Elisabeth Moyer
/ Alison Brizius
Co-PI, RDCEP
Associate Professor, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago
Areas of Expertise:
- Measurement and study of atmospheric water vapor
- Human dimensions of climate change
- Isotope geochemistry, optical spectroscopy and spectroscopic instrumentation
Moyer researches the processes that control the distribution of water vapor and formation of cirrus clouds in the upper troposphere and stratosphere, which provides important insights on climate change and ozone destruction.
In November 2010, Moyer was selected for one of eight awards from the Dreyfus Foundation Postdoctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry, which will support her work on ice nucleation and cloud microphysics using a novel spectrometer and the AIDA cloud simulation chamber (Aerosol Interaction and Dynamics in the Atmosphere) in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Moyer received her PhD in Planetary Science from the California Institute of Technology. From 2001 to 2007 she was a member of the Department of Chemistry at Harvard University, first as a NOAA Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Change Science and subsequently as a research associate. She has participated in atmospheric science field campaigns on NASA's high-altitude research aircraft since 1997. Moyer is a member of the American Geophysical Union and the American Chemical Society.
Research Projects
Climate Variability | Climate Emulation | Transient Climate Studies | Soil Moisture | Social Cost of Carbon
Students and Postdoctoral Scholars
Jim Franke | Kevin Schwarzwald
Former Students and Postdoctoral Scholars
David McInerney | Bill Leeds | Mark Woolley | FeiFei Crouch | Rachel Atlas | Anne Laski | Sean Johnson | Aman Chitkara | David Plotkin | Peter Hansen | Grant Wilder | Shanshan Sun | Won Chang | Michael Glotter | Jeremy Klavans | Hsin-Yi Chen | Mark He | Aidan Sadowski
Michael J Glotter, Raymond T Pierrehumbert, Joshua W Elliott, Nathan J Matteson, and Elisabeth J Moyer. A simple carbon cycle representation for economic and policy analyses. Climatic Change, 126(3- 4):319–335, 2014.
Glotter, Michael, Joshua Elliott, David McInerney, Neil Best, David Kelly, Ian Foster, and Elisabeth Moyer. "Evaluating the utility of dynamical downscaling in agricultural impacts projections." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111, no. 24 (2014): 8776-8781.
Michael Glotter, Joshua Elliott, David McInerney, Neil Best, Ian Foster, and Elisabeth J Moyer. Evaluating the utility of dynamical downscaling in agricultural impacts projections. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(24):8776–8781, 2014.
Michael J. Glotter, Elisabeth J. Moyer, Alex C. Ruane, and Joshua W. Elliott. Evaluating the sensitivity of agricultural model performance to different climate inputs. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 55(3):579–594, 2016.
W. K. Huang, M. L. Stein, D. J. McInerney, S. Sun, and E. J. Moyer. Estimating changes in temperature extremes from millennial scale climate simulations using generalized extreme value (gev) distributions. Advances in Statistical Climatology, Meteorology and Oceanography, accepted subject to minor revisions, 2016.
Earlier version also available as a working paper: Johnson, Sean D., and Elisabeth J. Moyer. "Feasibility of U.S. Renewable Portfolio Standards Under Cost Caps and Case Study for Illinois." RDCEP Working Paper No. 12-07.
William B. Leeds, Elisabeth J. Moyer, and Michael L. Stein. Simulation of future climate under changing temporal covariance structures. Advances in Statistical Climatology Meteorology and Oceanography, 1(1):1–14, 2015.
Earlier version also available as a working paper: Moyer EJ, Woolley MD, Glotter M, Weisbach DA. Climate impacts on economic growth as drivers of uncertainty in the social cost of carbon. Working Paper 13-02, the Center for Robust Decision Making on Climate and Energy Policy (RDCEP), July 2013. Available at http: //ssrn.com/abstract=2312770.
Elisabeth J. Moyer, Mark D. Woolley, Nathan J. Matteson, Michael J. Glotter, and David A. Weisbach. Climate impacts on economic growth as drivers of uncertainty in the social cost of carbon. The Journal of Legal Studies, 43(2):401–425, 2014.
Moyer, E.J., Mark D. Woolley, Nathan D. Matteson, Michael J. Glotter, and David A. Weisbach. "Climate Impacts on Economic Growth as Drivers of Uncertainty in the Social Cost of Carbon. " The Journal of Legal Studies 43, no. 2 (2014).
Earlier versions also available as working papers:
Moyer, Elisabeth J., Mark D. Woolley, Michael Glotter, and David A. Weisbach. "Climate impacts on economic growth as drivers of uncertainty in the social cost of carbon." University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper 652 (2013).
Moyer EJ, Woolley MD, Glotter M, Weisbach DA. Climate impacts on economic growth as drivers of uncertainty in the social cost of carbon. Working Paper 13-02, the Center for Robust Decision Making on Climate and Energy Policy (RDCEP), July 2013. Available at http: //ssrn.com/abstract=2312770.
Andrew Poppick, David J McInerney, Elisabeth J Moyer, and Michael L Stein. Temperatures in transient climates: improved methods for simulations with evolving temporal covariances. arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.00683, 2015.
Shanshan Sun, Scott Collis, Beth Drewniak, David Cook, Michael Stein, and Elizabeth Moyer. Soil moisture dynamics in observation and models in southern great plains. in preparation, 2016.
Won Chang, Michael Stein, Jiali Wang, V Rao Kotamarthi, and Elisabeth Moyer. Changes in spatio- temporal precipitation patterns in changing climate conditions. arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.01147, 2016.
Elliott, Joshua, Ian Foster, Kenneth Judd, Elisabeth Moyer, and Todd Munson. "CIM-EARTH: Community Integrated Model of Economic and Resource Trajectories for Humankind" Mathematics and Computer Science Division Technical Memorandum ANL/MCS-TM-307. 2010.
