Gregg Garfin

Adaptation Programs/Projects

• Conduct Climate Change Impact Workshops to Develop Region-wide Baseline Assessment Approach. Funding Agency: National Park Service (2023-2026)
• Actionable Science to Understand the Effects of Recent Temperature Increases to Inform Natural Resources Management in the Southwestern United States. Funding Agency: USGS (2021-2024)
• A Rapid Climate Change Vulnerability/Resiliency Assessment and Site-Specific Climate Change Adaptation Plan for San Xavier District. Funding Agency: University of Arizona, Office of Research, Innovation, and Impact (2021-2024)
• Framework for Addressing Culture Resource Vulnerabilities in the National Park Service Intermountain Region. Funding Agency: National Park Service (2018-2022)
• Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation on Southwestern DoD Facilities. Funding Agency: Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) (2012-2017)
• Building Resilience for Climate and Weather Extremes in US-México Border Cities. Funding Agency: NOAA (2016-2017)
• Using Critical Thresholds to Customize Climate Projections of Extreme Events to User Needs and Support Decisions. (Lead Investigator: Sascha Petersen) Funding Agency: NOAA (2014-2016)
• Preparing for High-Consequence, Low-Probability Events: Heat, Water and Energy in the Southwest. Funding Agency: Bureau of Reclamation (2015-2016)

Employment Highlights

• Fourth National Climate Assessment, Convening Lead Author
• Third National Climate Assessment, Convening Lead Author

Selected Publications

• Ro, B., Garfin, G. 2024. Participatory Risk Governance for Seoul, South Korea’s Flood Risk Management. Int J Disaster Risk Sci 15, 317–331 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-024-00552-y
• Ro, B., & Garfin, G. 2022. Building urban flood resilience through institutional adaptive capacity: A case study of Seoul, South Korea. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 103474. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103474
• Freimund, C.A., Garfin, G.M., Norman, L.M. et al. Flood resilience in paired US–Mexico border cities: a study of binational risk perceptions. Nat Hazards 112, 1247–1271 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-022-05225-x
• Garfin, G., Falk, D.A., O'Connor, C.D., Jacobs, K., Sagarin, R.D., Haverland, A.C., Haworth, A., Baglee, A., et al., 2021. A new mission: Mainstreaming climate adaptation in the US Department of Defense. Climate Services, 22, p.100230.
• Gonzalez, P., G.M. Garfin, D.D. Breshears, K.M. Brooks, H.E. Brown, E.H. Elias, A. Gunasekara, N. Huntly, J.K. Maldonado, N.J. Mantua, H.G. Margolis, S. McAfee, B.R. Middleton, and B.H. Udall. 2018. Chapter 25: Southwest. In Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States: Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II [Reidmiller, D.R., C.W. Avery, D.R. Easterling, K.E. Kunkel, K.L.M. Lewis, T.K. Maycock, and B.C. Stewart (eds.)]. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, USA, pp. 1101-1184. doi: 10.7930/NCA4.2018.CH25  
• Wall, T.U., E.C. McNie, and G.M. Garfin. 2017. Use-Inspired science: making science usable by and useful to decision makers. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 15(10): 551-559.  https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.1735
• Enquist, C.A.F., S.T. Jackson, G.M. Garfin, F.W. Davis, L.R. Gerber, J.A. Littell, J.L. Tank, A.J. Terando, T.U. Wall, et al. 2017. Foundations of translational ecology. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 15(10): 541-550.  https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.1733
• Garfin, G., S. LeRoy, and H. Jones, 2017. Developing an integrated heat health information system for long-term resilience to climate and weather extremes in the El Paso-Juárez-Las Cruces Region. Tucson, AZ: Institute of the Environment, 63 pp.
• Parris, A.S., G.M. Garfin, K. Dow, R. Meyer, and S.L. Close (eds.), 2016. Climate in Context: Science and Society Partnering for Adaptation. J. Wiley & Sons/AGU. 274 p.