Publications

The following list is of recent climate change-related publications of FCI-UCF members. For a searchable database of all FCI member publications, go here.

Barber, A., Walters, L., Birch, A. 2010. Potential for Restoring Biodiversity of Macroflora and Macrofauna on Oyster Reefs in Mosquito Lagoon, Florida. Florida Scientist 73:47-62.

Bilskie, M.V., Hagen, S.C. 2013. Topographic accuracy assessment of bare earth lidar-derived unstructured meshes. Advances in Water Resources. 52:165-177.

Bilskie, M.V., Hagen, S.C., Medeiros, S. C., Passeri, D. L. 2014. Dynamics of sea level rise and coastal flooding on a changing landscape. Geophysical Research Letters. 41: 927–934.

Caffery, S., Escue D., Walters, L., Schwadron, M., Stiner, J., Donnelly, M., Manis, J., Sacks, J., Sacks, P. 2014. We Will Remember Turtle Mound: Uncovering the Past and Saving the Future of Florida’s First People (book for children in grade 4).

Cai, X., Hejazi, M., Wang, D. 2011. The value of probabilistic weather forecasts-an assessment by real-time optimization of irrigation scheduling, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management 137(5):391-403.

Cai, X., Wang, D., Zhu, T., Ringler, C. 2009. Assessing the regional variability of GCM simulations. Geophysical Research Letters 36:L02706.

Chen, X., Wang, D.,  Hagen, S. C. 2012. Climate change impact on monthly water balance at the Chipola River watershed in Florida.  In Hagen, S.C., M. Chopra, K. Madani, S.C. Medeiros, & D. Wang (eds.) Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Hydroscience & Engineering, The Water Cycle Under a Changing Climate: Using Hydroscience and Engineering for a Sustainable Future. ISBN 978-0-615-72135-4, Orlando, FL, Nov. 4-8, 2012.

DeLorme, D. E., Hagen, S. C. 2012. Challenges and opportunities with interdisciplinary research on climate change impacts. In 10th International Conference on Hydroinformatics: Understanding Changing Climate and Environment and Finding Solutions. Hamburg, Germany, July 14-18, 2012.

Dunlap, R.E., Jacques, P.J. 2013. Climate Change Denial Books and Conservative Think Tanks: Exploring the Connection. American Behavioral Scientist 7(6): 699-731.

Dunlap, R.E., Jacques, P. J. 2013. Manufacturing Uncertainty: Conservative Think Tanks and Climate Change Denial Books. In Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media, B. Ward (ed). New Haven, CT: Yale University.

Griffin, M., Saitta, E., Bowdon, M., Walters, L. 2011. Engaging STEM: Service-Learning, Technology, Science Education, and Community Partnerships. Book chapter in Higher Education, Emerging Technologies, and Community Partnerships: Concepts, Models and Practices, Eds: M. Bowdon and R. Carpenter. Information Science Publishing. ISBN: 978-1609606237.

Hagen, S. C., Bacopoulos, P. 2011. Coastal Flooding in Florida’s Big Bend Region with Application to Sea Level Rise Based on Synthetic Storms Analysis. Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 23(5):481.

Hagen, S. C., Bacopoulos, P., DeLorme, D. E., Huang, W., Lewis, G., Morris, J. T., et al. 2012. On the Assessment of Impacts of Sea Level Rise in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. In 10th International Conference on Hydroinformatics: Understanding Changing Climate and Environment and Finding Solutions. Hamburg, Germany, July 14-18, 2012.

Hagen, S. C., Chopra, M., Madani, K., Medeiros, S. C., & Wang, D. 2012. (Eds.). Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Hydroscience & Engineering, The Water Cycle Under a Changing Climate: Using Hydroscience and Engineering for a Sustainable Future. ISBN 978-0-615-72135-4, Orlando, FL, Nov. 4-8, 2012.

Hagen, S. C., Irish, J. L. 2013. Implications, Planning, and Design Considerations for Rising Sea Levels at the CoastJournal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering. 139(2): 81.

Hagen, S. C., Morris, J. T., Bacopoulos, P., Weishampel, J. F. 2013. Sea-Level Rise Impact on a Salt Marsh System of the Lower St. Johns River. Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering. 139(2):118–125.

Jacques, P. 2012. A General Theory of Climate Denial. Global Environmental Politics 12(2): 9-17.

Jacques, P. 2010. The Social Oceanography of Top Oceanic Predators and the Decline of Sharks: A Preliminary Assessment and a Call for a New Field. Progress in Oceanography 86:192-203.

Jacques, P. J. 2009. Environmental Skepticism: Ecology, Power and Public Life. Burlington, VT: Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-7102-2.

Jacques, P. 2008. Ecology, Distribution and Identity in the World Politics of Environmental Skepticism. Capitalism, Nature, Socialism. 19(3): 8-28.

Jacques, P. 2006. Downscaling Climate Models: From Global to Regional Politics. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 49:2, 301-307.

Jacques, P. 2006. The Rearguard of Modernity: Environmental Skepticism as a Struggle of Citizenship. Global Environmental Politics 6(1) 76-101.

Jacques, P. J., Dunlap, R. E., Freeman, M. 2008. The Organization of Denial: The Link between Conservative Think Tanks and Environmental Skepticism. Environmental Politics 18(3): 349-385.

Katz, S., Walters, L. 2013. As the Seas Rise: How Coastal Plants and Animals Will Be Affected by Sea Level Rise (an activity book for children in grades 1-4).

Kuffner, I., Paul, V., Walters, L., Hickey, T., Morrison, J., Parish, E., Turner, T., Grablow, K. 2011. Half-dead colonies of Montastraea annularis release viable gametes on a degraded reef in the US Virgin Islands. Bulletin of Marine Science 87:855-856.

Medeiros, S.C., Hagen, S. C. 2013. Review of wetting and drying algorithms for numerical tidal flow models. International Journal of Numerical Methods in Fluids. 71(4):473–487.

Medeiros, S.C., Hagen, S.C., Weishampel, J.F. 2012. Comparison of floodplain surface roughness parameters derived from land cover data and field measurements. Journal of Hydrology 452-453:139-149.

Medeiros, S.C., Hagen, S.C., Chaouch, N., Feyen, J., Temimi, M., Weishampel, J.F., Funakoshi, Y., Khanbilvardi, R. 2013. Assessing the performance of a Northern Gulf of Mexico tidal model using satellite imagery. Remote Sensing 5: 5662-5679.

Murphy, P. D. 2014. Pessimism, Optimism, Human Inertia, and Anthropogenic Climate Change. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 21.1: 149-163.

Murphy, P. D. 2013. Transversal Ecocritical Praxis. Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-7391-8270-3 & 978-0-7391-8271-0.

Murphy, P. D. 2013 in publication. Directing the Weather, Producing the Climate. In Culture and Media: Explorations in Ecocriticism. R.K. Alex (ed.) Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars.

Murphy, P. D. 2012. The Procession of Identity and Ecology in Contemporary Literature. Special issue, R. Ghosh (guest ed.) SubStance 41(1.127): 77-91.

Murphy, P. D. 2012. Qihou bianhualei kepu duwu yu xiaoshuo zhong de xushi yu xuici celue (Narrative and Rhetorical Strategies in Climate Change Popular Science and Fiction). transl. into Chinese. Journal of Poyang Lake 5: 36-41.

Murphy, P. D. 2011. Damning Damming Modernity: The Destructive Role of Megadams. Tamkang Review (Taiwan) 42(1): 27-40.

Murphy, P. D. 2011. Preparing on the Plateau of Peak Oil for a Post-Carbon Economy in Okinawa. International Journal of Okinawan Studies 2(1): 15-22.

Murphy, P. D. 2010. Tilting for Windmills: Climate Change, Websites, and Ecocritical Pedagogy. Ecozon@ 1(1): 35-40.

Murphy, P. D. 2010. Ecocritical Explorations in Literary and Cultural Studies: Fences, Boundaries, and Fields. Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-7391-3173-2, 978-0-7391-3174-9 & 978-0-7391-3175-6.

Murphy, P. D. 2009. Engineering Planets, Engineering Ourselves: The Ethics of Terraforming and Areofroming in an Age of Climate Change. Journal of Ecocriticism 1(1): 54-59.

Murphy, P. D. 2008. Hurricanes and Hubris. In Words on Water. M. Devine and C. Grewe-Volp (eds). Wissenschaftliche Verlag Trier. pp. 65-76. ISBN 978-3-86821-049-1

Nadelson, L., Walters, L., Waterman, J. 2010. Course-Integrated Undergraduate Research Experiences Structured at Different Levels of Inquiry. Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research 11:27-44.

Noss, R.F. 2011. Between the devil and the deep blue sea: Florida’s unenviable position with respect to sea level rise. Climatic Change 107:1-16.

Noss, R.F. 2001. Beyond Kyoto: Forest management in a time of rapid climate change. Conservation Biology 15:578-590.

Noss, R.F., E. Fleishman, D.A.DellaSala, J.M. Fitzgerald, M. Gross, M.B. Main, F. Nagle, S. O’Malley, J. Rosales. 2009. Priorities for improving the scientific foundation of conservation policy in North America. Conservation Biology 23:825-833.

Noss, R.F., J.F. Franklin, W.L. Baker, T. Schoennagel, and P.B. Moyle. 2006. Managing fire-prone forests in the western United States. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 4:481-487.

Olson, D., D.A. DellaSala, R.F. Noss, J.R. Strittholt, J. Kass, M.E. Koopman, and T. Allnutt. 2012. Climate change refugia for biodiversity in the Klamath-Siskiyou ecoregion. Natural Areas Journal 32:65-74.

Passeri, D., Bilskie, M. V., Hagen, S. C. 2012. Tidal Asymmetry Analysis of the Grand Bay, MS Estuarine System and its Effects on Sediment Transport. In Hagen, S.C., M. Chopra, K. Madani, S.C. Medeiros, & D. Wang (eds.) Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Hydroscience & Engineering, The Water Cycle Under a Changing Climate: Using Hydroscience and Engineering for a Sustainable Future. ISBN 978-0-615-72135-4, Orlando, FL, Nov. 4-8, 2012.

Reece, J. S., Noss, R. F. 2014. Prioritizing species by conservation value and vulnerability: a new index applied to species threatened by sea-level rise and other risks in FloridaNatural Areas Journal. 34: 31-45.

Walters, L., Katz, S. 2012. Rising Tides: A Guide to Sea Level Rise and the Coastal Organisms It Will Affect (an activity book for children in grades 5-12).

Wang D. 2012. Evaluating interannual water storage changes at watersheds in Illinois based on long-term soil moisture and groundwater level data. Water Resources Research 48(3):W03502.

Wang D. 2011. On the base flow recession at the Panola Mountain Research Watershed, Georgia, USA. Water Resources Research 47:W03527.

Wang, D., Alimohammadi, N. 2012. Responses of annual runoff, evaporation and storage change to climate variability at the watershed scale. Water Resources Research  48(5): W05546.

Wang, D., Cai, X. 2010. Comparative study of climate and human impacts on seasonal base flow in urban and agricultural watersheds. Geophysical Research Letters 37:L06406.

Wang, D., Hagen, S.C., Alizad, K. 2012. Climate change impact and uncertainty analysis of extreme rainfall events in the Apalachicola River Basin, Florida. Journal of Hydrology 480:125-135.

Wang D., Hejazi, M. 2011. Quantifying the relative contribution of the climate and direct human impacts on mean annual streamflow in the contiguous United States. Water Resources Research 47:W00J12.

Wang D., Hejazi, M., Cai, X., Valocchi, A.J. 2011. Climate change impact on meteorological, hydrological, and agricultural drought in central Illinois. Water Resources Research 47:W09527.

Wang, D., Wu, L. 2013. Similarity of climate control on base flow and perennial stream density in the Budyko framework. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 17:315-324.