Publications

Woodhouse, C., Crimmins, M., & Meko, M.. (2025). The Role of Seasonal Precipitation Sequences in Shaping the Climate of the United States Southwest. International Journal of Climatology, e70138. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.70138

Responding to Increased Aridity in the US Southwest: The Climate Assessment for the Southwest. (2025).

Crimmins, M., Geli, H., Greene, C., Meko, M., & Prihodko, L.. (2025). Changing Climate, Changing Fire: Understanding Ecosystem-Specific Fire-Climate Dynamics in Arizona and New Mexico. Earth Interactions. https://doi.org/10.1175/EI-D-25-0001.1

Brown, H., Wrench, E., Wolfe, K., Moore, T. C., Tangena, J. A., & Sedda, L. (2025). Collaborative engagement with vector control stakeholders is key to enhance the utility of vector-borne disease models. Parasites & Vectors, 18(143). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-025-06751-w

Meadow, A. M., Wilmer, H., & Ferguson, D. B.. (2025). Expanding research ethics for inclusive and transdisciplinary research. In R. Lave & S. Lane (Eds.), The Field Guide to Mixing Social and Biophysical Methods in Environmental Research, 59–86. https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0418.05

Cvitanovic, C., Karcher, D., Breen, J., Badullovich, N., Cairney, P., Dalla Pozza, R., Duggan, J., Hoffmann, S., Kelly, R., Meadow, A., & Posner, S. (2025). Knowledge brokers at the interface of environmental science and policy: A review of knowledge and research needs. Environmental Science & Policy, 163, 103973. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103973

Ahn, M., Keith, L., & Brown, H.. (2025). Rural heat health disparities: Evidence from the U.S. National Emergency Medical Services Information System (NEMSIS). The Journal of Climate Change and Health, 22, 100432. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joclim.2025.100432

McKellar, T. T., & Crimmins, M. A.. (2025). Seasonal precipitation variability controls shallow soil water drought events across the southwestern United States. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 363. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2025.110403

Boyer, A.-L., & O’Neill, B. (2025). Zine as drafting board: collaborative zine-making about the geographies of heat. Cultural Geographies, 14744740251343593. https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740251343593

Crimmins, M. A., Maxwell, C., Ferguson, D. B., & Frisvold, G. B.. (2024). Burn Period: A Use-Inspired Metric to Track Wildfire Risk across Arizona and New Mexico in the Southwest United States. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 63(12), 1559–1568. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-24-0067.1

Frisvold, G. B., Zhang, N., Crimmins, M. A., Ferguson, D. B., & Maxwell, C.. (2024). Demand for Information for Wildland Fire Management. Atmosphere, 15(11), 1364. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos15111364

Climate Assessment for the Southwest Annual Progress Report for Funding Year 2023-2024. (2024).

Ferguson, D. B., Frisvold, G. B., Maxwell, C., & Crimmins, M. A.. (2024). How Are Weather and Climate Products and Decision Support Systems Used in Wildland Fire Decision-Making in the U.S. Southwest?. Weather, Climate, and Society, 16(4), 789–802. https://doi.org/10.1175/WCAS-D-24-0069.1

Austhof, E., Warner, S., Helfrich, K., Pogreba-Brown, K., Brown, H. E., Klimentidis, Y. C., Scallan Walter, E., Jervis, R. H., & White, A. E. (2024). Exploring the association of weather variability on Campylobacter – A systematic review. Environmental Research, 252, 118796. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2024.118796

Wilmer, H., Ferguson, D. B., Dinan, M., Thacker, E., Adler, P. B., Walsh, K. B., Bradford, J. B., Brunson, M., Derner, J. D., Elias, E., Felton, A., Gray, C. A., Greene, C., McClaran, M. P., Shriver, R. K., Stephenson, M., & Suding, K. N. (2024). Resilience Is Not Enough: Toward a More Meaningful Rangeland Adaptation Science. Rangeland Ecology & Management, 95, 56–67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rama.2024.04.003

Principles and Practices for Ethical Socially Engaged Research. (2024, March 14). CLIMAS.

Gildersleeve, R., Leih, R., Owen, G., Thompson, S., Bhakta, A., Bartels, K., Bellante, L., & Hilton, A. (2024). Considerations for a More Sustainable and Equitable Organizational Structure for the Pima County Food Alliance: Report of Interview and Focus Group Findings. Food Systems Research Lab and Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS), University of Arizona.

Duval, D., Bickel, A., & Frisvold, G.. (2024). Differential effects of drought on Arizona state park Visits: Implications for visitor spending and local economies. 54(1), 91–114.

Watkins, L., Brown, H., Keith, L., Austhof, E., Lin Cox, H., Chambers, S., Tabor, J., Gettel, A., & Guardaro, M. (2024). A co-produced workflow for addressing inequities in cooling center access. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023CSJ000038

Watkins, L., Brown, H. E., Keith, L., Austhof, E., Lin, H., Chambers, S. N., Tabor, J., Gettel, A., & Guardaro, M. (2024). A co‐produced workflow for addressing inequities in cooling center access. Community Science, 3(4), e2023CSJ000038. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023CSJ000038

Frisvold, G. B., & Atla, J. (2024). Agricultural Economic Water Productivity Differences across Counties in the Colorado River Basin. Hydrology, 11(8), 125. https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology11080125

Frisvold, G. (2024). Arizona policy responses to water shortage: Can they have an impact?. Choices Magazine, 39, 1-10.

Meko, M., & Woodhouse, C.. (2024). Changes in Streamflow of the Rio Pueblo de Taos near Taos, NM. In Climate Assessment for the Southwest, University of Arizona.

Meadow, A. (2024). CLIMAS Policy Impact: A review using the Overton Index. Climate Assessment for the Southwest, the University of Arizona.

Climate Assessment for the Southwest: Final Report for Funding Years 2017 - 2024. (2024).