Curriculum Vitae

Education

• • Ph.D. Meteorology, Pennsylvania State University, 2013

  • M.S. Applied Meteorology, Plymouth State University, 2007

  • B.S. Meteorology (Physics and Technical Mathematics minors), Cum Laude, Plymouth State University, 2006

  • The Boston Latin School, 2002

Professional Experience

• • Gro Intelligence: Climate Change Data Scientist II, February 2022 - Present

  • Rutgers University: Assistant Research Professor, September 2019 - February 2022

  • Rutgers University: Postdoctoral Associate, September 2018 - September 2019

  • Princeton University: Associate Research Scholar, September 2016 - August 2018

  • Pennsylvania State University: Postdoctoral Researcher, August 2013 - August 2016

  • Pennsylvania State University: Guest Lecturer (Climate Change Past, Present, and Possible Future GEOSC 597I), Spring 2016

  • Pennsylvania State University: Guest Lecturer (Risk Analysis GEOSC 450), Spring 2014 & Spring 2015

  • Plymouth State University: Adjunct Lecturer (Weather MTDI 1100), Spring 2008

  • Plymouth State University: Lab Instructor (Weather Laboratory MTDI 1110), Fall 2006 & Spring 2007

  • Plymouth State University: Tutor (Physics/Weather), Spring 2006 - Fall 2007

Computation

Python, (NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, xarray, dask); R Statistical Computing; C/C++; Perl; AWS (EC2, ECR, ECS, S3), High-Performance Computing (HPC)/High-Throughput Computing (HTC); HTML/PHP; Fortran; BASH/C shell/Batch scripting; LaTeX; Gnuplot; Basic MySQL; Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint); Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, and variants), Windows operating systems, and Mac OS X

Professional Activities

• • Contributing Author and Chapter Scientist to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) chapter 9 “Ocean, cryosphere, and sea level change”.

  • Contributing Author to the IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report.

  • Produced the integrated sea-level change projections for the IPCC AR6 chapter 9 “Ocean, cryosphere, and sea level change”.

  • Produced the integrated sea-level change projections for The US Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flood Hazard Scenarios and Tools Interagency Task Force 2022 technical report on global and regional sea-level rise.

  • Collaborated with National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) web developers to host both the IPCC AR6 and the Interagency Task Force sea-level change projections on the NASA Sea Level Change Portal.

  • US EPA Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Fellow

Outreach

Activities

• • Co-founder, Plymouth State Meteorology Alumni Outreach Program, Plymouth State University (2017 – 2019)

  • Judge, Environ. Chemistry and Microbiology Student Symposium, Pennsylvania State University (2014 – 2015)

  • Webmaster, Environmental Chemistry Student Symposium, Pennsylvania State University (2011)

  • Co-chairperson and Webmaster, Environ. Chemistry Student Symposium, Pennsylvania State University (2010)

Presentations

• • Statistical Modeling of Heat Waves. STEM Week, Solebury School, New Hope, PA, USA – 25 October 2018.

  • Modeling in Science: From paper airplanes to global climate models. STEM Week, Solebury School, New Hope, PA, USA – 23 October 2017.

  • Problem Formulation in Decision Support: An Application in Sea-Level Rise Adaptation. STEM Week, Solebury School, New Hope, PA, USA – 17 October 2016.

  • Enhancing the Value of Air Quality Forecasts in the Mid-Atlantic through use of Ensemble Statistical Post-Processing. STEM Week, Solebury School, New Hope, PA USA – 20 October 2015. 

  • Fun with DICE. Invited talk and hands-on activity at the Second Summer School on Sustainable Climate Risk Management, University Park, PA - 11 August 2014

Mentoring Experience

Graduate Students

• • Perry Oddo - Penn State University (Co-mentor with Klaus Keller) - 2014 - 2016

SCRiM Summer Scholars 2016

• • Intergenerational Equality: Quantitatively Analyzing Ethical Philosophy with Integrated Assessment Modeling - Alex Pusch (Pomona College)

SCRiM Summer Scholars 2014

• • Possible Mechanisms of South East United States Drought - Nicholas J. Sokol (Towson University)

  • Characterizing Drought in the Western United States from 1900-2010 - Zoey Rosen (University of Nevada, Reno)

Teaching Experience

Lecturer

Rowan University

• EVSC 01.381 - Sea Level Change: Past, Present, and Future (Guest Lecturer) - Spring 2024

Pennsylvania State University

• GEOSC 597I - Climate Change Past, Present, and Possible Future (Guest Lecturer) - Spring 2016

• GEOSC 450 - Risk Analysis (Guest Lecturer) - Spring 2014, Spring 2015

Plymouth State University

• MTDI 1100 - Weather (for non-science majors) - Spring 2008

• MTDI 1110 - Weather Laboratory - Fall 2006, Spring 2007

• Tutoring - Physics, Weather - Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007

Academic Service

Journal Referee

Nature Communications, Climatic Change, Natural Hazards, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, National Weather Digest, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Natural Hazards, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

Grant Reviewer

National Science Foundation (NSF), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Modeling, Analysis, and Prediction (MAP) Program, New Zealand National Science Challenge

Professional Societies

Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty Society (2017 - Present), Member of the American Geophysical Union (2012 - Present), U.S. Mensa (2007 - Present), and the American Meteorological Society (2004 - Present)

Publications

Peer Reviewed

1. Kopp, R.E., Garner, G.G., Hermans, T.H.J., Jha, S., Kumar, P., Reedy, A., Slangen, A.B.A., Turilli, M., Edwards, T.L., Gregory, J.M., Koubbe, G., Levermann, A., Merzky, A., Nowicki, S., Palmer, M.D., Smith, C., 2023: The Framework for Assessing Changes To Sea-Level (FACTS) v1.0: A platform for characterizing parametric and structural uncertainty in future global, relative, and extreme sea-level change. Geoscientific Model Development. doi: 10.5194/gmd-16-7461-2023.

2. Saintilan, N., Horton, B., Tornqvist, T.E., Ashe, E.L., Khan, N.S., Schuerch, M., Perry, C., Kopp, R.E., Garner, G.G., Murray, N., Rogers, K., Albert, S., Kelleway, J., Shaw, T.A., Woodroffe, C.D., Lovelock, C.E., Goddard, M.M., Hutley, L.B., Kovalenko, K., Feher, L., Guntenspergen, G., 2023: Widespread retreat of coastal habit is likely at warming levels above 1.5°C. Nature. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06448-z.

3. Kopp, R.E., Oppenheimer, M., O’Reilly, J.L., Drijfhout, S.S., Edwards, T.L., Fox-Kemper, B., Garner, G.G., Golledge, N.R., Hermans, T.H.J., Hewitt, H.T., Horton, B.P., Krinner, G., Notz, D., Nowicki, S., Palmer, M.D., Slangen, A.B.A, Xiao, C., 2023: Communicating future sea-level rise uncertainty and ambiguity to assessment users. Nature Climate Change. doi: 10.1038/s41558-023-01691-8.

4. Shaw, T.A., Li, T., Ng, T., Cahill, N., Chua, S., Majewski, J.M., Nathan, Y., Garner, G.G., Kopp, R.E., Hanebuth, T.J.J., Switzer, A.D., Horton, B.P., 2023: Deglacial perspectives of future sea level for Singapore. Communications Earth & Environment. doi: 10.1038/s43247-023-00868-5.

5. Hermans, T.H.J., Malagon-Santos, V., Katsman, C.A., Jane, R.A., Rasmussen, D.J., Haasnoot, M., Garner, G.G., Kopp, R.E., Oppenheimer, M., Slangen, A.B.A., 2023: The timing of decreasing coastal flood protection due to sea-level rise. Nature Climate Change, doi: 10.1038/s41558-023-01616-5.

6. Garner, A.J., Sosa, S.E., Tan, F., Tan, C.W.J., Garner, G.G., Horton, B.P., 2023: Evaluating knowledge gaps in sea-level rise assessments from the United States. Earth’s Future, 11 (2), doi: 10.1029/2022EF003187.

7. Slangen, A.B.A., Palmer, M.D., Camargo, C.M.L., Church, J.A., Edwards, T.L., Hermans, T.H.J., Hewitt, H., Garner, G.G., Gregory, J.M., Kopp, R.E., Malagon-Santos, V., van de Wal, R.S.W., 2023: The evolution of 21st century sea-level projections from IPCC AR5 to AR6 and beyond. Coastal Futures. doi: 10.1017/cft.2022.8.

8. Hermans, T.H.J., Katsman, C.A., Camargo, C.M.L., Garner, G.G., Kopp, R.E., Slangen, A.B.A., 2022: The effect of wind stress on seasonal sea-level change on the Northwestern European Shelf. Journal of Climate. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0636.1.

9. Lamontagne, J.R., Reed, P.M., Marangoni, G., Keller, K., Garner, G.G., 2019: Robust pathways to tolerable climate futures require immediate global action. Nature Climate Change. doi:10.1038/s41558-019-0426-8 .

10. Garner, G.G., Keller, K., 2017: Using Direct Policy Search to Identify Robust Strategies in Adapting to Uncertain Sea Level Rise and Storm Surge. Environmental Modelling and Software. 107, 96-104. doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2018.05.006.

11. Oddo, P.M., Lee, B.S., Garner, G.G., Srikrishnan, V., Reed, P.M., Forest, C.E., Keller, K., 2017: Deep uncertainties in sea-level rise and storm surge projections: Implications for coastal flood risk management. Risk Analysis. doi: 10.1111/risa.12888.

12. Adler, M., Anthoff, D., Bosetti, V., Garner, G.G., Keller, K., Treich, N., 2017: Priority for the worse-off and the social cost of carbon. Nature Climate Change. doi: 10.1038/nclimate3298

13. Simpson, M.B., Garner, G.G., Wallgrun, J.O., Keller, K., Oprean, D., Bansal, S., Klippel, A., 2016: Immersive Visual Analytics for Integrated Assessment Models of Climate Change. Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Companion on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces, ACM, 99-105. doi: 10.1145/3009939.3009955

14. Garner, G.G., Reed, P.M., Keller, K., 2016: Climate Risk Management Requires Explicit Representation of Societal Trade-offs. Clim. Change. doi: 10.1007/s10584-016-1607-3 (Open Access)

15. Garner, G.G., Thompson, A.M., 2013: Ensemble Statistical Post-Processing of the National Air Quality Forecast Capability: Enhancing Ozone Forecasts in Baltimore, Maryland. Atmos. Env. doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2013.09.020 (Open Access)

16. Garner, G.G., Thompson, A.M., Lee, P., Martins, D.K., 2013: Evaluation of NAQFC Model Performance in Forecasting Surface Ozone during the 2011 DISCOVER-AQ Campaign. J. Atmos. Chem. doi: 10.1007/s10874-013-9251-z (Open Access)

17. Garner, G.G., Thompson, A.M., 2012: The Value of Air Quality Forecasting in the Mid-Atlantic Region. Wea. Climate Soc., 4, 69-79. doi: 10.1175/WCAS-D-10-05010.1

Submitted, under review, or in preparation

1. Naish, T., Levy, R., Hamling, I., Garner, G.G., Hreinsdottir, S., Kopp, R.E., Golledge, N.R., Bell, R., Paulik, R., Lawrence, J., Denys, P., Gillies, T., Bengtson, S., Clark, K., King, D., Litchfield, N., Newnham, R., Wallace, L., 2024: The significance of vertical land movements at convergent plate boundaries in probabilistic sea-level projections for AR6 scenarios: The New Zealand Case. Earth’s Future. Under Review.

2. Ng, T., Garner, G.G., Hogarth, P., Palmer, M.D., Weeks, J., Kopp, R.E., Gangadharan, N., Moise, A., Horton, B.P., 2024: Sea-level projections in the 21st and 22nd century for Singapore. In prep.

Datasets and Software

1. Garner, G.G., Hermans, T.H.J., Kopp, R.E., Slangen, A.B.A., Edwards, T.L., Levermann, A., Nowicki, S., Palmer, M.D., Smith, C., Fox-Kemper, B., Hewitt, H.T., Xiao, C., Aoalgeirsdottir, G., Drijfhout, S.S., Golledge, N.R., Hemer, M., Krinner, G., Mix, A., Notz, D., Nurhati, I.S., Ruiz, L., Sallee, J.B., Yu, Y., Hua, L., Palmer, T., Pearson, B., 2021: IPCC AR6 Sea Level Projections. Version 20210809. Zenodo. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.5914709.

2. Garner, G.G., Kopp, R.E., 2022: Framework for assessing changes to sea-level (FACTS) modules, scripts, and data for the IPCC AR6 sea level projections. Version 20220406. Zenodo. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.6419953.

3. Kopp, R.E., Garner, G.G., Jha, S., Hermans, T.H.J., Reedy, A., Slangen, A.B.A., Turilli, M., Merzky, A., Koubbe, G., 2023: Framework For Assessing Changes to Sea-Level (FACTS). Zenodo. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7502824. GitHub. https://github.com/radical-collaboration/facts.

Book chapters, conference abstracts, and other non-peer reviewed

1. IPCC (Garner, G.G. as Contributing Author), 2023: Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Core Writing Team, H. Lee and J. Romero (eds.)]. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland, 184 pp., doi: 10.59327/IPCC/AR6-9789291691647.

2. Sweet, W.V., Hamlington, B.D, Kopp, R.E., Weaver, C.P., Barnard, P.L., Bekaert, D., Brooks, W., Craghan, M., Dusek, G., Frederikse, T., Garner, G.G., Genz, A.S., Krasting, J.P., Larour, E., Marcy, D., Marra, J.J., Obeysekera, J., Osler, M., Pendleton, M., Roman, D., Schmied, L., Veatch, W., White, K.D., and Zuzak, C., 2022: Global and Regional Sea Level Rise Scenarios for the United States: Up-dated Mean Projections and Extreme Water Level Probabilities Along U.S. Coastlines. NOAA Technical Report NOS 01. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD, 111 pp. https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/hazards/sealevelrise/noaa-nos-techrpt01-global-regional-SLR-scenarios-US.pdf

3. Levy, R., Naish, T., Bell, R., Golledge, N., Clarke, L., Garner, G.G., Hamling, I., Heine, Z., Hreinsdottir, S., Lawrence, J., Lowry, D., Priestley, R., Vargo, L., 2020: Te tai pari o Aotearoa - Future sea level rise around New Zealand’s dynamic coastline. New Zealand Coastal Society, 1, 11-20, https://www.coastalsociety.org.nz/assets/Publications/Special-Issues/SP4-Low-res-version.pdf

4. Applegate, P.J., Sriver, R.L., Garner, G.G., Bakker, A., Alley, R.B., Keller, K., 2015: Risk Analysis in the Earth Sciences: A Lab Manual with Exercises in R. Applegate, P.J. and Keller, K. (eds). LeanPub. https://leanpub.com/raes (Free Download)

Conference and Meeting Presentations

1. The Framework for Assessing Changes to Sea-level (FACTS) and its Application in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report. School of Earth and Environment Colloquium - Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ USA – 04 November 2021.

2. Problem Formulation in Decision Making: Examples from Climate Risk Management.  School of Earth and Environment Colloquium - Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ USA – 20 February 2020.

3. A Flexible Computational Framework for Projecting Regional Sea-Level Rise. NASA Sea Level Change Team Annual Meeting, Annapolis, MD, March 2019.

4. Using Direct Policy Search to Identify Robust Strategies in Adapting to Uncertain Sea Level Rise and Storm Surge.  50th Annual American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Abstract #PA53B-0267, New Orleans, LA, December 2017.

5. Assessing Heat Wave Temporal Structure and its Projected Change with Global Warming. Co-presentation with Jane Baldwin, ExxonMobil Longer Range Research Meeting, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA – 09 May 2017.

6. Prioritarian tradeoffs in an integrated assessment model. Inequality and the Economic Analysis of Climate Change Workshop, Duke Law School, Durham, NC, USA, 26-28 May 2015.

7. Assessing the problem formulation in an integrated assessment model: Implications for climate policy decision-support. AGU 2014 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2014

8. Representing Stakeholder Preferences in an Integrated Assessment Model through Multi-Objective Problem Formulations. Invited Presentation, Decision Making Under Uncertainty Workshop, RAND, Santa Monica, CA, December 2014.

9. Representing stakeholder preferences in an integrated assessment model through multi-objective problem formulations. Interactive video-broadcast to members of the Network for Sustainable Climate Risk Management, Penn State University, University Park, PA - November 2014

10. Representing Stakeholder Preferences in an Integrated Assessment Model through Multi-Objective Problem Formulations. 2014 Shifting Seasons Summit, College of Menominee Nation Sustainable Development Institute, Keshena, WI - October 2014

11. Workshop on Decision Analysis for Climate Risk Management (aka "Shootout at the Expected Utility Corral"). Snowmass Meeting. Snowmass, CO - July 2014 (co-presenter with Klaus Keller)

12. Evaluation of NAQFC model performance in forecasting surface ozone during the 2011 DISCOVER-AQ campaign. Fifth Biannual NASA Applied Air Quality Sciences Team (AQAST) Meeting. College Park, MD - June 2013

13. The Development and Implementation of an Ensemble Statistical Air Quality Model. 28th Annual Penn State Graduate Student Exhibition.  University Park, PA - March 2013

14. The Development and Implementation of an Ensemble Statistical Air Quality Model.  16th Annual Environmental Chemistry and Microbiology Student Symposium.  University Park, PA - March 2013

15. The Development and Implementation of an Ensemble Statistical Air Quality Model.  93rd Annual American Met. Society Meeting: Symposium on the Role of Statistical Methods in Weather and Climate Prediction.  Austin, TX - January 2013

16. Using Ensemble Statistical Models to Forecast Ozone Exceedances in the Mid-Atlantic.  45th Annual American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: Application of Satellite Data to Meet Air Quality Manager Needs (A008) #A14B . 02.  San Francisco, CA - December 2012

17. The Development and Implementation of an Ensemble Statistical Air Quality Model.  Annual PSU College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Graduate Reception.  University Park, PA - September 2012

18. Continued Air Quality Forecast Support in Maryland using Ensemble Statistical Models.  Third Biannual NASA Applied Quality Applied Sciences (AQAST) Meeting.  Madison, WI - June 2012

19. Evaluation of Air Quality Model Performance during the 2011 DISCOVER-AQ Campaign.  15th Annual Environmental Chemistry Student Symposium.  University Park, PA - March 2011

20. The Value of Air-Quality Forecasting in the Mid-Atlantic Region.  14th Annual Environmental Chemistry Student Symposium.  University Park, PA - April 2011

21. The Value of Air Quality Forecasting in the Mid-Atlantic.  U.S. EPA's 2011 National Air Quality Conference.  San Diego, CA - March 2011

22. To Breathe or Not to Breathe: The Value of Air-Quality Forecasting in the Mid-Atlantic.  13th Annual Environmental Chemistry Student Symposium.  University Park, PA - March 2010

23. Developing Cost-Effective Air-Quality Forecasting in the Mid-Atlantic.  12th Annual Environmental Chemistry Student Symposium.  University Park, PA - March 2009

24. Urban Ozone over North America from Soundings: Mixed Influences from Pollution, Stratosphere, Lightning and Convection.  (Presented in place of Dr. Anne Thompson).  89th Annual American Met. Society Meeting: 11th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry.  Phoenix, AZ - January 2009

25. The Meteorological and Hydrological Aspects of the Columbus Day Weekend 2005 Flooding Event of Cheshire County New Hampshire.  35th Annual Northeast Storm Conference.  Saratoga Springs, NY - March 2006

26. The Development and Interpretation of Eight Air-Quality Case Studies in the Northeast.  86th Annual American Met. Society Meeting: 5th Annual Student Conference.  Atlanta, GA - January 2006