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Climate, society and environment interactions; Geographic Information Systems; GIS in atmospheric sciences; methods for assessing societal risk, vulnerability and adaptive capacity to natural hazards and climate change; GIS-based integration of quantitative and qualitative information.

2006-present

Project Scientist II. Institute for the Study of Society and Environment (ISSE), NCAR.

2001-present

Principal investigator and leader of GIS Strategic Initiative, NCAR.

2002-2006

Project Scientist I. Institute for the Study of Society and Environment (ISSE), National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

2001-2002

Visiting Scientist. Environmental and Societal Impacts Group (ESIG), National Center for Atmospheric Research.

2002

Adjunct Assistant Professor. MEng-GIS Program, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Colorado at Denver.

1999-2001

Postdoctoral fellow. Advanced Study Program, NCAR.

1993-1999

Research Assistant. School of Natural Resource Sciences (former department of Agricultural Meteorology), University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

1991-1993

Research Assistant. Department of Physical Geography of the World and Geoecology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.

Refereed Journal Articles:

Wilhelmi, O.V., M.J. Hayes, D.S.K. Thomas. 2008. Managing drought in mountain resort communities: Colorado’s experiences.  Disaster Preparedness and Management (in press).

Downton, M.., R.E. Morss, O.V. Wilhelmi, E. Gruntfest, and M. Higgins. 2005. Flood- related decisions and scientific uncertainty:  Estimates of extreme precipitation in the Colorado Front Range. Environmental Hazards, Vol. 6, pp. 134-146.

Morss, R.E., O. V. Wilhelmi, M. W. Downton, and E. Gruntfest, 2005. Flood risk, uncertainty, and scientific information for decision-making: Lessons from an interdisciplinary project. Bulletin of American Meteorological Society, Vol. 86, No. 11, pp. 1593–1601.

Wilhelmi, O. V. and T. L. Betancourt 2005. Evolution of NCAR GIS Initiative: Demonstration of GIS Interoperability.Bulletin of American Meteorological Society, 86(2): 176-178.

Wilhelmi, O.V., K.L. Purvis, and R.C. Harriss. 2004. Designing a geospatial information infrastructure for the mitigation of heat wave hazards in urban areas. Natural Hazards Review, 5(3): 147-158.

Hayes, M. J., O.V. Wilhelmi, and C.L. Knutson. 2004. Reducing drought risk:  Bridging theory and practice. Natural Hazards Review, 5(2):106-113.

Wilhelmi, O.V and J.C. Brunskill. 2003. GIS in Weather, Climate and Impacts. Bulletin of American Meteorological Society, 84(10): 1409-1414.

Lamarque, J.-F., D. P. Edwards, L. K. Emmons,  J. C. Gille, O. Wilhelmi, C. Gerbig, D. Prevedel, M. N. Deeter, J. Warner, D. C. Ziskin, B. Khattatov, G. L. Francis, V. Yudin, S. Ho, D. Mao and J. Chen, J. R. Drummond. 2003. Identification of CO plumes from MOPITT data: Application to the August 2000 Idaho-Montana forest fires. Geophysical Research Letters, 30(13):1688, doi: 10.1029/2003GL017503, 2003

Wilhelmi, O.V., K.G. Hubbard, and D.A. Wilhite. 2002. Spatial representation of agroclimatology in a study of agricultural drought. International Journal of Climatology. 22(11):1399-1414.

Wilhelmi, O.V. and D.A. Wilhite. 2002. Assessing vulnerability to agricultural drought: a Nebraska case study. Natural Hazards, 25(1):37-58.

Hayes, M.J., M.D. Svoboda, D.A. Wilhite, and O. Vanyarkho. 1999. Monitoring the 1996 Drought Using the Standardized Precipitation Index. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 80: 429-438

Book Chapters:

Thomas, D., Wilhelmi O. and M. Hayes. 2006. Disaster Reduction, Drought, and the Resort Community. Chapter 14 In: T. Clark, A. Gill and R. Hartmann (Eds.), Mountain Resort Planning and Development in an Era of Globalization. Cognizant Communication Corporation, NY, USA.

Barlow, M., H. Cullen, B. Lyon, and O. Wilhelmi. 2006. Drought disaster in Asia, Chapter 1 in Arnold, M., R. S. Chen, U. Deichmann, M. Dilley, A. L. Lerner-Lam, R. E. Pullen, and Z. Trohanis. Natural Disaster Hotspots Case Studies. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Publications.

Wilhite D.A., and O. Vanyarkho. 2000. Drought: Pervasive Impacts of a Creeping Phenomenon (Chapter 18). In: D.A. Wilhite (ed.), Drought: A Global Assessment, Natural Hazards and Disasters Series. Routledge Publishers, UK.

On-line Reports:

Wilhite, D.A., D. M. Diodato, K. Jacobs, R. Palmer, B. Raucher, K. Redmond, D. Sada, K. Helm Smith, J. Warwick, O. Wilhelmi. 2007. "Managing Drought: A Roadmap for Change in the United States". On-line at http://geosociety.org/meetings/06drought/roadmap.pdf

Wilhelmi, O. 2006. Report from the 2nd NCAR Workshop on GIS in Weather, Climate and Impacts, NCAR, Boulder, CO. On-line at: http://www.gis.ucar.edu/05workshop/pdf/summary.pdf

Wilhelmi, O.V., D.S.K. Thomas, and M. J. Hayes. 2005. Colorado resort communities and the 2002-2003 drought: Impacts and lessons learned. Quick Response Research Report 174. Boulder, CO: Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center, University of Colorado. On-line at: http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/qr/qr174/qr174.html

Barlow, M., H. Cullen, B. Lyon, and O. Wilhelmi, 2003. Toward calculation of global drought hazard: a pilot study for Asia. Report for the World Bank - Columbia University project: Identification of Natural Disaster Risk Hotspots.

Betancourt, T. L. and O. Wilhelmi. 2003. Final report on GIS Demonstration Project. Report to NSF. October 1, 2003. On-line: http://www.gis.ucar.edu/FinalReport.pdf

Theses:

Wilhelmi, O.V. 1999. Methodology for Assessing Vulnerability to Agricultural Drought: A Nebraska Case Study. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Vanyarkho, O.V. 1996. Changes in Vegetative Characteristics and Gas Exchange Properties of Phragmites australis and Scirpus acutus in a Mid-Latitude Prairie Wetland Ecosystem. M.S. Thesis. University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Vanyarkho, O.V. 1993.  Present status of landscapes and the process of desertification in the region of Egypt and Sudan. Diplom Thesis. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia.

2008-2011

(pending) NSF grant: Cyberinfrastructure linking Atmospheric and Hydrologic Science (PI).

2009-2012

(pending) NSF grant: Using coupled atmospheric-human systems to study present & future health impacts of & adaptation to air pollution and heat stress in Houston & Mexico City (Co-PI).

2007-2009

IAI grant: Adaptation to the health impacts of air pollution and climate extremes in Latin American cities (ADAPTE) (Co-PI).
Amount: $160,000

2007-2011

Norwegian Research Council grant. Responding to Climate Change:
The Potentials of and Limits to Adaptation in Norway (PLAN) (collaborator; K. O’Brien (U. Oslo) – PI).

2001-2010

NCAR Geographic Information Systems Strategic Initiative (PI).
Amount:

• 2001-2002 :           $20,000
• 2003-2005:            $630,000
• 2006-2007:            $403,200
• 2008-2010:            $660,000

2006-2007

RGI (The Netherlands) grant: Atmospheric Data Access for the Geospatial User Community (collaborator; J. van de Vegte (KNMI) – PI). Amount: EUR 700,000.

2003

Quick Response Grant funded by the Natural Hazards Center in cooperation with the National Science Foundation. “Assessing the Impacts of ‘The Worst Drought in the History of Colorado’ on the Ski Industry”. (Principal Investigator, with D. Thomas, CU-Denver and M. Hayes, U. of Nebraska). 2003.
Amount: $2,700

2002-2003

National Science Foundation Special Funds Grant. “Exploration and Demonstration of GIS Interoperability Technologies for the International H 2O Project”. (with Terri Betancourt, NCAR). Duration 2002-2003.
Amount: $219,138

American Meteorological Society

J. van de Vegte, W.-J. S. de Cerff, G. H. J. van den Oord, R. S, I. A. van der Neut, M.
Plieger, R. M. van Hees, R.A.M. de  Jeu, M. E. Schaepman, M. R. Hoogerwerf, N. G. Groot, B. Domenico, S. Nativi, O.V. Wilhelmi. 2007. Atmospheric Data Access to the Geospatial User Community. Paper presented at SPIE Europe Remote Sensing Conference, 17–20 September 2007, Florence, Italy

Morss, R., O.Wilhelmi, M. Downton, and E. Gruntfest. Interactions between flood
management decisions and scientific uncertainty about the climatological risk of extreme flooding. Proceedings of the 87th AMS Annual Meeting, 14-18 January 2007, San Antonio, TX, USA

Fransen, T. and O. Wilhelmi. 2007.  Increasing Societal Resilience to Winter Weather.
Proceedings of 87th AMS Annual Meeting, 14-18 January 2007, San Antonio, TX, USA

David, C. H., Gochis, D. J., Maidment, D. R. and Wilhelmi, O. 2007. Linking Hydrology
and Atmospheric Sciences in Continental Water Dynamics Modeling. Proceedings of the 1st Mediterranean-HyMeX workshop, 9-11 January 2007, Toulouse, France

Wilhelmi, O. 2006. Putting Climate on a Map: Increasing Usability of Atmospheric
Science through GIS. Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meeting Suppl., Abstract PA24A-07

David, C. H., Gochis, D. J., Maidment, D. R. and Wilhelmi, O. 2006. Linking Hydrology
and Atmospheric Sciences in Continental Water Dynamics Modeling. Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meeting Suppl., Abstract IN13E-07

Wilhelmi, O., R. Morss, and B. Edwards. 2006. A flash flood risk assessment for the
Colorado Front range using GIS. 2006. EGU General Assembly 2006. Vienna, Austria, April 02-07, 2006.

Wilhelmi, O. Investigating impacts of climate change: a role for GIS. 2006. EGU General
Assembly 2006. Vienna, Austria, April 02-07, 2006.

Barlow, M., H. Cullen, B. Lyon, and O. Wilhelmi. 2006. Calculating Drought Hazard at
the Country-Level in Asia. Proceedings of the 86th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 29 January -2 February, 2006. Atlanta, GA.

Thomas, D., O. Wilhelmi, and M. Hayes. 2004. Challenges to Resort Communities in the
Face of Drought. AAG Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA, March, 2004.

Wilhelmi, O. and T. Betancourt. 2003. Exploration of GIS Interoperability technologies
for atmospheric science research. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 5, 13415. EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly, 06 - 11 April 2003, Nice, France. 

Wilhelmi, O. and T. Betancourt. 2003. Exploration of GIS Interoperability technologies
for the International H2O Project. Proceedings of 83rd AMS Annual Meeting, 9-13 February 2003, Long Beach, California, U.S.A.

Downton, M. R., H.Cullen, R.Morss, O.Wilhelmi and B. Rajagopalan. 2003. Problems of
Climate Variability and Uncertainly in Flood Hazard Planning for the Colorado Front Range. Proceedings of 83rd AMS Annual Meeting, 9-13 February 2003, Long Beach, California, U.S.A.

Wilhelmi, O. Vulnerability of the High Plains to Drought and Depleting Water
Resources. Proceedings of 15th Conference on Biometeorology and Aerobiology. Joint with the International Congress of Biometeorology. 27 October – 1 November, 2002. Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.A. (Invited).

Wilhelmi, O.V. and D.A. Wilhite “Drought Vulnerability Assessment as a Part of
Nebraska Drought Planning”. Proceedings of the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. February 27 - March 3, 2001. New York, New York, U.S.A.

Wilhelmi, O.V. and D.A.Wilhite. Methodology for assessing vulnerability to agricultural
drought: a Nebraska case study. Proceedings of 4th International    Conference on Integrating Geographic Information Systems and Environmental Modeling. September 2-8, 2000.  Banff, Alberta, Canada.

Wilhelmi, O.V., K.G. Hubbard, and D.A. Wilhite. Defining agroclimatological factors influencing vulnerability to agricultural drought: a Nebraska case study. Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, American Meteorological Society. 14-18 August, Davis, California, U.S.A.

Hayes, M.J., M.D. Svoboda, D.A. Wilhite, and O. Vanyarkho. Monitoring the 1996 Drought Using the Standardized Precipitation Index. Proceedings of 10th Conference on Applied Climatology, 20-23 October, 1997, Reno, Nevada, U.S.A.

Vanyarkho, O.V. and T.J. Arkebauer “Responses of Phragmites australis and Scirpus
acutus leaf and canopy gas exchange to environmental conditions.” Proceedings of Ecological Society of America 1995 Annual Meeting: “The Transdisciplinary Nature of Ecology.” 30 July-2 August 1995, Snowbird, Utah, U.S.A.

Wilhelmi, O., C. Uejio, J. Golden, D. Mills, J. Samenow. Exploring Intra-Urban Spatial Patterns of Societal Risk and Vulnerability to Extreme Heat. Excessive Heat Events: Confronting Climate Change, Vulnerability, and Urbanization by Improving Heat Health Services, Mitigation Strategies, and Communications Workshop. November 14-18, 2007. Tempe, AZ (invited)

Wilhelmi, O. Climate Change and Drought Preparedness. Lt. Governor of Kansas visit to NCAR. November 1, 2007, Boulder, CO (invited)

Wilhelmi, O. Climate Impacts and Adaptation. Congressional Staff visit to NCAR/UCAR/UOP. October 11, 2007 Boulder, CO. (invited).

Wilhelmi, O. GIS in Weather and Society. WAS*IS Workshop. June 16, 2007, NCAR, Boulder, CO. (invited)

Wilhelmi, O., J. Boehnert, B. Domenico, S. Kopp and K. Stellman. Weather and Climate Data Model. Technical workshop, ESRI International User Conference. June 19, 2007. San Diego, CA. (invited)

Wilhelmi, O. Integration of quantitative and qualitative information. PLAN workshop, April 12-13, 2007, Oslo, Norway (invited)

Wilhelmi, O. Use of remote sensing and GIS in natural hazard mitigation. Guest lecture to University of Oslo GIS Club. April 11, 2007, Oslo, Norway (invited).

Wilhelmi, O., C. K. Uejio and J. P. Samenow. Exploring spatial patterns of societal vulnerability to extreme heat. 87th AMS Annual Meeting, 14-18 January 2007, San Antonio, TX, USA

Wilhelmi, O. 2006. Putting Climate on a Map: Increasing Usability of Atmospheric Science through GIS. AGU Fall Meeting, 11-15 December, 2006. San Francisco, CA, USA.

Ramamurthy, M. and O. Wilhelmi. Unidata and NCAR activities to integrate scientific data systems and tools with GIS databases and services for education and research. 12 October 2006, AMS-AGU Heads & Chairs Meeting, Boulder, CO (invited)

Wilhelmi, O. Scope of Meteo/GIS in the International Context. ADAGUC Workshop, De Bilt, The Netherlands, October 3-4, 2006 (invited)

Wilhelmi, O., J. Boehnert, B. Domenico, S. Shipley, S. Kopp and J. Breman. Weather and Climate Data Model. ESRI International User Conference. August 7-10, 2006. San Diego, CA (invited).

Wilhelmi, O., R. Morss, and B. Edwards. A flash flood risk assessment for the Colorado Front range using GIS. 2006. EGU General Assembly 2006. Vienna, Austria, April 07, 2006.

Wilhelmi, O. Investigating impacts of climate change: a role for GIS.EGU General Assembly 2006. Vienna, Austria, April 07, 2006.

Wilhelmi, O. and J. Boehnert. Distributing CCSM-3 climate change scenarios to a GIS community. UNFCCC COP11, December 2, 2005, Montreal Canada (invited).

Wilhelmi, O. GIS in Weather and Society. Presentation at WAS*IS Workshop, Boulder, Colorado. November 8, 2005 (invited)

Wilhelmi, O. Societal Impacts: recognizing complexity of interactions among humans, atmosphere and natural systems. Presentation to Undergraduate Leadership Workshop. NCAR, June 22, 2005 (invited).

Wilhelmi, O. GIS in Weather, Climate and Impacts. Presentation to teachers of Denver Public School District. University of Colorado at Denver. August 10, 2005 (invited) 

Wilhelmi, O.V. and J. Boehnert. Distribution of Climate Change Data to GIS Community. ESRI International User Conference. July 25–29, 2005 San Diego, CA.

Wilhelmi, O.  J. Boehnert, J. Breman, S. Shipley. ArcGIS Atmospheric data model. ESRI International User Conference. July 25–29, 2005. San Diego, CA (invited).

Wilhelmi, O.V. and J. Boehnert. Global Climate Change Scenarios in GIS Association of American Geographers 2005 Annual Meeting. April 5-9, 2005, Denver, CO.

Wilhelmi, O.V.  Environmental data management and use. Panel Discussion. Association of American Geographers 2005 Annual Meeting. April 5-9, 2005, Denver, CO. (invited panelist)

Thomas, D., P. Dehn, O. Wilhelmi, and M. Hayes. Drought and Water Quality Impacts on Health in Colorado. Association of American Geographers 2005 Annual Meeting. April 5-9, 2005, Denver, CO.

Wilhelmi, O. and J. Boehnert. GIS Initiative: Developing an atmospheric data model for GIS. Unidata seminar series, 30 August, 2004. Boulder CO (Invited speaker)

Breman, J., O. Wilhelmi, J. Boehnert, S. Kopp. ArcGIS Atmospheric data model. ESRI International User Conference. 12 August, 2004. San Diego, CA (invited speaker).

Wilhelmi, O. “Exploration of GIS Interoperability Technologies.” ATD ATOS Seminar series, 2 December 2003, NCAR, Boulder, CO (Invited speaker)

Wilhelmi, O. 2003. Colorado Resort Communities and the 2002-2003 Drought: Impacts and Lessons Learned.  Seminar to Environment and Behavior Program, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder. 1 December, 2003 (Invited speaker)

Wilhelmi, O.  2003. GIS Activities at UCAR/NCAR. COST-719 Management Committee Meeting in conjunction with International Symposium on GIS and Remote Sensing: Environmental Applications. 7-9 November 2003, Volos, Greece (invited expert /speaker)

Wilhelmi, O. “ GIS for Atmospheric Sciences: the Evolution of NCAR’s GIS Initiative”. Unidata Workshop. Expanding Horizons:  Using Environmental Data for Education, Research, and Decision Making June 22-27, 2003, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A. (Invited speaker and panel member)

Wilhelmi, O. and T. Betancourt. “ Exploration of GIS Interoperability technologies for atmospheric science research”. EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly, 6 - 11 April 2003, Nice, France. 

Wilhelmi, O. and T. Betancourt. “Exploration of GIS Interoperability technologies for the International H2O Project”. 83rd AMS Annual Meeting, Long Beach, California, U.S.A., 9-13 February 2003.

Wilhelmi, O. “Vulnerability of the High Plains to Drought and Depleting Water Resources”.  15th Conference on Biometeorology and Aerobiology. Joint with the International Congress of Biometeorology. October 27-November 1, 2002. Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.A. (invited).

Wilhelmi, O. “Data Appropriateness”. GIS in the Rockies, September 18-20, 2001. Denver, Colorado, U.S.A. (invited).

Wilhelmi, O.V. and D.A. Wilhite “Drought Vulnerability Assessment as a Part of Nebraska Drought Planning”. The Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. February 27 - March 3, 2001. New York, New York, U.S.A.

Wilhelmi, O.V. and D.A. Wilhite “Methodology for assessing vulnerability to agricultural drought: a Nebraska case study”. 4th International Conference on Integrating Geographic Information Systems and Environmental Modeling. September 2-8, 2000. Banff, Alberta, Canada.

Wilhelmi, O.V., K.G. Hubbard, and D.A. Wilhite “Agroclimatological factors influencing  vulnerability to agricultural drought: a Nebraska case study”. American Meteorological Society conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. August 14-18, 2000. Davis, California, U.S.A.

Wilhelmi, O.V. and D.A. Wilhite “Methodology for assessing Nebraska’s vulnerability to agricultural drought”. The Nebraska Natural Resources Commission. October 26, 1999, Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A. (invited).

Vanyarkho, O.V. and T.J. Arkebauer “Responses of Phragmites australis and Scirpus acutus leaf and canopy gas exchange to environmental conditions”. Ecological Society of America 1995 Annual Meeting: “The Transdisciplinary Nature of Ecology”. 30 July-2 August 1995, Snowbird, Utah, U.S.A.

2005

Special Achievement in GIS Award. ESRI International User Conference

2004

Selected fellow of the UCAR Leadership Academy.

1999-2001

Selected fellow of the UCAR Leadership Academy. Boulder, CO

1997

Student Travel Award for the Summer Colloquium on: A Systems Approach to ENSO. July 20- August 1, 1997. National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO.

1994

Student Travel Award for the NASA-NOAA Summer school for Earth sciences. Processes of Global Change. August 22-26, 1994. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.

1991

Student Travel Award for the International Congress of Scientists and Engineers “Challenges”. Science and peace in a rapidly Changing Environment. November, 1991. Berlin, Germany.

2005-2006

WAS*IS (Weather and Society – Integrated Studies). NCAR, Boulder, Colorado

2001

AMS / UCAR Summer Policy Colloquium. AMS, Washington D.C.

2000

SVulnerability Assessment Techniques workshop. NOAA Costal Service Center, Charleston, South Carolina

2003-2008

EGU Sessions on GIS in Meteorology and Climatology (2003-2007: co-convener; 2008 – convener)

2004; 2006-2008

Atmospheric Data Modeling Workshops in conjunction with the AMS annual meetings (organizer; chair)

2002; 2005

Community workshops on GIS in Weather, Climate and Impacts, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado (organizer; chair)

2007

Guest lecturer. University of Oslo GIS Club. Oslo, Norway

2005-2007

Lecturer/Instructor. WAS*IS, Boulder, CO.

2002

Adjunct Assistant Professor. “Introduction to Geographic Information Systems.” MEng-GIS Program, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Colorado at Denver.

2001

Lecturer. “Global Physical Climatology”, Program in Atmospheric & Ocean Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder.

2001

Lecturer. “Climate and Society”, School of Natural Resource Sciences, University of Nebraska- Lincoln.

1994

Teaching Assistant. “Microclimate. The Biological Environment”. Department of Agricultural Meteorology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Academic and Outreach

2006

Member of NCAR Opportunity Fund Proposal Review panel

2006-2007

Member of executive committee for the conference on Managing Drought in the 21st Century: Research, Policy, and Practice. GSA meeting, September 18-20, 2006. Longmont, Colorado

2004-present

Member, ISSE Visitors Committee

2005-2006

Member of NCAR Data Center Project Committee

2001;2005-06

Science Mentor, Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science (SOARS) Program. NCAR

2003-2005

Mentor/Coordinator, ISSE Student Internship Program

2004-present

Member, NCAR Library Book Selection Committee (GIS and Remote Sensing)

2003- present

NCAR media contact for questions on drought and heat waves

2001-2003

Coordinator, NCAR GIS Seminar series

2000-2003

Coordinator, ESIG Coffee Talks seminar series.

Peer-Review/ Editing

2007

Reviewer, Applied Geography, Environmental Research Letters

2006

Proposal reviewer, NOAA TRACS Program

2006

Reviewer, Transactions in GIS

2004

Reviewer/Guest Editor, Special issue of Meteorological Applications on GIS in Meteorology and Climatology (with I. Dyras) (issue in press)

2004

Panel reviewer, National Science Foundation, Human and Social Dynamics

2004

Reviewer, Journal of Environmental Management

2003

Reviewer, Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research Small Grant Program

2003

Book chapter reviewer in Boken, V.K.,  A.P. Cracknell, and R.L. Heathcote (Editors), 2005. Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Drought: A Global Study. Oxford University Press, New York, 472 pp.

1994

Field research on single leaf gas exchange properties, aboveground biomass, the net canopy CO 2 assimilation rates, and canopy conductance of two dominant plant community types in the marshes of Nebraska Sandhills, U.S.A.

1991

Research assistant to NASA team in the part of First International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project Field Experiment ( FIFE ): “KUREX-91”: a USSR/USA study for global climate processes in the steppe vegetation. Kursk, Russia.

1991

Field research on ecological and ecosystem monitoring in the East Carpathian mountains, Ukraine.

1990

Field research on the environmental changes due to industrial pollution in tundra ecosystems of Northern Siberia. Norilsk, Russia.

United States Permanent Resident, Russian Citizen; Fluent in Russian