PAUL D BROOKS portrait
  • Professor, Geology & Geophysics
  • Director, Hydrology and Water Resources Graduate Certificate Program, Graduate School
  • Faculty Affiliate, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado
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Professional Service

  • NSF . ad hoc reviews. 01/01/2016 - 12/31/2016
  • Various journal. ad hoc reviews. 01/01/2016 - 12/31/2016
  • Princeton and other Universities. Promotion and Tenure Reviews. 01/01/2016 - 12/31/2016

Honors & Awards

  • Elected Fellow. American Geophysical Union, 12/14/2021
  • RMFS Honorary Award. American Federation of Mineralogical Societies, 04/01/2021

Internal Service

  • CMES Facilities Committee. member, 01/02/2017 - 12/31/2017. College service.
  • Graduate Affairs Committee. Director, 01/02/2017 - 12/29/2017. Department service.
  • RPT. member, 01/02/2017 - 12/29/2017. Department service.
  • CMES Naming Committee. member, 01/02/2017 - 12/29/2017. College service.
  • Hydrology and Water Resources Graduate Certificate Program. Director, 01/01/2017 - 12/31/2017. University service.
  • Curriculum Revision committee. 01/01/2016 - 12/31/2016. Department service.
  • Hydrology Graduate Certificate development committee. 01/01/2016 - 12/31/2016. University service.

Community Partnership

  • Great Salt Lake Strike Team. 01/01/2023 - 12/31/2023
  • Salt River Project. 01/01/2016 - 12/31/2017
  • Healthy Headwaters Science Advisory Team. 01/01/2016 - 12/31/2017
  • Salt Lake City Public Utilites. 01/01/2016 - 12/31/2017

Affiliations

  • Global Change and Sustainability Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (GCSC), Faculty Affiliate,, 10/01/2014 - present
  • Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder (INSTAAR), Faculty Affiliate, 01/01/2001 - present

Outreach

  • Salt Lake City Climate Vulnerability Assessment. 01/01/2021 - 12/31/2021
  • Community Presentations on Utah water supply. 01/01/2021 - 12/31/2021
  • Wild Utah and Trout Unlimited stream restoration. 01/01/2021 - 12/31/2021
  • Salt River Project water resource partnership. 01/01/2015 - 12/31/2017

In the Media

  • Multiple television, radio, and print interviews throughout the year on drought, climate change, snow, and Great Salt Lake. Includes local outlets (e.g. KUER, KSL, SL Tribune, Deseret news), national (e.g. NYT, Atlantic, High Country News) and international (Swiss documentary on US water and climate change, Austrian TV series on US drought). 12/31/2023.
  • Interview in High Country News Article on climate change and water supply. 12/08/2021.
  • NBC Universal Interview on climate change and Great Salt Lake. 08/16/2021.
  • NBC Universal Interview on Climate change and drought. 07/22/2021.
  • New York Times Interview on climate change and drought. 07/16/2021.
  • Interview with Italian public TV. 07/07/2021.
  • KSL Interview on climate change and drought. 07/06/2021.
  • Utah Chronicle Interview on water availability and Climate Change. 02/11/2021.
  • Multiple outlets sought interviews and reported on our 2018 paper in PNAS documented regional differences in snowpack response to climate change. 01/22/2018. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/1801...
  • Interview in Arizona Daily Star. 07/25/2017. http://tucson.com/news/science/new-study-mountain-...
  • Science Node Interview. 06/30/2017. https://sciencenode.org/feature/riding-the-jetstre...
  • Utopia TV Series Interview. 01/31/2017.
  • Interview in Physics Today regarding climate change and water resources. 08/12/2016.
  • KUER interview. 04/13/2016. http://kuer.org/post/streams-give-clues-about-chan...
  • Salt Lake Tribune, Deseret News, TakePart, and ClimateWire all ran stories on our research examining the effects of climate change and water resources. 04/12/2016.
  • ABC news interview on climate change and water resources. 04/12/2016.
  • KSL piece on climate change and water recourses. 04/12/2016. http://www.ksl.com/?sid=39305011&nid=148
  • Research spotlight on insect-induced forest mortality and water resources. 03/09/2016. https://eos.org/research-spotlights/bark-beetles-c...
  • FOX News interview on water research. 02/26/2016.
  • AGU research spotlight. 02/18/2016. https://twitter.com/AnnalisaPurser/status/67800167...