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  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

William E. Easterling is a researcher affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on Environmental Science with particular attention to several specialized subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Sociology and Political Science, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their research addresses key topics such as Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Climate Change and Health Impacts, Climate Change Communication and Perception, as well as Clinical Practice Guidelines Implementation.

Recent publications by William E. Easterling include the paper titled "What Is Endangered Now? Climate Science at the Crossroads" published in 2025 in the journal AGU Advances, and "Consensus clinical practice guidelines" published in 2020 through UNC Libraries.

Frequent collaborators in their research endeavors have included:

  • S. R. Saleska
  • Steven C. Wofsy
  • David S. Battisti
  • Christopher B. Field
  • Inez Fung

William E. Easterling has published in venues such as AGU Advances and UNC Libraries, reflecting disciplinary intersections among environmental science and clinical guideline development.

The researcher was recognized in 2009 as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), denoting a significant career milestone.

Best Publications

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • Food, fibre and forest products

    W.E. Easterling;P.K. Aggrawal;P. Batima;Keith Brander

  • Crop response to elevated CO2 and world food supply A comment on: Food for Thought... by Long et al., Science 312: 1918-1921, 2006

    Francesco N. Tubiello;Francesco N. Tubiello;Jeffrey S. Amthor;Kenneth J. Boote;Marcello Donatelli

  • Ecosystems and Their Goods and Services

    H. Gitay;S. Brown;W. Easterling;B. Jallow

  • Making climate forecasts matter

    Paul C. Stern;William E. Easterling

  • Paper 2. agricultural impacts of and responses to climate change in the Missouri-Iowa-Nebraska-Kansas (MINK) region

    William E. Easterling;Pierre R. Crosson;Norman J. Rosenberg;Mary S. McKenney

  • Adaptation: Sensitivity to Natural Variability, Agent Assumptions and Dynamic Climate Changes

    Stephen H. Schneider;William E. Easterling;Linda O. Mearns

  • Climate Change, Global Food Security and the U.S. Food System

    Molly Brown;John Antle;Peter Backlund;Edward Carr

  • Comparison of Agricultural Impacts of Climate Change Calculated from High and Low Resolution Climate Change Scenarios: Part I. The Uncertainty Due to Spatial Scale

    L. O. Mearns;W. Easterling;C. Hays;D. Marx

  • Adapting North American agriculture to climate change in review

    William E Easterling

  • Potential production and environmental effects of switchgrass and traditional crops under current and greenhouse-altered climate in the central United States: a simulation study

    R.A. Brown;N.J. Rosenberg;Cynthia J Hays;W.E. Easterling

  • Assessing the Consequences of Climate Change for Food and Forest Resources: A View from the IPCC

    William E. Easterling;Michael Apps

  • Comparative responses of EPIC and CERES crop models to high and low spatial resolution climate change scenarios

    L. O. Mearns;T. Mavromatis;T. Mavromatis;E. Tsvetsinskaya;E. Tsvetsinskaya;C. Hays

  • Greenhouse warming : abatement and adaptation

    Norman J. Rosenberg;William E. Easterling;Pierre R. Crosson;Joel Darmstadter

  • Adaptation to climate variability and change in the US Great Plains:: A multi-scale analysis of Ricardian climate sensitivities

    Colin Polsky;William E Easterling

  • Preparing the erosion productivity impact calculator (EPIC) model to simulate crop response to climate change and the direct effects of CO2

    William E. Easterling;Norman J. Rosenberg;Mary S. McKenney;C. Allan Jones

  • Spatial scales of climate information for simulating wheat and maize productivity: The case of the US Great Plains

    William E Easterling;Albert Weiss;Cynthia J Hays;Linda O Mearns

  • Why regional studies are needed in the development of full-scale integrated assessment modelling of global change processes

    William E. Easterling

  • Reliability and input-data induced uncertainty of the EPIC model to estimate climate change impact on sorghum yields in the U.S. Great Plains

    Xianzeng Niu;William Easterling;Cynthia J. Hays;Allyson Jacobs

  • Modeling Path Dependence in Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change

    Netra B. Chhetri;William E. Easterling;Adam Terando;Linda Mearns

  • Improving the realism of modeling agronomic adaptation to climate change: Simulating technological substitution

    William E. Easterling;Netra Chhetri;Xianzeng Niu

Frequent Co-Authors

Linda O. Mearns
Linda O. Mearns National Center for Atmospheric Research
Francesco N. Tubiello
Francesco N. Tubiello Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Laura A. Katz
Laura A. Katz Smith College
Klaus Keller
Klaus Keller Dartmouth College
Michael J. Apps
Michael J. Apps Natural Resources Canada
Scott A. Isard
Scott A. Isard Pennsylvania State University
Brent Yarnal
Brent Yarnal Pennsylvania State University
Jean-François Soussana
Jean-François Soussana INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Kenneth J. Boote
Kenneth J. Boote University of Florida
Ernst-Detlef Schulze
Ernst-Detlef Schulze Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

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