Recent Papers
Shaye G. Wolf, Mark A. Snyder, William J. Sydeman, and Donald A. Croll, "Population consequences of ocean climate change for a sensitive marine indicator, the seabird Cassin's auklet", Global Change Biology, in revision.
John A. Wiens, Diana Stralberg, Dennis Jongsomijit, Christine A. Howell, and Mark A. Snyder, "Niches, Models, and Climate Change: Assessing the assumptions and uncertainties", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Published online before print October 12, 2009, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0901639106, PNAS November 17, 2009 vol. 106 no. Supplement 2 19729-19736
Diana Stralberg, Dennis Jongsomjit, Christine A. Howell, Mark A. Snyder, John D. Alexander, John A. Wiens, Terry L. Root , "Re-shuffling of species with climate disruption: a No-analog future for California birds?", PLoS ONE, 4(9): e6825. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006825
Pierre Sepulchre, Lisa C. Sloan, Mark A. Snyder, and Jerome Fiechter "Impacts of Andean Uplift on the Humboldt Current System: A Climate Model Sensitivity Study", Paleoceanography, doi:10.1029/2008PA001668, in press (Accepted 14 August 2009).
David B. Lobell, Celine J. Bonfils, Lara M. Kueppers, and Mark A. Snyder, "Irrigation cooling effect on temperature and heat index extremes", Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 35, L09705, doi:10.1029/2008GL034145.
Nathaniel E. Seavy, Kristen E. Dybala, and Mark A. Snyder, "Perspectives in Ornithology - Climate Models and Ornithology", The Auk, A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology, Vol. 125, No. 1, January 2008, DOI: 10.1525/auk.2008.1108.
Snyder, M.A., B. Sansó, and L.C. Sloan, "Validation of Climate Model Output using Bayesian Statistical Methods", Climatic Change (2007) 83:457-476, doi:10.1007/s10584007-9262-3.
Kueppers, L. M., M. A. Snyder, and L. C. Sloan (2007), "Irrigation cooling effect: Regional climate forcing by land-use change", Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L03703, doi:10.1029/2006GL028679.
Kueppers, L.M., M.A. Snyder, L.C. Sloan, D.Cayan, J. Jin, H. Kanamaru, M. Kanamitsu, N.L. Miller, M. Tyree, H. Du, B.C. Weare, "Seasonal temperature responses to land-use change in the western United States", Global and Planetary Change, Available online 30 March 2007, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2007.03.005.
Howat, I., S. Tulaczyk, P. Rhodes, K. Israel, M.A. Snyder, "A precipitation-dominated, mid-latitude glacier system: Mount Shasta, California", Climate Dynamics, DOI 10.1007/s00382-006-0178-9, 2006
Kueppers L.M., M.A. Snyder, L.C. Sloan, E.S. Zaveleta, and B. Fulfrost, Modeled regional climate change and California endemic oak ranges, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Published online before print October 31, 2005 Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 10.1073/pnas.0501427102 [Link to Paper]
Snyder, M.A. and L.C. Sloan, Transient Future Climate over the Western U.S. using a Regional Climate Model, Earth Interactions, Vol. 9, Paper 11, 2005
Snyder, M.A., Sloan, L.C., and Bell, J.L., Modeled Regional Climate Change in the Hydrologic Regions of California: A CO2 Sensitivity Study, Journal of the American Water Resources Association, in 40 (3): 591-601 JUN 2004.
Press Releases
10/31/05: California's oak woodlands face a new threat: climate change [UCSC Press Release] [UCSC Currents Story]
12/17/03: Studies show global warming is likely to drive big changes in California's coastal waters through effects on upwelling [UCSC website]
7/24/2003: Coastal upwelling in the California Current was weaker 6,000 years ago than today, according to new studies [UCSC website]
6/3/2002: New climate study shows California's vulnerability to global warming [UCSC Website]
Media Coverage
UCSC Review, Summer 2001: Cover story, "California in a warming world" [UCSC Review website]