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Bio
Mickey has been a Senior Scientist since 1983. He has been writing climate-related editorials for many years, first for Boulder's Daily Camera, and now for his own blog Fragile Ecologies. He is interested in how climate affects society and how society affects climate, and especially how climate anomalies and human activities interact to affect quality of life issues.
He has edited several books and is the author of numerous articles on issues related to climate, environment, and policy. He organizes multidisciplinary, multinational workshops on climate-related issues.
Read a recent interview with Mickey in The Himalayan Times.
Research
Research interests: African drought; the Aral Sea basin; desertification; food production problems and prospects; societal impacts of climate anomalies related to El Niño events and the use of El Niño-related teleconnections to forecast these impacts; developing methods of forecasting possible societal responses to the regional impacts of climate change; and the use of climate-related information for economic development.
Publications
For additional publications, see Mickey's ResearchGate profile.
Exploring the concept of climate surprise
Publication Date: 2000-07-01
Type: Journal Article
Creeping Environmental Problems and Sustainable Development in the Aral Sea Basin
Type: Book
Predictive skill of statistical and dynamical climate models in SST forecasts during the 1997-98 El Nino episode and the 1998 La Nina onset
Publication Date: 1999-02-01
Type: Journal Article
Preparing for El Nino: What role for forecasts
Publication Date: 1997-12-01
Type: Journal Article
Does the Aral Sea merit heritage status?
Publication Date: 1997-12-01
Type: Journal Article
The regionalization of climate-related environmental problems
Type: Conference Proceeding
The Great Lakes diversion at Chicago and its implications for climate change
Publication Date: 1996-02-01
Type: Journal Article
Serving science and society: Lessons from large-scale atmospheric science programs
Publication Date: 1995-12-01
Type: Journal Article
Forecasting by analogy: Local responses to global climate change
Type: Conference Proceeding
Assessing the impacts of climate: The issue of winners and losers in a global climate change context
Publication Date: 1994-12-06
Type: Conference Proceeding
TRAGEDY IN THE ARAL SEA BASIN - LOOKING BACK TO PLAN AHEAD
Publication Date: 1993-06-01
Type: Journal Article
GLOBAL WARMING AND ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Publication Date: 1992-09-01
Type: Journal Article
Drought follows the plow: Cultivating marginal areas
Type: Conference Proceeding
THE USE OF ANALOGIES IN FORECASTING ECOLOGICAL AND SOCIETAL RESPONSES TO GLOBAL WARMING
Publication Date: 1991-06-01
Type: Journal Article
ENVIRONMENTAL-RESEARCH
Publication Date: 1991-02-04
Type: Journal Article
DOES HISTORY HAVE A FUTURE - FORECASTING CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS ON FISHERIES BY ANALOGY
Publication Date: 1990-11-01
Type: Journal Article
RUNNING ON EMPTY - IRRIGATION IS DEPLETING A VAST RESERVOIR UNDER THE AMERICAN GREAT-PLAINS
Publication Date: 1990-11-01
Type: Journal Article
CLIMATE AND ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS - FLORIDA FREEZES AND THE GLOBAL CITRUS PROCESSING-INDUSTRY
Publication Date: 1988-04-01
Type: Journal Article
DROUGHT IN AFRICA
Publication Date: 1987-06-01
Type: Journal Article
ANATOMY OF A RAINFALL INDEX
Publication Date: 1986-04-01
Type: Journal Article
IMPROVING FEDERAL RESPONSE TO DROUGHT
Publication Date: 1986-03-01
Type: Journal Article
MAN, STATE, AND FISHERIES - AN INQUIRY INTO SOME SOCIETAL CONSTRAINTS THAT AFFECT FISHERIES MANAGEMENT
Publication Date: 1986-01-01
Type: Journal Article
DROUGHT AS A CONSTRAINT TO DEVELOPMENT IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Publication Date: 1985-01-01
Type: Journal Article
EXPERT JUDGMENT AND CLIMATE FORECASTING - A METHODOLOGICAL CRITIQUE OF CLIMATE CHANGE TO THE YEAR 2000
Publication Date: 1985-01-01
Type: Journal Article
FLOODS, FIRES, AND FAMINE - IS EL-NINO TO BLAME
Publication Date: 1984-01-01
Type: Journal Article