1. Daniel J. McEvoy
Postdoctoral Fellow, Applied Climatology
Western Regional Climate Center
Desert Research Institute
2215 Raggio Parkway, Reno, NV 89523
daniel.mcevoy@dri.edu
phone: (775) 673-7682
Professional Interests
Dr. McEvoy’s research interests are interdisciplinary and span the fields of climate, hydrology,
and meteorology. Primary research topics include drought monitoring, seasonal drought
prediction, the role of evaporative demand on drought, quality and uncertainty assessment of
weather observations, and climate modeling.
Graduate and Professional Experience
2015-present Postdoctoral Fellow in Applied Climatology, Western Regional Climate
Center/Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV
2010 - 2015 Graduate Research Assistant, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV,
Advisor: John Mejia
2007 - 2009 Environmental Scientist, CDM Smith, Truckee, CA
Education
2012 – 2015 Ph.D., Atmospheric Science, University of Nevada, Reno, NV
Dissertation: “Physically Based Evaporative Demand as a Drought
Metric: Historical Analysis and Seasonal Prediction”
2012 M.S., Atmospheric Science, University of Nevada, Reno, NV
Thesis: “An Evaluation of Multi-scalar Drought Indices in Nevada and
Eastern California”
2005 B.S., Environmental Science, Plattsburgh State University of New York,
Plattsburgh, NY
Peer Reviewed Publications

2. Published
McEvoy, D.J., J. Mejia, and J.L., Huntington, 2014: Use of an Observation Network in the
Great Basin to Evaluate Gridded Climate Data. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 15, 1913-
1931, doi:10.1175/JHM-D-14-0015.1
McEvoy, D.J., J.L. Huntington, J. Abatzoglou, L. Edwards, 2012: An Evaluation of Multi-scalar
Drought Indices in Nevada and Eastern California. Earth Interactions, 16, 1-18.
In preparation
Hobbins, M., A. Wood, D.J. McEvoy, J. Huntington, and C. Morton, 2015: The Evaporative
Demand Drought Index: Part I – Linking Drought Evolution to Variations in Evaporative
Demand. Journal of Hydrometeorology. Submitted July, 2015.
McEvoy, D.J., J.L. Huntington, M. Hobbins, A. Wood, and C. Morton, 2015: The Evaporative
Demand Drought Index: Part II – CONUS-wide Assessment Against Common Drought
Indicators. Journal of Hydrometeorology. Submitted July, 2015.
Peer Reviewed Reports
Huntington, J.L., Gangopadhyay, Spears, M., Allen, R., S., King, D., Morton, D. McEvoy, C.,
Harrison, A. Joros. West-Wide Climate Risk Assessments: Irrigation Demand and
Reservoir Evaporation Projections. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Technical memorandum
No. 68-68210-2014-01, 196 p., 754 appx.
Huntington, J.L. and D.J. McEvoy, 2011: Climatological Estimates of Open Water Evaporation
from Selected Truckee and Carson River Basin Water Bodies, California and Nevada.
Desert Research Institute Publication No. 41254, prepared for the Truckee River Federal
Water Master, 43 pp.
Book Chapters
Dorman, C., D. Koracin, J.F. Mejia, and D.J. McEvoy (in press). World Marine Fog Occurrence.
In Marine Fog: Challenges and Advancements in Observations, D. Koracin and C.
Dorman (Eds.), Springer International Publishing.
Invited Oral Presentations
McEvoy, D.J., M. Hobbins, J.L. Huntington, J. Mejia, C. Hain, M.C. Anderson, and J.P. Verdin,
2014: Exploring the Use of Physically Based Evaporative Demand Anomalies to Improve

3. Seasonal Drought Prediction, American Geophysical Union 2014 Fall Conference. San
Francisco, CA.
McEvoy, D.J., 2014: Physically Based Evaporative Demand Anomalies as a Drought Metric:
Historical Analysis and Seasonal Drought Prediction. Presented at ESRL, Boulder, CO.
October, 2014.
Huntington, J.L., and D.J. McEvoy, 2014: Accuracy of Evaporation and Evapotranspiration
Models for Tahoe: Now and in the Future. Tahoe Climate Science Symposium, Tahoe
Science Consortium, Sierra Nevada College, November 14th
, 2014.
Conference Abstracts
Dorman, C.E., J. Mejia, D. Koracin, and D. McEvoy, 2015: Long Term Increases in Fog
Occurrence Over the NW Pacific and NW Atlantic Fog Maximums, Poster presentation
at American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, January 4-8.
Hobbins, M., D.J. McEvoy, J.L. Huntington, A.W. Wood, J.P. Verdin, 2014: The Evaporative
Demand Drought Index: The Physical Basis. Poster presentation at American
Geophysical Union 2014 Fall Conference. San Francisco, CA.
Dorman, C.E., J. Mejia, D.R. Koracin and D.J. McEvoy, 2014: Interaction of the Marine
Atmosphere, Coastal Topography and Sea Surface Temperature on Marine Fog
Distribution Along the West Coast of North America. American Geophysical Union 2014
Fall Conference. San Francisco, CA.
McEvoy, D.J., J.F. Mejia, and J.L. Huntington, 2014: Use of an Observation Network in the
Great Basin to Evaluate Gridded Climate Data and Associated Precipitation Measurement
Uncertainties, Oral presentation at Global Fair and Workshop on Long-Term
Observations of Mountain Social-Ecological Systems, Reno, NV, July 16-19.
McEvoy, D.J., Hobbins, T., Huntington, J.L., and A. Wood, 2014: Tracking Flash Drought
with Land-Atmospheric Feedbacks. Oral presentation at American Meteorological
Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, Feburary 2-6. [2nd
Place Student Oral
Presentation]
McEvoy, D. J., J. L. Huntington, J. T. Abatzoglou, 2013: A Comparison of the Standardized
Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index Using Thornthwaite and Penman-Monteith
Parameterizations for Potential Evapotranspiration. Poster presentation at 2013 Annual
Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, January 2013, Austin, TX.
Redmond, K. T., J. T. Abatzoglou, D. J. McEvoy, A. Joros, D. VanSant, and L. M. Edwards,
2013: The WestWide Drought Tracker: Drought Monitoring at Fine Spatial Scales. Oral
presentation at 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, January
2013, Austin, TX.

4. McEvoy, D. J., J. L. Huntington, J. T. Abatzoglou, and L. M. Edwards, 2012: An evaluation of
multi-scalar drought indices in Nevada and eastern California. Poster presentation at 2012
Nevada Water Resources Association Annual Conference, March 2012, Las Vegas, NV.
[2nd
Place Student Poster]
Huntington, J.L., and D.J. McEvoy, 2012: Climatological Estimates of Open Water
Evaporation from Selected Truckee & Carson River Basin Water Bodies, California &
Nevada. Nevada Water Resources Association Annual Conference, March 5-8, Las
Vegas, NV
K.C. King, J. F. Mejia, D. J. McEvoy, and D. Koracin, 2012: Evaluation of Regional
Downscaling Predictions of Future Drought Probabilities in the Western United States.
Oral presentation at 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society,
January 2012, New Orleans, LA
McEvoy, D. J., L. M. Edwards, and J. L. Huntington, 2011: The utility of precipitation indices
as indicators of drought in Nevada and eastern California. Poster presentation at 2011
Fall Meeting of American Geophysical Union, December 2011, San Francisco, CA.
McEvoy, D. J., L. M. Edwards, and J. L. Huntington, 2011: The utility of precipitation indices
as indicators of drought in Nevada. Oral presentation at 19th AMS Applied Climatology
Conference, July 2011, Asheville, NC. [2nd
Place Student Oral Presentation]
Awards
1st
place, Desert Research Institute student poster competition, 2014: “Tracking Flash Drought
with Land-Atmospheric Interactions”
2nd
place, oral presentation at the 94th
Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting,
February, 2014: “Tracking Flash Drought with Land-Atmospheric Interactions”
2nd
place, student poster competition at the Nevada Water Resources Association Annual
Conference, March, 2012: “An evaluation of multi-scalar drought indices in Nevada and eastern
California”
2nd
place, oral presentation at the 19th
American Meteorological Society Applied Climatology
Conference, July, 2011: “The utility of precipitation indices as indicators of drought in Nevada”
Professional Activities
Reviewer of manuscripts: Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres), Journal of
Hydrometeorology
Member: American Meteorological Society
Member: American Geophysical Union
Member: Nevada Water Resources Association

5. Teaching Experience
Guest lectures
Principles of Ecohydrology (NRES 295), University of Nevada, Reno, NV, Fall 2014 – Lecture
title: Precipitation measurement: methods and uncertainty
Humans and the Environment (ENV 100), Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno, NV,
Spring 2012 – Lecture title: Introduction to Weather and Climate
Skills
Software and programming languages
 Expert in Matlab
 Skilled in Python and Fortran
 Experience operating on a UNIX platform and with automation processes: Bash scripting
and crontab
 Microsoft Office
 ArcGIS (and ArcPy)
Regional Climate Modeling and Numerical Weather Prediction
 Experience using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model
Personal Interests
 Anything to do with the outdoors! Skiing, mountain biking, rock climbing, and fishing
are just a few of my favorites.
 Spending time with my family. I’m married with one daughter.