About

Kris Karnauskas is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair in the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences department at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research focuses on the dynamics of the coupled Earth system, aiming toward useful predictions of impacts that range from marine ecosystems to human health. He is involved in understanding complex environmental processes and their implications, contributing to the scientific community's knowledge of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.

Research topics

• Natural resource economics
• Neuroscience
• Geography
• Environmental science
• Meteorology
• Biology
• Ecology
• Psychology
• Chemistry

Selected publications

• Fossil Fuel Combustion Is Driving Indoor CO₂ Toward Levels Harmful to Human Cognition

  GeoHealth · 2020 · 96 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
  • Environmental science
  • Natural resource economics
  • Psychology

  levels may indeed reach levels harmful to cognition by the end of this century, and the best way to prevent this hidden consequence of climate change is to reduce fossil fuel emissions. Finally, we offer recommendations for a broad, interdisciplinary approach to improving such understanding and prediction.

  DOI

Recent grants

• PREEVENTS Track 2: Collaborative Research: Predicting Hurricane Risk along the United States East Coast in a Changing Climate

  NSF · $224k · 2019–2025

Frequent coauthors

• Dillon J. Amaya

  NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory

  59 shared

• Antonietta Capotondi

  Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

  45 shared

• Nathalie F. Goodkin

  American Museum of Natural History

  43 shared

• Michael A. Alexander

  NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory

  41 shared

• Sloan Coats

  University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

  40 shared

• Clara Deser

  NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research

  37 shared

• Arthur J. Miller

  University of California, San Diego

  37 shared

• Nathan J. Mantua

  NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Southwest Fisheries Science Center

  36 shared

Education

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

  Columbia University

  2009

• Ph.D., Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science

  University of Maryland, College Park

  2007

• B.S., Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

  University of Wisconsin–Madison

  2004

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