Dr. Julian Reyes is an interdisciplinary agricultural data scientist focusing on weather and climate impacts on risk management. He has expertise in hydroclimatology, climate change and impacts in agroecosystems, and eco-hydrologic modeling. He is currently a post-doctoral research hydrologist and Climate Hub Fellow with the USDA Southwest Climate Hub. Julian’s current research and outreach efforts focus on the spatial and temporal patterns of crop insurance loss, and improved accessibility of such data for enhanced agricultural risk management. The goal of Julian’s work is to understand historic vulnerabilities to agricultural production, and subsequently enhance risk management decision-making processes in the context of a changing climate.
Julian received his PhD in civil engineering from Washington State University (WSU) in 2018 and a B.S. in civil engineering from WSU in 2010. He was a Science Policy Fellow at the U.S. Global Change Research Program in 2014 and a Fulbright Research Scholar in 2011 (Germany).
Current and Ongoing Projects
AgRisk Viewer: Agricultural risk in a changing climate - A geographic and historical view of crop insurance
Using 'Big Data' to Explore Soil Health as a Socio-ecological Feedback
Outreach
Union of Concerned Scientists Science Network Spotlight: Julian Reyes
Process-based modeling in rangeland ecosystems: Webinar
Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications
Reyes, J & E Elias. 2019. Variations in spatio-temporal patterns and trends of weather and climate-related crop loss in the United States. Environmental Research Letters. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab1ac9
Niles, M, S Wiener, R Schattman, G Roesch-McNally, and J Reyes. 2019. Seeing is not always believing: Crop loss and climate change perceptions among farm advisors. Environmental Research Letters, 14(4), doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aafbb6
Elias, E, J Reyes, C Steele, & A Rango. 2018. Diverse landscapes, diverse risks: synthesis of the special issue on climate change and adaptive capacity in a hotter, driver Southwestern United States. Climatic Change, 148(3), 339-353. doi: 10.1007/s10584-018-2219-x
Steele, C, J Reyes, E Elias, S Aney, & A Rango. 2018. Cascading impacts of climate change on southwestern US cropland agriculture. Climatic Change, 148(3), 437-450. doi: 10.1007/s10584-018-2220-4
Reyes, J, J Wiener, D Doan-Crider, & R Novak. 2018. Building collaborative capacity: Supporting tribal agriculture and natural resources in a changing climate. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, 1-3. doi:10.1017/S1742170517000801