Project Lead:

Dr. Renee A McPherson (renee@ou.edu)

 

Dr. Renee A. McPherson is Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Sustainability at the University of Oklahoma (OU) and University Co-director of the South Central Climate Science Center (SC CSC). She oversees the Consortium-related activities of the SC CSC, as a co-governing partner of the USGS. Activities include coordination with USGS Headquarters, our USGS Director, our Consortium, the six Landscape Conservation Cooperatives within our region, and the seven other Climate Science Centers.

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Project Co-Lead:

Dr. Esther Mullens (esther.white@ou.edu)

 

By training, Esther is an Atmospheric Scientist with a Bachelors degree from the University of Reading (UK) and a PhD from the University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology. She has worked on various projects related to weather and climate. Currently, she spends her time examining future climate projections for the south-central U.S., with a focus on hazards that impact the transportation sector, on a grant co-funded by the Southern Plains Transportation Center. Esther has also focused on winter weather hazards, including freezing rain and ice storms, and has recently developed a value-added climate length freezing precipitation dataset for the south-central U.S. She plans to investigate how ice storms may change in the future, in addition to her broader interest of precipitation variability, climate dynamics, and climate adaptation.

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