Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder

William Travis

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  • Iglesias V; Travis WR; Balch JK. (Sep 2022). Recent droughts in the United States are among the fastest-developing of the last seven decades. Weather and Climate Extremes , 37. 10.1016/j.wace.2022.100491
  • Shrum TR; Travis WR. (Jul 2022). Experiments in ranching: Rain-index insurance and investment in production and drought risk management. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy , 44(3), 1513-1533. 10.1002/aepp.13304
  • Iglesias V; Balch JK; Travis WR. (Mar 2022). U.S. fires became larger, more frequent, and more widespread in the 2000s. Science Advances , 8(11). 10.1126/sciadv.abc0020
  • Iglesias V; Stavros N; Balch JK; Barrett K; Cobian-Iñiguez J; Hester C; Kolden C; Leyk S; Nagy RC; Reid C. (Mar 2022). Fires that matter: Reconceptualizing fire risk to include interactions between humans and the natural environment. Environmental Research Letters. 10.1088/1748-9326/ac5c0c
  • Rangwala I; Moss W; Wolken J; Rondeau R; Newlon K; Guinotte J; Travis WR. (Dec 2021). Uncertainty, Complexity and Constraints: How Do We Robustly Assess Biological Responses under a Rapidly Changing Climate?. Climate , 9(12). 10.3390/cli9120177
  • Nagy RC; Balch JK; Bissell EK; Cattau ME; Glenn NF; Halpern BS; Ilangakoon N; Johnson B; Joseph MB; Marconi S. (Dec 2021). Harnessing the NEON data revolution to advance open environmental science with a diverse and data-capable community. Ecosphere , 12(12). 10.1002/ecs2.3833
  • Iglesias V; Braswell AE; Rossi MW; Joseph MB; McShane C; Cattau M; Koontz MJ; McGlinchy J; Nagy RC; Balch J. (Jun 2021). Risky Development: Increasing Exposure to Natural Hazards in the United States. Earths Future|0401 Atmospheric Sciences, 0406 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience, 0502 Environmental Science and Management. 10.1029/2020ef001795
  • Clifford KR; Travis WR. (Aug 2020). The New (Ab)Normal: Outliers, Everyday Exceptionality, and the Politics of Data Management in the Anthropocene. Annals of the American Association of Geographers , 111(3), 932-943. 10.1080/24694452.2020.1785836
  • Clifford KR; Yung L; Travis WR; Rondeau R; Neely B; Rangwala I; Burkardt N; Wyborn C. (Jul 2020). Navigating Climate Adaptation on Public Lands: How Views on Ecosystem Change and Scale Interact with Management Approaches. Environmental Management (New York): an international journal for decision-makers, scientists and environmental auditors , 66(4), 614-628. 10.1007/s00267-020-01336-y
  • Balch JK; Iglesias V; Braswell AE; Rossi MW; Joseph MB; Mahood AL; Shrum TR; White CT; Scholl VM; McGuire B. (Jul 2020). y Social-Environmental Extremes: Rethinking Extraordinary Events as Outcomes of Interacting Biophysical and Social Systems. Earths Future|0401 Atmospheric Sciences, 0406 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience, 0502 Environmental Science and Management , 8(7). 10.1029/2019EF001319
  • Clifford KR; Travis WR; Nordgren LT. (Apr 2020). A climate knowledges approach to climate services. Climate Services , 18. 10.1016/j.cliser.2020.100155
  • Williams, TM; Travis, WR. (Jul 2019). Evaluating Alternative Drought Indicators in a Weather Index Insurance Instrument. WEATHER CLIMATE AND SOCIETY , 11(3). 10.1175/WCAS-D-18-0107.1
  • Dilling, L; Daly, ME; Kenney, DA; Klein, R; Miller, K; Ray, AJ; Travis, WR; Wilhelmi, O. (Jan 2019). Drought in urban water systems: Learning lessons for climate adaptive capacity. CLIMATE RISK MANAGEMENT , 23. 10.1016/j.crm.2018.11.001
  • Travis WR. (Jul 2018). Robert W. Kates (1929-2018): Grappled with problems of the human environment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA , 115(31), 7844-7845. 10.1073/pnas.1810131115
  • Averyt, K, JD Derner, L Dilling, R Guerrero, L Joyce, S McNeeley, E McNie, J Morisette, D Ojima, R OMalley, D Peck, AJ Ray, M Reeves and W Travis. (May 2018). Regional Climate Response Collaboratives Multi-Institutional Support for Climate Resilience. BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY , 99(5). 10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0183.1
  • Travis WR; Smith JB; Yohe GW. (Apr 2018). Moving toward 1.5 degrees C of warming: implications for climate adaptation strategies. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability , 31, 146-152. 10.1016/j.cosust.2018.03.003
  • Clifford, KR and WR Travis. (Mar 2018). Knowing climate as a social-ecological-atmospheric construct. GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS , 49. 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.12.007
  • Shrum, TR, WR Travis, TM Williams and E Lih. (Jan 2018). Managing climate risks on the ranch with limited drought information. CLIMATE RISK MANAGEMENT , 20. 10.1016/j.crm.2018.01.002
  • Derner, J, D Briske, M Reeves, T Brown-Brandl, M Meehan, D Blumenthal, W Travis, D Augustine, H Wilmer, D Scasta, J Hendrickson, J Volesky, L Edwards and D Peck. (Jan 2018). Vulnerability of grazing and confined livestock in the Northern Great Plains to projected mid- and late-twenty-first century climate. CLIMATIC CHANGE , 146(2-Jan). 10.1007/s10584-017-2029-6
  • McCurdy, AD and WR Travis. (Jan 2018). Simulated climate adaptation in storm-water systems: Evaluating the efficiency of within-system flexibility. CLIMATE RISK MANAGEMENT , 19. 10.1016/j.crm.2017.12.002
  • McCurdy AD; Travis WR. (Jun 2017). Simulated climate adaptation in stormwater systems: evaluating the efficiency of adaptation strategies. Environment Systems and Decisions , 37(2), 214-229. 10.1007/s10669-017-9631-z
  • Travis WR. (Jun 2016). AGRICULTURAL IMPACTS Mapping future crop geographies. Nature Climate Change , 6(6), 544-545. 10.1038/nclimate2965
  • Dilling, L, ME Daly, WR Travis, OV Wilhelmi and RA Klein. (Dec 2015). The dynamics of vulnerability: why adapting to climate variability will not always prepare us for climate change. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-CLIMATE CHANGE , 6(4). 10.1002/wcc.341
  • Huisenga MT; Travis WR. (Mar 2015). Climate variability and the sensitivity of downstream temperature to treated wastewater discharge: a simulation analysis. Environment Systems and Decisions , 35(1), 11-21. 10.1007/s10669-014-9532-3
  • Travis WR. (Oct 2014). Weather and climate extremes: Pacemakers of adaptation?. Weather and Climate Extremes , 5-6, 29-39. 10.1016/j.wace.2014.08.001
  • Travis WR; Bates B. (Jan 2014). What is climate risk management?. Climate Risk Management , 1, 1-4. 10.1016/j.crm.2014.02.003
  • Travis WR. (Dec 2013). Design of a severe climate change early warning system. Weather and Climate Extremes , 2, 31-38. 10.1016/j.wace.2013.10.006
  • Travis WR; Huisenga MT. (Nov 2013). The effect of rate of change, variability, and extreme events on the pace of adaptation to a changing climate. Climatic Change: an interdisciplinary, international journal devoted to the description, causes and implications of climatic change , 121(2), 209-222. 10.1007/s10584-013-0876-3
  • Kates RW; Travis WR; Wilbanks TJ. (May 2012). Transformational adaptation when incremental adaptations to climate change are insufficient. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA , 109(19), 7156-7161. 10.1073/pnas.1115521109
  • Travis, WR. (Jan 2010). Going to extremes: propositions on the social response to severe climate change. CLIMATIC CHANGE , 98(2-Jan). 10.1007/s10584-009-9661-8
  • Haggerty, JH and WR Travis. (Sep 2006). Out of administrative control: Absentee owners, resident elk and the shifting nature of wildlife management in southwestern Montana. GEOFORUM , 37(5). 10.1016/j.geoforum.2005.12.004
  • Gosnell, H, JH Haggerty and WR Travis. (Sep 2006). Ranchland ownership change in the greater yellowstone ecosystem, 1990-2001: Implications for conservation. SOCIETY & NATURAL RESOURCES , 19(8). 10.1080/08941920600801181
  • Gosnell, H and WR Travis. (Mar 2005). Ranchland ownership dynamics in the Rocky Mountain west. RANGELAND ECOLOGY & MANAGEMENT , 58(2). 10.2111/1551-5028(2005)58<191:RODITR>2.0.CO;2
  • Dale VH; Brown S; Haeuber RA; Hobbs NT; Huntly N; Naiman RJ; Riebsame WE; Turner MG; Valone TJ. (Jun 2000). Ecological principles and guidelines for managing the use of land. Ecological Applications , 10(3), 639-670.
  • Riebsame WE. (May 1996). Ending the Range Wars?. Environment: science and policy for sustainable development , 38(4), 4-29. 10.1080/00139157.1996.9929250
  • TRAVIS WR; THEOBALD DM; GOSNELL H. (Jan 1996). Land Use and Landscape Change in the U.S. Rocky Mountains I: Theory, Scale and Pattern. Mountain Research and Development , 16, 395-405. 10.2307/3673989
  • KNIGHT RL; WALLACE GN; RIEBSAME WE. (Apr 1995). RANCHING THE VIEW - SUBDIVISIONS VERSUS AGRICULTURE. Conservation Biology , 9(2), 459-461. 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1995.9020459.x
  • RIEBSAME WE; MEYER WB; TURNER BL. (Oct 1994). MODELING LAND-USE AND COVER AS PART OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE. Climatic Change: an interdisciplinary, international journal devoted to the description, causes and implications of climatic change , 28(1-2), 45-64. 10.1007/BF01094100
  • RIEBSAME WE; PARTON WJ; GALVIN KA; BURKE IC; BOHREN L; YOUNG R; KNOP E. (May 1994). INTEGRATED MODELING OF LAND-USE AND COVER CHANGE. Bioscience , 44(5), 350-356. 10.2307/1312385
  • Riebsame WE. (Feb 1990). ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE AND A NEW PARADIGM OF NATURAL RESOURCE PLANNING. Professional Geographer , 42(1), 1-12. 10.1111/j.0033-0124.1990.00001.x
  • KARL TR; RIEBSAME WE. (Dec 1989). THE IMPACT OF DECADAL FLUCTUATIONS IN MEAN PRECIPITATION AND TEMPERATURE ON RUNOFF - A SENSITIVITY STUDY OVER THE UNITED-STATES. Climatic Change: an interdisciplinary, international journal devoted to the description, causes and implications of climatic change , 15(3), 423-447.
  • Riebsame WE. (Jan 1989). Reducing hazards during the 1990s. Natural Hazards , 1(4), 387-389. 10.1007/bf00134835
  • RIEBSAME WE. (Aug 1988). ADJUSTING WATER-RESOURCES MANAGEMENT TO CLIMATE CHANGE. Climatic Change: an interdisciplinary, international journal devoted to the description, causes and implications of climatic change , 13(1), 69-97.
  • RIEBSAME WE; DIAZ HF; MOSES T; PRICE M. (Nov 1986). THE SOCIAL BURDEN OF WEATHER AND CLIMATE HAZARDS. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society , 67(11), 1378-1388. 10.1175/1520-0477(1986)067<1378:TSBOWA>2.0.CO;2
  • RIEBSAME WE. (Mar 1986). THE DUST-BOWL, HISTORICAL IMAGE, PSYCHOLOGICAL ANCHOR, AND ECOLOGICAL TABOO. Great Plains Quarterly , 6(2), 127-136.
  • RIEBSAME WE. (Jan 1985). CLIMATE HAZARDS - LESSONS FROM RECENT EVENTS IN THE UNITED-STATES. Disasters: the journal of disaster studies, policy and management , 9(4), 295-300. 10.1111/j.1467-7717.1985.tb00952.x
  • KARL TR; RIEBSAME WE. (Jan 1984). THE IDENTIFICATION OF 10-YEAR TO 20-YEAR TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION FLUCTUATIONS IN THE CONTIGUOUS UNITED-STATES. Journal of Climatology & Applied Meteorology , 23(6), 950-966. 10.1175/1520-0450(1984)023<0950:TIOTYT>2.0.CO;2
  • Riebsame WE. (Dec 1983). News Media Coverage of Seasonal Forecasts: The Case of Winter 1982–83. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society , 64(12), 1351-1356. 10.1175/1520-0477(1983)064<1351:nmcosf>2.0.co;2
  • Warrick RA; Riebsame WE. (Dec 1981). Societal response to CO2-induced climate change: Opportunities for research. Climatic Change: an interdisciplinary, international journal devoted to the description, causes and implications of climatic change , 3(4), 387-428. 10.1007/bf02423243
  • Travis RW; Riebsame WE. (Sep 1979). Communicating environmental uncertainty: The nature of weather forecasts. Journal of Geography , 78(5), 168-172. 10.1080/00221347908979982
  • Riebsame WE; Woodley WL; Davis FE. (Oct 1974). Radar Inference of Lake Okeechobee Rainfall for Use in Environmental Studies. Weatherwise , 27(5), 206-211. 10.1080/00431672.1974.9931710
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