Justin T. Schoof Assistant Professor Undergraduate Program Director Department of Geography and Environmental Resources Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL 62901 E-mail: jschoof@siu.edu Telephone: (618) 453-6019 Publications Full Curriculum Vitae Current Research My current research focuses primarily on regional manifestions of climate change. Specifically, my work focuses on development and application of statistical tools that can be used to derive regional climate change information from poorly resolved coupled climate models. So far the work has been focused on temperature and wind projections (see the Publications link above). My current NSF-funded work focuses on small scale projections of total precipitation as it relates to changes in precipitation occurrence and intensity. As part of that work, a model evaluation page has been developed for the IPCC AR4 climate models. For a large number of variables and models, performance over North America can be visually assessed. Other pages are under construction and will be available soon. I am also interested in statistical applications in climatology and geography. A special class of statistical models known as stochastic weather generators have been the focus of several of my research projects. These projects have included the development of the Spectral Weather Generator. Courses My current teaching interests include undergraduate courses in Meteorology and Climatology as well as an upper level undergraduate course in Applied Statistics. GEOG 330 is traditionally offered each semester. Climatology is offered during the Spring semester and Applied Statistics is offered during the Fall semester. Links to syllabi for these courses are provided below. GEOG 330: Meteorology GEOG 431: Climatology GEOG 412: Applied Statistics in Geography Also, view our NCEP-NCAR Visualization Page, which is a useful instructional resource.