Joshua Elliott
/ Alison Brizius
Co-Principal Investigator, RDCEP 2
Program Manager, Information Innovation Office, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Research Scientist and Fellow, Computation Institute, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory
Areas of Expertise:
- Climate change impacts and adaptation in agriculture and forestry
- Integrated assessment and economic modeling, primarily CGE and PE
- Land use cover and change modeling
- Large scale computation and ensemble simulation
Dr. Joshua Elliott joined DARPA in September 2017. His research interests include modeling and prediction of complex natural and socio-economic systems and how computational technologies can be leveraged to improve all aspects of science and modeling from data discovery to analysis.
He joined DARPA from the University of Chicago Computation Institute, where he led research projects related to socio-technical change, optimal decision- and policy-making under uncertainty, and environmental variability and its impact on food security. He has also held positions with the Argonne National Lab, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Columbia University.
He holds doctorate and Master of Science degrees in physics from McGill University and a Bachelor of Science, with high honors, in physics from the University of Texas, Austin. He has over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and reports.
Research Projects
Climate change impacts on agriculture | CIM-EARTH framework | FACE-IT | pSIMS | Parched Earth: Climate Change, Groundwater Depletion and the Future of Food Production in North America | The Next Great Dustbowl | Global Gridded Crop Model Intercomparison (GGCMI) Project | Agricultural Adaptation and the Green Revolution | Resilience of the Global Food System | Global Change, Food and Trade | AgGRID | Forest Carbon Sequestration and Global Land Use | Evaluating the utility of dynamical downscaling in agricultural impacts projections | InterSectoral Impacts Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (ISI-MIP)
Students
no current students
Former Students
Michael Glotter | Chetan Deva | Husam Haj | Anna Blinderman | Joseph Weston Jr. | Brandon Peralta | Diego Gomez | Kiela Moreno
Elliott, Joshua, Ian Foster, Samuel Kortum, Gita Khun Jush, Todd Munson, and David Weisbach. "Unilateral carbon taxes, border adjustments, and carbon leakage." Theoretical Inquiries in Law 14 (2013): 207-243.
J. Elliott, C. Muller, D. Deryng, J. Chryssanthacopoulos, K. J. Boote, M. Buchner, I. Foster, M. Glotter, J. Heinke, T. Iizumi, R. C. Izaurralde, N. D. Mueller, D. K. Ray, C. Rosenzweig, A. C. Ruane, and J. Sheffield. The global gridded crop model intercomparison: data and modeling protocols for phase 1 (v1.0). Geoscientific Model Development, 8(2):261–277, 2015.
Joshua Elliott. Extreme weather and resilience of the global food system. Prepared for the UK–US Taskforce on Extreme Weather and Global Food System Resilience, 2015.
Frank Ewert, Lenny G. J. van Bussel, Gang Zhao, Holger Hoffmann, Thomas Gaiser, Xenia Specka, Claas Nendel, Kurt-Christian Kersebaum, Carmen Sosa, Elisabet Lewan, Jagadeesh Yeluripati, Matthias Kuhnert, Fulu Tao, Reimund Rtter, Julie Constantin, Helene Raynal, Daniel Wallach, Edmar Teixeira, Balasz Grosz, Michaela Bach, Luca Doro, Pier Paolo Roggero, Zhigan Zhao, Enli Wang, Ralf Kiese, Edwin Haas, Henrik Eckersten, Giacomo Trombi, Marco Bindi, Christian Klein, Christian Biernath, Florian Heinlein, Eckart Priesack, Davide Cammarano, Senthold Asseng, Joshua Elliott, Michael Glotter, Bruno Basso, Guillermo A. Baigorria, Consuelo C. Romero, and Marco Moriondo. Uncertainties in scaling-up crop models for large-area climate change impact assessments. Handbook of Climate Change and Agroecosystems, Cynthia Rosenzweig and Daniel Hillel, editors, Imperial College Press and the American Society of Agronomy, 2015. Chapter 10, pages 261–277.
Foster, Ian, Joshua Elliott, James Jones, and Raffaele Montella (2013). "FACE-IT: Framework to Advance Climate, Economics, and Impact Investigations with Information Technology," Abstract NH51B-1618 presented at 2013 Fall Meeting AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 9-13 Dec.
K Frieler, A Levermann, J Elliott, J Heinke, A Arneth, MFP Bierkens, P Ciais, DB Clark, D Deryng, P Doll, et al. The relevance of uncertainty in future crop production for mitigation strategy planning. Earth System Dynamics Discussions, 5(2):1075–1099, 2014.
K Frieler, A Levermann, J Elliott, J Heinke, A Arneth, MFP Bierkens, P Ciais, DB Clark, D Deryng, P Doll, et al. A framework for the cross-sectoral integration of multi-model impact projections: land use decisions under climate impacts uncertainties. Earth System Dynamics, 6:447–460, 2015.
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.
Earlier version also available as a working paper: Loudermilk M, Elliott J, Foster I, Munson T. Computable General Equilibrium Analysis of Economic Policies on the US Biofuels Market, Working Paper.
Montella, R., Kelly, D., Xiong, W., Brizius, A., Elliott, J., Madduri, R., Maheshwari, K., Porter, C., Vilter, P., Wilde, M., Zhang, M., and Foster, I. (2015) FACE-IT: A science gateway for food security research. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, doi: 10.1002/cpe.3540
Raffaele Montella, David Kelly, Wei Xiong, Alison Brizius, Joshua Elliott, Ravi Madduri, Ketan Maheshwari, Cheryl Porter, Peter Vilter, Michael Wilde, et al. Face-it: A science gateway for food security research. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 27(16):4423–4436, 2015.
Raffaele Montella, Alison Brizius, Joshua Elliott, David Kelly, Ravi Madduri, Ketan Maheshwari, Cheryl Porter, Peter Vilter, Michael Wilde, Wei Xiong, Meng Zhang, and Ian Foster. Face-it: A science gateway for food security research. In Proceedings of the 9th Gateway Computing Environments Workshop, GCE ’14, pages 42–46, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 2014. IEEE Press.
Müller, Cristoph, and Joshua Elliott. "The global gridded crop model intercomparison approaches, insights, and caveats of modeling climate change impacts on agriculture at the global scale." FAO Trade and Markets Division Expert Consultation on Global Food Production under Changing Climate and Increased Variability: Implications for Trade and Food Policy, in press, 2014.
Christoph Müller, Joshua Elliott, James Chryssanthacopoulos, Delphine Deryng, Christian Folberth, Thomas AM Pugh, and Erwin Schmid. Implications of climate mitigation for future agricultural production. Environmental Research Letters, 10(12):125004, 2015.
C. Müller and J. Elliott. The global gridded crop model intercomparison approaches, insights and caveats of modeling climate change impacts on agriculture at the global scale. Climate Change and Food Systems: Global Analyses and Implications for Food Security and Trade. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, A. Elbehri, editor, Rome, Italy, 2015.
Christoph Müller, Joshua Elliott, and Anders Levermann. Food security: Fertilizing hidden hunger. Nature Climate Change, 4(7):540–541, 2014.
Müller, Christoph, Joshua Elliott, James Chryssanthacopoulos, Delphine Deryng, Christian Folberth, Thomas AM Pugh, and Erwin Schmid. "Implications of climate mitigation for future agricultural production." Environmental Research Letters 10, no. 12 (2015): 125004.
