Michael T. Coe

Michael T. Coe
Associate Scientist
Woods Hole Research Center
149 Woods Hole Road
Falmouth, MA 02540-1644
Phone: 508-540-9900 x136
Fax: 508-540-9700

Education

Ph.D. - University of Wisconsin-Madison
1997, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Dissertation: Global Simulation of Lakes and River Transport in Climate Models, and Investigation of Lake/Climate Feedbacks During the Middle Holocene.

M.Sc. - University of Wisconsin-Madison
1992, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Dissertation: The Response of the Simulated Hydrologic Cycle to Interglacial and Glacial Boundary Conditions: Implications for Major Continental Drainage Basins and Ocean Basins

B.A. - Miami University
1985, Geology

Professional Experience

  • 2005 - present: Associate Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center
  • 2003-2004: Associate Scientist; Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment -Institute for Environmental Studies; University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • 1999-2003: Assistant Scientist; Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment -Institute for Environmental Studies; University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • 1997-1999: Post Doctoral Fellow; Climate, People, and Environment Program-Institute for Environmental Studies; University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • 1998-1999: Adjunct Instructor, Madison Area Technical College, Madison, WI
  • 2000: Visiting Scientist; Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
  • 1997: Visiting Scientist; Dynamic Palaeoclimatology Unit, Lund University; Sweden

Research Interests

The application of numerical models and diverse data to investigating the causes and consequences of large-scale water resource variability; particularly how climate variability interacts with human land and water management practices to cause changes in water quality and quantity.

Ten Recent publications

Coe, M.T., and C.M. Birkett, 2004: Calculation of river discharge and prediction of lake height from satellite radar altimetry: Example for the Lake Chad Basin, Water Resour. Res., 40, (10), 10.1029/2003WR002543.

Cardille, J., M.T. Coe, and J. Vano, Impacts of climate variation and catchment area on water balance and lake hydrologic type in groundwater-dominated systems: A generic lake model, Earth Interactions, in press.

Li, K.Y., M.T. Coe, and N. Ramankutty, Investigation of hydrological variability in West Africa using land surface models, J. Clim., accepted.

Foley, J.A., M.T. Coe, M, Scheffer, and G. Wang, 2003: Regime shifts in the Sahara and Sahel: Interactions between ecological and climatic systems in northern Africa, Ecosystems, 6, 524-539, doi: 10.1007/s10021-002-0227-0

Coe, M.T., M.H. Costa, A. Botta, and C.M. Birkett, 2002: Long-term simulations of discharge and floods in the Amazon basin, J. Geophys. Res., 107 (D20), doi: 10.1029/2001JD000740.

Coe, M.T., and S.P. Harrison, 2002: Simulating the water balance of northern Africa during the mid-Holocene: an evaluation of the 6 ka BP PMIP experiments, Clim. Dynamics, 19, 155-166.

Donner, S.D., M.T. Coe, J.D. Lenters, T.E. Twine, and J.A. Foley 2002: Modeling the impact of hydrological changes on nitrate transport in the Mississippi River Basin from 1955-1994, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 16 (3): art. no. 1043.

Foley, J.A., A. Botta, M.T. Coe, and M.H. Costa, 2002: El Niño–Southern oscillation and the climate, ecosystems and rivers of Amazonia, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 10.1029/2002GB001872.

Delire, C., S. Levis, G. Bonan, J.A. Foley, M.T. Coe, and S. Vavrus, 2002: Comparison of the climate simulated by the CCM3 coupled to two different land-surface models, Clim. Dynamics, 19, 657-669, doi: 10.1007/s00382-002-7.

Coe, M.T., and J.A. Foley, 2001: Human and natural impacts on the water resources of the Lake Chad basin, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 3349-3356.

Current projects

  • Agricultural Land Use and the Transformation of Planet Earth:Investigating the Effects of Land Use Practices on the Ecological, Biogeochemical and Hydrological Systems of the Planet, Co-Investigator, funding agency, NASA-Interdisciplinary Sciences Program
  • Climate and Human Impacts on Water Resources in Africa, Principal Investigator, funding agency, NASA-Land Cover and Land Use Change Program
  • Exploring Interactions Among the Ecological, Hydrological and Climate Systems of Amazonia, Co-Investigator, funding agency, NASA-LBA-ECO Program

Synergistic activities

  • Member of Science Advisory board of The Nature Conservancy Upper Mississippi River group