Martha Shulski

Hi, I'm Martha Shulski, Assistant Professor of Applied Climate Science in the School of Natural Resources and the Director of the High Plains Regional Climate Center (HPRCC). I joined the faculty at UNL in August of 2009.

My research interests are in the areas of climate variability and change and climate impacts. This involves understanding the causes and drivers of variability (on various time and space scales) and how this variability influences historical trends. Of great importance is also how these changes impact our society and environment. Many of the projects I have been involved with are interdisciplinary - - bringing together researchers from various specialties to study an issue - - and climate is a critical component to most all environmental issues. Prior to UNL, I worked for seven years as a climatologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and taught weather and climate courses in the Geography Program. It was in this high latitude environment that I gained experience and first-hand knowledge of the effects of climate variability and change.

I am also interested in climate monitoring and assessment and the HPRCC routinely develops many types of climate summary products. These are widely distributed and used by numerous stakeholders, from the local to the international level. An integral component of these climate information products is the Automated Weather Data Network (AWDN), a dense network of more than 200 weather monitoring stations in the region. These data are combined with data from other networks, quality controlled, and are made available in near real-time. The Center works with other state and regional climate offices across the country, the National Climatic Data Center, and the National Weather Service to provide timely, high-quality climate services that meet the needs of users.

• BS - North Carolina State University, Meteorology (1996)
• MS - Univeristy of Nebraska-Lincoln, Agricultural Meteorology (1998)
• PhD - University of Minnesota, Soil Science and Climatology (2002)

• Applied Climate Science
• Human Dimensions

• High Plains Regional Climate Center

• American Association of State Climatologists
• American Geophysical Union
• American Meteorological Society

• High Plains Regional Climate Center (HPRCC)

Climate variability and change, Climate impacts, Climate monitoring and assessment, High latitude climatology

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