Adjunct Faculty: Norman Rosenberg

Norman J. Rosenberg, an agricultural climatologist, is Laboratory Fellow Emeritus in the Joint Global Change Research Institute, a cooperative endeavor of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and the University of Maryland. Prior to joining PNNL in 1992, he was Senior Fellow and Director of the Climate Resources Program at Resources for the Future, a Washington, DC ‘think-tank’ and before that a Regent’s Professor and Director of the Center for Agricultural Meteorology and Climatology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Rosenberg’s research has dealt with evapotranspiration and photosynthesis, irrigation, microclimate modification, drought management strategies and, most recently, impacts of global climate change on agriculture, water resources and unmanaged ecosystems. He is now working on mitigating climate change through carbon sequestration in soils and biomass production to replace a portion of current fossil fuel use. Rosenberg is the author of 200+ journal papers and books covering the above-mentioned subjects.

Example publications:

Rosenberg, N.J., F.B. Metting, abd R. C. Izaurralde, eds. 2004. Applications of Biotechnology to Mitigation of Greenhouse Warming. Proceedings of a Workshop held at St. Michaels, MD. April 13-15, 2003. Battelle Press, Columbus, OH, 213 pp.

Rosenberg, N.J., R.A. Brown, R.C. Izaurralde, and A.M. Thomson. 2003. Integrated assessment of Hadley Centre climate change projections on water resources and agricultural productivity in the conterminous United States. I. Climate change scenarios and impacts on water resources simulated with the HUMUS model. Agricultural Forestry and Meteorology 117:73-96.

Izaurralde, R.C., N.J. Rosenberg, R.A. Brown, and A.M. Thomson. 2003. Integrated assessment of Hadley Centre climate change projections on water resources and agricultural productivity in the conterminous United States. II. Regional agricultural productivity in 2030 and 2095. Agricultural Forestry and Meteorology 117:97-122.

Thomson, A. M. , R.A. Brown, N. J. Rosenberg, R. C. Izaurralde, D. M. Legler and R.Srinivasan. 2003. “Simulated Impacts of El Nino /Southern Oscillation on U.S. Water Resources” J. J. Amer. Water Resources Association 39:137-148.