Anne Stoner, PhD
Principal, Earth Systems Modeling Analyst

Dr. Anne Stoner is an internationally respected senior research climate scientist, having worked since 2011 with UN Earth Champion and IPCC Author, Katharine Hayhoe, at ATMOS Research & Consulting developing high-resolution future projections of relevant climate variables by statistically downscaling output from global climate models to local gridded or point observations. Anne’s dissertation, under Dr. Don Wuebbles, addressed the development and evaluation of a new statistical downscaling model, ARRM. This model has since gained considerable traction as the basis for one of the most popular gridded statistically downscaled datasets of daily minimum and maximum temperature and precipitation of the continental U.S., being used in the Third U.S. National Climate Assessment, National Academy of Science reports, and a suite of other regional assessments and research studies. 

Dr. Stoner’s expertise in climate, infrastructure, and hydrology has included projects generating quantitative climate inputs to the Texas state-wide water availability model that was used in city planning for Austin water; reviewing observed and projected changes in temperature, precipitation, drought risk and examining future evaporation rates for the North Texas Municipal Water District; and co-authoring a report on climate projections for the National Cooperative Highway Research Program. Other work includes collaboration on climate assessments for the state of Delaware, Washington D.C., Cambridge, MA, and the development of tailored climate projections for Phase 2 of the Gulf Coast Study led by the Federal Highway Administration. Anne has collaborated with the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) to develop and test a paradigm-shifting framework for evaluating empirical statistical downscaling models and has recently completed a contract from the Department of Defense (DoD) in collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory to develop the observed and projected future climate information required to evaluate the impacts of climate change on DoD installations. Additional projects include projected changes in freeze-thaw frequencies in low-volume roadways in the Northeast, a topic that affects the logging industry.  

Dr. Stoner completed a B.Sc. Geology, Aarhus University, Denmark; M.S. and Ph.D. Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. National Science Foundation (NSF) Science, Education and Engineering for Sustainability (SEES) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship.