Gregg M. Garfin
 Deputy Director for Science Translation and Outreach, Institute for the Study of Planet Earth (ISPE)
Investigator, Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS)
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Geography and Regional Development & Arid Lands Studies
Ph.D., 1998, Geociences, University of Arizona.
M.S., 1992, Geography and Geology, University of Massachusetts.
B.S., 1989, Geography and Geology, University of Massachusetts.
Phone: (520) 622-9016
FAX: (520) 792-8795
E-mail: gmgarfin@email.arizona.edu
715 N. Park Ave., 2nd Floor
Tucson, AZ 85721-0156
USA
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Research
My research focuses chiefly on four areas: multidisciplinary investigations into climate variability and its impacts on the Southwest, climate change in the Southwest, climate-related fire impacts, and delivering climate information to decisionmakers. My recent investigations of climate variability look at persistent drought, vulnerability to drought, and linking climatology to drought impacts. The latter is an especially under-appreciated aspect of drought monitoring and preparedness.
Project Involvement
- Assessment of the Navajo Nation Hydroclimate Network
- Reducing New Mexico’s Agricultural Drought Vulnerability Through Stakeholder Assessment and Climate Decision Support
- Information Flows and Policy: Use of Climate Diagnostics and Cyclone Prediction for Adaptive Management Under Climatic and Water-Resources Uncertainty in Western North America
- Multi-Method Evalution of the RISA Model, with Lessons for NIDIS
- Index and Impact Tools to Improve Drought Monitoring and Preparedness
- Instituting Multi-Scale Hydro-climatic Indices in Drought Monitoring and Mitigation in Arizona
- Regional Dynamic Vegetation Model for the Colorado Plateau: A Species-Specific Approach
- Effects of Climate Variability on Fire Regimes in Mountains of the Great Basin, AD 1700 to Present
- Development of the Arizona Drought Impact Reporting System (AZ-DIRS)
- Arizona Drought Monitoring and Sensitivity Analyses
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