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OLIVER W. FRAUENFELD
 

 
ADDRESS

Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)
National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
University of Colorado
449 UCB
Boulder, CO  80903-0449 USA

 

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Environmental Sciences; University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2003
Dissertation: "Northern Hemisphere Circulation Variability and the Pacific Ocean" (Advisor: Dr. Robert E. Davis) [Abstract]

M.S. Environmental Sciences; University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1999
 Thesis: "Relationships Between the El Niño-Southern Oscillation and the Northern Hemisphere 500 mb Circumpolar Vortex" (Advisor: Dr. Robert E. Davis) [Abstract]

B.A. Environmental Sciences and Spanish; University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1995
 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Research Scientist II, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Division of Cryospheric and Polar Processes, University of Colorado, 2005–present

Research Scientist I, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Division of Cryospheric and Polar Processes, University of Colorado, 2003–2005

DuPont Fellow, University of Virginia, 2001–2002

Dean's Fellow, University of Virginia, 2000–2001

Research Assistant, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, 1999–2000

Instructor, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, summer 1998 and 1999

Head Teaching Assistant, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, 1998–1999

Teaching Assistant, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, 1997–1999

Research Assistant, Virginia State Climatology Office, University of Virginia, 1996–1999

Research Assistant, Department of Health Evaluation Sciences, University of Virginia, summer 1997

Research Assistant, Institute for Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Vienna, summer 1996
 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

    Climate Change Land Surface Processes
    Surface-Atmosphere Interactions Atmospheric Teleconnections
    High-Latitude Climate Quantitative Methods

 
AWARDS

John Russell Mather Paper of the Year Award, awarded by the Climate Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers (for Frauenfeld, O. W., R. E. Davis, and M. E. Mann, 2005: A Distinctly Interdecadal Signal of Pacific Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction. J. Climate, 18(11), 1709–1718), 2006

Moore Research Award, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, 2001–2002

Dupont Fellowship, University of Virginia, 2001–2002

Dean's Fellowship, University of Virginia, 2000–2001

All-University Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Virginia, 2000

University of Virginia Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, University of Virginia, 2000

Fred Holmsley Moore Teaching Award, Department of Environmental Sciences, 2000

Seven Society Graduate Fellowship for Superb Teaching Finalist, University of Virginia, 2000

Best Student Paper, Association of American Geographers (Climate Specialty Group), 2000
 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Associate Editor, Climate Research;  Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Permafrost (NICOP)

Contributing Author, IPCC Working Group 1 Fourth Assessment Report, Chapter 4: Observations: Changes in Snow, Ice, and Frozen Ground

Private Science Briefing, Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, Colorado, October 3, 2007

Panelist, Washington Roundtable on Science and Public Policy, United States House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., February 26, 2006

Committee on Applied Climatology, American Meteorological Society, 2006–2010

Board of Directors (Secretary), U.S. Permafrost Association, 2007–2008, 2009–2010

International Coordinator and U.S. National Representative, Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN), 2005–2009

Peer Reviewer:

     Journals

     Grant Programs

Organizing Committee, Ninth International Conference on Permafrost (NICOP), Fairbanks, Alaska, June 29–July 3, 2008

Session Chair, special session "Change Detection," Ninth International Conference on Permafrost (NICOP), Fairbanks, Alaska, June 29–July 3, 2008

Organizer (with R. Mahmood), Special Collection "Impacts of Land Use and Land Cover Change on the Atmosphere," Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 2008 [Introduction]

Co-convener, 3rd CIRES Science Symposium, Boulder, Colorado, April 2, 2008

Convener and Session Chair, special sessions "Cold Region Hydrology I–III: Surface and Subsurface Processes–Frozen Ground," 2007 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 10–14, 2007

Co-convener and Session Chair (with Philip Marsh et al.), International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) Symposium on "Climate-Permafrost-Hydrology Interactions: The Impact of Changing Climate on Cold Regions Hydrology," International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics—IUGG XXIV 2007, Perugia, Italy, July 2–13, 2007

Convener and Session Chair, special sessions "Snow Cover Observations and Variability" and "Regional-Scale Changes in Cryospheric Variables," 103rd Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, California, April 17–21, 2007

Co-convener, 2nd CIRES Science Symposium, Boulder, Colorado, April 4, 2007

Co-convener, 16th Conference on Applied Climatology, San Antonio, Texas, January 14–18, 2007

Co-convener and Session Chair (with M. A. Barlow), special session "Precipitation and Drought," 16th Conference on Applied Climatology, San Antonio, Texas, January 14–18, 2007

Contributor, Integrated Global Observing Strategy (IGOS) Cryosphere Theme and Reviewer, IGOS Cryosphere Theme Report, 2006

Session Chair, special sessions "Permafrost Hydrology" and "Climate, and Environmental Controls of the Cryosphere," Asian Conference on Permafrost, Lanzhou, China, August 7–9, 2006

Co-convener, 1st CIRES Science Symposium, Boulder, Colorado, April 12, 2006

Convener (with R. Mahmood) and Session Chair, special sessions "Land Cover/Land Use Change I and II," 102nd Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, Illinois, March 7–11, 2006

Session Chair, special sessions "Permafrost and Seasonally Frozen Ground in a Changing Climate," 2005 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 5–9, 2005

Convener and Session Chair (with R. E. Davis), special sessions "Atmospheric Circulation Variability" and "Atmospheric Circulation Variability and the Cryosphere," 101st Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, Colorado, April 5–9, 2005

Co-convener (with S. M. Robeson), special session "Changes in Climatic Variability and Atmospheric Circulation," 101st Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, Colorado, April 5–9, 2005

Co-convener and Session Chair (with T. Zhang, F. E. Nelson, and R. G. Barry), special sessions "Changes in Frozen Ground: Environmental and Climatic Impacts I & II," (C12A, C13B) & invited AGU press conference "Permafrost at Risk," 2004 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 13–17, 2004.

CIRES Members' Council, Research Scientist Representative, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, 2005–2008
     Vice-Chair, 2007–present

Graduate Student Representative to the Faculty, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, 1998–1999, 2000–2002

Board Member, International Center Advisory Board, International Studies Office, University of Virginia, 1997–1998, 1998–1999

Judge, EnviroDay Research Forum, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, 1997 and 1998

Professional Memberships:

FUNDED PROPOSALS

Seasons of Change in the Arctic Environment. National Science Foundation, ARC-0901962, $862,974. M. C. Serreze (PI), O. W. Frauenfeld, T. Zhang, K. Schaefer, A. Slater (co-PIs), 2009–2012.

Interactions between Frozen Ground in the Russian Arctic and Atmospheric Circulation. National Science Foundation, ARC-0612431, $362,092. O. W. Frauenfeld (Principal Investigator), T. Zhang & M. C. Serreze (co-PIs), 2006–2009.

Is Climate Change on the Tibetan Plateau Driven by Land Use/Cover Change? CIRES Innovative Research Program, $20,551. O. W. Frauenfeld (Principal Investigator), T. Zhang (co-PI), 2005–2006.
 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching Assistant, EVSC 541: Atmospheric Dynamics, 1999 (fall semester)

Instructor, EVSC 250 (co-offered as EVSC 493/793): Man’s Atmospheric Environment, summer 1998 and 1999

Teaching Assistant, EVSC 350: Atmosphere and Weather Laboratory, 1997–1999;
  Head Teaching Assistant, 1998–1999
 

ADVISING

Graduate Student Mentor Program, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia:

    B. Foster: "A Comparison of Shallow and Deep Water Buoy Data for Atlantic Coast Northeast Storms (1993–1996);" Independent research project, spring 1997

    B. Foster: "A Comparison of Shallow and Deep Water Buoy Data for Atlantic Coast Northeast Storms (1992–1996);" Distinguished Majors Thesis, 1997–1998

    D. Schulz (Williams): "Analysis of North Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Pressure as Related to Wind Speed;" Bachelor of Science Thesis (School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Virginia), 1999–2000
     

FIELD EXPERIENCE

NASA, in cooperation with U.S. Army Kwajalein Atoll/Kwajalein Missile Range (now Reagan Test Site) and NOAA, Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM), Kwajalein Field Experiment (KWAJEX). Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands. Tethersonde, radiometry, and micrometeorology field site investigator, July–September 1999.
 

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Ma, L., T. Zhang, O. W. Frauenfeld, B. Ye, D. Yang, and D. Qin, 2009: Evaluation of Precipitation from the ERA-40, NCEP-1, and NCEP-2 Reanalyses, and CMAP-1, CMAP-2, and GPCP-2 with Ground-based Measurements in China. J. Geophys. Res., 114, D09105, doi:10.1029/2008JD011178.

Bojariu, R., R. Garcia-Herrera, L. Gimeno, T. Zhang, and O. W. Frauenfeld, 2008: Cryosphere-atmosphere interaction related to NAO variability and change. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1146, 50–59, doi:10.1196/annals.1446.018.

Ma, L., T. Zhang, Q. Li, O. W. Frauenfeld, and D. Qin, 2008: Correction to "Evaluation of ERA-40, NCEP-1, and NCEP-2 reanalysis air temperatures with ground-based measurements in China." J. Geophys. Res., 113, D18199, doi:10.1029/2008JD010981. [Abstract]

Ma, L., T. Zhang, Q. Li, O. W. Frauenfeld, and D. Qin, 2008: Evaluation of ERA-40, NCEP-1, and NCEP-2 Reanalysis Air Temperatures with Ground-based Measurements in China. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D15115, doi:10.1029/2007JD009549. [Abstract]

Frauenfeld, O. W., T. Zhang, and J. L. McCreight, 2007: Northern Hemisphere Freezing/Thawing Index Variations over the Twentieth Century. Int. J. Climatol., 27(1), 47–63, doi:10.1002/joc.1372. [Abstract]  [Data]

Chudinova, S. M., O. W. Frauenfeld, R. G. Barry, T. Zhang, and V. A. Sorokovikov, 2006: Relationship between air and soil temperature trends and periodicities in the permafrost regions of Russia. J. Geophys. Res., 111, F02008, doi:10.1029/2005JF000342. [Abstract]

Zhang, T., O. W. Frauenfeld, M. C. Serreze, A. J. Etringer, C. Oelke, J. L. McCreight, R. G. Barry, D. Gilichinsky, D. Yang, H. Ye, L. Feng, and S. Chudinova, 2005: Spatial and temporal variability in active layer thickness over the Russian Arctic Drainage Basin. J. Geophys. Res., 110, D16101, doi:10.1029/2004JD005642. [Abstract]

Frauenfeld, O. W., R. E. Davis, and M. E. Mann, 2005: A Distinctly Interdecadal Signal of Pacific Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction. J. Climate, 18(11), 1709–1718. [Abstract]

Frauenfeld, O. W., T. Zhang, and M. C. Serreze, 2005: Climate change and variability using European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts reanalysis (ERA-40) temperatures on the Tibetan Plateau. J. Geophys. Res., 110, D02101, doi:10.1029/2004JD005230. [Abstract]

Michaels, P. J., P. C. Knappenberger, O. W. Frauenfeld, and R. E. Davis, 2004: Trends in precipitation on the wettest days of the year across the contiguous USA. Int. J. Climatol., 24(15), 1873–1882, doi:10.1002/joc.1102. [Abstract]

Frauenfeld, O. W., T. Zhang, R. G. Barry, and D. Gilichinsky, 2004: Interdecadal Changes in Seasonal Freeze and Thaw Depths in Russia. J. Geophys. Res., 109, D05101, doi:10.1029/2003JD004245. [Abstract]

Frauenfeld, O. W. and R. E. Davis, 2003: Northern Hemisphere Circumpolar Vortex Trends and Climate Change Implications. J. Geophys. Res., 108(D14), 4423, doi:10.1029/2002JD002958. [Abstract]

Frauenfeld, O. W. and R. E. Davis, 2002: Midlatitude Circulation Patterns Associated with Decadal and Interannual Pacific Ocean Variability. Geophys. Res. Lett., 29(24), 2221, doi:10.1029/2002GL015743. [Abstract]

Michaels, P. J., P. C. Knappenberger, O. W. Frauenfeld, and R. E. Davis, 2002: Revised 21st Century Temperature Increases. Climate Res., 23(1), 1–9. [Abstract]

Frauenfeld, O. W. and R. E. Davis, 2000: The Influence of El Niño-Southern Oscillation Events on the Northern Hemisphere 500 hPa Circumpolar Vortex. Geophys. Res. Lett., 27(4), 537–540. [Abstract]
 

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Frauenfeld, O. W. and R. Mahmood, 2008: Impacts of Land Use and Land Cover Change on the Atmosphere. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 47, invited online editorial.

Frauenfeld, O. W., T. Zhang, A. J. Etringer, R. G. Barry, and D. Gilichinsky, 2008: Historical Changes in the Seasonally Frozen Ground Regions of the Russian Arctic. Proc. Ninth International Conference on Permafrost, 1, 75–76.

Frauenfeld, O. W. and R. E. Davis, 2002: Trends in the 1949–2000 Northern Hemisphere Circumpolar Vortex and Climate Change Implications. Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Applied Climatology, Portland, Oregon, 159–164.

Michaels, P. J., P. C. Knappenberger, R. E. Davis, and O. W. Frauenfeld, 2002: Rational Analysis of Trends in Extreme Temperature and Precipitation. Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Applied Climatology, Portland, Oregon, 153–158.

Legates, D. R., R. E. Davis, O. W. Frauenfeld, and S. Robeson, 2000: A Non-Correlation Based Approach to the Search for Anthropogenic Climate Change Signals. Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences of the American Meteorological Society, Asheville, North Carolina, 14–17.
 

REPORTS & DATA PRODUCTS

Zhang, T., O. W. Frauenfeld, and R. G. Barry, 2006: Time series of seasonally frozen ground depth in the Russian Arctic, 1915–1990. Boulder, CO: National Snow and Ice Data Center/World Data Center for Glaciology, Boulder. Digital media.

Zhang, T., O. W. Frauenfeld, and R. G. Barry, 2006: Time series of active layer thickness in the Russian Arctic, 1930–1990. Boulder, CO: National Snow and Ice Data Center/World Data Center for Glaciology, Boulder. Digital media.

Zhang, T., O. W. Frauenfeld, J. L. McCreight, and R. G. Barry, 2005: Northern Hemisphere EASE-Grid annual freezing and thawing indices, 1901–2002. Boulder, CO: National Snow and Ice Data Center/World Data Center for Glaciology, Boulder. Digital media.

Michaels, P. J., P. J. Stenger, P. C. Knappenberger, J. D. Hux, S. Gawtry, and O. W. Frauenfeld, 2000–2002: Virginia Climate Advisory, 2000 (1)–2002 (9), online.

Michaels, P. J., P. J. Stenger, P. C. Knappenberger, J. D. Hux, S. Gawtry, and O. W. Frauenfeld, 1999: Virginia Climate Advisory, 23 (1), 31 pp.

Michaels, P. J., P. J. Stenger, P. C. Knappenberger, J. D. Hux, O. W. Frauenfeld, S. Gawtry, and T. Lewis, 1999: Virginia Climate Advisory, 22 (4), 31 pp.

Frauenfeld, O. W., 1996: A Statistical Evaluation of DIAMOD. Theoretical Meteorology Technical Report Nr. 96, Institute for Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Vienna, Austria, 26 pp.
 

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

Bojariu, R., R. Garcia-Herrera, L. Gimeno, T. Zhang, and O. W. Frauenfeld, 2009: Land-Atmosphere Interaction Related to North Atlantic Oscillation Persistence in the Recent Decades. Joint IPCC-WCRP-IGBP Workshop: New Science Directions and Activities Relevant to the IPCC AR5, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 3–6.

Zhang, T., R. L. Armstrong, M. C. Serreze, W. Meier, J. Stroeve, O. W. Frauenfeld, and R. G. Barry, 2009: Observed Changes in Frozen Ground, Glaciers, Snow Cover, and Sea Ice. Joint IPCC-WCRP-IGBP Workshop: New Science Directions and Activities Relevant to the IPCC AR5, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 3–6.

Zhang, T., O. W. Frauenfeld, Q. Wu, and L. Ma, 2008: Climate, Permafrost, and Landscape Interactions on the Tibetan Plateau. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 15–19.

Bojariu, R., R. Garcia-Herrera, L. Gimeno, T. Zhang, and O. W. Frauenfeld, 2008: Cryosphere-atmosphere interaction related to NAO variability and change. 7th European Conference on Applied Climatology (ECAC), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 29–October 3.

Zhang, T. and O. W. Frauenfeld, 2007: Impact of land use/land cover change on climate over the Tibetan Plateau. Plenary Presentation. Symposium of Tibetan Plateau and Surrounding Areas, Lanzhou, China, October 20–22.

Frauenfeld, O. W. and T. Zhang, 2007: Is Warming on the Tibetan Plateau Caused By Land Cover Change or Data Uncertainty? Detecting the Atmospheric Response to the Changing Face of the Earth: A Focus on Human-Caused Regional Climate Forcings, Land-Cover/Land-Use Change, and Data Monitoring. NSF Workshop, Boulder, Colorado, August 27–29.

Frauenfeld, O. W., 2007: Interdecadal Variability in the Pacific Ocean-Atmosphere System. Department seminar. Geography Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, April 30.

Frauenfeld, O. W., 2007: Patterns of Surface-Atmosphere Interactions: The Pacific Ocean and the Northern Hemisphere Circumpolar Vortex. Department seminar. Geography Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, March 14.

Frauenfeld, O. W., 2006: Review of Integrated Global Observing Strategy (IGOS) Cryosphere Theme Report. Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) Scientific Steering Group Annual Meeting (SSG III), Boulder, Colorado, December 4–8.

Frauenfeld, O. W. and T. Zhang, 2006: Is Climate Change on the Tibetan Plateau Driven by Land Use/Cover Change? CIRES Innovative Research Program Poster Session, Boulder, Colorado, September 14.

Frauenfeld, O. W., T. Zhang, and R. L. Armstrong, 2006: Land Cover Change on the Tibetan Plateau and its Influence on Climate. Tibet Institute of Plateau Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Lhasa (Tibet), China, August 14.

Frauenfeld, O. W., 2006: A Distinctly Interdecadal Signal of Pacific Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction. Plenary presentation. 102nd Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, Illinois, March 9.

Frauenfeld, O. W., 2006: Predictive Skill of the El Niρo-Southern Oscillation and Atmospheric Teleconnections. Presenter and Panelist. Washington Roundtable on Science & Public Policy, Washington, D.C., February 24.

Frauenfeld, O. W., 2005: Frozen ground variability in the Russian Arctic. Seminar. Cryospheric and Polar Processes Division Seminar, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, December 16.

Frauenfeld, O. W., 2005: Observed changes and drivers of frozen ground variability in the Russian Arctic. Department seminar. Geography Colloquium Series, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, November 18.

Frauenfeld, O. W. and T. Zhang, 2004: Surface Climate Processes on the Tibetan Plateau. Plenary presentation. 2004 IPM Workshop on Land/Atmosphere Interaction over the Tibetan Plateau, Chengdu, China, August 9–10.

Frauenfeld, O. W., 2002: Northern Hemisphere Circulation Variability and the Pacific Ocean. Department seminar. Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, November 7, 2002.

Frauenfeld, O. W. and R. E. Davis, 2002: Northern Hemisphere Circumpolar Vortex Trends and Climate Change Implications. Atmospheric Sciences Seminar, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, February 22, 2002.

Frauenfeld, O. W., 1997: The Pacific/North American Teleconnection Pattern associated with the El Niño/Southern Oscillation. 12th Annual EnviroDays Research Forum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, March.
 

CONTRIBUTED ORAL PRESENTATIONS

Frauenfeld, O. W. and T. Zhang, 2009: Relationship between Synoptic-Scale Atmospheric Variability and Frozen Ground in the Russian High Latitudes. 2009 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 22–27.

Zhang, T., R. Armstrong, O. W. Frauenfeld, K. Schaefer, and R. G. Barry, 2009: Spatial and Temporal Variations of Seasonally Frozen Ground and Their Potential Impacts on Carbon Exchange. 2009 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 22–27.

Frauenfeld, O. W., T. Zhang, and A. J. Etringer, 2008: Synoptic-scale Atmospheric Forcing of Frozen Ground in the Eurasian High Latitudes. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 15–19.

Frauenfeld, O. W., P. C. Knappenberger, and P. J. Michaels, 2008: A Reconstructed 1784–2007 Time Series of Greenland Melt Extent. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 15–19.

Frauenfeld, O. W. and T. Zhang, 2008: Potential Drivers of Changes in the Seasonally Frozen Ground Regions of the Russian Arctic. 104th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, Massachusetts, April 15–19.

Frauenfeld, O. W., T. Zhang, A. J. Etringer, and H. Teng, 2007: How well do the IPCC AR4 models represent permafrost regions? A comparison between the observed and modeled freezing/thawing index for the 20th century. IUGG XXIV 2007, Perugia, Italy, July 2–13.

Zhang, T., D. Yang, O. W. Frauenfeld, L. Hinzman, A. J. Etringer, J. McCreight, D. Gilichinsky, and R. G. Barry, 2007: Hydrological Response to Changes in Active Layer and Permafrost. IUGG XXIV 2007, Perugia, Italy, July 2–13.

Frauenfeld, O. W., T. Zhang, A. J. Etringer, and H. Teng, 2007: 21st Century projections of the Northern Hemisphere freezing/thawing index. 103rd Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, California, April 17–21.

Davis, R. E., P. C. Knappenberger, O. W. Frauenfeld, and P. J. Michaels, 2007: Observed changes in North Atlantic hurricane frequency and intensity using a multivariate model. 103rd Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, California, April 17–21.

Zhang, T., D. Yang, O. W. Frauenfeld, L. Hinzman, A. Etringer, J. McCreight, D. Gilichinsky, and R. G. Barry, 2007: Hydrological response to changes in active layer and permafrost conditions in the Russian Arctic. 7th International Conference on Global Change: Connection to the Arctic (GCCA-7), Fairbanks, Alaska, February 19–20.

Zhang, T., R. G. Barry, L. Hinzman, O. W. Frauenfeld, D. Gilichinsky, A. Etringer, and J. McCreight, 2006: Observed Evidence of Permafrost Degradation and its Potential Environmental Impacts in Siberia. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 11–15.

Frauenfeld, O. W. and T. Zhang, 2006: The role of land surface processes and permafrost on temperature variability in the Tibetan Plateau. 1st Asian Conference on Permafrost, Lanzhou, China, August 7–9.

Rapp, A. D., O. W. Frauenfeld, T. Zhang, and L. Ma, 2006: Comparison of Tibetan Plateau Rainfall to Permafrost Distribution. 1st Asian Conference on Permafrost, Lanzhou, China, August 7–9.

Liston, G. E., T. Zhang, O. W. Frauenfeld, R. Armstrong, C. A. Hiemstra, L. Lu, and L. Ma, 2006: Mapping High-Resolution Snow Depths, Soil Surface Temperatures, and Thaw Depths over the Tibetan Plateau. 1st Asian Conference on Permafrost, Lanzhou, China, August 7–9.

Ma, L., T. Zhang, O. W. Frauenfeld, and D. Qin, 2006: Comparison of climatology and trends of air temperature from ECMWF Reanalysis (ERA-40) and meteorological stations in China. 2006 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Beijing, China, July 24–27.

Zhang, T., A. Etringer, O. W. Frauenfeld, R. G. Barry, D. Gilichinsky, and M. C. Serreze, 2006: Climate change: evidence from Russian historical soil temperature measurements. European Geophysical Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 2–7.

Frauenfeld, O. W. and T. Zhang, 2006: Temperature Response to Land Cover Changes on the Tibetan Plateau. 102nd Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, Illinois, March 7–11.

Frauenfeld, O. W., T. Zhang, R. G. Barry, and D. Gilichinsky, 2005: Observed Changes and Drivers of Permafrost Temperatures in Northeastern Siberia. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 5–9.

Barry, R. G., T. Zhang, O. W. Frauenfeld, M. C. Serreze, A. J. Etringer, C. Oelke, J. L. McCreight, D. Gilichinsky, D. Yang, H. Ye, L. Feng, and S. Chudinova, 2005: Spatial and Temporal Variability in Active Layer Thickness over the Russian Arctic Drainage Basin. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 5–9.

Zhang, T., O. W. Frauenfeld, J. L. McCreight, and A. J. Etringer, 2005: Spatial and Temporal Variations of the Seasonally Frozen Ground in the Northern Hemisphere. 5th International Scientific Conference on the Global Energy and Water Cycle, Costa Mesa, California, June 19–24.

Frauenfeld, O. W., T. Zhang, R. G. Barry, and D. Gilichinsky, 2005: Historical soil temperature changes in northeastern Siberia. 2nd European Conference on Permafrost, Potsdam, Germany, June 12–16.

Zhang, T., O. W. Frauenfeld, J. L. McCreight, A. J. Etringer, C. Oelke, and R. G. Barry, 2005: Estimates of the Means and Trends of Active Layer Thickness in the Arctic. 2nd European Conference on Permafrost, Potsdam, Germany, June 12–16.

Zhang, T., O. W. Frauenfeld, J. L. McCreight, and R. G. Barry, 2005: Interdecadal Variability and Change of the Seasonally Frozen Ground in the Northern Hemisphere. CliC First Science Conference, Beijing, China, April 11–15.

Frauenfeld, O. W., T. Zhang, and M. C. Serreze, 2005: Station versus Reanalysis Temperatures on the Tibetan Plateau: Evidence of Land-Use Change? 101st Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, Colorado, April 5–9.

Armstrong, R., M. J. Brodzik, O. W. Frauenfeld, and S. J. S. Khalsa, 2005: Analysis of the extreme winter of 1997–1998 on the Tibetan Plateau. 101st Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, Colorado, April 5–9.

Frauenfeld, O. W., T. Zhang, and J. L. McCreight, 2004: Spatial and Temporal Variations of the Annual Freezing/Thawing Index in the Northern Hemisphere. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 13–17.

Frauenfeld, O. W., T. Zhang, and M. C. Serreze, 2004: Reliability of ERA-40 temperature data on the Tibetan Plateau. 4th International Symposium on the Tibetan Plateau, Lhasa (Tibet), China, August 4–7.

Zhang, T., R. G. Barry, O. W. Frauenfeld, and D. Gilichinsky, 2004: Contribution of Permafrost Thawing to Runoff in the Russian Arctic. NSF Freshwater Initiative All-Hands Meeting, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, May 4–7.

Davis, R. E., P. C. Knappenberger, P. J. Michaels, and O. W. Frauenfeld, 2004: Trends in Precipitation on the Wettest Days of the Year across the Contiguous United States. 100th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 14–19.

Frauenfeld, O. W., T. Zhang, R. G. Barry, D. Gilichinsky, and A. J. Etringer, 2003: Effects of Freeze/Thaw Index, Air Temperature, and Snow Cover on Seasonal Freeze and Thaw Depths in Russia. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 8–12.

Frauenfeld, O. W., T. Zhang, R. G. Barry, and D. Gilichinsky, 2003: Historical Changes in Seasonal Freeze and Thaw Depths in Russia. SEARCH Open Science Meeting, Seattle, Washington, October 27–30.

Zhang, T., R. G. Barry, M. C. Serreze, D. Yang, A. J. Etringer, D. Gilichinsky, O. W. Frauenfeld, H. Ye, C. Oelke, F. Ling, and S. Chudinova, 2003: Permafrost Thawing and Hydrologic Response Over the Russian Arctic Drainage Basin. SEARCH Open Science Meeting, Seattle, Washington, October 27–30.

Davis, R. E., O. W. Frauenfeld, P. C. Knappenberger, and A. W. Burnett, 2003: A new multi-decadal pattern of Pacific Ocean-atmosphere interaction. 99th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 6–8.

Frauenfeld, O. W., and R. E. Davis, 2002: Trends in the 1949–2000 Northern Hemisphere Circumpolar Vortex and Climate Change Implications. 13th Conference on Applied Climatology, Portland, Oregon, May 13–16.

Michaels, P. J., P. C. Knappenberger, R. E. Davis, and O. W. Frauenfeld, 2002: Rational Analysis of Trends in Extreme Temperature and Precipitation. 13th Conference on Applied Climatology, Portland, Oregon, May 13–16.

Davis, R. E., P. C. Knappenberger, P. J. Michaels, and O. W. Frauenfeld, 2002: Regime changes in United States 20th century temperature and precipitation extremes. 98th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, California, March 19–23.

Frauenfeld, O. W. and R. E. Davis, 2000: Relationships Between the El Niρo-Southern Oscillation and the Northern Hemisphere 500 mb Circumpolar Vortex. 96th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 4–8.

Legates, D. R., R. E. Davis, O. W. Frauenfeld, and S. Robeson, 2000: Searching for Anthropogenic Climate Change Signals Using Non-Correlation-Based Approaches. 96th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 4–8.

Legates, D. R., R. E. Davis, O. W. Frauenfeld, and S. Robeson, 2000: A Non-Correlation Based Approach to the Search for Anthropogenic Climate Change Signals. 15th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences of the American Meteorological Society, Asheville, North Carolina, May 8–11.

Davis, R. E., P. C. Knappenberger, O. W. Frauenfeld, and A. Burnett, 2000: Climate Change and Atmospheric Circulation in the Pacific. 81st Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Pacific Division, Ashland, Oregon, June 11–14.
 

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

Johansson, M., H. Lantuit, O. W. Frauenfeld, P. P. Bonnaventure, A. Abramov, I. Gδrtner-Roer, S. Hachem, and A. Liljedahl, 2009: Permafrost Young Researchers Get Their Hands Dirty: The PYRN-Thermal State of Permafrost IPY Project. European Geophysical Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 19–24.

Juliussen, H., H. Lantuit, M. Johansson, and O. W. Frauenfeld, 2008: PYRN-Permafrost Young Researchers Network: Education and Outreach for the International Polar Year and Beyond. 33rd International Geological Congress (33IGC), Oslo, Norway, August 6–14.

Frauenfeld, O. W., T. Zhang, A. J. Etringer, R. G. Barry, and D. Gilichinsky, 2008: Historical Changes in the Seasonally Frozen Ground Regions of the Russian Arctic. Ninth International Conference on Permafrost, Fairbanks, Alaska, June 29–July 3.

Bojariu, R., R. Garcia-Herrera; T. Zhang, and O. W. Frauenfeld, 2008: The role of land - atmosphere interaction in North Atlantic Oscillation variability. European Geophysical Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 13–18.

Johansson, M., H. Lantuit, and O. W. Frauenfeld, 2007: The Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN): Contribution to IPY's "Thermal State of Permafrost." American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 10–14.

Menard, C. B., H. Lantuit, and O. W. Frauenfeld, 2007: The Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN): Education and Outreach for the International Polar Year (2007–2008) and Beyond. IUGG XXIV 2007, Perugia, Italy, July 2–13.

Frauenfeld, O. W., T. Zhang, A. J. Etringer, and H. Teng, 2007: Reliability of the IPCC AR4 Models: A 20th Century Intercomparison of the Freezing/Thawing Index. 2nd CIRES Science Symposium, Boulder, Colorado, April 4.

Frauenfeld, O. W., T. Zhang, H. Teng, and A. J. Etringer, 2006: Projections of the 21st Century Freezing/Thawing Index in the Northern Hemisphere. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 11–15.

Frauenfeld, O. W., L. Ballagh, and H. Lantuit, 2006: The Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN): Education and Outreach for the International Polar Year (2007-2008) and Beyond. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 11–15.

Ma, L., T. Zhang, O. W. Frauenfeld, and D. Qin, 2006: Verification of ERA-40 and NCEP-1 Reanalysis Temperature data with Ground-Based Measurements in China. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 11–15.

Frauenfeld, O. W., L. Ballagh, and H. Lantuit, 2006: Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN): An international effort to encourage the involvement of young researchers for the International Polar Year (2007–2008). 1st Asian Conference on Permafrost, Lanzhou, China, August 7–9.

Zhang, T., R. G. Barry, O. W. Frauenfeld, and D. Gilichinsky, 2006: Changes in Freeze-Thaw Cycle, Permafrost Dynamics, and their Hydrological Implications over the Russian Arctic Drainage Basin. NSF Freshwater Integration All-Hands Meeting, Estes Park, Colorado, May 31–June 2.

Frauenfeld, O. W. and T. Zhang, 2006: The role of land surface processes on climate variability in the Tibetan Plateau. European Geophysical Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 2–7.

McCreight, J. L., T. Zhang, O. W. Frauenfeld, A. J. Etringer, R. G. Barry, and D. Gilichinsky, 2005: Means and Trends of Seasonally Frozen Ground Thickness in the Northern Hemisphere. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 5–9.

Zhang, T., O. W. Frauenfeld, R. G. Barry, A. J. Etringer, J. L. McCreight, and D. Gilichinsky, 2005: Response of Changes in Active Layer and Permafrost Conditions to Hydrological Cycle in the Russian Arctic. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 5–9.

Frauenfeld, O. W., M. C. Serreze, and T. Zhang, 2004: Reliability of ECMWF reanalysis temperatures and climate change on the Tibetan Plateau. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 13–17.

Armstrong, R., M. J. Brodzik, J. R. Wang, M. H. Savoie, O. W. Frauenfeld, and T. Zhang, 2004: Enhanced Snow Cover Mapping on the Tibetan Plateau using NASA EOS Optical (MODIS) and Passive Microwave (AMSR-E) Remote Sensing Data. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 13–17.

Zhang, T., O. W. Frauenfeld, J. L. McCreight, and R. G. Barry, 2004: Mapping the Distribution of Seasonally Frozen Ground in the Northern Hemisphere. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 13–17.

Frauenfeld, O. W., T. Zhang, and M. C. Serreze, 2004: ERA-40 Temperature Reliability and Climate Change on the Tibetan Plateau. 2004 IPM Workshop on Land/Atmosphere Interaction over the Tibetan Plateau. Chengdu, China, August 9–10.

Zhang, T., R. Armstrong, N. Caine, M. Williams, M. Losleben, O. W. Frauenfeld, and M. Parsons, 2004: Investigation on Frozen Ground in the Western United States. Mountain Climate Sciences Symposium, Lake Tahoe, California, May 25–27.

Zhang, T., O. W. Frauenfeld, R. G. Barry, and D. Gilichinsky, 2004: Historical Variations of Active Layer Thickness in the Russian Arctic. 2004 Joint Assembly, Montreal, Canada, May 17–21.

Zhang, T., A. J. Etringer, C. Oelke, O. W. Frauenfeld, R. G. Barry, D. Gilichinsky, M. C. Serreze, D. Yang, H. Ye, F. Ling, and S. Chudinova, 2004: Permafrost Thawing and its Contribution to Runoff in the Russian Arctic Basin. 2004 Joint Assembly, Montreal, Canada, May 17–21.

Zhang, T., R. G. Barry, O. W. Frauenfeld, and D. Gilichinsky, 2004: Contribution of Permafrost Thawing to Runoff in the Russian Arctic Drainage Basin. NSF Freshwater Integration All-Hands Meeting, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, May 4–7.

Frauenfeld, O. W., T. Zhang, R. G. Barry, and D. Gilichinsky, 2003: Historical Changes in Seasonal Freeze and Thaw Depths in Russia. SEARCH Open Science Meeting, Seattle, Washington, October 27–30.
 

WORKSHOPS

Detecting the Atmospheric Response to the Changing Face of the Earth: A Focus on Human-Caused Regional Climate Forcings, Land-Cover/Land-Use Change, and Data Monitoring. NSF Sponsored Workshop. Boulder, Colorado, August 27–29, 2007.

Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) Scientific Steering Group Annual Meeting (SSG III). Boulder, Colorado, December 4–8, 2006.

Hydrologic Responses to Degrading Permafrost. The Evolving Arctic Workshop Series. Fairbanks, Alaska, August 9–12, 2005.

2004 Institute of Plateau Meteorology Workshop on Land/Atmosphere Interaction over the Tibetan Plateau. Chengdu, China, August 9–10, 2004.

9th Workshop of the NASA Cold Land Processes Working Group. Cold Land Processes: Science, Technology, and Applications. Boulder, Colorado, May 28–29, 2003.

PAGES/CLIVAR Workshop on Reconstructing Late Holocene Climate, Charlottesville, Virginia, April 17–20, 2001.

Abracos Site Workshop. Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM) Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere (LBA) Experiment in Amazonia. Charlottesville, Virginia, April 29, 1999.
 

OTHER GRANT & WORK EXPERIENCE

Zhang, T. and R. G. Barry: Changes in Freeze-Thaw Cycle and Permafrost Dynamics and their Hydrological Implications over the Russian Arctic. National Science Foundation. Co-researcher, 2003–2006.

Zhang, T. and R. G. Barry: Frozen Ground Data and Information: Advances in the Global Geocryological Data (GGD) System. National Science Foundation. Co-researcher, 2002–2007.

Legates, D. R., R. E. Davis, and S. Robeson: Searching for Anthropogenic Climate Change Signals Using Non-Correlation-Based Approaches. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Research Assistant, 1999–2000.

Michaels, P. J.: Development of Operational Ozone Forecasts for the Commonwealth of Virginia.  Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. Research Assistant, 1998–1999.

Department of Medical Assistance Services and the University of Virginia: Study of the Effects on Medicaid Costs and Services of Chronic Pain and Pain Management. A Report to the Governor and the General Assembly of Virginia. Senate Document No. 29. Commonwealth of Virginia: Richmond, 1998. Statistical Research Assistant, 1998.

Michaels, P. J.: Effect of Greenhouse Gases and Meteorological Parameters on Nighttime Cooling and Daytime Warming Rates: Dataset Generation and Analysis. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Department of Energy Climate Change Detection Project. Research Assistant, 1997–1998.

Michaels, P. J.: Night Warming, the Greenhouse Effect, and Benign Climatic Change. Gesamtverband des deutschen Steinkohlenbergbaus, Federal Republic of Germany. Research Assistant, 1996–997.

Institute for Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria: Statistical evaluation of the sub-gridscale convection diagnostic model DIAMOD using gridscale quantities. Research Assistant, 1996.