd, and Canada‑Cities Service Ltd.).
September 1976 ‑ June 1977: Graduate Research Assistant (Principal Investigators, R. G. Barry, University of Colorado and J. D. Jacobs, University of Windsor) Energy Budgets and Sea Ice Conditions in the Davis Strait (NSF).
Other Professional Experience
September – November 2000: Visiting Professor (Sabbatical Leave) University of Cape Town, South Africa.
July ‑ August 1980: Visitor at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Numerical Analysis of Nimbus‑5 Satellite Microwave Brightness Temperatures.
July ‑ August 1977: Aerial Reconnaissance of Ungava Bay and Observer on Board Canadian Ice Reconnaissance Flights Based in Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island.