People

• Graduate students: Alex Berry, Greta Berendes, Xiang Liu, and Klara Kuemmerle.
• Research Staff: Mike Foley and Anna Lea Albright.
• Former students: Aleyda Trevino (PhD 2023), Ted Amdur (PhD 2023), Parker Liautaud (PhD 2022), Duo Chan (PhD 2021), Marena Lin (PhD 2019), Cristian Proistosescu (PhD 2017), Andrew Rhines (PhD 2015), Karen McKinnon (PhD 2015), Ethan Butler (PhD 2015), and Martin Tingley (PhD 2009).
• Former staff: Helene Benveniste, Jon Proctor, Lucas Vargas Zeppetello, Angela Rigden, Nathan Mueller, Zan Stine, and Jake Gebbie.
• Assistant: Evan Kelley.

Recent Papers

• Proctor, Vargas Zeppetello, Chan, and Huybers, Climate change increases the interannual variance of summer crop yields globally through changes in temperature and water supply, Science Advances, 11(36), 2025. link
• Benveniste, Huybers, and Proctor, Global climate migration is a story of who and not just how many, Nature Communications, 16(1), 2025. link
• Golden, et al., Climate-smart public health for global health resilience, The Lancet Planetary Health, 9(8), 2025. link
• Vargas Zeppetello, Proctor, and Huybers, Is Water Stress the Root Cause of the Observed Nonlinear Relationship Between Yield Losses and Temperature?, AGU Advances, 6(4), 2025. link
• Chan, Gebbie, and Huybers, Re‐evaluating historical sea surface temperature data sets: Insights from the diurnal cycle, coral proxy data, and radiative forcing, Geophysical Research Letters, 52(13), 2025. link
• Sherman, Huybers, and Tziperman, On the Attribution of Weather Events to Climate Change Using Empirically Fit Extreme Value Distributions, Journal of Climate, 38(12), 2025. link
• Davis et al., HarvestStat: a global effort towards open and standardized sub-national agricultural data, Environmental Research Letters, 20(5), 2025. link
• Amdur and Huybers, Negative trend in total solar irradiance over the satellite era, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(11), 2025. link
• Chan, Gebbie, and Huybers, An improved ensemble of land surface air temperatures since 1880 using revised pair-wise homogenization algorithms accounting for autocorrelation, Journal of Climate, 37(7), 2024. link
• Fried and Huybers, A simple relationship between the magnitude and spatial extent of global surface temperature anomalies, Geophysical Research Letters, 51(4), 2024. link
• Rigden, Golden, Chan, and Huybers, Climate change linked to drought in Southern Madagascar, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 7(1), 2024. link
• Hagen, Creveling, and Huybers, Align: a user-friendly app for numerical stratigraphic correlation, GSA Today, 34(2), 2024. link
• Vargas Zeppetello, Trevino, and Huybers, Disentangling contributions to past and future trends in U.S. surface soil moisture, Nature Water, 2(2), 2024. link
• McKinnon and Huybers, Inferring Northern Hemisphere continental warming patterns from the amplitude and phase of the seasonal cycle in surface temperature, Journal of Climate, 37(2), 2024. link

News

• Sep 2025, Lucas' paper on water limitation and crop yields was highlighted here.
• Sep 2025, Jon's paper on crop yield variability was reported on here.
• Sep 2025, Helene's paper on migration was reported on here and here.
• Sep 2024, Greta Berendes, Xiang Liu, and Klara Kuemmerle joined the group as graduate students.
• Sep 2024, Helene Benveniste joined Stanford as an Assistant Professor in Environmental Social Sciences.