The Department Geography Colloquium Series Presents:

Justin S. Mankin, Associate Professor of Geography at Dartmouth College, "Documenting and Projecting the Human Costs of Climate Change"

"How does climate change affect people and the things they value? Drawing on examples from violent conflict, economic growth, and water resources, I highlight my group’s research to inform society’s management of climate risks, with implications for everything from drought monitoring to climate liability. Our work looks retrospectively, documenting and attributing the impacts that have already unfolded, and prospectively, helping to anticipate the ones to come. Across all of this work, I discuss our efforts to (1) meaningfully connect geophysical changes with human consequences, (2) quantify, attribute, and constrain uncertainty, especially given structural data inequities, and (3) inform model design and analysis choices to ensure that scientific answers about our present and future are sound, transparent, reproducible, useful, and just. Collectively, my research and that of my group demonstrates the importance of science that spans both fundamental and applied questions of climate impacts to inform adaptations and prepare society for a warmer world."

Mankin is an associate professor of geography at Dartmouth where he directs the Climate Modeling and Impacts Group. His previous career was as an intelligence officer working in South Asia and the Middle East. He holds degrees from Columbia (BA, MPA), the London School of Economics (MSc), and Stanford (PhD). He completed his training at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies as an Earth Institute Postdoctoral Fellow.