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Evan Girvetz
Evan Girvetz
Senior Scientist, Global Climate Change Program
Contact Information
E-mail: egirvetz@tnc.org
Brief Biography
Evan Girvetz is a senior scientist with The Nature Conservancy’s Global Climate Change Program. He provides expert support on climate change impacts and ecosystem-based adaptation to Conservancy programs and project teams. He also co-leads the development of the Climate Wizard, an online tool that allows non-climate specialists to explore climate change maps and analyses.
Evan is a conservation ecologist with extensive experience in conservation planning, environmental decision support, and climate change impact assessment. He is widely published and his research has been featured in top media outlets including the San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times and New Scientist magazine. Evan received his Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of California, Davis, and currently holds an affiliate assistant professor position at the University of Washington, School of Forest Resources.
Evan Girvetz
Senior Scientist, Global Climate Change Program
2012
Roy, S.B., L. Chen, E.H. Girvetz, E.P Maurer, W.B. Mills, T.M Grieb. In press. Projecting water withdrawal and supply for future decades in the U.S. under climate change scenarios. Environmental Science and Technology.
2011
Luedeling, E., E.H. Girvetz, M.A. Semenov, and P. Brown. 2011. Climate change affects winter chill for temperature fruit and nut trees. PLoS ONE 6(5): e20155.
Luedeling, E., K.P. Steinmann, M. Zhang, P.H. Brown, J. Grant, and E.H. Girvetz. 2011. Climate Change effects on walnut pests in California. Global Change Biology. 17(1); 228-238.
2010
Copeland,H.E., S.A Tessman, L. Roberts, A. Orabona, S. Patla, C.A.F. Enquist, E.H. Girvetz, and J. Kiesecker. 2010. A geospatial assessment on the distribution, condition, and vulnerability of Wyoming’s wetlands. Environmental Indicators 10(4): 869-879.
Girvetz, E.H.. 2010. The impact of erosion control projects on the population viability of bank swallows (Riparia riparia) along the Sacramento River (California, USA). Biological Conservation 143(4): 828-838.
Luedeling, E., M. Zhang, V. Luedeling, E.H. Girvetz. 2010. Sensitivity of winter chill models for fruit and nut trees to climatic changes in California’s Central Valley. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 133: 23-31.
2009
Girvetz, E.H., C. Zganjar, S. Shafer, E. Maurer, P. Kareiva, and J.J. Lawler. 2009. Applied climate-change analysis: The Climate Wizard tool. PLoS One 4(12): e8320.
Girvetz, E.H. and S.E. Greco. 2009. Multi-scale predictive habitat suitability modeling based on hierarchically delineated patches: an example for yellow-billed cuckoos nesting in riparian forests, California, USA. Landscape Ecology 24: 1315-1329.
Luedeling, E., M. Zhang, and E.H. Girvetz. 2009. Declining winter chill for fruit and nut trees in California. PLoS One 4(7): e6166.
Thorne, J.H., P. Huber, E.H. Girvetz, J.F. Quinn, M.C. McCoy. 2009. Integration of regional mitigation assessment and conservation planning. Ecology and Society 14: 47.
Thorne, J.H., E.H. Girvetz, M.C. McCoy. 2009. Evaluating terrestrial cumulative impacts of road improvement projects for long-term advanced mitigation assessment in California, USA. Environmental Management 43: 936-948.
2008
Girvetz, E.H., J.H. Thorne, A.M. Berry, and J.A.G. Jaeger. 2008. Integration of landscape fragmentation analysis into regional planning: a statewide multi-scale case study for California, USA. Landscape and Urban Planning 86: 205-218.
Greco, S.E., E.H. Girvetz, E.W. Larsen, J.P. Mann, J.L. Tuil, and C. Lowney. 2008. Relative elevation topographic surface modelling of a large alluvial river floodplain and applications for the study and management of riparian landscapes. Landscape Research 33(4):461–486.
2007
Girvetz, E.H., J.A.G. Jaeger, J.H. Thorne. 2007. Comment on “Roadless space of the conterminous United States.” Science 318: 1240b.
Girvetz, E.H. and S.E. Greco. 2007. How to define a patch: a spatial model for hierarchically delineating organism-specific habitat patches. Landscape Ecology 22: 1131-1142.
Foley, J.E., J. Zipser, B. Chomel, E.H. Girvetz, P. Foley. 2007. Modeling plague persistence in host-vector communities in California. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 43(3): 408-424.
Shilling, F.M. and E.H. Girvetz. 2007. Physical and financial barriers to implementing a wildland reserve network. Landscape and Urban Planning 80: 165-172.
Larsen, E.W., E.H. Girvetz, and A.K. Fremier. 2007. Landscape-level conservation planning in alluvial riparian floodplain ecosystems: using geomorphic modeling to avoid conflicts between habitat conservation and human infrastructure. Landscape and Urban Planning 79: 338-346.
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