Dr. Alice Grimm (natural sciences) Research Interests Selected Publications Contact Information

Dr. Diana Liverman (social sciences) Research Interests Selected Publications Contact Information

Dr. Alice Grimm

Dr. Alice Grimm is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil. She is currently visiting the International Research Institute for Climate Prediction (IRI) at Columbia University, where she is conducting research on climate variability and the performance of climate models in Southern South America during El Niño and La Niña events.

Dr. Grimm's early training was in physics and geodetic sciences (Fed. Univ. of Paraná), and she has a Ph.D. in Meteorology from the University of São Paulo. Dr. Grimm's research interests include diagnostic and modelling studies related to climate variability on several time scales. Her current research activities includes the assessment of the impacts of El Niño and La Niña events over the climate of Brazil and southern South America, and the detection and description of intraseasonal oscillations in precipitation and circulation over South America. Dr. Grimm is also studying the remote influence of tropical heat sources, through the generation and propagation of Rossby waves. She is using simple models and tools like influence functions to understand the relationship between tropical heat sources, teleconnection patterns and intraseasonal and interannual regional climate variability.

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Selected Publications

• Grimm. A. M., V. R. Barros and M. E. Doyle, 1999: Climate variability in southern South America associated with El Niño and La Niña events. To appear in Journal of Climate.
  
  
• Grimm, A. M., S. E. T. Ferraz and J. Gomes, 1998: Precipitation anomalies in Southern Brazil associated with El Niño and La Niña events. Journal of Climate, 11, 2863-2880.
  
  
• Grimm, A. M., 1996: Sea Surface Temperatures in the Pacific and rainfall over part of Southern Brazil I: Correlations. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 68, 3-9.
  
  
• Grimm, A. M., 1996: Sea Surface Temperatures in the Pacific and rainfall over part of Southern Brazil II: Dynamical mechanisms. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 68, 11-16.
  
  
• Grimm, A. M., and P. L. Silva Dias, 1995: Analysis of tropical-extratropical interactions with influence functions of a barotropic model. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 52, 3538-3555.
  
  
• Grimm, A. M., and P. L. Silva Dias, 1995: Use of barotropic models in the study of the extratropical response to tropical heat sources. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, 73, 765-779.
  
  

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Dr. Diana Liverman

Dr. Diana Liverman is currently Director of the Latin American studies program at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where she is also associated with the Department of Geography and Regional Development, the Institute for the Study of Planet Earth, the Office of Arid Lands Studies, and the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy. Trained as a geographer (Ph.D. UCLA, MA Toronto, BA London) she has published widely on drought, climate impacts, resource management and environmental policy.

Her current research examines the social causes and consequences of global and regional environmental change, especially the impacts of climate change and variability on water resources and agriculture in the Americas. NOAA, NASA, NSF, and the Ford and Tinker Foundations currently fund her research. She is the former chair of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, and the co-chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Inter American Institute for Global Change. She is also a member of the NRC Committee on Global Change, the NRC Panel on Human Dimensions of Seasonal to Interannual Climate Prediction and the Latin American Studies Association, Environment Committee.

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Selected Publications

• Liverman, D.M., 1987, "Forecasting the Impact of Climate on Food Systems: Model Testing and Model Linkage," Climatic Change 11:4, 267-285.
  
  
• Liverman, D.M., M. Hanson, B. Brown and R. Merideth, 1988, "Global Sustainability: Toward Measurement," Environmental Management 12:2, 133-143.
  
  
• Liverman, D.M. 1989. "Evaluating Global Models" Journal of Environmental Management 29:215-235.
  
• Liverman, D.M. 1990. "Drought and Agriculture in Mexico: The case of Sonora and Puebla in 1970," Annals of the Association of American Geographers 80(1): 49-72.
  
  
• Liverman, D.M. 1994. "Environment and Security in Mexico," in B.M. Bagley and S. Aguayo Quezada, eds., Mexico: In Search of Security, Transaction Publishers.
  
  
• Liverman, D.M. 1994. "Vulnerability to Global Environmental Change," Ch. 26, pp. 326-342 in S. Cutter, ed., Environmental Risks and Hazards. Prentice Hall.
  
  
• Liverman, D.M. and K. O'Brien, 1991. "Global Warming and Climate Change in Mexico," Global Environmental Change 1(4): 351-364, December 1991.
  
  
• Liverman D.M. 1992. "The regional impacts of global warming in Mexico: Uncertainty, Vulnerability and Response." pp. 44-68 in J. Schmandt and J. Clarkson Eds. The Regions and Global Warming. Oxford University Press.
  
  
• Appendini, K. and Liverman, D.M. 1994. "Agricultural policy and climate change in Mexico." Food Policy. 19(2): 149-164.
  
  
• Liverman, D.M. 1994. "Modeling Social Systems and Their Interaction with the Environment: A View from Geography," in P.M. Groffman and G.E. Likens, eds., Integrated Regional Models: Interactions Between Humans and Their Environment . Chapman and Hall.
  
  
• Scott M. et. al. 1996. Urban Settlements. Chapter 12 in Watson R.T. et al. Eds. Climate Change 1995: Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation of Climate Change: Scientific-Technical Analyses. Working Group II to the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, NY.
  
  
• Liverman D.M.. 1997. Prospects and Problems in Modeling the Impacts of Climate Change in Latin America. Numerical Simulations in the Environmental and Earth Sciences: Proceedings of the Second UNAM--CRAY Supercomputing Conference. Fernando García-García, Gerardo Cisneros, Agustín Fernández-Eguiarte and Román Álvarez, Eds. Cambridge University Press. New York.
  
  
• Diana Liverman, Emilio Moran, Ron Rindfuss and Paul Stern. eds. 1998. People and Pixels; Social Science and Remote Sensing. Washington: National Academy Press.
  
  
• Diana Liverman. "Geography and the Global Environment". Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Spring 1999.
  
  
• Diana Liverman and Paul Stern. 1998. "The Human Dimensions of Global Change" in Moore, B. Global Change: Pathways for the next decade. National Academy Press.
  
  
• Liverman D.M., Ingram M., Sanchez R. and Merideth R. Climate Change in Latin America. (forthcoming book).
  
  

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Additional Information:

More information about Dr. Liverman's activities can be found at the following WWW sites:

• http://w3.arizona.edu/~laac/liv~1.htm
• http://www.ispe.arizona.edu/liverman.htm
  

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