Curriculum Vitae
JOHANNES J. FEDDEMA
Department of Geography, University of Kansas
1475 Jayhawk Boulevard, Lawrence, Kansas 66045
Telephone: (785) 864-5534 • Email: [email protected]
January 2014
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Climatology, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, January 1991.
Dissertation: Evaluation of Terrestrial Climate Variability Using a Moisture Index.
M.S. Geography, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, August 1985.
Thesis: Air Pollution Effects on Marble Weathering in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
B.A. Biology and Geography, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, June 1982.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Climate Change Environmental Modeling Spatial Statistics and GIS
Bioclimatology Human-Environment Interactions Hydroclimatology
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
2010, 2012-Present Department Chair, Dept. of Geography, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
2007-Present Professor, Dept. of Geography, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
2006-Present Affiliate Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO
2006-Present Governance Faculty, Environmental Studies Program, Univ of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
2000-2007 Associate Professor, Dept. of Geography, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
1998-2000 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Geography, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
1990-1998 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1989-1990 Instructor, Department of Geography, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
1988-1990 Consultant, Duffield Assoc. Inc. and Tetra Tech Richardson Inc., Newark, DE
1984-1989 Graduate Teaching/Research Assistant, Dept of Geog, U Delaware, Newark, DE
1981 Undergraduate Research Assistant, Dept of Biology, Univ Delaware, Newark, DE
AWARDS
Member, Land Model working group that received 2008 CCSM Distinguished Achievement Award
Contributing Author to 2001 and 2007 IPCC Reports - the IPCC shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
Excellence in Undergraduate Advising Award (Dept. award while Undergrad Director), 2004.
Teaching Excellence Award from the Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Kansas, 2002.
Visiting Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, 1994, 2004, 2011.
UCLA Department of Geography Nominee for the Luckman Teaching Award, 1993.
Student Paper prize, Climate Specialty Group, AAG, 1990.
Departmental Fellowship, University of Delaware, 1987-1988.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Geophysical Union
American Meteorological Society
Association of American Geographers
Climatology Specialty Group, Water Resources Specialty Group, Africa Specialty Group
INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE AND LANGUAGES
Countries of residence: Netherlands, Kenya, Rwanda, Switzerland, and U.S.A.
Extended visits: Pakistan and Tunisia.
Language Proficiency: Fluent Dutch and English, conversational French and Frisian.
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PUBLICATIONS (Refereed)
Elguindi N, A Grundstein, S Bernardes, U Turuncoglu, J Feddema. (2013) Assessment of CMIP5 global
model simulations and climate change projections for the 21st century using a modified Thornthwaite
climate classification. Climatic Change, published online December 9.
Grimmond CSB, A Baklanov, M Best, R Betts, J Feddema, P Falloon, G Folberth, R Frances, T Holt, T
Jackson, E Larson, M Lawrence, M McCarthy, T Meir, N Mirumachi, K Oleson, J Pullen (in Press)
Coastal Megacities: Contributions to environmental changes at regional and global scales, in IGBP-
LOICZ Megacities and urban regions on the coast.
Oleson KW, A Monaghan, O Wilhelmi, M Barlage, N Brunsell, J Feddema, L Hu, DF Steinhoff (2013).
Interactions between urbanization, heat stress, and climate change. Climatic Change (120):1-17.
Savage, M, JN Mast and JJ Feddema (2013). Double Whammy: High-Severity Fire and Drought in
Ponderosa Pine Forests of the Southwest. Canadian Journal of Forestry. 43(6): 570-583.
Feddema, JJ, JN Mast, M Savage (2013). Modeling high-severity fire, drought and climate change
impacts on ponderosa pine regeneration. Ecological Modelling, 253(24):56–69.
Jeelani, G, JJ Feddema, CJ van der Veen, and L Stearns (2012), Role of snow and glacier melt in
controlling river hydrology in Liddar watershed (western Himalaya) under current and future climate,
Water Resources Research, 48, W12508.
Lawrence, PJ, JJ Feddema, GB Bonan, GA Meehl, BC O'Neill, S Levis, DM Lawrence, KW Oleson, E
Kluzek, K Lindsay, and PE Thornton (2012). Simulating the Biogeochemical and Biogeophysical
Impacts of Transient Land Cover Change and Wood Harvest in the Community Climate System
Model (CCSM4) from 1850 to 2100. J. of Climate Special Issue on CESM 4.25 (9), 3071-3095.
Hurtt, G, L Chini, S Frolking, R Betts, J Feddema, G Fischer, J Fisk, K Hibbard, R Houghton, A Janetos,
C Jones, G Kindermann, T Kinoshita, K Klein Goldewijk, K Riahi, E Shevliakova, S Smith, E
Stehfest, A Thomson, P Thornton, D van Vuuren, Y Wang (2011). Harmonization of land-use
scenarios for the period 1500–2100: 600 years of global gridded annual land-use transitions, wood
harvest, and resulting secondary lands. Climatic Change, 109(1-2):117-161.
Oleson, KW, GB Bonan, J Feddema, and T Jackson (2011), An examination of urban heat island
characteristics in a global climate model. International Journal of Climatology, 31: 1848–1865.
Hibbard K, A Janetos, DP van Vuuren, J Pongratz, S Rose, R Betts, M Herold, J Feddema (2010):
Research Priorities in Land Use and Land Cover Change for the Earth System and Integrated
Assessment Modelling, International Journal of Climatology, Special Issue on ‘Detecting Climate
Change from Land Use’ 30 (13), 2118-2128.
Jackson, TL , JJ Feddema, KW Oleson, GB Bonan, JT Bauer (2010). Parameterization of Urban
Characteristics for Global Climate Modeling, Annals of the Association of American Geographers,
100(4), 848 - 865.
Jonko, A, A Hense, J Feddema (2010): Effects of Land Cover Change on the Tropical Circulation in a
GCM. Climate Dynamics. 35(4), 635-649.
Brunsell, NA, AR Jones, TL Jackson, JJ Feddema (2010): Seasonal trends in air temperature and
precipitation in IPCC AR4 GCM output for Kansas, USA: evaluation and implications. International
Journal of Climatology, 30 (8), 1178–1193.
Kloster, S, NM Mahowald, JT Randerson, PE Thornton, FM Hoffman, S Levis, PJ Lawrence, JJ
Feddema, KW Oleson, and DM Lawrence (2010): Fire dynamics during the 20th century simulated by
the Community Land Model, Biogeosciences Discuss.,7, 565-630.
Oleson, KW, GB Bonan, and J Feddema (2010): Effects of white roofs on urban temperature in a global
climate model, Geophysical Research Letters, 37(3), L03701.
Logan, K, NA Brunsell, AR Jones and JJ Feddema. (2010): Assessing spatiotemporal variability of
drought in the U.S. Central Plains. Journal of Arid Environments. 74(2): 247-255.
Thornton, PE, SC Doney, K Lindsay, JK Moore, N Mahowald, JT Randerson, I Fung, J-F Lamarque, JJ
Feddema, and Y-H Lee (2009): Carbon-nitrogen interactions regulate climate-carbon cycle feedbacks:
results from an atmosphere-ocean general circulation model, Biogeosciences. 6(10): 2099-2120.
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PUBLICATIONS (Refereed) -- Continued
Feddema, J (2008) Contributing author Towards New Scenarios for Analysis of Emissions, Climate
Change, Impacts, and Response Strategies. R Moss, M Babiker, S Brinkman, E Calvo, T Carter, J
Edmonds, I Elgizouli, S Emori, L Erda, K Hibbard, R Jones, M Kainuma, J Kelleher, JF Lamarque, M
Manning, B Matthews, J Meehl, L Meyer, J Mitchell, N Nakicenovic, B O’Neill, R Pichs, K Riahi, S
Rose, P Runci, R Stouffer, D van Vuuren, J Weyant, T Wilbanks, JP van Ypersele,and M Zurek
(2008). Towards New Scenarios for Analysis of Emissions, Climate Change, Impacts, and Response
Strategies. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,Geneva,132pp
Oleson, KW, GB Bonan, J Feddema, M Vertenstein (2008): An urban parameterization for a global
climate model: 1. Formulation and validation, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 4,
1038-1060.
Oleson, KW, GB Bonan, J Feddema, M Vertenstein (2008): An urban parameterization for a global
climate model: 2. Sensitivity to input parameters and the simulated urban heat island, Journal of
Applied Meteorology and Climatology 4, 1061-1076.
Heald, CL, DK Henze, LW Horowitz, J Feddema, J-F Lamarque, A Guenther, PG Hess, F Vitt, JH
Seinfeld, AH Goldstein, and I Fung (2008): Predicted change in global secondary organic aerosol
concentrations in response to future climate, emissions, and land use change. Journal of Geophysical
Research, 113, D05211
Feddema, J (2007) Contributing Author, Box 11.4: Land Use and Land Cover Change Experiments
Related to Climate Change, in Christensen, JH, B Hewitson, A Busuioc, A Chen, X Gao, I Held, R
Jones, RK Kolli, W-T Kwon, R Laprise, V Magaña Rueda, L Mearns, CG Menéndez, J Räisänen, A
Rinke, A Sarr and P Whetton, 2007: Regional Climate Projections. In: Climate Change 2007: The
Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Solomon, S, D Qin, M Manning, Z Chen, M Marquis,
KB Averyt, M Tignor and HL Miller (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United
Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.
Mahowald, NM, JA Ballantine, J Feddema, and N Ramankutty (2007), Global trends in visibility:
implications for dust sources, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 7, 3013–3071.
Feddema, JJ (2005) A Revised Thornthwaite Type Global Climate Classification. Physical Geography,
26 (6): 442-466.
Feddema, JJ, K Oleson, G Bonan, LO Mearns, L Buja, WM Washington, and G Meehl. (2005). How
important is land cover change for simulating future climates? Science 310(5754): 1674-1678.
Feddema JJ, K Oleson, G Bonan, L Mearns, W Washington, G Meehl, D Nychka (2005). A comparison
of a GCM response to historical anthropogenic land cover change and model sensitivity to uncertainty
in present-day land cover representations, Climate Dynamics, 25: 581-609. Park, S JJ Feddema, SL Egbert (2005). MODIS land surface temperature composite data and their
relationships with climatic water budget factors in the central Great Plains, International Journal of
Remote Sensing, 26(6): 1127-1144.
Feddema, JJ, J Shields, O Taylor and D Bennett (2004): Chapter 23: Simulating the development and
migration of the monarch butterfly in Monarch Butterfly Biology and Conservation. Eds, K
Oberhauser and M Solensky. Cornell University Press. pp. 229-240.
Yu, F, KP Price, J Ellis, and JJ Feddema (2004). Monitoring the Interannual variations of the grassland
boundaries bordering the Eastern edge of the Gobi desert in central Asia with time series
NOAA/AVHRR data, International Journal of Remote Sensing,25(2): 327-346.
Slocum, TA, D Cliburn, JJ Feddema, and JR Miller (2003). Evaluating the Usability of a Tool for
Visualizing the Uncertainty of the Future Global Water balance. Cartography and Geography
Information Science, 30(4): 299-317.
Park, S, JJ Feddema, and SL Egbert. (2003). Impacts of hydrologic soil properties on drought detection
with MODIS thermal data, Remote Sensing of Environment, 89(1): 53-62.
Cliburn, D, JJ Feddema, TA Slocum and JR Miller (2002): The design and evaluation of a decision
support system in a water balance application. Computers & Graphics, 26(6): 931 –949.
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PUBLICATIONS (Refereed) -- Continued
Desanker, P, Magadza, C (Coordinating Lead Authors), Allali, A, Basalirwa, C, Boko, M, Dieudonne, G,
Downing, TE, Dube, PO, Githeko, A, Githendu, M, Gonzalez, P, Gwary, D, Jallow, B, Nwafor, J,
Scholes, R, (Lead Authors) Amani, A, Bationo, A, Butterfield, R, Chafil, R, Feddema, J, Hilmi, K,
Mailu, GM, Midgley, G, Ngara, T, Nicholson, S, Olago, D, Orlando, B, Semazzi, F, Unganai, L, and R
Washington (Contributing Authors). (2001) Africa. In McCarthy, JJ, Canziani, OF, Leary, NA,
Dokken, DJ, and KS White (eds). Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability.
(2001) New York: Cambridge University Press, 1032 pp.
Feddema, JJ and S Freire (2001): Soil degradation, global warming and climate impacts. Climate
Research 17(2): 209-216.
Feddema, JJ (1999): Future African Water Resources: Interactions Between Soil Degradation and Global
Warming. Climatic Change, 42(3): 561-596
Feddema, JJ (1998): Estimated Impacts of Soil Degradation on the African Water Balance and Climate.
Climate Research, 10(2): 127-141.
Savage, M, Brown P and J Feddema, (1996): The Role of Climate in a Pine Forest Regeneration Pulse in the
Southwestern United States. Ecoscience, 3(3): 310-318.
Allen AO, and JJ Feddema (1996): Wetland Loss and Substitution by the Section 404 Permit Program in
Southern California. Environmental Management, 20(2): 263-274.
Raphael, MR, JJ Feddema, AJ Orme and AR Orme (1995): The Unusual Storms of February 1992 in
Southern California. Physical Geography, 15(5): 442-464.
Willmott, CJ, SM Robeson and JJ Feddema (1994): Estimating Continental and Terrestrial Precipitation
Averages from Raingauge Networks. International Journal of Climatology, 14: 403-414.
Feddema, JJ and JR Mather (1992): Hydrologic Impacts of Global Warming over the United States. In
Global Climate Change: Implications, Challenges and Mitigation Measures. pp. 50-62. Edited by SK
Majumdar, LS Kalkstein, B Yarnel, EW Miller and LM Rosenfeld.
Willmott, CJ and JJ Feddema (1992): A More Rational Climatic Moisture index. In The Professional
Geographer, 44(1): 84-88.
Willmott, CJ, SM Robeson and JJ Feddema (1991): Influence of Spatially Variable Instrument Networks on
Climatic Averages. Geophysical Research Letters. 18(12): 2249-2251.
Mather, JR and JJ Feddema, (1987): Hydrologic Consequences of Increases in Trace Gases and CO2 in the
Atmosphere. In Effects of Changes in Stratospheric Ozone and Global Climate, Vol. 3, Climate Change.
Edited by JG Titus, EPA, Washington D.C., pp. 251-271.
Feddema, JJ and TC Meierding (1987): Marble Weathering and Air Pollution in Philadelphia. Atmospheric
Environment, 21(1): 143-157.
Willmott, CJ, SG Ackleson, RE Davis, JJ Feddema, KM Klink, DR Legates, J O'Donnell and CM Rowe
(1985): Statistics for the Evaluation and Comparison of Models Journal of Geophysical Research.
90(C5): 8995-9005.
MONOGRAPHS AND TECHNICAL REPORTS (Refereed)
Oleson, KW, GB Bonan, J Feddema, and M Vertenstein (2010): Technical Description of an Urban
Parameterization for the Community Land Model (CLM), NCAR Technical Note, NCAR/TN-
480+STR, 169 pp. http://www.ccsm.ucar.edu/models/ccsm4.0/clm/CLMU_Tech_Note.pdf or
http://nldr.library.ucar.edu/repository/technotes/TECH-NOTE-000-000-000-847
KW Oleson, DM Lawrence, GB Bonan, MG Flanner, E Kluzek, PJ Lawrence, S Levis, SC Swenson, PE
Thornton, A Dai, M Decker, R Dickinson, J Feddema, CL Heald, F Hoffman, J-F Lamarque, N
Mahowald, G-Y Niu, T Qian, J Randerson, S Running, K Sakaguchi, A Slater, R Stöckli, A Wang, Z-
L Yang, X Zeng, X Zeng (2010): Technical Description of version 4.0 of the Community Land Model
(CLM), NCAR Technical Note, NCAR/TN-478+STR, 257 pp.
http://www.ccsm.ucar.edu/models/ccsm4.0/clm/CLM4_Tech_Note.pdf
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MONOGRAPHS AND TECHNICAL REPORTS -- Continued
Feddema, JJ (1994): Evaluation of Terrestrial Climate Variability Using a Moisture Index. Publications in
Climatology, Vol. 47, No. 1.
Feddema, JJ (1986): Air Pollution Effects on Marble Weathering in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Publications in Climatology, Vol. 39, No. 1.
PROCEEDINGS PAPERS
van Vuuren, DP, , J Feddema, S Frolking, K Hibbard, G Hurtt, J-F Lamarque, LP Chini, K Riahi, S Rose,
S Smith, E Stehfest (2009). Running policy-relevant Integrated Assessment Models scenarios in Earth
System Models. IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science 6 (2009) 442008
JR Miller, DC Cliburn, JJ Feddema, TA Slocum (2003): Modeling and Visualizing Uncertainty in a
Global Water Balance Model. Proceedings ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2003),
March 9-12, Melbourne, Florida.
Park, S, JJ Feddema, and SL Egbert (2002): Evaluation of MODIS land surface temperature data as a
drought detection indicator, ACSM-ASPRS Conference and Technology Exhibition 2002, Washington,
D.C., April 19-26.
Park, S, JJ Feddema, and SL Egbert (2002): MODIS land surface temperatures and their relationship
with hydroclimatological parameters, Thermosense XXIV, SPIE’s 16th Annual International Symposium
on AeroSense, Orlando, FL, April 1-4.
Park, S, JJ Feddema, and SL Egbert (2001): An application of AVHRR thermal response patterns from
land surfaces for mapping drought-prone areas in western-central Kansas, In: ASPRS Technical Papers,
2001 ASPRS-ACSM Annual Convention, St. Louis, Missouri, April 23-27.
Bennett, D, E* Martinez-Meyer, and J Feddema (2000): The Effect of Measurement Error on Habitat
Utilization Models. 4th International Conference on Integrating GIS and Environmental Modeling
(GIS/EM4): Problems, Prospects and Research Needs. Banff, Alberta, Canada, September 2 - 8.
Mills, GM, MN Raphael*, JJ Feddema, and MA Savage (1991): Monitoring for Sustainable Development:
A Research Design for Santa Cruz Island, California. Conference Proceedings, American Statistical
Association. August 18-22.
Feddema, JJ and TC Meierding (1989): Marble Deterioration in the Urban Atmosphere. In Proceedings of
the European Symposium on Science, Technology and European Cultural Heritage. Commission of the
European Communities, Bologna, Italy.
REFEREED ABSTRACTS
Barlage, M J (Nat. Center for Atmo Research, Boulder, CO, USA;), AJ Monaghan, JJ Feddema, KW
Oleson, NA Brunsell, and O Wilhelmi (2011): Urban modeling over Houston in support of SIMMER,
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2011, San Franciso, CA. abstract #GC33B-1071
Chini, LP, GC Hurtt, SE Frolking, R Betts, JJ Feddema, G Fischer, J Fisk, K Klein Goldewijk, KA Hibbard,
RA Houghton, AC Janetos, CD Jones, G Kindermann, T Kinoshita, K Riahi, E Shevliakova, S Smith, E
Stehfest, AM Thomson, PE Thornton, D van Vuuren, Y Wang (2010). Uncertainty Associated with
Harmonization of Global Land-Use Scenarios for the 5th IPCC Assessment. American Geophysical
Union, Fall Meeting 2010, abstract #GC23F-0971
Oleson, KW, GB Bonan, JJ Feddema (2010) Contrasts between urban and rural climate under climate
change scenarios (Invited) American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2010, abstract #B11J-01
Chini, LP, GC Hurtt, S Frolking, K Klein Goldewijk, E Stehfest, E Shevliakova, D van Vuuren, R Betts, J
Feddema, C Jones, T Kinoshita, K Riahi, S Smith, A Thomson, P Thornton, Y Wang (2008).
Harmonization of Global Land-Use Scenarios for the Period 1500-2100 for IPCC 5th Assessment.
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008, abstract #B41B-0378
Mahowald, N, JA Ballantine, JJ Feddema, N Ramankutty (2007), Global trends in visibility: implications
for dust sources. American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2007, abstract #A52A-01
Park, S, JJ Feddema, and SL Egbert. (2003): Drought response-soil factor relationships based on NDVI,
MODIS thermal infrared data, and digital soil database, ASPRS Annual Conference, Anchorage,
Alaska, May 5-9.
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NON REFEREED PAPERS, REPORTS, NEWSLETTERS, TESTIMONY AND ESSAYS
Johannes J Feddema, (2013) Testimony on climate change before the Kansas House Committee on
Energy and Environment, Topeka, KS, Feb 12 (16 pp.)
Bader D, P Cessi, W Collins, S Denning, R Dickinson, D Easterling, J Edmonds, J Feddema, C Field, A
Fridlind, I Fung, I Held, R Jackson, A Janetos, W Large, M Leinen, R Leung, S Long, G Mace, C
Masiello, G Meehl, D Ort, B Otto-Bliesner, J Penner, M Prather, D Randall, P Rasch, E Schneider, H
Shugart, P Thornton, W Washington, R Wildung, W Wiscombe, D Zak, and M Zhang (2010):
Chapter 3: Grand Challenges in Climate Research, in BERAC. 2010. Grand Challenges for Biological
and Environmental Research: A Long-Term Vision; A Report from the Biological and Environmental
Research Advisory Committee March 2010 Workshop, BERAC Steering Committee on Grand
Research Challenges for Biological and Environmental Research
(www.science.doe.gov/ober/berac/BER_LTVreport.pdf)
Hurtt GC, LP Chini, S Frolking, K Klein Goldewijk, E Stehfest, E Shevliakova, D van Vuuren, R Betts, J
Feddema, C Jones, T Kinoshita, K Riahi, S Smith, A Thomson, P Thornton, Y Wang. (2009)
Harmonization of Global Land-Use Scenarios for the Period 1500-2100 for IPCC-AR5. iLEAPS
Newsletter, 7, 6-8.
Oleson KW, GB Bonan, JJ Feddema,TL Jackson, 2009 Progress Toward Modeling Global Climate
Change in Urban Areas, Urban climate newsletter; Quarterly news Letter of the International
Association for Urban Climate 31, 8-12.
Feddema, JJ, NA Brunsell, TL Jackson and AR Jones, (2008) Climate Change in Kansas. 10pp.
Document prepared for the Climate and Energy Project and listed on their web site. This information
is also summarized in Climate Change Hits Home - The Risks for Kansas, available at on the CEP
website: http://www.climateandenergy.org/LearnMore/InTheNews/ClimateStudy.htm
Feddema, JJ (2008). Guest blogs on Ricky Rood’s Weather Underground climate change blog
Part I Coal and climate, July 11, 2008
Part II: Coal and future energy sources, July 19, 2008
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/RickyRood/archive.html?year=2008&month=07
Johannes J. Feddema, (2008) Testimony before the Kansas House Committee on Energy and Utilities. ,
Topeka, KS, Feb 6 (8 pp.).
www.climateandenergy.org/_FileLibrary/FileImage/FeddemaKUandIPCC.pdf
Feddema, JJ, (1999): Assessing the impacts of global warming and landuse change on California water
resources. Final report to NIGEC, DOE Grant DE-FC03-90ER61010
Feddema, JJ and R Ambrose (1998): Southern California Environmental Report Card: Wetlands. Section
of a report published by the UCLA Institute of the Environment, Univ. of CA, Los Angeles, CA.
Feddema, JJ (1998). Section 2.6 of Lower Malibu Creek and Malibu Lagoon Resource Enhancement and
Management Project. (Ed) R Ambrose and T Orme. A report to the city of Malibu and California State
Coastal Conservancy.
GRANTS
2013
NSF Collaborative Research: EaSM2--Linking Human and Earth System
Models to Assess Regional Impacts and Adaption in Urban Systems and Their
Hinterlands Co-PI (PI Brian O’Neill) – KU portion
$ 4.18 Million
$ 822,541
2011 DoE/NCAR sabbatical leave funding. $ 74,756
2010 NASA grant System for Integrated Modeling of Metropolitan Extreme Heat
Risk (SIMMER). Co-I. (PI Wilhelmi) – KU portion
$ 1.4 Million
$ 367,116
2009 Kansas NSF EPSCoR
o Understanding Climate Change in the Great Plains: Source, Impact, and
Mitigation. National Science Foundation, (KU portion). Co-I. (PI: Rice)
o Implications of Climate Change and Renewable Energy Development for
Rural Systems Sustainability (RSS). (KU portion). Co-I. (PI: Earnhardt)
$ 1,086,575
$ 887,613
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2008
NSF IGERT: C-CHANGE: Climate Change, Humans, and Nature in the
Global Environment. (Participating Faculty, PI: Joane Nagel)
RUI: The Biogeography of Forest Change: Drought and Crown Fire in
Ponderosa Pine Forests of the American Southwest CoPI with Mast and
Savage
Assessing Climate Change in Kansas. The Land Institute. CoPI with Brunsell
$ 3.2 Million
$ 191,954
$ 36,012
2006 NSF grant Collaborative Research: Fire at the Intersection of Global Carbon
and Water Cycles. PI Mahowald and 5 Co-Is.
$ 653,554
2005
NSF Science and Technology Center grant Center for Remote Sensing of Ice
Sheets. PIs Gogineni and Braaten, and ~40 Co-Is.
$ 19 Million
2004
NSF grant Development of historical and future land cover and land use
change datasets for the Community Climate System Model.
$ 169,096
2003-
Pres. NCAR internal Assessment Initiative grant, Weather and Climate Impact
Assessment Science Initiative (Mearns and Washington PIs); Feddema KU
Annually renewed from 2003 to 2012
$ 229,243
2002 Support to Operation Able Ally, NATO grant. $ 13,580
2001 NSF SGER grant, Development of surface based anthropogenic climate
change scenarios for CCSM. With Dobson.
$ 35,640
2000 US Department of State Linkage Grant between the University of Kansas and
the University of Zambia (Myers PI)
$ 142,138
1998 NSF Workshop on African Environments: Technology, Modeling and Political
Ecology. CoPI with Garth Meyers.
KU Research Development Fund (RDF), Coupled Remote Sensing and Climate
model for determining Crop productivity. PI with Bennett, Martinko, Price
and Slocum
KU Research Development Fund (RDF), Playas (buffalo wallows):
Environmental Barometers of the Central Great Plains. With Johnson (PI),
Bozarth, Logan, Price and Steeples
KU Research Development Fund, Pre-proposal for Digital Libraries
consortium: map archival and distribution. With Knoepp (PI), Bennett and
Niebaum
$ 29,998
$ 40,578
$ 30,846
$ 101,140
1997 Intel Corporation, Regional Environmental Assessment Laboratory and GIS
(REAL/GIS). Co-PI with Turco and 15 Co-Is.
NASA, Campus-wide Initiative for Inter-disciplinary Study of the
Environment with Remote Sensing. With Smith (PI) and Turco.
California State Coastal Conservancy, Lower Malibu Creek and Malibu
Lagoon Resource Enhancement and Management Project. With Ambrose
and Orme (PIs), and 5 Co-PIs.
University of California Institute for Geophysics and Plantary Physics,
Application of the UC-LLNL Regional Climate System Model to the
Malibu Watershed. With Dracup and Miller (PIs).
Office of Instructional Development, UCLA, Geography 5:Ocean Field trip
funding. PI with MacDonald and Muldavin
Academic Senate Grant, UCLA.
$ 978,485
$ 223,000
$ 246,805
$ 26,674
$ 4,275
$ 2,549
1996 EPA/NSF Integrated Urban Watershed Analysis: The Los Angeles Basin and
Coastal Environment. With Turco (PI), and 19 co-PIs.
Office of Instructional Development (OID), UCLA, Institute of the
Environment GE curriculum development. With Suffet and Vance.
Office of Instructional Development, UCLA, Geography 5: Laboratory
Improvement Grant.
Academic Senate Grant, UCLA.
$ 1.8 Million
$ 20,000
$ 7,712
$ 2,367
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1995 National Institute for Global Environmental Change (DOE), Assessing the
impacts of Global Warming on California Water Resources.
Office of Instructional Development (OID), UCLA, GIS Laboratory. PI with
Mills and Ellis.
Office of Research, UCLA, GIS Laboratory. PI with Mills, Ellis, Zhang and
Clark.
Academic Senate Grant, UCLA.
$ 77,768
$ 54,000
$ 47,500
$ 2,500
1994 National Science Foundation. Water as an integrating theme in landscape
change and undergraduate environmental education. With Entrikin (PI),
Matthews, Mills, Orme, Raphael, Savage and Trimble.
Academic Senate Grant, UCLA
$ 59,564
$ 4,200
1993 Academic Senate Grant, UCLA $ 2,880
1992 Academic Senate Grant, UCLA $ 3,100
1991 Academic Senate Grant, UCLA $ 2,830
KEYNOTE LECTURES
Feddema, JJ (2011): Land use transitions and climate: regional consequences in the context of the IPCC
representative concentration pathways, Keynote speaker, Land Use Transitions in South America:
framing the present, preparing for a sustainable future Workshop, Ilhabela, Brazil, November 17.
Feddema, JJ (2011): From the Water Budget to Global Climate Models: Understanding the Human
Influence on Climate, Inaugural John R. Mather Visiting Scholar Lecture, University of Delaware,
Newark, DE, October 20.
Feddema, JJ (2009): Human and Natural Drivers of Climate Change, The Linda hall Climate Change
Symposium, Linda Hall Library, Kansas City, MO, October 16.
Feddema, JJ (2009) Climate change and Kansas, Keynote address for the Kansas Academy of Science ,
Topeka KS, March 27.
Feddema, J (2008) Developing Information Systems for Simulating Anthropogenic Impacts in Earth
System Models Keynote speaker, at workshop on Heterogeneous data access and use for geospatial
user communities, VU, University Amsterdam, December 4.
Feddema, JJ (2008): The Challenge of incorporating anthropogenic systems in an ESM, Presentation at
Identifying Outstanding Grand Challenges in Climate Change Research: Guiding DOE’s Strategic
Planning, Washington DC, March 26.
Feddema, JJ (2008) Developing Information Systems for Simulating Anthropogenic Impacts in Earth
System Models. Opening presentation on Climate and Society: GIS applications, datasets and
integrative assessments, 3rd NCAR Community Workshop on GIS in Weather, Climate and Impacts,
NCAR, Boulder, Colorado, October 27
Feddema, JJ (2008): Climate Change and Kansas, Keynote Address to the Kansas Air Quality Seminar,
Topeka, KS, March 6.
Feddema, JJ (2007): Environmental Impacts of Climate Change on Kansas as part of the Forum on
Agriculture’s Role in the New Carbon Economy for the Consortium for Agricultural Soils Mitigation
of Greenhouse Gases, Manhattan, KS, December 18.
INVITED LECTURES (* = person presenting paper if not first author)
Feddema JJ (2013) Modeling Urban Systems in an Earth System Model invited speaker for AGU session
on Urban Areas and Global Change III (SWIRL on Urban systems), San Francisco, Dec 11.
Feddema, JJ (2013): Developing parameterizations to simulate alternative urban systems in climate
models, Presentation to Health Canada and Environment Canada, Toronto, Canada, Oct 24.
Feddema, JJ (2013): Modeling and parameterizing urban systems in the Community Earth System Model,
Next Generation Climate Data Products, IMAGe, NCAR, Boulder, CO, July 15-19
Feddema, JJ (2013): Developing a global urban dataset for climate modeling, presentation to Renewable
Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO June 26.
Feddema CV page 9
INVITED LECTURES – Continued
Feddema, JJ (2012): Modeling Future Urban Systems in an Earth System Model. International
Conference on Urban Climate, IAUC, Dublin, Ireland, August 9
Feddema, JJ (2012) Bringing Social Systems into Climate Models. Presentation to the Climate Science
Applications Program, NCAR, Boulder, CO April 10.
Feddema, JJ (2012) Human Resource Demand and Land Transformation Information System,
Presentation to the Integrated Assessment Group, NCAR, Boulder, CO March 9
Feddema, JJ and K Oleson (2012) Representing Urban Systems and Soils in CLM, Research Seminar
Presentation to the Climate and Global Dynamics Division (CGD), NCAR, Boulder, CO, February 9
Feddema, JJ (2012) How can higher resolution datasets help IAMs? Presentation to the Integrated
Assessment Group, NCAR, Boulder, CO January 13
Feddema, JJ (2012) High Resolution Datasets. Presentation to the Terrestrial Sciences Section (CGD),
NCAR, Boulder, CO June 7.
Feddema, JJ (2010): Simulating Urban Systems in Global Climate Models, Presented at International
Workshop on Urban Climate Projection for better adaptation Plan, Tsukuba, Japan, June 2.
Feddema, JJ (2010): Simulating Human Activities in Earth System Models, Presentation to the
Department of Atmospheric Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Japan, June 1.
Feddema, JJ (2010): Future Treatment of Land Cover Change, Presented at the joint Land and
Biogeochemistry working group meetings of the CCSM, Boulder, CO, February 9.
Feddema, JJ (2009): Incorporating human activities in global climate models, Keynote address,
Environmental sustainability conference, Hokkiado University, Sapporo, Japan, November 6.
Feddema, JJ (2009): Incorporating human systems into global climate models, Department of
Geosciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NB, October 9.
Feddema, JJ (2009): Land Use for Near-term Climate Forecast, 14th CCSM workshop Land Surface
Working Group, Breckenridge, CO, June 17.
Feddema, JJ (2009): Global Urban Parameters for CLM, 14th CCSM workshop Land Surface Working
Group, Breckenridge, CO, June 16.
Bonan, GB, Feddema* JJ, D Lawrence, P Lawrence, S Levis, K Oleson, P Thornton (2009). Land Cover
Change Activities with the Community Land Model (CLM4). Max Plank Institute, Hamburg, May 4.
Feddema, JJ (2008): Understanding and reconciling land use/land cover datasets, Presentation at Energy
Modeling Forum workshop on Climate Change Impacts and Integrated Assessment, Snowmass, CO,
July, 29.
Feddema, JJ (2008): The Challenge of Incorporating Human Systems in Global Climate Models.
Presentation to the EPSCoR Eco-Forecasting Conference, Lawrence, KS, April 18
Feddema, JJ (2008): AR5 Land Cover Change Scenarios, Presented at the joint Land and
Biogeochemistry working group meetings of the CCSM, Boulder, CO, February 21.
Feddema, JJ (2007): Model System Needs: Global Datasets: Current and Future implementation.
NUDAPT workshop (by phone), Salt Lake City, UT, April 19.
Feddema, JJ (2007): Simulating Human Land Cover Change in Global Climate Models. Presented to the
School of Geographical Sciences, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ, Feb 9.
Feddema, JJ (2007): Simulating Human Land Cover Change in Global Climate Models. Presented to the
Department of Earth System Science, Univ. of California, Irvine, CA, Feb 7.
Feddema, JJ (2006): Land Cover Change Experiments and the Urban Model in CLM, 11th CCSM
workshop Climate Change Research Working Group, Breckenridge, CO, June 22.
Feddema, JJ (2006): Urbanizing global models, workshop presentation for Collaborative Project:
National urban morphological database and web portal access tool for advanced urban dispersion and
air quality modeling, Boulder, CO, May 11.
Feddema, JJ, K Oleson and G Bonan (2006): Developing a global database for the CLM urban model,
Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment, 86th AMS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, February 1.
Oleson, K, G Bonan and J Feddema (2006): Development of an urban parameterization for a global
climate model, Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment, 86th AMS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA,
January 30.
Feddema CV page 10
INVITED LECTURES – Continued
Feddema, JJ (2005): Using GIS to put humans into the CCSM, GIS in Weather, Climate and Impacts
Workshop 2005, Boulder, Colorado July 6.
Feddema, JJ (2005): Land Cover Change, 10th CCSM workshop Land Surface Working Group,
Breckenridge, CO, June 22.
Feddema, JJ (2005): Land use Change in the CCSM, CCSM Biogeochemistry Working Group Meeting.
Boulder, CO, April 1.
Feddema, JJ (2004): Putting People into the CCSM, Institute for the Study of Society and Environment.
NCAR, Boulder, CO, December 7.
Feddema, JJ (2004): Land Cover Forcing from the SRES Scenarios in Climate Models, Progress report
for the Weather and Climate Impact Assessment Science Initiative. NCAR, Boulder, CO, Aug 3.
Feddema, JJ (2004): Land Cover Change Simulations in CCSM, 9th CCSM workshop Land Surface
Working Group, Breckenridge, CO, June 22.
Feddema, JJ (2004): GCM Simulations of the Impacts of Anthropogenic Land Cover Change on Climate,
Department of Geography, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, April 23.
Feddema, JJ (2003): Simulating the impacts of anthropogenic land cover change on climate, Department
of Geography, Kansas State University, Geography Awareness Week lecture, Manhattan KS, Nov 21.
Feddema, JJ (2003): Simulating Anthropogenic Land Cover Change in Global Circulation Models,
presentation to the Terrestrial and Sciences Section, Climate and Global Dynamics Division, National
Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, July 17.
Feddema, JJ (2003): Results from Land Surface Change Experiments and an Update on Future
Directions, 7th CCSM workshop Climate Change Working Group, Breckenridge, CO June 26.
Feddema, JJ (2003): Using Tombstones to Measure the Impact of Air Pollution on Marble Weathering,
School of Mines, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia, January 10.
Feddema, JJ (2002): Simulating Anthropogenic Land Cover Change in Global Circulation Models,
Department of Geography, University of Iowa, Iowa City, September 19.
Feddema, JJ (2002): Climate variability and change: from scenarios to adaptation, Presentation at the
workshop on GIS in Weather, Climate and Impacts. National Center for Atmospheric Research,
Boulder, Colorado, 12-14 August.
Feddema, JJ (2002): Past and Future Land Cover Change, CCSM workshop Land Surface Working
Group, Breckenridge, CO, June 27.
Feddema, JJ (2002): Status of Land Use Change Dataset Preparation and Experiments, CCSM workshop
Climate Change Working Group, Breckenridge, CO, June 26.
Feddema, JJ (2002): The Value of GIS to Human Induced Surface Change Scenario Development, GIS
seminar Series, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder CO, March, 6.
Feddema, JJ (2002): Developing GCM surface change scenarios using GIS, a population model and soil
degradation data, Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, April 12.
Feddema, JJ (1997): Impacts of Desertification on African Water Resources, Paper presented to the
Department of Geography, University of Utah, January 27.
Feddema, JJ (1997): Panel member for the Water Resources Specialty Group session on hydroclimatology.
Session held at the 1997 AAG Annual Meeting, Ft. Worth, Texas.
Feddema, JJ (1994): Projected African Climate Change, Paper presented to the Department of Geography,
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, November, 18.
Feddema, JJ (1993): Materials Damage in an Urban Environment, Joint Seminar presentation to the
Environmental Science and Engineering Program and the Environmental Health Sciences Department,
School of Public Health, UCLA, October 21.
Feddema, JJ (1993): Global Warming: Can Tropical Africa be Neglected? Paper presented as part of a
Workshop Program Changing Environments: How Vulnerable are We? Bloomington Indiana, October
14-16.
Feddema, JJ (1993): Marble Weathering in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Using a Geographical Approach,
Seminar presentation to the Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles.
Feddema, JJ (1993): Current Research Topics in Climatology, Seminar presentation to the Department of
Geography, California State University, Northridge, March 3.
Feddema CV page 11
INVITED LECTURES – Continued
Feddema, JJ (1992): Detecting Global Climate Change, Seminar presentation to the Department of
Geography, University of Southern California.
PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS (* = person presenting paper if not first author)
Feddema, JJ And K Oleson (2013): Developing a global urban dataset for climate modeling, AAG annual
meetings, Los Angeles, CA. April 12
Liu W, JJ Feddema, A Zung, L Hu N Brunsell (2013): Effect of urban morphology and thermal
properties on heat island intensity, AAG annual meetings, Los Angeles, CA. April 12
Feddema, JJ (2011): Using an urban sub-model in a GCM to improve climate impact assessment studies,
AAG annual meetings, Seattle, WA. April 15
Feddema, JJ (2010): Simulating Urban Systems in the Community Climate System model, AAG annual
meetings, Washington D.C. April 18
Feddema, JJ (2010): Panel discussion participant on Urban Climate: Global Impact and Mitigation
Techniques, AAG annual meetings, Washington, D.C. April 18
Oleson K, J Feddema, T Jackson, G Bonan, O Wilhelmi, and J Boehnert (2009), Modeling global climate
change in urban areas. The 89th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting (Phoenix, AZ),
Jan 15.
Wilhelmi O, J Boehnert, K Oleson, J Feddema, and T Jackson, (2009). Global assessment of urban heat
island effect and future heat waves: GIS applications in urban climate modeling. The 89th American
Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, Jan 13.
Feddema, JJ (2007): Simulating Urban Systems in a GCM. AAG annual meetings, San Francisco, CA,
April 20.
Feddema JJ, K Oleson, G Bonan, L Mearns, G Meehl, W Washington (2006): Simulating Human Land
Cover Change in the NCAR GCMs, (solicited) EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, Apr 5
Feddema JJ, K Oleson, G Bonan (2006): Incorporating urban systems into global climate models: part 1,
model description, AAG annual meetings, Chicago, IL, March 9
Jackson T, P-L Lin, J Bauer, and J Feddema (2006): Incorporating urban systems into global climate
models: part 2, parameterization, AAG annual meetings, Chicago, IL, March 9
Feddema J, L Mearns*, K Oleson, G Bonan, L Buja, G Meehl, and W Washington (2006): How
important is land cover change for simulating future climates? 86th AMS Annual Meeting, Atlanta,
GA, January 31.
Feddema, JJ (2005): Assessing the impacts of land cover change on global climate, AAG annual meetings,
Denver, CO, April 7
Feddema, JJ (2004): A Revised Thornthwaite Type Global Climate Classification, AAG annual meetings,
Philadelphia, PA, March 19
Yu F, K P Price, J Ellis, JJ Feddema, and P Shi, (2001): Impacts of Regional Climate Variation on
Vegetation Green-up Patterns in Central Asia (1982-1990). 2001 ASPRS Annual conference, St.
Louis, MO, April 23-27.
Feddema, JJ (2002): Development of surface based anthropogenic climate change scenarios for GCMs,
AAG annual meetings, Los Angeles, CA, March 23 Feddema, JJ (2000): Impacts of Soil Degradation on the African Water Balance and Climate, Paper
presented at the 2000 AAG Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Feddema, JJ (1998): Future African Water Resources: Interactions between Soil Degradation and Global
Warming, Poster Presentation at the 1998 AAG Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
Feddema, JJ (1997): Impacts of Global Warming on California Water Resources, Paper presented at the
1997 AAG Annual Meeting, Ft. Worth, Texas.
Feddema, JJ (1996): Terrestrial Precipitation and Temperature Variability and Their Use in Evaluating
GCMs, Paper presented at the 1996 AAG Annual Meeting, Francisco, California.
Feddema, JJ (1994): Seasonal Impacts of Global Warming in Africa, Paper presented at the 1994 AAG
Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California.
Feddema CV page 12
PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS -- Continued
Feddema, JJ (1993): Hydroclimatic impacts of Global Warming in Africa, Paper presented at the 1993
AAG Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.
Mendel, AC and JJ Feddema (1993): Historical Analysis of the Precipitation Patterns Associated with
Los Angeles Flood Events, Paper Presented at the 1993 AAG Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.
Feddema, JJ (1992): Hydroclimatic Changes Under Double CO2 Conditions in the United States, Paper
presented at the 1992 AAG Annual Meeting, San Diego, California.
Feddema, JJ (1992): The Unusual Storms of Winter 1992 in Southern California, with MN Raphael, AJ
Orme, L Haston, AR Orme, and J Michaelsen. Special session at the 1992 AAG Annual Meeting, San
Diego, California.
Feddema, JJ (1991): Detecting Global Climate Change: The Neglected Arid Lands, Paper presented at the
1991 APCG Annual Meeting, Tucson, Arizona.
Feddema, JJ (1991): Analysis of Moisture Regimes over the Conterminous United States, Paper presented at
the 1991 AAG Annual Meeting, Miami, Florida.
Feddema, JJ (1990): Evaluation of Terrestrial Climate Sensitivity Using a Moisture Index, Paper presented
at the 1990 AAG Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada.
Mather JR, JJ Feddema, and MJ Mack (1989): Poster presentation on Applications of the Water Budget in
Environmental Analysis, in honor of the 25th Anniversary of the Water Resources Institute Program,
Washington D.C.
Feddema, JJ and TC Meierding (1989): Poster Presentation on Marble Deterioration in the Urban
Atmosphere, at the European Symposium on Science, Technology and European Cultural Heritage,
Bologna, Italy.
Feddema, JJ (1989): A Water Budget Approach to Global Climate Change, Paper presented at the 1989
AAG Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland.
Feddema, JJ and TC Meierding (1986): Marble Deterioration in the Urban Atmosphere, Paper presented at
the 1986 AAG Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Feddema, JJ and TC Meierding (1984): Rates of Marble Tombstone Weathering from Pollution in the
Philadelphia Region, Paper presented at the 1984 AAG Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
PUBLIC OUTREACH LECTURES
Feddema, JJ (2013) Climate Change Policy and Issues: Distorting Priorities and Science? University of
Kansas School of Law, September 25.
Feddema, JJ (2012) Climate Patterns in Kansas: What are the trends and where do we go from here?
Kansas Farmers Union , Topeka, KS, December 1.
Feddema, JJ (2012): State of the Climate of the Central Great Plains, presentation at the Adapting to a
Changing Climate on the Central Great Plains Conference, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS,
Sept. 4.
Feddema, JJ (2011) Communicating science beyond the classroom: what is your role? Honors Day,
College of Earth, Ocean & Environment, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, October 21
Feddema, JJ (2010): Environmental choices. Kansas Water Office 3rd
Annual Kansas Water Issues
Forum on Climate and Water: Planning for Change, Hays, KS, February 4.
Feddema, JJ (2010): Climate change and Kansas: what do the Models Indicate? Kansas Water Office 3rd
Annual Kansas Water Issues Forum on Climate and Water: Planning for Change, Hays, KS, Feb 4.
Feddema, JJ (2010): Climate change and Kansas: what do the Models Indicate? Kansas Water Office 3rd
Annual Kansas Water Issues Forum on Climate and Water: Planning for Change, Wichita, KS,
February 3.
Feddema, JJ (2010): Climate Component of the Kansas EPSCoR project. Sustainability Conference.
Kansans Advancing Sustainability in higher Education, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
January 30.
Feddema, JJ (2009) Building ourselves a new climate, Plenary speaker for the Kansas Academy of
Science, Topeka KS, March 28.
Feddema CV page 13
PUBLIC OUTREACH LECTURES -- Continued
Feddema JJ (2009) Impacts of Climate Change Plenary Session Speaker, Kansas Water and the Future of
Kansas Conference. Sponsored by Kansas Water Resources Institute, Kansas Center for Agricultural
Resources and the Environment (K-CARE), K-State Research and Extension, U.S. Geological Survey,
March 26.
Feddema, JJ (2008): Conveying Science to a Global Audience: Inside the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change, Presentation for the Globalization Seminar Series of the Hall Center for Humanities,
University of Kansas, March 3.
Feddema, JJ and N Brunsell (2007): Kansas and Climate change, presented at Kansas E3: Energy, the
Environment, & Economics conference, Lawrence, KS, Oct 11.
Feddema, JJ, CJ Willmott, and SR Robeson (1993): Influence of Spatially Variable Observation Networks
on Detecting Climatic Change, Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern California
Academy of Sciences, June 4.
Feddema, JJ and MN Raphael (1991): A Geographer's perspective on Global Warming, Presentation to the
Friends of Geography, Department of Geography, UCLA, December 7.
WORKSHOPS
Participant (2013) SIMMER Workshop: Linking Complex Science to Policy for Heat-Health Decision
Making, Health Canada, Toronto, Canada, October 24-25.
Participant (2013) Workshop on Human-Carbon Interactions in Urban Systems, NCAR, Boulder, CO
October 16-18.
Participant (2013) Next Generation Climate Data Products, IMAGe, NCAR, Boulder, CO, July 15-19.
Participant (2012) Needs and Research Requirements for Land-Change Modeling, National Research
Council of the National Academies, Committee Workshop, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, February 15-
16, 2012
Participant/Discussant (2012), Energy Modeling Forum, Climate Change Impacts and Integrated
Assessment (CCI/IA), Snowmass, Colorado, July 23-26.
Participant (2012), System for Integrated Modeling of Metropolitan Extreme Heat Risk (SIMMER)
workshop, NOAA grant project, Boulder, Colorado, September 9-10
Participant (2011): Land Use Transitions in South America: framing the present, preparing for a
sustainable future Workshop, Ilhabela, Brazil, November 17
Participant (2010) International Workshop on Urban Climate Projection for better adaptation Plan,
Tsukuba, Japan, June 2-3
Participant (2010) U.S. Department of Energy Office of Biological and Environmental Research Advisory
Committee (BERAC) Workshop: Grand Challenges to set BER’s Long Term Scientific Vision,
Washington, D.C., March 3-4
Participant (2010): Joint Land and Biogeochemistry working group meetings of the CCSM, NCAR,
Boulder, CO, Feb 8-9
Participant (2009) Kansas NSF EPSCoR Strategic Planning Workshop, Lawrence, KS, October 7-8
Participant: 14th Annual Community Climate System Model (CCSM) workshop, Sponsored by the National
Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Breckenridge, CO, 15-18 June, 2009.
Participant (2009) Kansas NSF EPSCoR Strategic Planning Workshop, Lawrence, KS, October 7-8
Participant (2009) Land use and wetlands in the AR5 models. Max Planck Institute for Meteorology,
Hamburg, Germany. 4-6 May,
Participant (2009): Joint Land and Biogeochemistry working group meetings of the CCSM, NCAR,
Boulder, CO, Mar 31-Apr 1
Keynote speaker and panelist (2008): Heterogeneous data access and use for geospatial user communities,
Atmospheric Data Access for the Geospatial User Community (ADAGUC) program VU, University
Amsterdam, December 4-5.
Participant (2008): Climate and Society: GIS applications, datasets and integrative assessments, 3rd
NCAR Community Workshop on GIS in Weather, Climate and Impacts, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado.
Invited opening presentation and panelist, October 27-29.
Feddema CV page 14
WORKSHOPS -- Continued
Participant (2008): Energy Modeling Forum workshop on Climate Change Impacts and Integrated
Assessment, Snowmass, July, 29
Participant: 13th Annual Community Climate System Model (CCSM) workshop, Sponsored by the
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Breckenridge, CO, 19-21 June, 2008.
Participant (2008): Identifying Outstanding Grand Challenges in Climate Change Research: Guiding
DOE’s Strategic Planning, Washington DC, March 25-27.
Participant (2008): Energy Modeling Forum sponsored workshop for the Integrated Assessment Modeling
Consortium on developing the new IPCC Scenarios, Washington DC, February 5-7.
Participant (2007): IPCC Expert meeting on New Scenarios, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands,
September 19-22.
Participant (2007), 12th Annual Community Climate System Model (CCSM) workshop, Sponsored by the
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Breckenridge, CO, 19-21 June.
Participant (2006), 11th Annual Community Climate System Model (CCSM) workshop, Sponsored by the
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Breckenridge, CO, 20-22 June.
Participant (2005): GIS in Weather, Climate and Impacts Workshop, Boulder, Colorado July 6-8.
Participant (2005), 10th Annual Community Climate System Model (CCSM) workshop, Sponsored by the
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Breckenridge, CO, 21-23 June.
Participant (2005): CCSM Land Model Working Group Meeting. Boulder, Colorado, March 14-15.
Participant (2004), 9th Annual Community Climate System Model (CCSM) workshop, Sponsored by the
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Santa Fe, NM, 7-9 July.
Participant (2003), 8th Annual Community Climate System Model (CCSM) workshop, Sponsored by the
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Breckenridge, CO, 24-26 June.
Conducted a workshop (2003) on the Water budget, Remote Sensing and GIS and environmental analysis
at the University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia, January 8-10.
Participant (2002), Water Quality Protection in Agroecosystems: Integrating Science, Technology and
Policy, as part of the Technology Focus Group, University of Iowa, Iowa City, September 22-23.
Member advisory panel and Chair of Working group A: GIS applications (2002). At The NCAR GIS
Initiative Workshop: GIS in Weather, Climate and Impacts, Boulder, Colorado, August 12-14, 2002.
Participant (2002), Workshop on a Design for a Prototype CitySat, Imaging Regional Urban/Industrial
Environmental Footprints, Boulder, Colorado, August 7-8.
Participant (2002), US Workshop on Climate Projections, Uncertainty and Scenarios for Impacts
Assessment, Boulder, Colorado, July 17-19.
Participant (2002), 7th Annual Community Climate System Model (CCSM) workshop, Sponsored by the
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), 2000, Breckenridge, CO, 25-27 June.
Participant (2000), 5th Annual Community Climate System Model (CCSM) workshop, Sponsored by the
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) June, Breckenridge, CO, 27-29.
Delegate (2000), representing the University of Kansas to the University Consortium for GIS (UCGIS)
Annual Summer Conference, Oregon, June, 21-24.
Co-organizer, discussion leader and participant (1999), NSF sponsored workshop on African Environments:
Technology, Modeling, and Political Ecology, Sept 8-11.
Participant (1998), AAAS workshop on Collaborative Research in Earth System Science – Continental
hydrology subgroup, 18-19 November, Lawrence, KS.
Participant (1993), Indiana Center on Global Change and World Peace workshop on Changing
Environments: How Vulnerable are We? Bloomington, Indiana, October 14-16.
Participant and discussion leader (1991), NATO Advanced Research Workshop: Channel Islands Study,
Lake Arrowhead, CA, November 11-17.
Feddema CV page 15
EDUCATIONAL AND LEADERSHIP TRAINING WORKSHOPS
Participant (2012) American Council on Education (ACE) Leadership Academy for Department Chairs.
Oxford, Ohio, July 11-12.
Participant (2010) AAG Department Leadership Workshop: Beyond the Ivory Tower. Boulder CO,
June17-19.
Participant (2008): New Deans, Directors, Chairpersons & Managers Orientation to Administrative
Operations, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, February 28.
Instructor (2008): CReSIS K-12 professional development workshop The Heat is On, June 2-6. Led
section on water balance modeling
Feddema, JJ (Organizer), DC Lomis (Moderator), JL Burmeister, I Stakgold, K Schneider, DR Legates,
and B Marthi (1986): Foreign Teaching Assistants in American Universities, Panel Discussion, In
Praise of Teaching: A Conference on Instruction for Faculty and Teaching Assistants, Newark,
Delaware.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
ATMO/GEOG 321 - Climate and Climate Change, KU
ATMO/GEOG 521 - Microclimatology, KU
GEOG 210 - Computers, Maps and Geographic Analysis, KU
GEOG 304 - Environmental Conservation, KU
GEOG 339 - Topics in Physical Geography: Climatology, KU
GEOG 531 - Seminar in Physical Geography: Environmental Issues, KU
GEOG 531 - Seminar in Physical Geography: Climate Change, KU
GEOG 731 - Seminar in Physical Geography: Climate-vegetation interactions, KU.
GEOG 731 - Seminar in Physical Geography: Climate Change Studies, KU.
GEOG 958 - Seminar in GIS, KU
EVRN/GEOG/HIST 140- Global Environment I: The Discovery of Environmental Change, KU
EVRN/GEOG/HIST 142- Global Environment II: The Ecology of Human Civilization, KU
EVRN/GEOG 148 - Introduction to Environmental Studies, University of Kansas (KU)
EVRN/GEOG 149 - Introduction to Environmental Studies, Honors, KU
EVRN 702/UPBL 773 - Energy, Ecology and Community in Kansas, KU
EVRN 702/ECON 855 - Energy, Ecology and Community in Kansas, KU
GEOG 5 - People and the Earth's Ecosystems (laboratory course), UCLA
GEOG 104 - Climatology, UCLA
GEOG 128 - World's Ecosystems: Problems and Issues, UCLA
GEOG 129 - Seminar: Environmental Problems, UCLA
GEOG 159d - Problems in Geography (applied/microclimatology), UCLA
GEOG 199 - Directed Independent Study, UCLA
GEOG 204b - Advanced Climatology (Water Balance), UCLA
GEOG 205 - Climatology Seminar, UCLA
GEOG 229 - Seminar: People and Environment, UCLA
G152 - Climate and Life (laboratory course), University of Delaware
G230 - Humans and the Earth's Ecosystems, University of Delaware
Teaching Assistant (Univ. of Delaware) for the following: Physical Geography, Introductory Meteorology,
Air-Photo Interpretation, Climatic Geomorphology, Computer Cartography (graduate)
Undergraduate Honors advisees: Peter Gogol, Jessica Drees, Celeste McCoy
Undergraduate Honors Committee member: Jeremy Wolf (EECS)
Undergraduate Research Mentor: Joann Smith, Kirsten King
Feddema CV page 16
GRADUATE STUDENT COMMITTEES
Ph.D. Committee Chair: Lin Wu, Aaron Allen, Sun Park, Christopher Atkinson, Ashley Zung
Ph.D. Committee member:
Geography: Jacqueline Gallagher, Mario Picazo, Oxana Marenko, Paul Price, Jeff Harvey, Ivan
Cheung, Mark Kuhlman, Caroline Tepley, Peter Sam, Cameron McCormick, Hugh Howard, John
Bauer, Alex Jonko, Lister Lanham, Samantini Shome, Tianna Boggart, Weibo Liu, Leiqiu Hu,
Ferdouz Cochran Jean Eichhorst, Tony Layzell
Atmospheric Sciences: Jia-yuh Yu, Yurdanur Sezginer, Corrol Hsu, Ning Jiang
Biology: Jose Luis Andrade-Torres, Paula Jackson, Jack Colicchio
Computer Science: Daniel Cliburn
Environmental Science and Engineering: Nancy Steele, Michael Benjamin, Eric Stein, Estelle Shiroma,
Doug Meffert, Alice Kwan, John Karlik, Spencer McNeil
Geology: Willian Heins, Jeffery Fillipone, Linda Garinger, Marcello Minzoni
History: Adam Sundberg, Neil Oatsvall
MA Committee Chair: Aaron Allen, Gary Tilkian, Terry Nakazono, Phelicia Gomes, Jason Shields,
Sergio Friere, Trish Jackson, Tom Baffa
MA/MS Committee Member: Alexander Stege, Janet Fleming, Leonard Tang, Amy Segelin, Janice King,
Linda Fair, Caitlin Dempsey, Travis Hull, Mark Gruber, John Banning, John Bauer, Rachel
Saifullah, Julie Morris, Aubrey Jones, Thomas Overly, Tyler Buck, Rueben Dermyer, David Huber,
Ian Howard, Pei-Ling Lin
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
State, National and International Service
Externals reviewer for promotion cases for the University of Colorado (2006), University of Nebraska
(2006), University of Georgia (2007, 2009, 2012), University of Indiana, (2010, 2011), University of
Connecticut (2010), University of Delaware (2011), University of Missouri, Kansas City (2012),
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2013), University of Albany SUNY (2013), Boston University
(2013), NCAR (2013)
Organizer three AGU sessions on Future Land Use Change and Climate San Francisco, Dec 13, (2013)
Member, external departmental review committee, Department of Geography, Indiana University,
Bloomington, Indiana March 25-26 (2013)
Reviewer National Academy of Sciences Report on Advancing Land Change Modeling: Needs and
Research Requirements (2013)
Testified on climate change before the Kansas House Committee on Energy and Environment
Governors appointee to the Kansas Energy and Environmental Policy Advisory Group,
Prepared materials for a presentation on Kansas and Climate Change to the Kansas Governors’ Kansas
Energy Council, presented by Brunsell, February 21, 2008
Testified on Climate Change in Kansas before the Kansas House of Representatives Committee on HB
2711, February 6, 2008
Community forum presentation on the impacts of Climate Change on Kansas, for the Energy and Climate
Project of the Land Institute, January 23, Topeka, KS.
Briefing to Lt Governor of Kansas on climate change, January 23 2008
Reviewer for the following journals (various times):
Annals of the AAG, Cartographic and Geographic Information Science, Climate Dynamics, Climate
Research, Climatic Change, Environmental Management, International Journal of Remote Sensing,
Journal of Paleoclimology, Physical Geography, Professional Geographer, Society & Space:
Environment and Planning D, Urban Atmosphere, Bull. Am. Met. Soc., Geophysical Research Letters,
Int. J Climatology, Science, Journal of Climate,Nature
Reviewer for the National Science Foundation, NASA and Netherlands Research Organization (NWO).
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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE – Continued
Reviewer for NASA LULCC panel participant (reviewed 46 proposals)
Assisted Linda Hall Science Library (Kansas City) to develop a Climate Change Conference (2009)
Reviewer, Kansas State University Pre-proposal (2008)
Produced white paper on requirements and specs for a NEON wide GIS system (2007)
Chair: Session of the 1998 Annual meeting of the Rocky Mountains/Great Plains Division of the AAG,
Lawrence, Kansas.
Reviewer, NCAR Opportunity fund proposals (2005)
Director of the Climate Specialty group of the AAG (1997-1999).
Chair: AAG joint Climate Specialty Group and Water Resources Specialty Group Session on Climate
Change and Water Resources, at the 1997 Annual AAG meeting in Ft. Worth, Texas.
Director of the Water Resources Specialty group of the AAG (1994-1997).
Served on the AAG Climate Specialty Group Honors Committee (1993-1996).
Chair: AAG Climate Specialty Group Session on Global Climate and Climatic Change, at the 1993
Annual AAG meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.
Co-organizer (with K.M. Klink): AAG Climate Specialty Group session on large-scale climatology at the
1991 Annual AAG meeting in Miami, Florida.
Evaluation Consultant for Project Geogram a 6-8th Grade program for introducing Geography into the
National K-12 Education System.
University of Kansas
University Service
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) Academic Council (CAC) 2012-present
Internal reviewer, Department of Geology external review
Organized a University wide visualization cluster hire proposal
Contributor water cluster hire proposal
Participated in KU water conference to initiate water resources research activities
Member of College of Liberal Arts and Sciences search committee for a CFO position
CLAS Promotion and tenure committee (2009-2011) excused 2010 due to chair duties
Presentation on Mathematics and Climate for annual math competition as part of Math Awareness
Month (Mathematics and Climate theme) , KU Math Department, April 27, 2009
Library Gallery: provided paper for display on KU exhibit on environmental work at KU
Presentations to Honors Colloquium (Feb 18, 2008), ARCH 930: Doctoral Seminar (Nov 6, 2008),
C-CHANGE IGERT program (Nov 24, 2008), GEOG 107: Honors Physical Geography (April
29, 2008), CReSIS teacher workshop (Jan 24, 2009), ARCH 530: Environmental Systems II (Feb
24, 2009)
Panelist/Presenter Addressing consumer's dilemmas in a globalized world Presentation for Hall
Center Globalization Seminar series on Nov, 20, 2008
Outside member for director search committee: Environmental Studies 2008
Assessment of General Education Committee (2003-present).
Coordinator for integrating the Atmospheric Science program into the Geography Department
Outside member for faculty search committee: Geology 2003
Served on several Environmental Studies committees (Faculty evaluation and curriculum)
Marshall at graduation ceremonies
Department Service
Department Chair, 2012-Present
Acting Department Chair, 2009-2010
Associate Department Chair (2005 – 2009; 2010-2011)
o Scheduling officer
o Initiating M.S. Program in Geography and PhD in Atmospheric Sciences
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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE – Continued
o Developed Long Range Plan for the Geography Department
o Faculty evaluation committee chair: annual reviews
o Led promotion committees
Full Professor: Braaten, Van der Veen, Egbert, Herlihy
Associate professor: Brown, O’Lear, Li, Brunsell, Mechem, Hirmas
Third year review: Li, Brunsell, Cheong, Mechem, Hirmas
Sabbatical evaluations
Faculty mentor to Chris Brown and Xingong Li, David Mechem
Evaluated 6 faculty members for peer teaching evaluations (2005-2013)
Chair, Faculty search committee: Atmospheric Sciences position 2007.
Faculty search committee: Glaciologist position 2006.
Initiated and organized annual department graduation ceremonies (2003, 2004 and 2006)
Organized Geography Department tours for Southwest Middle School science class, Lawrence KS,
2002, 2003, 2005
Undergraduate Affairs Committee: Chair (2000-2004).
o Revised B.S. degrees in the Department of Geography
o Developed undergraduate guide to the Geography Program
o Incorporated Atmospheric Sciences into the Geography Department
o Led Advising activities
Curriculum Committee (1998-2003)
Organized Department activities for KU Open House (October 5, 2002)
Graduate Affairs Committee (1998-2000).
Faculty search committee: GIS position 2001
University of California, Los Angeles:
University Service
Committee for Education Development
Department Service
Computer Committee (1992-1998); Chair (1993-1994, 1995-1997).
Graduate Affairs Committee (1994-1995).
Undergraduate Affairs Committee (1991-1994).
Colloquium Committee (1990-1991).
Various promotion committees.
Institute of the Environment
Research Committee (1995-1998).
Curriculum Committee (1995-1998).
GIS/Remote Sensing Committee (1995-1998).
Council on Educational Development (1992-1995).
Steering Committee: The UCLA Consortium for Global Change and Regional Impacts (Became the
Institute of the Environment).
Other activities
Presented commencement address at the UCLA Geography Graduation Ceremony. June 18, 1995
Developed Department of Geography Computing Plan. With Stephen Matthews.
Proposed and implemented new graduate and undergraduate computer laboratories in the Department
of Geography.
Developed a Laboratory manual for Geography 5: People and Earth’s Ecosystems.
Faculty Sponsor to the UCLA Student Research Program (SRP).
Faculty Advisor to the UCLA branch of Association of Environmental Professionals (AEP).
Faculty fellow to Rieber Hall, 1993-94; Faculty fellow to Hedrick Hall, 1991-92 and 1992-93.
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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE – Continued
University of Delaware:
President of the University of Delaware Cosmopolitan Club (International Student Soc.), 1986-1988.
Member of the University of Delaware Health Service Student Advisory Board, 1987-1988.
Feddema JJ (Coordinator and Organizer), DR Legates, JK Titlow, GH Henderson, Y Schreuder
(1986): Small Town Development on the Delmarva Peninsula. Day trip for a group of visiting
geography students (led by Dr. P Lukkes) from the University of Groningen, Netherlands.
Feddema JJ organized day trip for author team of joint US-USSR book on global change edited by
Russ Mather.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Volunteered as debate judge (2013)
Assisted Lego league teams Foothill Elementary School, Boulder (2011); Lawrence (2013)
Presentation on Biomes to Quail Run Elementary School 6th grade science class April 27, 2009,
also 2010 and 2011
Chess coach, Quail Run School 2009*-2010 (*2nd
in K-6 at Kansas Scholastic championship)
Led climate discussion: “Take Charge, Community forum on our State’s Energy future”, January
23rd
, 2008, Washburn University, Topeka KS.
Led several ecology and weather discussion for Cub Scout Pack 3072, Lawrence KS. 2003-2005
Led weather discussion in 2nd
grade class, Foothill Elementary School, Boulder, CO, 2005
Assisted community groups opposed to the placement of a Wal-Mart store across from Free State
High School in Lawrence KS. Attended city planning and city commission meetings and created
a GIS database and map of households opposing the development
Assisted local neighborhood to develop a traffic-calming plan on Harvard Road. Used GIS and
aerial photos to develop and present plans to Lawrence, KS City Commission. The proposal was
funded and implemented.
Soccer Coach for Kaw Valley Soccer Association (2003-2008)
SELECT MEDIA ACTIVITIES
Numerous paper and radio interviews on climate change and research including KPR, AP news
releases, various Newspapers etc. (2009-Present)
Interview for book on Climate Science and the Media with Simran Sethi and Heather Muller,
April 15, 2009.
Interview KTWU Sunflower Journey’s episode 2110 Adaptation and Growth, aired Dec 11, 2008
Fox 4 News (Kansas City) special and KCEP (PBS station in Kansas City) TV appearances on
climate change and numerous media stories about climate change and proposed Holcomb coal
power plant construction for Kansas Public Radio and other media outlets (2008)
Interview with KC Channel 5 TV (2005)
Interviewed for a research article on global change by the Daily News (London), 2000
AAG sponsored press release on Hydroclimatic Impacts of Global Warming in Africa, 1993.
Radio Interview on global warming for KPCC Radio (NPR), Pasadena, Nov 4, 1991.
Television interview with T.C. Meierding on air pollution for the Science and Technology section
of the CNN Headline News program, May 1989.
Television interview for the WCAU Channel 10 News (CBS), Philadelphia, March, 1989.
Television: Coverage in the weekly PBS show Science Journal, 1988.
Radio Interview on atmospheric pollution, WLIM Radio, Wilmington, DE, 11/22/88.
Tombstone Erosion Reveals History of Air Pollution; Article in the Wilmington News
Journal/The Morning News (DE), November 21, 1988 (portions of this article were released on
the AP newswire and published nationwide including, The New York Times (12/4/88), The Los
Angeles Times (11/28/88), The Chicago Tribune (11/24/88), and numerous other newspapers.
Tombstones: A vanishing Past; Article in The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 5, 1987.