William Easterling

• Dean, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
• Professor of Geography and Earth System Science
• 116 Deike Building
• University Park
• Telephone: (814) 865-6546
• FAX: (814) 863-7708
• E-mail: billeasterling@psu.edu
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• College of Earth and Mineral Sciences

Keywords:

• African-related Studies
• Agricultural Planning or Policy
• Climate Change
• Climate Modeling
• Crop Modeling
• Earth System Science
• El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
• Global Change
• Human-Environment Interactions
• Integrated Regional Assessment
• Land Use Planning or Policy
• Modeling/Simulation

Active Research Projects:

• Applying MODIS estimated radiation budget and biophysical parameters with multi-scale soils and weather data for crop modeling
• Climate Impact Modeling and Analysis Project (CIMAP)
• Hydrologic Forecasting for Characterization of Non-linear Response of Freshwater Wetlands to Climatic and Land Use Change in the Susquehanna River Basin
• Indice Calculations
• Understanding and Modeling the Scope for Adaptive Management in Agroecosystems in the Pampass in Response to Interannual and Decadal Climate Variability and other Risk Factors

Completed Research Projects:

• Building the Role of Seasonal Climate Forecasts in South Africa
• Calculation of annually integrated daily time-stop agro-climate indices used to estimate climate influences on crop growth processed - Year 2
• Calculation of annually integrated daily time-stop agro-climate indices used to estimate climate infuences on crop growth processes
• Climate Impact Modeling and Analysis Project (CIMAP)
• Indice Calculations
• National Institutes for Global Environmental Change