Faculty
Stanley Changnon, Jr.
- Emeritus Professor of Geography and
- Emeritus Chief, Illinois State Water Survey
- M.S. 1956, University of Illinois
- Research interests: Physical Climatology,
Hydrometeorology, Hydrology, Agriculture - Office: 614 WR
- Office phone: (217) 244-0494
- E-mail: stan@sun.sws.uiuc.edu
Stanley Changnon directs and is engaged in several projects relating to climate of various regions. One aspect involves studies of climate change in fluctuations over scales of decades to centuries. These have focused on climatic change in all types of climate conditions in Illinois, fluctuations in severe storm climate of North America of the century, and global changes in thunderstorms. Another area of climatic research has dealt with climate impacts as they relate to agriculture, water resources, and government. There is an area of climate research relating to use of long-range predictions. Another area has related to inadvertent climate change related to urbanization, irrigation, and jet contrails.
Recent Publications
Changnon, S.A., and J.Changnon, 1992: Temporal Fluctuations in Weather Disasters: 1950-1989. Climatic Change, 22, 191-208.
Changnon, S.A., 1993: Changes in climatie and levels of Lake Michigan: Shoreline impacts at Chicago. Climatic Change, 23, 213-230.
Changnon, S.A., and S.E. Hollinger, 1993: An Agricultural-Climatological-Technological Analysis of the Feasibility of Cloud Seeding in Illinois. Preprints Eighth Conference on Applied Climatology, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, pp. 241-244.
Changnon, S.A., 1994: Adaptation to Climate Change: The Likely OUtcome. Perspectives on the Midwestern Climate Change, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, 18 pp.
Changnon, S.A., 1994: The Great Flood of 1993. Today, 27, 5-8.
Changnon, S.A., and W. Wendland, 1994: What Is and Is Not Known About Climate Change in Illinois: The Scientific Perspective. Misc. Pub. 156, Illinois State Water Survey.