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Southeast Climate Modeling Project:
Dr. Steve McNulty
Steve McNulty working with Jackson Weldon and Sarah Hewes on their research for the WWF Allianz Program
Dr. Steve McNulty has assessed the vulnerability to climate change of the Cumberland, Mobile and Tennessee River Basins for the WWF Southeast Rivers and Streams Program. WWF contacted Dr. McNulty for this project due to his recent paper "Southern US Water Demand and Supply Over the Next Forty Years" in which the authors created a Water Supply Stress Index for the southern United States. Read the Executive Summary of the report Dr. McNulty produces for WWF in July 2008.
Biography of Dr. Steve McNulty
Steve McNulty has served as the US Forest Service Southern Global Change Program Manager on the North Carolina State University campus in Raleigh North Carolina, since 1996. Prior to joining the Southern Global Change Program, he spent five years as a research ecologist at the Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory. He has B.S., and M.S. degrees in Natural Resources from the University of Wisconsin, and a Ph.D. in Natural Resources from the University of New Hampshire. Dr. McNulty is a landscape ecologist, with an area of focus being regional to continental scale environmental stress impacts on forest ecosystems. He served as a US Congressional Fellow in the 106th Congress, and he was the federal chair of the National Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on US Forests. Dr. McNulty is currently the US chair of the United States China Carbon Consortium, and he has authored or co-authored over 100 papers in the area of environmental stress impacts on forest ecosystems.
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