Ethan Coffel

• 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
• 2022 Fall
  • GEO 426 Environmental Change in the Anthropocene
  • GEO 155 The Natural Environment
• 2022 Spring
  • GEO 300 Selected Topics - Climate Extremes
  • GEO 700 Selected Topics - Seminar in Climate Science

"Quantifying agriculture as a driver of regional climate extremes", Sponsored by National Science Foundation.

"The Crop-Climate Feedback Cycle and its Implications for Global Food Production", Sponsored by National Science Foundation.

• Journal Articles
  • Ting, M., Lesk, C., Liu, C., Li, C., Horton, M., Coffel, E. D., Rogers, C. and Singh, D., "Extreme Dry and Humid Heat Impact on US Corn and Soybean Yields." Scientific Reports, 2023.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Coffel, E. D., Lesk, C. and Mankin, J. S., "Earth System Model Overestimation of Cropland Temperatures Scales with Agricultural Intensity." Geophysical Research Letters, 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.
  • 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, 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.
  • Coffel, E. D., Keith, B., Lesk, C., Bower, E., Lee, J., Horton, R. M. and Mankin, J., "More frequent concurrently hot and dry years in the Nile basin despite increasing precipitation." Earth’s Future, 2019.
  • Coffel, E. D., Horton, R. M., Winter, J. M. and Mankin, J. S., "Nonlinear increases in extreme temperatures paradoxically dampen extreme humid-heat increases." Environmental Research Letters, 2019.
  • Lyon, B., Barnston, A. G., Coffel, E. D. and Horton, R. M., "Projected increase in the spatial extent of contiguous U.S. summer heat waves and associated attributes." Environmental Research Letters, 2019.
• 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.

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)

Coffel, E. D., Keith, B., Lesk, C., Bower, E., Lee, J., Horton, R. M., Mankin, J. S., Workshop on compound extremes, Columbia University, "More frequent concurrently hot and dry years in the Nile basin despite increasing precipitation" (2019)

Coffel, E. D., Mankin, J. S., AGU Fall Meeting, AGU , "Thermal electricity generation disadvantaged in a warming world" (2019)