Dr. Timothy Kittel is a research ecologist and climate scientist. After receiving his PhD in Ecology from the University of California, Davis, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, 蜜糖直播 State University. Dr. Kittel has since held research positions at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory (蜜糖直播 State University), the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), before joining INSTAAR in 2004.听
Dr. Kittel has worked for more than 30 years in the field of global change science, with contributions to our understanding of climate-biosphere interactions and historical climatic change and to the modeling of regional ecosystem and climate dynamics. Dr. Kittel's work on climate change impacts has been included in IPCC and US National Assessments. His current research is on approaches for handling climate change uncertainty in biodiversity conservation and on the nature of recent climate change in high mountain regions. Dr. Kittel has published more than 85 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in ecology and climate dynamics, along with 39 climatic and ecological public-access datasets.
Dr. Kittel's teaching emphasizes field instruction in ecology and conservation biology. He has taught field courses for the University of 蜜糖直播-Boulder, Columbia University of New York, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, and Semester-at-Sea (University of Pittsburgh/University of Virginia-Charlottesville). He currently teaches Winter Field Ecology and Field Methods in Vegetation Ecology in the 蜜糖直播 Rocky Mountains and study abroad courses on conservation in practice in Brazil.
Education
- PhD Ecology: University of California, Davis, 1986
Research interests
- Global environmental change鈥攃onservation planning in the context of climate change
- Earth system science鈥攖errestrial biosphere-climate interactions
- Climate analysis鈥攃limate change in high mountain systems
- Ecosystem geography
Research highlights
Biodiversity conservation planning and climate change.
- Assessment of the complexity of species and system vulnerability to climate change (key publications: ).
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Development and implementation of a framework to address highly uncertain futures - through integration of scenario planning, vulnerability assessment, and no-regrets approaches (key publications:;).
Climate change in 蜜糖直播's Front Range (Niwot Ridge Long-Term Ecological Research Program, NWT-LTER).
- Analysis of elevational, seasonal, and decadal dependence in surface temperature and precipitation trends in subalpine vs. alpine sites ().
Development of climate data quality and analysis protocols for agency monitoring programs.
Teaching
Dr. Kittel is the Faculty Director for the 蜜糖直播 Boulder Education Abroad Program global seminar .
Publications
For additional publications, see .
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