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Travis, William Riebsame

Associate Professor

Positions

Associate Professor, Geography

Research Areas

Geography

Research

research overview

Prof. Travis studies the behavioral dimensions of natural and technological hazards and weather and climate risks. His current projects focus on warning systems, and use of probabilistic weather and climate information in impact-based decision making.

keywords

Social dimensions of natural hazards and climate, risk and decision analysis

Publications

selected publications

book
chapter
journal article
- The dynamic feasibility of resisting (R), accepting (A), or directing (D) ecological change. Conservation Biology. 2025
- Fostering the Development of Earth Data Science Skills in a Diverse Community of Online Learners: A Case Study of the Earth Data Science Corps. Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education. 3-15. 2025
- Scenario-Based Decision Analysis: Integrated scenario planning and structured decision making for resource management under climate change. Biological Conservation. 2023
- The role of adaptive capacity in incremental and transformative adaptation in three large US Urban water systems. Global Environmental Change. 2023
- Experiments in ranching: Rain-index insurance and investment in production and drought risk management. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. 1513-1533. 2022
- Recent droughts in the United States are among the fastest-developing of the last seven decades. Weather and Climate Extremes. 2022
- Fires that matter: reconceptualizing fire risk to include interactions between humans and the natural environment. Environmental Research Letters. 2022
- US fires became larger, more frequent, and more widespread in the 2000s. Science Advances. 2022
- Harnessing the NEON data revolution to advance open environmental science with a diverse and data-capable community. Ecosphere. 2021
- Uncertainty, Complexity and Constraints: How Do We Robustly Assess Biological Responses under a Rapidly Changing Climate?. Climate. 2021
- Risky Development: Increasing Exposure to Natural Hazards in the United States. Earth's Future. 2021
- Navigating Climate Adaptation on Public Lands: How Views on Ecosystem Change and Scale Interact with Management Approaches. Environmental Management. 614-628. 2020
- The New (Ab)Normal: Outliers, Everyday Exceptionality, and the Politics of Data Management in the Anthropocene. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 932-943. 2020
- y Social-Environmental Extremes: Rethinking Extraordinary Events as Outcomes of Interacting Biophysical and Social Systems. Earth's Future. 2020
- A climate knowledges approach to climate services. Climate Services. 2020
- Socio-environmental extremes: rethinking extraordinary events as outcomes of interacting biophysical and social systems 2019
- Evaluating Alternative Drought Indicators in a Weather Index Insurance Instrument. Weather, Climate, and Society. 629-649. 2019
- Drought in urban water systems: Learning lessons for climate adaptive capacity. Climate Risk Management. 32-42. 2019
- Robert W. Kates (1929-2018): Grappled with problems of the human environment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 7844-7845. 2018
- Regional Climate Response Collaboratives Multi-Institutional Support for Climate Resilience. Bulletin of The American Meteorological Society - (BAMS). 891-898. 2018
- Moving toward 1.5°C of warming: implications for climate adaptation strategies. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 146-152. 2018
- Knowing climate as a social-ecological-atmospheric construct. Global Environmental Change. 1-9. 2018
- Managing climate risks on the ranch with limited drought information. Climate Risk Management. 11-26. 2018
- Simulated climate adaptation in storm-water systems: Evaluating the efficiency of within-system flexibility. Climate Risk Management. 23-34. 2018
- Vulnerability of grazing and confined livestock in the Northern Great Plains to projected mid- and late-twenty-first century climate. Climatic Change. 19-32. 2018
- Simulated climate adaptation in stormwater systems: evaluating the efficiency of adaptation strategies. Environment Systems and Decisions. 214-229. 2017
- AGRICULTURAL IMPACTS Mapping future crop geographies. Nature Climate Change. 544-545. 2016
- Mapping future crop geographies. Nature Climate Change. 544-545. 2016
- The dynamics of vulnerability: why adapting to climate variability will not always prepare us for climate change. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change. 413-425. 2015
- Climate variability and the sensitivity of downstream temperature to treated wastewater discharge: a simulation analysis. Environment Systems and Decisions. 11-21. 2015
- Weather and climate extremes: Pacemakers of adaptation?. Weather and Climate Extremes. 29-39. 2014
- What is climate risk management?. Climate Risk Management. 1-4. 2014
- Design of a severe climate change early warning system. Weather and Climate Extremes. 31-38. 2013
- The effect of rate of change, variability, and extreme events on the pace of adaptation to a changing climate. Climatic Change. 209-222. 2013
- Transformational adaptation when incremental adaptations to climate change are insufficient. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 7156-7161. 2012
- Going to extremes: propositions on the social response to severe climate change. Climatic Change. 1-19. 2010
- Out of administrative control: Absentee owners, resident elk and the shifting nature of wildlife management in southwestern Montana. Geoforum. 816-830. 2006
- Ranchland ownership change in the greater yellowstone ecosystem, 1990-2001: Implications for conservation. Society & Natural Resources. 743-758. 2006
- Ranchland ownership dynamics in the Rocky Mountain west. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 191-198. 2005
- Ecological principles and guidelines for managing the use of land. Ecological Applications. 639-670. 2000
- Ending the Range Wars?. Environment. 4-29. 1996
- Land Use and Landscape Change in the U.S. Rocky Mountains I: Theory, Scale and Pattern. Mountain Research and Development. 395-405. 1996
- RANCHING THE VIEW - SUBDIVISIONS VERSUS AGRICULTURE. Conservation Biology. 459-461. 1995
- MODELING LAND-USE AND COVER AS PART OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE. Climatic Change. 45-64. 1994
- INTEGRATED MODELING OF LAND-USE AND COVER CHANGE. BioScience. 350-356. 1994
- ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE AND A NEW PARADIGM OF NATURAL RESOURCE PLANNING. Professional Geographer. 1-12. 1990
- THE IMPACT OF DECADAL FLUCTUATIONS IN MEAN PRECIPITATION AND TEMPERATURE ON RUNOFF - A SENSITIVITY STUDY OVER THE UNITED-STATES. Climatic Change. 423-447. 1989
- Reducing hazards during the 1990s. Natural Hazards. 387-389. 1989
- ADJUSTING WATER-RESOURCES MANAGEMENT TO CLIMATE CHANGE. Climatic Change. 69-97. 1988
- THE SOCIAL BURDEN OF WEATHER AND CLIMATE HAZARDS. Bulletin of The American Meteorological Society - (BAMS). 1378-1388. 1986
- THE DUST-BOWL, HISTORICAL IMAGE, PSYCHOLOGICAL ANCHOR, AND ECOLOGICAL TABOO. Great Plains Quarterly. 127-136. 1986
- CLIMATE HAZARDS - LESSONS FROM RECENT EVENTS IN THE UNITED-STATES. Disasters. 295-300. 1985
- THE IDENTIFICATION OF 10-YEAR TO 20-YEAR TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION FLUCTUATIONS IN THE CONTIGUOUS UNITED-STATES. Journal of Climatology & Applied Meteorology. 950-966. 1984
- News Media Coverage of Seasonal Forecasts: The Case of Winter 1982–83. Bulletin of The American Meteorological Society - (BAMS). 1351-1356. 1983
- Societal response to CO2-induced climate change: Opportunities for research. Climatic Change. 387-428. 1981
- Societal response to CO2-induced climate change: Opportunities for research. Climatic Change. 387-428. 1981
- Communicating environmental uncertainty: The nature of weather forecasts. Journal of Geography. 168-172. 1979
- Radar Inference of Lake Okeechobee Rainfall for Use in Environmental Studies. Weatherwise. 206-211. 1974

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