Professor & New Jersey State Climatologist

CURRICULUM VITAEFebruary 2005

David A. Robinson

Professor & New Jersey State Climatologist

Department of Geography & Office of the State Climatologist

Rutgers University

54 Joyce Kilmer Ave., Piscataway, NJ 08854

voice: 732-445-4741 fax: 732-445-0006

email: web site:

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Geology1984Columbia University

M.S., Geology1981 Columbia University

B.S., Geology1977Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA

ACADEMIC POSITIONS (1984-present)

1995-Professor, Dept. Geography, Rutgers

1991-New Jersey State Climatologist

1996-2003Chair, Dept. Geography, Rutgers

1994-98, 01Director, Graduate Program, Department of Geography, Rutgers

1991-95Associate Professor, Dept. Geography, Rutgers

1988-91Assistant Professor, Dept. Geography, Rutgers

1988Visiting Scientist, United States National Climatic Data Center

1984-1988Assoc. Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia U.

research interests

My primary research interests are in climate and climate change; in particular, state and regional climate and climate change issues, hemispheric and regional snow cover dynamics, interactions of snow cover with other climate elements, the dynamics of solar and terrestrial radiative fluxes at and close to the surface of the earth, and the collection and archiving of accurate climatic data.

Research Grants

1983-present: principal investigator, co-principal investigator or sponsor on 45 research grants totaling $6,017,736. Recent grants include:

2005-2008Assessment of Arctic Snowcover Change and its Impact on Large River Runoff. NOAA.

2004-2007Global Monitoring of Continental Snow Cover Combining Satellite and In-situ

Sources. NOAA.

2004-2005Operational Monitoring of Global Snow Cover. NOAA.

2004-2008Real Time Observational Tools for Fire Weather Decision Makers. USDA

Forest Service

2002-2004Trends and Variability of Global Snowfall and Snow Cover. NOAA.

2002-2004The NJ Mesonet: Enhanced Monitoring of New Jersey Precipitation. NJ

Dept. Environmental Protection.

2001-2004A Hybrid Approach for Evaluating and Predicting Interactions Between the

Seasonal Snow Pack and the Atmosphere. NASA.

2000-2003A Blended Northern Hemisphere Snow Dataset. NOAA.

2000-2002Collaborative Research on the Snow-Soil Moisture-Monsoon Relationship.

NSF.

1999-2002Evaluation of Snow Simulations in the Second Phase of the Atmospheric

Model Intercomparison Project (AMIP II). NSF.

PUBLICATIONS

Author or co-author of approximately 150 articles, over half in peer-reviewed journals, and book chapters. Selected publications over the past 3 years include:

Frei, A., R. Brown, J.A. Miller, & D.A. Robinson (2005) (accepted) Snow mass over North America: observations and results from the second phase of the Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project (AMIP-2). Journal of Hydrometeorology.

Leathers, D.J., D. Graybeal, T. Mote, A. Grundstein & D.A. Robinson (2004) The role of air mass types and surface energy fluxes in snow cover ablation in the central Appalachians. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 431887-1898.

Pielke, R.A. Sr., G.E. Liston, W.L Chapman & D.A. Robinson (2004) Actual and insolation-weighted Northern Hemisphere snow cover and sea-ice between 1973-2002. Climate Dynamics, 10.1007/s00382-004-0401-5.

Yang, D., D. Robinson, Y. Zhao, T. Estilow & B. Ye (2003). Streamflow response to seasonal snowcover extent changes in large Siberian watersheds. Journal of Geophysical Research, 108(D18), 4578, doi: 10.1029/2002JD003149.

Robock, A., M. Mu, K. Vinnikov & D.A. Robinson (2003) Land surface conditions over Eurasia and Indian summer monsoon rainfall. Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, 108 (D4), 4131-4143.

Frei, A., J.A. Miller & D.A. Robinson (2003) Improved simulations of snow extent in the second phase of the Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project (AMIP-2). Journal of Geophysical Research- Atmospheres, 108(D12), 4369, doi:10.1029/2002JD003030.

Brown, R.D., B. Brasnett & D.A. Robinson (2003) Gridded North American monthly snow depth and snow water equivalent for GCM validation. Atmosphere-Ocean, 41, 1-14.

Robinson, D.A. (2003) Recent variability of northern hemisphere snow cover. Preprints: Seventh Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography , Hyannis, MA, American Meteorological Society, paper 13.12, 6pp.

Leathers, D.J., T.L. Mote, A.J. Grundstein, D.A. Robinson, K. Felter, K. Conrad & L. Sedywitz (2002) Associations between continental scale snow cover anomalies and air mass frequencies across eastern North America. International Journal of Climatology, 22, 1473-1494.

Robinson, D.A. (2002) Snow cover data for applied climate studies. Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Applied Climatology, Portland, OR, American Meteorological Society, 74-77.

Robinson, D.A. (2002) Developing a blended continental snow cover dataset. Proceedings of the Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction, Orlando, FL, American Meteorological Society.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

Appointed/elected positions (past 5 years):

2004-presentMember, Applied Climatology Committee, American Meteorological Society

2003-presentChair, National Research Council Committee: Climate Data Records from Operational Satellites

2003-presentAdvisory Committee, NOAA Integrated Surface Observing System

2003-presentAdvisory Panel, NOAA OGP – Climate Change Data and Detection Element

1999-presentMember, NJ Dept. Environmental Protection Drought Policy Committee

1999-presentKey contributor, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

1994-presentChair, NASA MODIS Cryosphere Advisory Committee

2003-2004President, American Association of State Climatologists

1997-2000Chair, AMS Committee on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography