Justin Schoof

Justin Schoof

Professor
jschoof@siu.edu
618-453-6019
Faner Hall 4539
Environmental Resources and Policy, Geography and Environmental Resources

Dr. Schoof is a climate scientist with interests in climate variability and change, synoptic climatology, and statistical climatology. His work aims to improve understanding of extreme events by focusing on processes occurring across scales of time and space.

Education

  • PhD, Geography, Indiana University, 2004
  • MS, Geography, Indiana University, 1999
  • BA, Geography/Mathematics, Indiana University, 1997

Selection Of Courses Taught

  • GEOG 330: Physical Climatology
  • GEOG 431: Applied Geographic Statistics
  • GEOG 439: Global Climate Change

Research Intrest

Climate variability and change, synoptic climatology, statistical climatology

Awards and Honors:

  • Charles D. Tenney Distinguished Lecture, SIU Honors Program, 2020
  • WSIU Mr. Rogers Neighborly Award, 2020
  • Honorary Environmental Ambassador Award, SIU Sustainability Council, 2019
  • John Russell Mather Paper of the Year Award, Climate Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers (awarded for Schoof JT, Pryor SC, Surprenant J. 2010. Development of daily precipitation projections for the United States based on probabilistic downscaling. Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, D13106, doi:10.1029/2009JD013030)

Recent Publications

  • Paxton A, Schoof JT, Ford TW, Remo JWF. 2021. Extreme precipitation in the Great Lakes region: trend estimation and relation with large-scale circulation and humidity. Frontiers in Water, doi: 10.3389/frwa.2021.782847.
  • Ford TW, L Chen, Schoof JT. 2021. Transitions in precipitation extremes in the Midwest United States. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 22, 533-545.
  • Pryor SC, Schoof JT. 2020. Differential credibility assessment for statistical downscaling. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 59, 1333-1349.
  • Schoof JT, Pryor SC, Ford TW. 2019. Projected changes in United States regional extreme heat days derived from bivariate quantile mapping of CMIP5 simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, 124, 5214-5232, doi:10.1029/2018JD029599.
  • Schoof JT, Ford TW, Pryor SC. 2017. Recent changes in heat wave characteristics derived from multiple reanalyses. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 56, 2621-2636.