Team Members

Robert Kopp

Principal investigator, 2017-2020, 2021-2024

Characterizing And Constraining Sea Level Projection Uncertainties By Integrating Observations & Models In An Open, Flexible, Robust Probabilistic Framework; RISE: Development of Products and Pathways to Improve Transfer of Sea Level Science into Applications

Robert Kopp is a climate scientist who serves at Rutgers University as Director of the Rutgers Institute of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences and as a professor in the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences. He also co-directs Rutgers’ transdisciplinary Coastal Climate Risk & Resilience (C2R2) initiative, which brings graduate students in the natural sciences, social sciences, engineering, and urban planning together with coastal stakeholders to tackle the challenges that climate change poses to the world’s coastlines. He is a director of the Climate Impact Lab, a multi-institutional collaboration of more than two dozen economists, data scientists, climate scientists, and policy experts, working to bring Big Data approaches to the assessment of the economic risks of climate change. Professor Kopp’s research focuses on understanding uncertainty in past and future climate change, with major emphases on sea-level change, the interactions between physical climate change and the economy, and the use of climate risk information to information decision-making.

Related Publications

Bates, P. D., N. Quinn, C. C. Sampson, A. M. Smith, O. E. J. Wing, J. Sosa, J. Savage, G. Olcese, G. J.-P. Schumann, L. Giustarini, and et al. (2021). Combined modelling of US fluvial, pluvial and coastal flood hazard under current and future climates. Water Resources Research. doi:10.1029/2020WR028673.

Gilford, D. M., E. L. Ashe, R. E. Kopp, R. M. DeConto, D. Pollard, and A. Rovere (2020). Could the Last Interglacial Constrain Projections of Future Antarctic Ice Mass Loss and Sea-level Rise? Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface 125(10), e2019JF005418. doi: 10.1029/2019JF005418.

Hawley, W. B., C. C. Hay, J. X. Mitrovica, and R. E. Kopp (2020). A Spatially Variable Time Series of Sea Level Change due to Artificial Water Impoundment. Earth’s Future. doi: 10.1029/2020EF001497.

Rasmussen, D. J., M. K. Buchanan, R. E. Kopp, and M. Oppenheimer (2020). A flood damage allowance framework for coastal protection with deep uncertainty in sea-level rise. Earth’s Future 8, e2019EF001340. doi:10.1029/2019EF001340.

Bamber, J. L., M. Oppenheimer, R. E. Kopp, W. Aspinall, and R. M. Cooke (2019). Ice sheet contributions to future sea level rise from structured expert judgement. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, 11195–11200. doi:10.1073/pnas.1817205116.

Kopp, R. E., E. A. Gilmore, C. M. Little, J. Lorenzo Trueba, V. C. Ramenzoni, and W. V. Sweet (2019). Usable Science for Managing the Risks of Sea-Level Rise. Earth’s Future 7, 1235–1269. doi:10.1029/2018EF001145.

Horton, B. P., R. E. Kopp, A. J. Garner, C. C. Hay, N. S. Khan, K. Roy, and T. A. Shaw (2018). Mapping sea-level change in time, space and probability. Annual Reviews of Environment and Resources 43, 481–521. doi:10.1146/annurev-environ-102017-025826.

Mitrovica, J. X., C. C. Hay, R. E. Kopp, C. Harig, and K. Latychev (2018). Quantifying the Sensitivity of Sea Level Change in Coastal Localities to the Geometry of Polar Ice Mass Flux. Journal of Climate 31, 3701–3709. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0465.1.

Rasmussen, D., K. Bittermann, M. K. Buchanan, S. Kulp, B. H. Strauss, R. E. Kopp, and M. Oppenheimer (2018). Coastal flood implications of 1.5◦C, 2.0◦C, and 2.5◦C temperature stabilization targets in the 21st and 22nd century. Environmental Research Letters 13, 034040. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aaac87.