Curriculum Vitae: Andra J. (Reed) Garner

Department of Environmental Science, Rowan University, 209 O Westby Hall, Glassboro, NJ, 08028, USA

Tel: (717)-658-9303 • E-mail: reedaj1@gmail.com • Website: https://sites.google.com/site/andrajreed/

Education

2012 – 2016: Ph.D. in Meteorology (tropical cyclones and sea-level rise), The Pennsylvania State University, USA

2010 – 2012: M.S. in Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

2006 – 2010: B.S. in Mathematics (Magna Cum Laude), Minor in Communication Studies, Grove City College, USA

Graduate Advisors:

M.S. – Dr. Anne M. Thompson (Sciences and Exploration Directorate: National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

Ph.D. – Dr. Michael E. Mann (The Pennsylvania State University)

Employment

2019 – Present: Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Rowan University

2018 – 2019: Assistant Research Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University

2016 – 2018: NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Marine and Coastal Science, Rutgers University

Honors and Awards

· Top Downloaded Paper in Earth’s Future, 2018-2019

· NSF Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship (2016-2018)

· Early Career Scientist Outstanding Poster Award, WCRP/IOC Conference on Regional Sea Level Changes and Coastal Impacts (2017)

· John C. Wyngaard Graduate Research Award, The Pennsylvania State University (2016)

· First Place Oral Presentation, 18^th Annual Environmental Chemistry Student Symposium, The Pennsylvania State University (2015)

· Third Place Poster Presentation, 2013 Graduate Exhibition, The Pennsylvania State University (2013)

Main Achievements

· Participant in the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021-2030, North Atlantic Regional Workshop (January 2020)

· 2 publications in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

· Recipient of a National Science Foundation Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship

· Construction of a comprehensive database of 21^st century sea-level rise projections (Garner et al., 2018)

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Published

1. Garner, A. J., R. E. Kopp, B. P. Horton (2021), Evolving Tropical Cyclone Tracks in the North Atlantic in a Warming Climate. Earth’s Future. doi: 10.1029/2021EF002326.

2. Dura, T., A. J. Garner, R. Weiss, R. E. Kopp, S. Engelhart, R. Witter, R. Briggs, C. S. Mueller, A. Nelson, and B. P. Horton (2021), Changing impacts of Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone tsunamis in California under future sea-level rise. Nature Communications. 12:7119. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-27445-8

3. Horton, B. P., N. Khan, N. Cahill, J. S. H. Lee, T. A. Shaw, A. J. Garner, A. C. Kemp, S. E. Engelhart, S. Rahmstorf (2020), Estimating global mean sea-level rise and its uncertainties by 2100 and 2300 from expert assessment. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 3:18. doi:10.1038/s41612-020-0121-5.

4. Garner, A. J., J. L. Weiss, R. M. Horton, A. Parris, R. E. Kopp, J. T. Overpeck, B. P. Horton (2018), Evolution of 21^st Century Sea-level Rise Projections. Earth’s Future. doi: 10.1029/2018EF000991.

5. Horton, B. P., R. E. Kopp, A. J. Garner, C. C. Hay, N. S. Khan, K. Roy, and T. A. Shaw (2018), Mapping sea-level change in time, space, and probability. Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 43:1. doi:10.1146/annurev-environ-102017-025826.

6. Garner, A. J., M. E. Mann, K. A. Emanuel, R. E. Kopp, N. Lin, R. B. Alley, B. P. Horton, R. DeConto, J. P. Donnelly, and D. Pollard (2017), Impact of climate change on New York City’s coastal flood hazard: Increasing flood heights from the preindustrial to 2300 CE. PNAS. doi:10.1073/pnas.1703568114.

7. Reed, A. J., M. E. Mann, K. A. Emanuel, N. Lin, B. P. Horton, A. C. Kemp, and J. P. Donnelly (2015), Increased threat of tropical cyclones and coastal flooding to New York City during the anthropogenic era. PNAS. doi:10.1073/pnas.1513127112.

8. Reed, A. J., M. E. Mann, K. A. Emanuel, and D. W. Titley (2015), An analysis of long-term relationships among count statistics and metrics of synthetic tropical cyclones downscaled from CMIP5 models. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 120, doi:10.1002/2015JD023357.

9. Reed, A. J., Thompson, A. M., Kollonige, D. E., Martins, D. K., Tzortziou, M. A., Herman, J. R., Berkoff, T. A., Abuhassan, N. K., Cede, A. (2013), Effects of local meteorology and aerosols on ozone and nitrogen dioxide retrievals from OMI and pandora spectrometers in Maryland, USA during DISCOVER-AQ 2011. J Atmos Chem. DOI: 10.1007/s10874-013-9254-9.

In Prep

*Student Author ^#Garner Advisee

1. Garner, A. J., S. E. Sosa*^#, T. Fangyi*, C. T. W. Jie*, G. G. Garner, B. P. Horton, (In prep for submission to Nature Sustainability by February 2022), Evaluating Knowledge Gaps in Sea-level Rise Assessments from the United States.

2. Weaver, M. M.*^#, A. J. Garner, (In prep submission to Geophysical Research Letters by Summer 2022), Long-term Variations in Tropical Cyclone Genesis Climatology in the North Atlantic.

3. Sosa, S. E.*^#, A. J. Garner, (In prep for submission to Climatic Change by Fall 2022), The Politics of Regional Sea-level Rise Assessments in the United States.

Other Publications

1. Kopp, R.E., C. Andrews, A. Broccoli, A. Garner, D. Kreeger, R. Leichenko, N. Lin, C. Little, J.A. Miller, J.K. Miller, K.G. Miller, R. Moss, P. Orton, A. Parris, D. Robinson, W. Sweet, J. Walker, C.P. Weaver, K. White, M. Campo, M. Kaplan, J. Herb, and L. Auermuller. (2019). New Jersey’s Rising Seas and Changing Coastal Storms: Report of the 2019 Science and Technical Advisory Panel. Prepared for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. Trenton, New Jersey.

2. Garner, A. J., R. E. Kopp, B. P. Horton, M. E. Mann, R. B. Alley, K. A. Emanuel, N. Lin, J. P. Donnelly, A. C. Kemp, R. DeConto, and D. Pollard (2017; Invited), New York City’s Evolving Flood Risk from Hurricanes and Sea-level Rise, Exchanges and Variations Newsletter. Editor: John Church.

In Prep

1. Sriver, R., T. E. Wong, A. J. Garner, et al., (In Prep for Springer textbook on Climate Change, C. Forest and L. Mearns, [eds.]). Sea-level Rise. Chapter XX.

Major Research Grants

Pending

1. Principle Investigator; NSF Marine Geology and Geophysics: CAREER: Leveraging Past Projections of Sea-level Rise to Reduce Uncertainty of Future Sea-level Change; $477,408

In Prep

1. Principle Investigator; Earth Observatory of Singapore: Long-term Variations in Tropical Cyclone Tracks and Extreme Rainfall for Southeast Asia in a Warming Climate; ~$95,000. (Anticipated Submission by 31 January 2022).

2. Co-Principle Investigator; NSF Climate and Large-scale Dynamics; The Influence of Large-Scale Climate Variability on U.S. East Coast Sea Levels; ~$250,000. (Anticipated Submission by March 2022).

3. Senior Personnel: NSF Advancing Revisionary Taxonomy and Systematics; Comprehensive Revision of North American Tiger Beetles: Defining Conservation Priorities via Species Delimitation and Discovery; ~$325,000 (Anticipated Submission by February 2022).

Past Awards

1. Senior Personnel; Science Foundation Ireland: Predicting Sea Levels and Sea-Level Extremes for Ireland; $237,136 (Funded, 2022-2024).

2. Principle Investigator; Rowan University Frances R. Lax Fund for Faculty Development: Obtaining a Tower Server to Advance Climate Change Research. $1000; (Funded, 2021)

3. Principal Investigator; NSF Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship: Combining Proxy Records and Model Data to Investigate Changing Flood Risks for the U.S. Atlantic Coast during the Past Millennium; $174,000; (Funded, 2016-2018)

Scientific Advisory Roles

1. National Academes of Sciences Polar Research Board Meeting Expert Panel on Sea-level Rise (Originally Scheduled for May 2020; likely postponed due to COVID-19)

2. Asian Development Bank (ADB) Roundtable of Experts on Sea-level Rise in the Pacific (Originally Scheduled for April 2020; rescheduled for October – December 2020)

3. United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021-2030, North Atlantic Regional Workshop (January 2020)

4. Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel on Sea-level Rise and Coastal Storms for New Jersey (NJ STAP; Fall 2019)

5. New Jersey March for Science Climate Change Panelist (Spring 2018)

Teaching Experience

Courses Taught

· Confronting the Global Climate Crisis (B.S./B.A. Course, Rowan University)

· Principles of Atmospheric and Climate Science (B.S./B.A. Course, Rowan University)

Courses Developed

· Confronting the Global Climate Crisis (B.S./B.A. Course, Rowan University)

· Understanding and Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change (B.S. Course, Rowan University)

· Sea-level Change: Past, Present, and Future (B.S./B.A. Course, Rowan University)

· The Science of Climate Change (M.S. Course, Rowan University)

· Communicating Environmental Science (M.S. Course, Rowan University)

Guest Lectures

· Course: Are Climates and Sea-Levels Changing? (Rutgers University, 1 November 2016)

· Course: Climate Change and Potential Societal Impacts (The Pennsylvania State University, 17 November 2015)

· Course: Climate Dynamics (The Pennsylvania State University, 26 February 2015)

Teaching Assistant

· Course: Climate Dynamics (The Pennsylvania State University, January – May 2016)

· Course: Atmospheric Thermodynamics (The Pennsylvania State University, January – May 2015)

· Course: Introductory Meteorology (The Pennsylvania State University, August – December 2011)

· Course: Quantitative Analysis in Earth Sciences (The Pennsylvania State University, January – May 2011)

· Course: Atmospheric Measurement Principles (The Pennsylvania State University, August – December 2010)

Mentoring

· Mackenzie Weaver: Undergraduate Research Assistant (Rowan University, May 2021-present)

· Sarah Sosa: Undergraduate Research Assistant (Rowan University, March 2020-present)

· Santiago Gomez-Vargas: Bachelors of Fine Arts Thesis Committee (Rowan University, 2019-2020)

· Elijah Laue: Sustainable Climate Risk Management’s Summer Scholars Program (The Pennsylvania State University, Summer 2016)

· Claudia Mazur: Sustainable Climate Risk Management’s Summer Scholars Program (The Pennsylvania State University, Summer 2016)

· Todd Emmenegger: Research Experience for Undergraduates in Climate Science (The Pennsylvania State University, Summer 2016)

Conference Abstracts (First Author Only)

1. Garner, A. J., S. E. Sosa, T. Fangyi, C. T. W. Jie, G. G. Garner, B. P. Horton (2022), Evaluating Knowledge Gaps in Sea-level Rise Assessments from the United States, 2022 Ocean Sciences Meeting, Virtual due to COVID-19, 4 Mar. (ORAL).

2. Garner, A. J., R. E. Kopp, and B. P. Horton (2021), Evolving Tropical Cyclone Tracks in the North Atlantic in a Warming Climate, 2021 AGU Fall Meeting, Virtual due to COVID-19, 13 Oct. (ORAL).

3. Garner, A. J., R. E. Kopp, and B. P. Horton (2021), Evolving Tropical Cyclone Tracks in the North Atlantic in a Warming Climate, GSA 2021 Connects, Virtual due to COVID-19, 13 Oct. (INVITED ORAL).

4. Garner, A. J., J.L. Weiss, A. Parris, R.E. Kopp, R.M. Horton, J.T. Overpeck, S.E. Sosa, F.Y. Tan, C.W.J. Tan, B.P. Horton (2020), Evolution of Global Sea-level Rise Projections for the 21^st Century and their Incorporation in Local and Regional Assessments, 2020 AGU Fall Meeting, Virtual due to COVID-19, 7 Dec. (ORAL).

5. Garner, A. J., J.L. Weiss, A. Parris, R.E. Kopp, R.M. Horton, J.T. Overpeck, S.E. Sosa, F.Y. Tan, C.W.J. Tan, B.P. Horton (2020), Evolution of Global Sea-level Rise Projections for the 21^st Century and their Incorporation in Local and Regional Assessments, GSA 2020 Connects Online, 28 Oct. (INVITED ORAL).

6. Garner, A. J., K. A. Emanuel, R. E. Kopp, and B. P. Horton (2019), Impacts of Evolving Tropical Cyclone Track Characteristics in a Changing Climate, 2019 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 11 Dec. (ORAL).

7. Garner, A. J., J. Weiss, A. Parris, R. E. Kopp, R. Horton, J. Overpeck, and B. P. Horton (2018), Evolution of 21^st Century Sea-level Rise Projections, 2018 AGU Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C., 10 Dec. (ORAL).

8. Garner, A. J., M. E. Mann, K. A. Emanuel, R. Kopp, N. Lin, R. B. Alley, B. P. Horton, R. DeConto, J. P. Donnelly, and D. Pollard (2018), The Impact of Climate Change on New York City’s Coastal Flood Hazard: Increasing Flood Heights from the Pre-Industrial to 2300 CE, iSLR18 INQUA-PAGES Conference for Early-Career Researchers, Impacts of sea-level rise from past to present, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 26-29 Aug. (ORAL).

9. Garner, A. J., M. E. Mann, K. A. Emanuel, R. Kopp, N. Lin, R. B. Alley, B. P. Horton, R. DeConto, J. P. Donnelly, and D. Pollard (2017), The Impact of Climate Change on New York City’s Coastal Flood Hazard: Increasing Flood Heights from the Pre-Industrial to 2300 CE, 2017 AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 12 Dec. (ORAL).

10. Garner, A. J., M. E. Mann, K. A. Emanuel, R. Kopp, N. Lin, R. B. Alley, B. P. Horton, R. DeConto, J. P. Donnelly, and D. Pollard (2017), Climate Change Impact on New York City Coastal Flood Risk: Increases from the Pre-Industrial to 2300 CE, Meadowlands Conference, Super Storm Sandy: Five Years Later, Lyndhurst, NJ, 26 Oct. (ORAL).

11. Garner, A. J., M. E. Mann, K. A. Emanuel, R. Kopp, N. Lin, R. B. Alley, B. P. Horton, R. DeConto, J. P. Donnelly, and D. Pollard (2017), New York City’s Future Flood Risk from Tropical Cyclones and Sea-level Rise, WCRP/IOC Conference on Regional Sea Level Changes and Coastal Impacts, New York City, NY, 12 July (POSTER).

12. Garner, A. J., M. E. Mann, K. A. Emanuel, R. Kopp, N. Lin, R. B. Alley, B. P. Horton, R. DeConto, J. P. Donnelly, and D. Pollard (2017), The Changing Risk of Coastal Flooding in New York City from 850 CE to 2300 CE, 2017 EGU General Assembly 2017, Vienna, Austria, 25 Apr. (ORAL).

13. Garner, A. J., M. E. Mann, K. A. Emanuel, R. Kopp, N. Lin, R. B. Alley, B. P. Horton, R. DeConto, J. P. Donnelly, and D. Pollard (2017), The Changing Threat of Coastal Flooding Associated with Tropical Cyclones in New York City, From the Past Millennium to 2300 C.E., 2017 AAG Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 5-9 Apr. (ORAL).

14. Reed, A. J., M. E. Mann, K. A. Emanuel, N. Lin, B. P. Horton, A. C. Kemp, R. B. Alley, R. E. Kopp, D. Pollard, J. P. Donnelly (2015), Past, Present, and Future Threat of Tropical Cyclones and Coastal Flooding in New York City, 2015 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 Dec. (INVITED ORAL).

15. Reed, A. J., M. E. Mann, K. A. Emanuel, N. Lin, B. P. Horton, and A. C. Kemp (2015), An Analysis of North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones and Their Impacts on Coastal Inundation in New York and New Jersey during the Last Millennium, 18^th Annual Environmental Chemistry Student Symposium, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, Apr. (ORAL).

16. Reed, A. J., M. E. Mann, K. A. Emanuel, N. Lin, B. P. Horton, and A. C. Kemp (2015), An Analysis of North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones and Their Impacts on Coastal Inundation in New York and New Jersey during the Last Millennium, 2015 Graduate Exhibition, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, March. (POSTER).

17. Reed, A. J., M. E. Mann, K. A. Emanuel, N. Lin, B. P. Horton, and A. C. Kemp (2014), An Analysis of North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones and Their Impacts on Coastal Inundation in New York and New Jersey during the Last Millennium, 2014 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 15-19 Dec. (ORAL).

18. Reed, A. J., M. E. Mann, K. A. Emanuel, N. Lin, B. P. Horton, and A. C. Kemp (2014), Impacts of Sea-level Rise, Tropical Cyclones, and Climate Change on Coastal Inundation in New York and New Jersey, 2014 Graduate Exhibition, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, Apr. (POSTER).

19. Reed, A. J., M. E. Mann, K. A. Emanuel, N. Lin, B. P. Horton, and A. C. Kemp (2014), Impacts of Sea-level Rise, Tropical Cyclones, and Climate Change on Coastal Inundation in New York and New Jersey, 17^th Annual Environmental Chemistry Student Symposium, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, Mar. (ORAL).

20. Reed, A. J., M. E. Mann, K. A. Emanuel, N. Lin, and A. C. Kemp (2014), Impacts of Sea-level Rise, Tropical Cyclones, and Climate Change on Coastal Inundation in New York and New Jersey, 2014 Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, HI, 23-28 Feb. (ORAL).

21. Reed, A. J., Thompson, A. M., Kollonige, D. E., Martins, D. K., Tzortziou, M. A., Herman, J. R., Berkoff, T. A., Abuhassan, N. K., and Cede, A., (2013), Effects of Local Meteorology and Chemistry on Ozone and Nitrogen Dioxide Retrievals: OMI and Pandora Spectrometers during DISCOVER-AQ 2011, 2013 Graduate Exhibition, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA Mar. (POSTER).