Dan Cronan

Biography

Dan has focused on research, practice, and teaching in multiple locations and scales including projects in China, Turkey, the U.S. Pacific Northwest, New York State and the Gulf Coast. His current efforts are focused on developing research and pedagogical approaches on various topics germane to Food and the Built Environment such as, a) Food, Energy and Water Systems (FEWS) analysis, b) landscape scenario planning and Geodesign through applications of GIS, c) digital twin development, and d) design and planning of agricultural and urban best management practices.

Dan’s previous research involves scenario modeling and planning which aligns stakeholder perspectives and researcher-based trajectories of change for National Research Foundation (NSF) funded research projects: Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems (INFEWS), Genomics by Environment (GEM3), and a sub-award for land use Scenario Modeling. Dan has also contributed to research efforts with a number of agencies and foundations including Americorps, Metlife Foundation, National Park Service (NPS), and UNESCO.

His work and course instruction are comprised of an Alternative Futures Analysis using a scenario modeling framework through geospatial narratives and tools: Web-based geospatial applications, digital twins, and scenario & climate atlases.

The scenario-based land use projections are intended to provide guidance for community planning and a framework for future development in socio-ecological systems, specifically food systems within the urban and rural context. With the School of Design and Construction at WSU, Dan intends to continue to apply similar and novel concepts of scenario planning for food and the built environment for Northwest communities and regional-scale networks.

Education

Louisiana State University – 2007, B.L.A.

University of Oregon – 2017, M.L.A.

University of Idaho – 2022, Ph.D.

Selected Publications

Huang, Li, Cronan, Daniel, and Kliskey, Andrew. (2024). Stakeholder-drive policies and scenarios of Land System Change and Environmental Impacts: A Case Study of Owyhee County, Idaho, United States. Sustainability, 16(1), 467. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16010467

Cronan, Daniel, E. Jamie Trammell, and Andrew Kliskey. (2023). From Uncertainties to Solutions: A Scenario-Based Framework for an Agriculture Protection Zone in Magic Valley Idaho. Land 12, no. 4: 862. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12040862

Cronan, Daniel. (2023). The GEM3 Vertically Integrated Approach to a Geodesign Studio: Aligning Student Design-Thinking and Project Needs of a Transdisciplinary Project. Landscape Research Record, Evolving Norms, vol.11. The Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, p.44-56.

Williams, P., Kliskey, A. A., Cronan, D., Trammell, E. J., de Haro-Martí, M. E., & Wilson, J. (2023). Constructing futures, enhancing solutions: Stakeholder-driven scenario development and system modeling for climate-change challenges. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 11, 1055547. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1055547

Kliskey, A. “Anaru,” Williams, P., Trammell, E. J., Cronan, D., Griffith, D., Alessa, L., Lammers, R., Haro-Martí, M. E. de, & Oxarango-Ingram, J. (2023). Building trust, building futures: Knowledge co-production as relationship, design, and process in transdisciplinary science. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 11, 1007105. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1007105

Cronan, D., Trammell, E. J., Kliskey, A. (Anaru), Williams, P., & Alessa, L. (2022). Socio-Ecological Futures: Embedded Solutions for Stakeholder-Driven Alternative Futures. Sustainability, 14(7), 3732. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14073732

Cronan, D., Trammell, E. J., & Kliskey, A. (Anaru). (2022). Images to Evoke Decision-Making: Building Compelling Representations for Stakeholder-Driven Futures. Sustainability, 14(5), 2980. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14052980

Leytem, A. B., Williams, P., Zuidema, S., Martinez, A., Chong, Y. L., Vincent, A., Vincent, A., Cronan, D., Kliskey, A., Wulfhorst, J. D., Alessa, L., & Bjorneberg, D. (2021). Cycling Phosphorus and Nitrogen through Cropping Systems in an Intensive Dairy Production Region. Agronomy, 11(5), 1005. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11051005

Cronan, D., Kliskey, A., Trammell, J., Lorentzen, C., Griffith, D., & Williams, P. (2019). An Alternative Futures Approach to Green Infrastructure Planning for an Increasing Population. Proceedings of the Fábos Conference on Landscape and Greenway Planning, 6(1). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.7275/evjy-c088

Cronan, Daniel. (2019). The Nexus Studio: A Synergistic Pedagogical Approach for Integrating Research and Evaluating Learning within a Landscape Architecture Studio. Landscape Research Record, Engaged Scholarship, vol.8. The Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, p.35-47.

Zuidema, S., Cronan, D., Trammell, E. J., & Lammers, R. B. (2019). Plausible 21st century water management through stakeholder-driven modeling of a water-stressed, agricultural socio-economic system in the American West. 2019, GC43H-1406. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019AGUFMGC43H1406Z

Cronan, D., Kliskey, A. D., Griffith, D., Trammell, E. J., Villamor, G., Williams, P., & Lorentzen, C. (2018). Approaching the Nexus: An integrated approach for stakeholder engagement in Food, Energy, and Water Systems in Idaho’s Magic Valley. 2018, GC53F-1013. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMGC53F1013C