Andrea J. Ray

Andrea J. Ray
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NOAA Climate Diagnostics Center
325 Broadway
Boulder, CO 80305-3328
Voice: (303) 497-6434
FAX: (303) 497-6449 E-mail: Andrea.Ray@noaa.gov

Education

Ph.D. University of Colorado, Boulder, Dept of Geography, Dissertation: Multi-purpose reservoir management in the Gunnison Basin, Colorado: Climate, sustainability, and adaptive capacity,"abstract. Advisors: William Travis, James L. Wescoat, Roger Barry, Ronald Brunner
Environmental Policy Certificate, Univ. of Colorado Policy Sciences Committee.
M.S. Oceanography, University of Delaware, College of Marine Studies.
A.B. Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago.

Professional Experience

NOAA-OAR Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO
1999-present Physical Scientist
NOAA-OAR Environmental Research Labs, Boulder, CO
1997-1999 Marine Science Policy Analyst
NOAA-OAR Program Development and Coordination Office, Silver Spring, MD
1995-1997 Marine Science Policy Analyst
NOAA Office of Policy and Strategic Planning, Washington, DC
1994-1995 Climate and Research Programs Specialist
NOAA-OAR Program Development and Coordination Office, Silver Spring, MD
1991-1994 Marine Science Policy Analyst
Office of the Oceanographer of theNavy, International & Interagency Affairs Division, Washington, DC.
1990-1991John A. Knauss (Sea Grant) Marine Policy Fellow

Publications

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Ray, AJ, and RS Webb. 2015. Understanding the user context: decision calendars as frameworks for linking climate to policy, planning and decision-making. In: Climate in Context: Lessons learned from the RISA Program, Parris, A, et al, eds. Wiley & Sons. In press.pdf
Gordon, E., Dilling, L, McNie, E, Ray, AJ. 2015. Navigating Scales of Knowledge and Decision Making in the Intermountain West: Implications for Science Policy. In: Climate in Context: Lessons learned from the RISA Program, Parris, A, et al, eds. Wiley & Sons. In press. pdf
Ray, A.J., Liebmann, Brant, and Allured, D.A. 2014. Climate Analysis, Chapter 7 in Wyoming Basin Rapid Ecoregional Assessment, USGS report for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, in press as a peer-reviewed USGS Technical Report.
Barsugli, JJ, G Guentchev, RM Horton, A Wood, LO Mearns, XZ Liang, JA Winkler, K Dixon, K Hayhoe, RB Rood, L Goddard, AJ Ray, L Buja, C Ammann. 2013. The Practitioner's Dilemma: How to Assess the Credibility of Downscaled Climate Projections. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 94 (46), 424-425.
Ray, A.J., Joseph J. Barsugli, Jr., Klaus E. Wolter, Jon K. Eischeid. 2010. Rapid-Response Climate Assessment to Support the FWS Status Review of the American Pika. pdf available from also available as a link from ESRL news.
Rajagopalan, Balaji, Kenneth Nowak, James Prairie, Martin Hoerling, Benjamin Harding, Joseph Barsugli, Andrea Ray, & Bradley Udall. 2009. Water Supply Risk on the Colorado River: Can Management Mitigate? Water Resources Research Water Resources Research 45: W08201, doi:10.1029/2008WR007652, available from WRR online. pdf
Kenney, Douglas, Andrea J. Ray, Ben Harding, Roger Pulwarty, & Brad Udall. 2009. Rethinking Vulnerability on the Colorado River. In press Journal of Contemporary Water . pdf
Lowery, J.L., A.J. Ray , R.S. Webb. 2009. Factors Influencing the Use of Climate Information by Colorado Municipal Water Managers. pdf Journal of Climate Research 40: 103-119. .
Ray, A.J., J.J. Barsugli, K.B Averyt, K.Wolter, M. Hoerling, 2008. Colorado Climate Change: A Synthesis To Support Water Resource Management and Adaptation, a report for the Colorado Water Conservation Board by the NOAA-CU Western Water Assessment, available at: CWCB Climate Change
Ray, A.J., 2008. Water Resources Decision-Makers and their needs for Decadal Climate Prediction. CLIVAR Variations Newsletter pp 8-11, October 2008.
Ray, A.J., G.M. Garfin, M. Wilder, M. Vasquez-Leon, & A.C.Comrie 2006. Applications of monsoon research: Opportunities to inform decisionmaking and reduce regional vulnerability. Journal of Climate 20: 1608-1627.
Ray, A.J., G.M. Garfin, L. Brito-Castillo, M. Cortez-Vazquez, H.F. Diaz, J. Garatuza-Payan, D.Gochis, R. Lobato-Sanchez, R. Varady, C. Watts. 2006. Monsoon region climate applications: Integrating climate science with regional planning and policy. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, BAMS June 2007 DOI:10.1175/BAMS-88-6-xxx.
Ray, A.J, and D. Kenney. 2007. Critical challenges in incorporating climate into management of the Colorado River. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, San Antonio, TX, January 2007
Ray, A.J., J.J. Barsugli, and T. Hamill. 2007. Integrating assessments of user needs with weather research: developing user-centric tools for reservoir management. 2007. Poster to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, San Antonio, TX, January 2007. AMS Extended Abstract.
Ray, A.J. 2003. Reservoir management in the Interior West: the influence of climate variability and functional linkages of water. Pp 193-217 in Climate, water, and transboundary challenges in the Americas, Henry Diaz and Barbara Morehouse, eds. Kluwer Press.
Ray, A. J., N. Schmidt, B. J. Morehouse, and R. S. Webb, 2003: Report on Research Opportunities for Climate and Society Interactions in the North American Monsoon Region. Proceedings of the Workshop on Applications and Human Dimensions of Monsoon Research 18-20 June, 2001, Tucson, AZ, Institute for the Study of Planet Earth, University of Arizona, 61pp. Report
Ray, A.J., and R.S. Webb. 2000. Demand-side perspective on climate services for reservoir management. Proceedings of the Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, Palisades, NY, 23-27 October 2000. pp 219-222.abstract.
Ray, A.J., and R.S. Webb, 2000. CDC Experimental Climate Services: some perspectives from Current activities, Proceedings of the NOAA Applied Research Centers meeting, March 20-23, 2000, Palisades, NY. pp 219-222. abstract.
Ray, A.J. 2000. Climate and Water Management in the Interior West: a critical water problems approach, Proceedings of the 16th Annual Pacific Climate Workshop on Climate Variability of the Eastern North Pacific and Western North America (PACLIM) , May 24-27 1999. Tehnical Report 65 of the Interagency Ecological Program for the Sacramento-San Joachin Delta., pp 171-182. abstract.

Other Publications

Science and Information Issues Chapter, Prince William Sound Ecosystem Management Case Study for the Interagency Ecosystem Management Task Force, 1995
Institutional and Management Issues Chapter, Great Lakes Ecosystem Management Case Study for the Interagency Ecosystem Management Task Force, 1995
Ray, A.J., and D. Atwood, eds. 1993. Report of the NOAA Workshop of Coral Ecosystem Research and Monitoring, NOAA Coastal Ocean Program and Officeof Global Programs.
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WWW Publications

Conferences, Workshops and Symposia Convened

July 2001. Workshop on Applications and Human Dimensions of Monsoon Research, 18-20 June 2001, Tucson, AZ, Institute for the Study of Planet Earth, University of Arizona, 42. (with Jonathan Overpeck)
October 2001. Training Workshop on Climate Variability for the NWS Denver Weather Forecast Office, Boulder, CO.
October 2000. Workshop on Weather and Climate, Reservoir Operations, and Endangered Fish in the Gunnison Basin, Montrose, CO (with the Colorado River Conservation District).
October 2000. Second Workshop on Weather and Climate, Reservoir Operations, and Endangered Fish in the Upper Upper Colorado Basin, Boulder, CO (with the Colorado River Conservation District, and Denver Water).
September 1999. Workshop on Weather and Climate, Reservoir Operations, and Endangered Fish in the Upper Upper Colorado Basin, Frisco, CO (with the Colorado River Conservation District, and Denver Water).
October 1997. Pan American Climate Studies Investigator's meeting, Tucson, AZ. (with Steve Esbenson)
March 1997. Conference on North American Monsoon Systems (CONAM), Mexico City, MX. (with Roberto Mechoso and Victor Magana)

Abstracts

Ray, A.J. The North American Monsoon: an opportunity for regional science to serve society, in session on "Drought, Water Supply, Fire: How Does Regional Science Serve society?" Accepted for the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, PA,March 14-19, 2004.abstract
Ray, A.J. What the 2002 drought revealed about user needs for Western regionalclimate services, accepted for the 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, Seattle, WA, January 2004. abstract
Ray, A.J. 2003. Climate information and multipurpose water management inthe Gunnison Basin, Colorado: A user study approach. Seminar presented to the NCAR Environment and Societal Impacts Group, April, 2002.
Ray, A.J., R.S. Webb,and R.S. Pulwarty 2002. A user study approach for identifying needs for regional climate services. 2002 AMS Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA. abstract
Webb, R.S., Ray, A.J., Redmond, K., Pulwarty, R.S., Wolter, K., Woodhouse, C., Avery, S., Dole, R., Schuck, E. Rapid response to the 2002 drought in Colorado: an experiment in regional climate services, 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, Long Beach, CA.
Ray, A.J. and R.S. Pulwarty 2002. Incorporating climate information in water resources management: What do we know and what do we need to know? In session on "Incorporating ClimateVariability information in Water Resources Decision making," chaired by Rajagopalan and Bradley at the Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA. abstract
Ray, A.J. Robin S. Webb, and John Wiener, 2001. Analysis current uses and user needs for water management in the Interior West. AMS annual meeting, January 2001, Albuquerque, NM abstract.
Clark, M.C., Hoerling, M.P., Ray, A.J., Serreze, M.C, McCabe, G.J. 2001. Use of ENSO information in improving seasonal water supply outlooks. AMS 2001 Annual meeting, January 2001, Albuquerque, NM abstract.
Ray, A.J. 2001. Geographical concepts in a regional case study: Climate variability and water management in western Colorado. Session on 'Asserting Geography in the "New" Place-based science,' session organizers, Barbara Morehouse and Melinda Laiturito. 2001 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, NY, 27 Feb-3 March, 2001.abstract
Ray, A.J., and R.S. Webb. 2000. Demand-side perspective on climate services for reservoir management. Proceedings of the Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, Palisades, NY, 23-27 October 2000, pp 219-222. abstract.
Ray, A.J., 2000. Seasonal forecasts and water management in the Upper Colorado Basin: using climate information to assist ecosystem management an oral presentation for the AMS annual meeting, January 2000, Long Beach, CA abstract.
Ray, A.J. 1999. Colorado Basin Water Management: Relating Responses to Critical Water Problems and Climate. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Honolulu, HI, 23-27 March, 1999.
Soreide, N.N., B. Baker, R. Gird, M. Lockwood, and A. Ray, 1998. Theme pages describe NOAA strategic goals on the World Wide Web. In 14th International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, Phoenix, Arizona, 11-16 January 1998, American Meteorological Society, 199-203.
Ray, A.J. 1997. Using Internet Resources for Teaching Climate a web page for a presentation at the Mississippi River Science Teachers' Climate Workshop at the 1997 GCIP Mississippi River Climate Conference.
Ray, A.J. 1998. New water communities in the West: the role of civil society in water management. Environmental Hisotry conference, Tuscon, AZ, April 1998.

Training

Inter-Americas Institute for Global Change Research Summer Institute in Interdisciplinary Global Change Science, 11-30 July, 1999 in Miami; the focus was interactions between seasonal to interannual climate variability and human systems, in particular, water resources and agriculture.
RiverWare, Introduction to Simulation Modeling (Jul 2000) and Introduction to Rules-based Simulations (Dec 2000), 3-day training courses given by the University of Colorado Center for Advanced Decision Support for Water and Environmental Systems
Graduate Teacher Certification in progress (www.colorado.edu/gtp)