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Anthony Brazel
School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning
Arizona State University
PO Box 875302
Tempe AZ 85287
(480) 965-7533
abrazel@asu.edu
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Education:
B.A. Math Rutgers
M.A. Geography Rutgers
Ph.D. Geography University of Michigan
Anthony Brazel is a geographer and climatologist who has written over 100 professional articles and reports on climate, focusing primarily at the local and regional scale. He is a professor of geography at Arizona State University. While at ASU he has served as Laboratory of Climatology Director from 1979-1988, Arizona's governor-appointed State Climatologist from 1979-1999, Geography Departmental Chair from 1991-1997, and Manager of the Southwest Center for Environmental Research and Policy through the Center for Environmental Studies from 2001 to 2003. He is a former member of the Board of Urban Environments of the American Meteorological Society and Scholarship Committee of the International Association on Urban Climate. He is a Fellow of American Association of the Advancement of Science and the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science, and editor of the Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science. He served as co-program Chair for the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment, American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 11?15 January 2009, Phoenix, Arizona. At ASU, he is an affiliate member of Sustainable Materials and Renewable Technologies Program (Global Institute of Sustainability -EPA), member of the Climate Science Team of the Decision Center for a Desert City (NSF), and recent past CoPI of the Central Arizona-Phoenix Long Term Ecological Research Project (NSF).
Current research focus:
- Urban climate of Phoenix ? microclimate using fixed sites, mobile transects, and surface/overflight thermography (with Environmental Fluid Dynamics Program in Engineering).
- The impacts of the global, regional, and urban climate on ecological variations (Central Arizona Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research ? National Science Foundation). Leader CAP LTER Climate and Ecosystem Response Integrated Project Area.
- Neighborhood-scale microclimate and water loss in the City of Phoenix (Decision Center for a Desert City, National Science Foundation).
- Regional Southwest USA 20-21st century climate change.
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