Andrew Gronewold
University of Michigan, MI·Earth & Environmental Science
Climate change is bringing more floods and droughts to North America's waters. It is also worsening water quality, speeding up shoreline erosion and damaging homes and infrastructure.
- Fields
Earth & Environmental Science
Engineering
Social Science
- Topics
climate change
transboundary waters
Great Lakes
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Dec 2028
What they work on
- Produce reliable projections of how often and how intensely climate-driven floods, droughts and related hazards will strike U.S.-Canada transboundary waters, starting with the Great Lakes, using statistical and process-based models.
- Determine how climate change impacts on shared waters affect ecological systems and social outcomes for coastal and Indigenous communities, using data-driven observational studies.
- Build capacity in governance and water management to increase disaster resilience, working with communities across national borders to understand risk tolerance, management practices and monitoring needs.
- Develop replicable, scalable scientific and community-engagement models for the Great Lakes that can be applied to other transboundary watersheds.
More about the research
Adapting is hardest in transboundary waters, meaning lakes and rivers shared by several nations, including Indigenous nations. In these places, data, models and decision-making are often split across borders. This work focuses on lakes and rivers that cross the U.S.-Canada border, starting with the Great Lakes. The goal is to help coastal communities become more resilient to climate hazards.
Why it matters
Communities along the U.S.-Canada border, including Indigenous nations, face rising flood, drought, erosion and water-quality threats on shared waters such as the Great Lakes. Better projections of climate extremes, combined with management tools developed with these communities, could help water managers and shoreline residents prepare for hazards. These tools could also guide cooperation across borders in transboundary watersheds worldwide.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
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George Washington University, DC·Earth & Environmental Science
Identify and analyze changes in hydroclimatological conditions — river flow, ice and climate variables — in the Kuskokwim basin of Alaska and the Selenge basin of Mongolia that affect human activities and ecosystem services.
David Kaye
University of New Hampshire, NH·Social Science
Examine the shared water security and livelihood risks facing vulnerable communities in four watersheds in the United States, Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom, where aging dams, reservoirs, canals and tidal protection are failing.
Lani Tsinnajinnie
University of New Mexico, NM·Earth & Environmental Science
Work with Indigenous and rural communities in New Mexico and Oklahoma, through a co-production process, to identify information needs about the land-water-air system under extreme weather.
The school
University of Michigan: 124 labs on PI Pages, $2.1B a year on research, 963 research doctorates a year.
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