Heidi Roop

Assistant Professor
Extension Specialist
Director, Climate Adaptation Partnership
[email protected]
612-301-0093
University of Minnesota Climate Adaptation Partnership
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The Climate Action Handbook
Education
  • BA, Mount Holyoke College
  • MS, Northern Arizona University
  • PhD, Victoria University of Wellington
External Affiliations
  • University of Washington Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

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Areas of Interest

Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Climate Adaptation, Climate Change Communication, Science-society Interactions

Biography

Dr. Heidi Roop is the Director of the University of Minnesota Climate Adaptation Partnership and an Assistant Professor of Climate Science and Extension Specialist at the University of Minnesota. She also serves as the Director for Knowledge Transfer for the NSF-funded COLDEX Science and Technology Center. Her research and Extension programs combine cutting-edge climate science and effective science communication to increase the use and integration of climate change information in decision-making at a range of scales—from city and state to national and international levels. Her climate science research takes her around the world from Antarctica to California to the shores of Lake Superior. Her recent science communication efforts were focused on her book, The Climate Action Handbook, which outlines in a highly visual format, everyday ways we can contribute to collective and individual climate solutions.  In addition to her appointments at the University of Minnesota, she also is an Affiliate Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Washington and serves as expert advisor to a range of organizations and agencies as they seek to build resilience to climate change. 

Select Publications

  • Roop, H.A. (2023) The Climate Action Handbook: A Visual Guide to 100 Climate Solutions for Everyone. Sasquatch Books, Seattle, WA, USA. 272pp.
  • Gonzales, K. R.*, Swain, D. L., Roop, H. A., and Diffenbaugh, N. S. (2022). Quantifying the relationship between atmospheric river origin conditions and landfall temperature. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127, e2022JD037284. 
  • Hoffman-Hall, A., Gorris, A., Anenberg, S., Bredder, A., Dhaliwal, J., Diaz, M., Fornter, S., McAdoo, B., Reano, D., Rehr, R., Roop, H.A., Zaitchik, B., (in press) A GeoHealth Call to Action: Moving Beyond Identifying Environmental Injustices to Co-Creating Solutions. GeoHealth.
  • Clark, S., Wolfinger, F., Kenney, M.A., Gerst, M.D., Roop, H.A. (in review). Assessing stakeholder climate data needs for farm-level decision-making in the U.S. Corn Belt. Geoscience Communication.
  • Clark, S., Roop, H.A., Gonzales, K., Mohr, C., Kingery, L., Dybsetter, A., (in review). A community-based approach to climate science communication: results from a pilot Extension program. Community Science.  
  • Hillier, J.K., Welsh, K.E., Stiller-Reeve, M., Priestley, R.K., Roop, H.A., Lanza, T., (2021). Geoscience communication–planning to make it publishable. Geoscience Communication 4 (4), 493-506.
  • Konecky, B. L., McKay, N. P., Churakova, O. V., Comas-Bru, L., Dassié, E. P., DeLong, K. L., . . . Roop, H.A., Yoshimura, K. (2020). The Iso2k database: a global compilation of paleo-δ18O and δ2H records to aid understanding of Common Era climate. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 12, 2261–2288.
  • Roop, H.A., Mauger, G.S., Morgan, H., Snover, A.K. and Krosby, M. (2020). Shifting Snowlines and Shorelines: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere and Implications for Washington State. University of Washington.
  • Salmon, R. and Roop, H.A. (2019). Bridging the gap between science communication practice and theory: reflecting on a decade of practitioner experience to develop a new framework for public engagement design. Polar Record, 1-14
  • Errett, N.A., Roop, H.A., Pendergrast, C., Kramer, B., Doubleday, A., Tran, K.A., and Busch Isaksen, T. (2019). Building a Practice-based Research Agenda for Wildfire Smoke and Health: A Report of the 2018 Washington Wildfire Smoke Risk Communication Stakeholder Synthesis Symposium. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16(13), 2398.
  • Roop, H.A., Wesche, G., Azinhaga, P., Trummel, B., Xaiver, J. (2019). Building Collaborative Networks Across Disciplines: A review of Polar Educators International’s first five years. Polar Record, 1-7.
  • Vandergoes, M.J., Howarth, J, Dunbar, G, Turnbull, J., Roop, H.A., Levy, R., Li, X., Prior, C., Norris, M., Keller, E.D., Fitzsimons, S.J., Bronk Ramsey, C., 2018. Integrating chronological uncertainties for laminated lake sediments using independent chronology and layer counting in a Bayesian age modelling framework. Quaternary Science Reviews, 188, 104 -120.
  • PAGES 2k Consortium*, 2017. A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era. Scientific Data 4: 170088. doi:10.1038/sdata.2017.88 *Australasia writing team
  • Roop, H.A., Levy, R.H., Dunbar, G., Vandergoes, M.J., Howard, J.,Fitzsimons, S., Zammit, C., Ditchburn, B., Baisden, T., Moon, H.S., &Il Yoon, H., 2015. A hydroclimate-proxy model based on sedimen-tary facies in an annually laminated sequence from Lake Ohau,South Island, New Zealand. Journal of Paleolimnology. doi:10.1007/s10933-015-9853-3
  • Roop, H.A., Dunbar, G.B., Levy, R., Vandergoes, M.J., Forrest, A.,Walker, S., Purdie, J., Upton, P., & Whinney, J., 2015. Seasonal controls on sediment transport and deposition in Lake Ohau,South Island, New Zealand: Implications for a high-resolutionHolocene paleoclimate reconstruction. Sedimentology, 62:826-844.
  • R. Cossu, R., Forrest A.L., Roop, H.A., Dunbar, G., Vandergoes, M.J.,Levy, R.H., Stumpner, P., & Schladow, S.G., 2015. Seasonal variability in turbidity currents in Lake Ohau, New Zealand and their influence on sedimentation. Marine and Freshwater Research, 66, 1-15.
  • Clow, D.W., Roop, H.A., Nanus, L., Fenn, M., & Sextone, G., 2015. Spatial patterns of atmospheric deposition of nitrogen and sulfurusing ion-exchange resin collectors in Rocky Mountain NationalPark, USA. Atmospheric Environment, 101(0): 149-157, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2014.11.027.