Erik Mencos Contreras

Pronouns: He/him
Senior Staff Associate I, Center for Climate Systems Research (CCSR), Columbia Climate School
2880 Broadway New York, NY 10025 United States

BIOGRAPHY:

Erik Mencos Contreras serves as Senior Staff Associate I of the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Program (AgMIP). He supports the AgMIP Coordination Unit – hosted at the Center for Climate Systems Research and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies – by working collaboratively with program managers, researchers, Columbia University finance officers, and sponsor agency officials on the overall research coordination and financial management of the program. Erik assists AgMIP research output by contributing to the writing and editing of peer-reviewed papers, as well as white papers, concept notes, and reports. He was Chapter Scientist and Contributing Author for the Food Security chapter in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Climate Change and Land. He also leads the organization and execution of multi-disciplinary workshops worldwide. He liaises with international partners at all levels of the program, including Regional Research Teams in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia; Research Leaders in the U.S., Europe, and Australia; and the AgMIP Steering Council, comprised of internationally renowned experts in the field. Erik has a Masters in Climate and Society from Columbia University and a Bachelors in Chemical Engineering from the Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM) in Mexico.

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Only select publications listed below

Name	Published Date
Toward a holistic and data-driven framework to evaluate livestock-derived protein systems	2024

PUBLICATIONS

2024

Karl, K., R. DeFries, W. Baethgen, M. Furtado, J. Potent, E.M. Leal, E. Mencos Contreras, and C. Rosenzweig, 2024: Toward a holistic and data-driven framework to evaluate livestock-derived protein systems. One Earth, 7, no. 4, 572-588, doi:10.1016/j.oneear.2024.02.003.

2023

Fei, C., J. Jägermeyr, B. McCarl, E. Mencos Contreras, C. Mutter, M. Phillips, A.C. Ruane, M.C. Sarofim, P. Schultz, and A. Vargo, 2023: Future climate change impacts on U.S. agricultural yields, production, and market. Anthropocene, 100386, doi:10.1016/j.ancene.2023.100386.

Rosenzweig, C., S.S. McDermid, E. Mencos-Contreras, S. Asseng, A.A. Chattha, T. Li, M. Madajewicz, S. Nedumaran, T.T.N. Nguyễn, A.C. Ruane, N. Subash, R. Valdivia, and G. Vellingiri, 2023: Integrated climate change assessments on selected farming systems in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Viet Nam. In Fostering Resilient Global Supply Chains Amid Risk and Uncertainty. D. Azhgaliyeva, J. Beirne, D.B. Rahut, and Y. Yao, Eds., ADBI Series on Asian and Pacific Sustainable Development, Asian Development Bank Institute, pp. 67-95.

2022

Tubiello, F., K. Karl, A. Flammini, J. Gutschow, G. Obli-Laryea, G. Conchedda, X. Pan, S.Y. Qiu, H.H. Heiðarsdóttir, N. Wanner, R. Quadrelli, L. Souza, P. Benoit, M. Hayek, D. Sandalow, E. Mencos Contreras, C. Rosenzweig, J. Rosero-Moncayo, P. Conforti, and M. Torero, 2022: Pre- and post-production processes increasingly dominate greenhouse gas emissions from agri-food systems. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 14, no. 4, 1795-1809, doi:10.5194/essd-14-1795-2022.

2021

Rosenzweig, C., J.M. Antle, A.C. Ruane, C.Z. Mutter, M. Madajewicz, R.O. Valdivia, G. Hoogenboom, C. Porter, K. Wiebe, S. Janssen, and E. Mencos Contreras, 2021: Chapter 11: Moving to national scale. In Handbook of Climate Change and Agroecosystems: Climate Change and Farming System Planning in Africa and South Asia: AgMIP Stakeholder-driven Research, Part 2. C. Rosenzweig, C.Z. Mutter, and E. Mencos Contreras, Eds., Series on Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, and Mitigation, vol. 5, World Scientific, pp. 465-476, doi:10.1142/9781786348814_0011.

Rosenzweig, C., C.Z. Mutter, A.C. Ruane, E. Mencos Contreras, K.J. Boote, R.O. Valdivia, J. Houtkamp, D.S. MacCarthy, L. Claessens, R. Adhikari, W. Durand, S. Homann-Kee Tui, A. Ahmad, N. Subash, G. Vellingiri, and S. Nedumaran, 2021: Chapter 5: AgMIP regional integrated assessments: High-level findings, methods, tools, and studies (2012-2017). In Handbook of Climate Change and Agroecosystems: Climate Change and Farming System Planning in Africa and South Asia: AgMIP Stakeholder-driven Research, Part 1. C. Rosenzweig, C.Z. Mutter, and E. Mencos Contreras, Eds., Series on Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, and Mitigation, vol. 5, World Scientific, pp. 123-142, doi:10.1142/9781786348791_0005.

Rosenzweig, C., A.C. Ruane, C.Z. Mutter, E. Mencos Contreras, and A. Moscuzza, 2021: Chapter 1: Overview of AgMIP regional integrated assessment. In Handbook of Climate Change and Agroecosystems: Climate Change and Farming System Planning in Africa and South Asia: AgMIP Stakeholder-driven Research, Part 1. C. Rosenzweig, C.Z. Mutter, and E. Mencos Contreras, Eds., Series on Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, and Mitigation, vol. 5, World Scientific, pp. 3-13, doi:10.1142/9781786348791_0001.

Tubiello, F., C. Rosenzweig, G. Conchedda, K. Karl, J. Gütschow, X. Pan, G. Griffiths Obli-Laryea, S. Qiu, J. De Barrios, A. Flammini, E. Mencos Contreras, L. Souza, R. Quadrelli, H.H. Heiðarsdóttir, P. Benoit, M. Hayek, and D. Sandalow, 2021: Greenhouse gas emissions from food systems: Building the evidence base. Environ. Res. Lett., 16, no. 6, 065007, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ac018e.

2020

Rosenzweig, C., C. Mbow, L.G. Barioni, T.G. Benton, M. Herrero, M. Krishnapillai, E.T. Liwenga, P. Pradhan, M.G. Rivera-Ferre, T. Sapkota, F.N. Tubiello, Y. Xu, E. Mencos Contreras, and J. Portugal-Pereira, 2020: Climate change responses benefit from a global food system approach. Nat. Food, 1, no. 2, 94-97, doi:10.1038/s43016-020-0031-z.

Toreti, A., D. Deryng, F.N. Tubiello, C. Müller, B.A. Kimball, G. Moser, K. Boote, S. Asseng, T.A.M. Pugh, E. Vanuytrecht, H. Pleijel, H. Webber, J.L. Durand, F. Dentener, A. Ceglar, X. Wang, F. Badeck, R. Lecerf, G.W. Wall, M. van den Berg, P. Hoegy, R. Lopez-Lozano, M. Zampieri, S. Galmarini, G.J. O'Leary, R. Manderscheid, E. Mencos Contreras, and C. Rosenzweig, 2020: Narrowing uncertainties in the effects of elevated CO2 on crops. Nat. Food, 1, no. 12, 775-782, doi:10.1038/s43016-020-00195-4.

2019

Mbow, C., C. Rosenzweig, L.G. Barioni, T.G. Benton, M. Herrero, M. Krishnapillai, E. Liwenga, P. Pradhan, M.G. Rivera-Ferre, T. Sapkota, F.N. Tubiello, Y. Xu, [Contributing authors: E. Mencos Contreras, J. Portugal Pereira, J. Blanchard, J. Fanzo, S. Frank, S. Kriewald, G. Lanigan, D. López, D. Mason-D’Croz, P. Neofotis, L. Pant, R. Rodrigues, A.C. Ruane, and K. Waha], 2019: Food Security. In: Climate Change and Land: an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

2018

Rosenzweig, C., A. Ruane, J. Antle, J. Elliott, M. Ashfaq, A. Chatta, F. Ewert, C. Folberth, I. Hathie, P. Havlík, G. Hoogenboom, H. Lotze-Campen, D. Mason-D'Croz, D. MacCarthy, E. Mencos Contreras, C. Müller, I. Perez-Dominguez, M. Phillips, C. Porter, R.M. Raymundo, R. Sands, C.-F. Schleussner, R. Valdivia, H. Valin, and K. Wiebe, 2018: Coordinating AgMIP data and models across global and regional scales for 1.5°C and 2.0°C assessments. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. A, 376, no. 2119, 20160455, doi:10.1098/rsta.2016.0455.

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