Ethan Coffel

• 2025 Spring
  • GEO 426 Environmental Change in the Anthropocene
  • GEO 155 The Natural Environment
• 2024 Spring
  • GEO 215 Global Environmental Change
  • GEO 300 Selected Topics - Climate Extremes
• 2023 Fall
  • GEO 426 Environmental Change in the Anthropocene
  • GEO 155 The Natural Environment
• 2023 Spring
  • GEO 215 Global Environmental Change
  • GEO 499 Honors Capstone Project
  • GEO 300 Selected Topics - Climate Extremes

• Journal Articles
  • Singh, D., Bekris, Y., Rogers, C., Doss-Gollin, J., Coffel, E. D. and Kalashnikov, D., "Enhanced solar and wind potential during widespread temperature extremes across several U.S. energy grids." Environmental Research Letters, 2024.
  • Coffel, E. D., Lesk, C., "Recent shift from energy- to moisture-limitation over global croplands." Environmental Research Letters, 2024.
  • Diaz, C., Ting, M., Horton, R. M., Singh, D., Rogers, C. and Coffel, E. D., "Increased Extreme Humid Heat Hazard Faced by Agricultural Workers." Environmental Research Communications, 2023.
  • Ting, M., Lesk, C., Liu, C., Li, C., Horton, M., Coffel, E. D., Rogers, C. and Singh, D., "Contrasting impacts of dry versus humid heat on US corn and soybean yields." Scientific Reports, 2023.
  • Coffel, E. D., Lesk, C. and Mankin, J. S., "Earth System Model Overestimation of Cropland Temperatures Scales with Agricultural Intensity." Geophysical Research Letters, 2022.
  • Coffel, E. D., Lesk, C., Winter, J. M., Osterburg, E. C. and Mankin, J. S., "Crop-climate feed- backs boost U.S. maize and soy yields." Environmental Research Letters, 2022.
  • Kaufman, J., Vicedo-Cabrera, A. M., Tam, V., Song, L., Coffel, E. D. and Tasian, G., "The Impact of Climate Change on Kidney Stone Presentations in South Carolina." Scientific Reports, 2022.
  • Teitelbaum, C. S., K, A. P., Coffel, E. D., Foster, R. J., Frair, J. L., Hinton, J. W., Horton, R. M., Kramer, D. W., Lesk, C., Raymond, C., Wattles, D. W., Zeller, K. A. and Morelli, T. L., "Can behavioral adaptations to climate maintain a species’ distribution?." Diversity and Distributions, 2021.
  • Coffel, E. D., Mankin, J. S., "How global warming is making power plants produce less electricity." Carbon Brief, 2021.
  • Rogers, C., Ting, M., Li, C., Kornhuber, K., Coffel, E. D., Horton, R. M., Raymond, C. and Singh, D., "Recent increases in exposure to extreme humid-heat events disproportionately affect populated regions." Geophysical Research Letters, 2021.
  • Lesk, C., Coffel, E. D., Winter, J. M., Ray, D., Zscheischler, J., Seneviratne, S. and Horton, R. M., "Stronger temperature–moisture couplings exacerbate the impact of climate warming on global crop yields." Nature Food, 2021.
  • Barnston, A. G., Lyon, B., Coffel, E. D. and Horton, R. M., "Daily Autocorrelation and Mean Temperature/Moisture Rise as Determining Factors for Future Heatwave Patterns in the U.S.." Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 2020.
  • Coffel, E. D., Mankin, J. S., "In the future there will be more rain, but less water, in the Nile Basin." The Conversation, 2020.
  • Lesk, C., Coffel, E. D. and Horton, R. M., "Sensitivity of maize yields to sub-seasonal rainfall distribution and extremes in the United States." Nature Climate Change, 2020.
  • Coffel, E. D., Mankin, J. S., "Thermal power generation is disadvantaged in a warming world." Environmental Research Letters, 2020.
• Book Chapter
  • Coffel, E. D., de Sherbinin, A., Horton, R. M., Lane, K., Kienberger, S. and Wilhelmi, O., "The Science of Adaptation to Extreme Heat." In Resilience: The Science of Adaptation to Climate Change. Frank, T., Zommers and Elsevier, Z. (eds.) , 2018.
• Magazine/Trade Publication
  • Coffel, E. D., Horton, R. M. and Raymond, C., "Heat and humidity are a killer combination." The New York Times, 2018.

American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, "Increasingly distinct dry and humid heat in a warming world" (December 9, 2024)

Yang, X., Coffel, E. D., Ecological Society of America, "The impact of change in growing season timing on corn yield" (August, 2024)

Coffel, E. D., Lesk, C., American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, "Recent shift from energy- to moisture-limitation over global croplands" (April, 2024)

Raghuram, A., Coffel, E. D., European Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, "Testing for adaptation in the observed corn and soy yields in the US Midwest" (April, 2024)

RiskKAN Seminar, RiskKAN, "Increasingly distinct dry and humid heat in a warming world" (March, 2024)

Yang, X., Coffel, E. D., Ecological Society of America, "Evapotranspiration modulates the impact of heat wave on corn yields" (August, 2023)

Raghuram, A., Coffel, E. D., American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, "Changing Crop Sensitivity to Heat Stress in the US" (December, 2022)

American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, "Warming-driven changes in land atmosphere coupling cause shifting extreme heat regimes over croplands" (December, 2022)

Cornell University Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, "Amplified CMIP6 biases over global croplands" (2021)

K.D. Nelson Lecture, Syracuse University Department of Earth Sciences, "Crop-climate feedbacks boost U.S. maize and soy yields" (2021)

Coffel, E. D., Lesk, C., Winter, J. M., Osterberg, E. C., Mankin, J. S., AGU Fall Meeting, AGU , "Crop-climate feedbacks boost U.S. maize and soy yields" (2020)

Syracuse University Department of Geography and the Environment Seminar, Syracuse University Department of Geography and the Environment, "Crop-climate feedbacks boost U.S. maize and soy yields" (2020)