Alec Bennett
Program Director, BSEM
Instructor, HSEM
apbennett@alaska.edu
(907) 474-6938
219C, Bunnell Building
Research and Scholarly Interests
Climate Security, Natural Hazards, Cybersecurity, Arctic Security, Peace Engineering, Future Scenarios Planning, Infrastructure Planning, Computational Modeling, Human Security
Education
(In Progress) PhD, Interdisciplinary Studies, Computational Modeling & Climate Security
MSDM, 2018, Security and Disaster Management, University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Fairbanks
BS, 2005, Information Systems, Programming, University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Southeast
Publications (peer-reviewed)
Euskirchen, E. S., Timm, K., Breen, A. L., Gray, S., Rupp, T. S., Martin, P., Reynolds,
J., Sesser,
A., Murphy, K., Littell, J., Bennett, A., Bolton, R., Carman, T., Genet, H, Griffith, B., Kurkowski, T., Lara, M., Marchenko,
S., Nicolsky, D., Panda, S., Romanovsky, V., Rutter, R., Tucker, C., & McGuire, A.D.
(2020). Co-producing knowledge: the Integrated Ecosystem Model for resource management
in Arctic ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 18(8), 447-455.
Fresco, N., Marchenko, S., Bieniek, P., Lindgren, M., Bennett, A., Leonawicz, M., Schroder, J.,
Floyd, A., Wehmas, M., & Kurkowski, T. (2018). Climate change baseline analysis for
the United States Army Garrison, Fort Wainwright, ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ.
Genet, H., He, Y., Lyu, Z., McGuire, A.D., Zhuang, Q., Clein, J., D'Amore, D., Bennett, A., Breen, A., Biles, F., Euskirchen, E.S., Johnson, K., Kurkowski, T., Kushch Schroder,
S., Pastick, N., Rupp, T. S., Wylie, B., Zhang, Y., Zhou, X., & Zhu, Z. (2018). The
role of driving factors in historical and projected carbon dynamics of upland ecosystems
in ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ. Ecological Applications, 28(1).
Rupp, T. S., Duffy, P., Leonawicz, M., Lindgren, M., Breen, A., Kurkowski, T., Floyd,
A., Bennett, A., & Krutikov, L. (2016). Baseline and projected future carbon storage and greenhouse-gas
fluxes in ecosystems of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ. In Zhu, Z. & McGuire, A. D. (Eds.), Climate Simulations,
Land Cover, and Wildfire (pp. 17–52). U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological
Survey, Professional Paper 1826.
Euskirchen, E. S., Bennett, A. P., Breen, A. L., Genet, H., Lindgren, M. A., Kurkowski, A.,
McGuire, A. D., &Rupp, T. S. (2016). Consequences of changes in vegetation and snow
cover for climate feedbacks in ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ and northwest Canada. Environmental Research
Letters, 11(10).
Hewitt, R. E., Bennett, A. P., Breen, A. L., Hollingsworth, T. N., Taylor, D. L., Chapin, F. S., &
Rupp, T. S. (2016). Getting to the root of the matter: landscape implications of plant-fungal
interactions for tree migration in ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ. Landscape Ecology, 31(4).
Gray, S. T., Bennett, A., Bolton, W. R., Breen, A. L., Carman, T., Euskirchen, E., Genet, H.,
Jafarov, E.J., Jennifer Kurkowski, T., Lindgren, M., Martin, P., McAfee, S., McGuire,
A.D.,
Marchenko, S., Muskett, R., Panda, S., Reynolds, J., Robertson, A., Romanovsky, V.,
Rupp, T.S., Timm, K., & Zhang, Y. (2013). Using integrated ecosystem modeling to understand
climate change. ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Park Science, 12(2), 13–17.
Genet, H., McGuire, A. D., Barrett, K., Breen, A. Euskirchen, E. S., Johnstone, J.F.,
Kasischke, E. S., Melvin, A. M., Bennett, A., Mack, M. C., Rupp, T. S., Schuur, A. E. G., Turetsky, M. R., Yuan, F. (2013). Modeling
the effects of fire severity and climate warming on active layer thickness and soil
carbon storage of black spruce forests across the landscape in interior ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ. Environmental
Research Letters, 8(4).
Publications (Presentations, Posters, Other)
Alec Bennett, Troy J. Bouffard, Uma Bhatt. (2020) Sea Ice Decline and Arctic Geoengineering Solutions:
Cascading Security and Ethical Considerations. CERL/APPC Conference: Circling the
Arctic: Security and the Rule of Law in a Changing North, October 1-3, 2020.
Hayden, N.K., Hardesty, J., Amadei, B., Bull, D., Eicken, H., Bennett, A., Passell, H., Backus, G.
(2020). Peace Engineering in the Arctic: Accommodating diverse interests in a changing
environment. WIP140. Presentation at 38th International Conference of the System Dynamics
Society.
Vladimir A. Alexeev, Alec P. Bennett, Aubrey L. Dugger, Katrina E. Bennett, Carl Dierking, Jessica E. Cherry, David P.
Streubel, Emily Niebuhr, Kevin Michael Sampson, David Gochis and Yongxin Zhang (2020),
Testing an Implementation of WRF-Hydro for the Chena River (AK) watershed [H111-0016]
presented at 2020 Fall Meeting, AGU, 1-17 Dec.
Alec P. Bennett, Vladimir A. Alexeev and Jessica E. Cherry (2020), Modeling Future Flooding Extremes
to Explore Unidentified Risks in the Arctic [NH039-0004] presented at 2020 Fall Meeting,
AGU, 1-17 Dec.
Katrina E. Bennett, Joel C. Rowland, Aubrey L. Dugger, Vladimir A. Alexeev, Alec P. Bennett, Bob Bolton, Diana L. Bull, Jessica E. Cherry, Ethan Coon, Carl Dierking, Hajo Eicken,
Meredydd Evans, Forrest M. Hoffman, Benjamin M. Jones, Nicole Jeffery, Jitendra Kumar,
Olivia Astillero Lee, Emily Niebuhr, Anastasia Piliouras, Jon Schwenk, Kurt Solander
and David P. Streubel (2020), Collaboration to better understand Arctic change [SY023-0020]
presented at 2020 Fall Meeting, AGU, 1-17 Dec.
Aubrey L. Dugger, Katrina E. Bennett, Vladimir A. Alexeev, Alec P. Bennett, Matthew Casali, Jessica E. Cherry, Brian A. Cosgrove, Carl Dierking, Trude Eidhammer,
Thomas Enzminger, David J Gochis, Joe Grim, Benjamin Crane Johnson, Scott Lindsey,
Emily Niebuhr, Kevin Michael Sampson, David P. Streubel, Wanru Wu and Yongxin Zhang.
(2020), A Multivariate Hydrologic Benchmark for the WRF-Hydro-Based NOAA National
Water Model over Experimental ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñn Watersheds [H119-04] presented at 2020 Fall
Meeting, AGU, 1-17 Dec.
Alec P. Bennett, Vladimir A. Alexeev (2019), Importance of High Quality Bathymetry for Prediction
of Storm Surge [C13D-1348] presented at 2019 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA,
9-13 Dec.
Alec Bennett, Hajo Eicken, Jasper O. Hardesty, Lori Kay Parrott, Mark Ivey, Vladimir A. Alexeev,
Nancy L. Fresco, John C. Eichelberger (2018), Integrated, Multiscale, Multidisciplinary
Research of Arctic Change and Impacts on Security and Infrastructure Resilience in
ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ [GC41I-1562] presented at 2018 Fall Meeting, AGU, Washington, D.C., 10-14 Dec.
Erin Trochim, Edward Schuur, Scott T Rupp, Alec Bennett (2018), Connecting People,
Infrastructure and Permafrost Information in ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ [GC31B-02] presented at 2018 Fall
Meeting, AGU, Washington, D.C., 10-14 Dec.
Zhou Lyu, Helene Genet, Yujie He, Qianlai Zhuang, Anthony David McGuire, Alec P. Bennett, Amy Lynn Breen, Joy Clein, Eugenie Susanne Euskirchen, Kristofer D. Johnson, Thomas
A. Kurkowski, Neal J. Pastick, Scott T. Rupp, Bruce K. Wylie, Zhiliang Zhu, (2017),
The Role of Driving Factors in Historical and Projected Carbon Dynamics in Wetland
Ecosystems of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ [B41G-0299] presented at 2017 Fall Meeting, AGU, New Orleans,
LA, 11-15 Dec.
Eugenie Susanne Euskirchen, Amy Lynn Breen, Alec P. Bennett, Helene Genet, Michael Lindgren, Thomas A. Kurkowski, Anthony David McGuire, Scott
T. Rupp (2016), Consequences of Changes in Vegetation and Snow Cover for Climate Feedbacks
in ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ and Northwest Canada [B54F-04] presented at 2016 Fall Meeting, AGU, San
Francisco, CA, 12-16 Dec.
Rebecca E. Hewitt, Alec Bennett, Amy Lynn Breen, Teresa N. Hollingsworth, Donald Lee Taylor, Terry Chapin (2015),
Getting to the root of the matter: Landscape implications of plant-fungal interactions
for tree migration in ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ [GC13K-03] presented at 2015 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco,
CA, 14-18 Dec.
Eugenie Susanne Euskirchen, Helene Genet, Anthony David McGuire, Scott T. Rupp, Amy
Lynn Breen, Thomas A. Kurkowski, Alec P. Bennett, Gary Kofinas (2014), Modeled changes in terrestrial C storage on the Arctic coastal
plain of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ suggest a mid-century 21st shift from C sink to source [B43J-07] presented
at 2014 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 15-19 Dec.
Helene Genet, Yujin Zhang, Anthony David McGuire, Yujie He, Kristofer D. Johnson,
David V D'Amore, Xiaoping Zhou, Alec P. Bennett, Amy Lynn Breen, Frances E. Biles, Norman B Bliss, Eugenie Susanne Euskirchen, Thomas
A. Kurkowski, Neal J. Pastick, Scott T. Rupp, Bruce K. Wylie, Zhiliang Zhu, Qianlai
Zhuang (2014), The Importance of Permafrost Thaw, Fire and Logging Disturbances as
Driving Factors of Historical and Projected Carbon Dynamics in ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñn Ecosystems
[B53H-05] presented at 2014 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 15-19 Dec.
Amy L. Breen, Alec Bennett, Rebecca Hewiitt, Theresa Hollingsworth, Helene Genet, Eugenie S. Euskirchen, Scott
T. Rupp, Anthony D. McGuire (2013), Tundra fire and vegetation dynamics: simulating
the effect of climate change on fire regimes in Arctic ecosystems [B33I-0592] presented
at 2013 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 9-13 Dec.
Alec Bennett, Tobey B. Carman (2012), Dynamic Coupling of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Based Ecosystem and
Geophysical Models into an Integrated Model [B33E-0555] presented at 2012 Fall Meeting,
AGU, San Francisco, CA, 3-7 Dec.
Anthony D. McGuire, Scott T. Rupp, Alec Bennett, William R. Bolton, Amy Breen, Eugenie S. Euskirchen, Tom Kurkowski, Sergey S. Marchenko,
Vladimir E. Romanovsky, Mark P. Waldrop, Fengming Yuan (2012), The ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Integrated
Ecosystem Model: An Interdisciplinary Tool to Assess the Responses of Natural Resources
in ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ to Climate Change [B33E-0562] presented at 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco,
CA, 3-7 Dec.
Publications in Progress
Arctic Scientific Cooperation: Supporting Circumpolar Permafrost Monitoring and Data
Sharing (co-authors: Alec Bennett, Troy Bouffard, Klaus Dodds, Vladimir Romanovski,
Dmitriy Streletski, Ekaterina Uryupova)
Bennett, A., Bouffard, T., & Bhatt, U. Sea ice decline and Arctic geoengineering solutions:
Cascading security and ethical considerations.
Courses Taught
- HSEM 416: Cybersecurity Management
- HSEM 643: Perspectives in Addressing Cybersecurity & Critical Infrastructure
- HSEM 672: Climate Catastrophes
- HSEM 673: Models & Scenarios for Disaster Risk Reduction
- Others in Development on Climate Security