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Drew Gower

Drew is studying the effects of hydrologic variability on food security in Kenya.

Biography

Drew comes to the Caylor Lab after having previously worked as as Peace Corps volunteer in Burkina Faso and a Middle East program specialist for the US Forest Service Office of International Programs. His PhD focused on how food security in developing countries is affected by hydrologic variability, particularly in the dryland regions of Africa.

The photo to the above shows Drew and his wife on a bike trip through southern Niger in 2005.

Recent Publications

Deforestation-induced warming over tropical mountain regions regulated by elevation

Zhenzhong Zeng, Dashan Wang, Long Yang, Jie Wu, A. Ziegler, Maofeng Liu, P. Ciais, T. Searchinger, Zong‐Liang Yang, Deliang Chen, Anping Chen, Laurent Z. X. Li, S. Piao, David Taylor, Xitian Cai, M. Pan, Liqing Peng, P. Lin, Drew Gower, Yu Feng, C. Zheng, K. Guan, Xu Lian, Tao Wang, Lang Wang, Sujong Jeong, Zhongwang Wei, J. Sheffield, Kelly Caylor, E. Wood

Nature Geoscience · 2021

Farmer Forecasts: Impacts of Seasonal Rainfall Expectations on Agricultural Decision- Making in Sub-Saharan Africa

Z. Guido, Andrew Zimmer, S. Lopus, C. Hannah, Drew Gower, Kurt B. Waldman, N. Krell, J. Sheffield, Kelly Caylor, T. Evans

Climate Risk Management · 2020

Environmental heterogeneity and commodity sharing in smallholder agroecosystems

S. Giroux, P. McCord, S. Lopus, Drew Gower, J. Dell’Angelo, Stephanie L. Dickinson, Xiwei Chen, Kelly Caylor, T. Evans

PLoS One · 2020

The salience of climate change in farmer decision-making within smallholder semi-arid agroecosystems

Kurt B. Waldman, S. Attari, Drew Gower, S. Giroux, Kelly Caylor, T. Evans

Climatic Change · 2019

Education

PhD in Civil & Environmental Engineering

Princeton University

2020

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