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Robert Fofrich
UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California Los Angeles
Dr. Robert Alexander Fofrich Navarro is an earth system scientist and a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA and was previously a postdoctoral associate in the Climate Impact Lab and the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences at Rutgers University.
Robert’s research focuses on global environmental change and human society.
Professional Experience
University of California Los Angeles
UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow
2023 - Present
Rutgers University New Brunswick
Postdoctoral Associate
2022 - 2022
University of California Irvine
Graduate Student Researcher
2016 - 2022
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Undergraduate Researcher
2015 - 2016
Center for Environmental Biology - UC Irvine
Undergraduate Researcher
2014 - 2015
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Education
University of California Irvine
Masters
2019
University of California Irvine
Bachelors
2016
West Los Angeles College
Associate
2014
University of California Irvine
Doctorate
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Publications
Committed Emissions of the U.S. Power Sector, 2000–2018
Annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the U.S. power sector decreased 24% from 2000 to 2018, while carbon intensity (CO2 per unit of electrici...
September 03, 2020
Future CO2 emissions and electricity generation from proposed coal-fired power plants in India
With its growing population, industrializing economy, and large coal reserves, India represents a critical unknown in global projections of future ...
April 25, 2017
AGU Abstracts
Timing of emergence of temperature-related mortality: A race between warming temperatures and economic development
ADVANCES IN QUANTIFYING AND ATTRIBUTING CLIMATE IMPACTS AND DAMAGES TO INFORM CLIMATE RISK MANAGEMENT AND LITIGATION I ORAL
global environmental change | 13 december 2024
Daniel Blanco, Robert E. Kopp, Tamma Carleton, Kel...
The Time of Emergence (ToE) metric describes when a system changes such that its behavior become distinguishable from historical variability [1]. Whil...
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GDNat: a global, daily, high-resolution, natural-forcing only temperature data set for attribution research
DETECTION AND ATTRIBUTION OF ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE AND EXTREME WEATHER AND CLIMATE EVENTS I POSTER
global environmental change | 11 december 2024
Robert Fofrich, Kelly E. McCusker, Brewster Malevi...
Attribution studies are crucial for understanding the anthropogenic contributions to meteorological extremes and have commonly relied on approaches th...
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Ecological and Climate Mitigation Tradeoffs from Cultivating Energy Crops in Tropical Regions
CLIMATE INTERVENTION, MITIGATION, ADAPTATION, AND RESTORATION SOLUTIONS: INTERDISCIPLINARY DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF SAFETY AND EFFICACY POSTER
global environmental change | 12 december 2023
Robert Fofrich, Alcen Chiu, Elsa Ordway
Many climate pathways aiming to limit mean global temperatures to 2°C rely on biogenic negative emission solutions to achieve large rapid reducti...
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