Identifying New Community-Driven Science Themes for NSF’s Support of Paleo Perspectives on Climate Change (P2C2): A Workshop

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Andrea Dutton

Andrea Dutton is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Dutton is an international expert in the study of past climate and sea level change using carbonate sedimentology and isotope geochemistry. Her research program focuses on understanding the rates, magnitudes, sources, and drivers of past sea level change to facilitate improved understanding of the climate system and of projections for the future. Dr. Dutton has served in leadership positions for several disciplinary working groups, served on the NASEM committee for the Earth in Time community consensus report (2020), and has an active role in science communication on climate change and sea-level rise. She is a MacArthur Fellow, a Fulbright Scholar, and a fellow of the Geological Society of America. Dr. Dutton received her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and was a postdoctoral fellow and research fellow at the Australian National University and a faculty member at the University of Florida before relocating to Wisconsin.

Tripti Bhattacharya

Tripti Bhattacharya is an early-career Asian American geoscientist specializing in paleoclimate dynamics and data-model integration. Dr. Bhattacharya received her BS degree in Environmental Science in 2010 from Georgetown University and her PhD in Geography in 2016 from the University of California Berkeley. She subsequently was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Arizona from 2016 to 2018. She has been an Assistant Professor at Syracuse University since August 2018. Her work focuses on using paleoclimate data, especially organic geochemical proxies of hydroclimate and temperature, to understand the drivers of regional climate change and to constrain sources of uncertainty in future climate projections. She has published in journals including Nature Geoscience, Science, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Julie Brigham-Grette

Julie Brigham-Grette served 6 years as Department Head of Geosciences (2013-2019) and Chair of the Polar Research Board of the US National Academy of Sciences (2014-2020). She is now President of the AGU Global Environmental Change section. And President of the Quaternary Division of the Geological Society of America. She has been conducting research in the Arctic for 40+ years, including eight field seasons in remote parts of northeast Russia since 1991. After graduating with a BA in Geology from Albion College, she completed her MSc and PhD at the University of Colorado. Julie served as a postdoctoral fellow in Bergen Norway and then at the University of Alberta before taking a faculty position at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 1987. Her research expertise is in Arctic marine and terrestrial sediment records of climate change over the last few million years, especially the history of Arctic sea ice, sea level, and western Arctic landscape change. This research directly addresses global climate change, the most critical problem facing species survival in our century. Professor Brigham-Grette is an elected Fellow of both the Geological Society of America and the American Geophysical Union. She led the $10M International Continental Scientific Drilling Program at Lake El’gygytgyn in NE Russia collecting a record of Arctic change over the past 3.6 million years. She has also been involved in the development of sea ice proxies and the sea ice history of the Bering Strait Region of the western Arctic. For several years Julie and collaborators have run a Research Experience for Undergraduates on Svalbard studying modern processes in front of tidewater glaciers. Julie has new interests in public engagement, using science to inform policy on coastal management challenges with rising sea level. For this reason she is also engaged with indigenous people of Alaska via the NSF Navigating the New Arctic Program.

Christo Buizert

Christo Buizert is an assistant professor in the College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University. His work aims to reconstruct and understand past climate change and atmospheric composition, using deep ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica. One of his main research interests is abrupt climate change of the last ice age (the so-called Dansgaard-Oeschger cycle), and its impact on global climate, atmospheric circulation, and biochemistry. In 2012, Dr. Buizert obtained a PhD in geophysics from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has been awarded research grants through the NSF Paleo Perspectives on Climate Change (P2C2) program, and has published many scientific papers on topics relevant to the program.

Natalie Burls

Natalie J. Burls is an Associate Professor at George Mason University. Dr. Burls' research is focused on improving our understanding of the key processes determining Earth’s climate and climate variability on a variety of timescales ranging from seasonal, to decadal, to much longer geological timescales. In particular, she is interested in the climatic role of ocean general circulation, ocean-atmosphere interaction and cloud dynamics. Her research efforts acknowledge that, to fully understand, model and predict changes in climate characteristics that have a large impact on the Earth system and society (e.g. temperature and precipitation patterns), a coupled ocean-atmosphere perspective is needed – one that accounts for changes in important variables such as the thermal structure of the slowly-adjusting ocean. Complementing observations with theory, she endeavors to accompany complex simulations of climate phenomena with simple models capturing the essential dynamics required to explain unanswered questions within climate science. Dr. Burls received her PhD in Physical Oceanography from the University of Cape Town in 2010. From 2011 to 2014, she worked as a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Yale University. She joined George Mason in January 2015.

Sarah Feakins

Sarah Feakins is a Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on past climate and vegetation change, using organic geochemical techniques. She has used knowledge of modern plants and sedimentary systems to document changes in ecosystems over millions of years using samples collected by the International Ocean Discovery Program. She obtained her undergraduate degree in Geography at the University of Oxford, her PhD in Earth Sciences from Columbia University's Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory and she was a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Global and Climate Change Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Feakins has authored over 60 peer reviewed papers and book chapters, and she has five years’ experience as an Associate Editor (Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Geophysical Research Letters, and Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology). She participated in an NAS workshop “Earth System Context for Hominin Evolution” in 2008.

Isabel P. Montanez

Isabel Patricia Montañez (NAS) is a Distinguished Professor and Chancellor’s Leadership Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Davis. Dr. Montañez is a paleoclimatologist whose research focuses on geologic archives of past atmospheric gas and ocean geochemical compositions and their linkages to climate and ecosystem changes. She received her Ph.D. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1990 and has received several awards, including the James Lee Wilson Medal for Excellence by a Young Scientist, the Laurence L. Sloss Award from the The Geological Society of America, the Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Medal from the European Geosciences Union, and the Francis J. Pettijohn Medal from the Society of Sedimentary Geology (SEPM). She is a Fellow of several professional societies (AGU, GSA, AAAS), a past Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences. She served as President of The Geological Society of America from 2017 to 2018. In 2021, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Kaustubh Thirumalai

Kaustubh Thirumalai is an assistant professor at the University of Arizona in the Department of Geosciences. His primary professional expertise is in the area of paleoceanography and climate change/dynamics. He obtained his Ph.D. and M.S. at the University of Texas at Austin in 2016 and 2012 respectively, where he focused on Holocene paleoceanography of the Gulf of Mexico for his doctoral work and on statistical evaluations of El Niño Southern Oscillation reconstructions from individual foraminifera for his MS thesis. Dr. Thirumalai subsequently spent a year as the Institute for Geophysics Institutional Postdoctoral Fellow from 2016-17, and then as a Presidential Postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University from 2017-2019. He started as an assistant professor at Arizona in 2019 July, and is the director of the Paleoceanography Laboratory. He serves as an Associate Editor for Paleoceanography & Paleoclimatology (AGU Wiley Journal) and has experience nominating individuals for awards.

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Identifying New Community-Driven Science Themes for NSF’s Support of Paleoclimate Research: A Workshop

June 21 - 23, 2021

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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine organized a workshop that sought to identify potential future paleoclimate research directions that will help advance understanding of current and future change in the Earth’s climate system. Drawing upon broad community input collected via an online questionnaire, workshop discussions addressed gaps in our current understanding of past climate variability and processes, and new research strategies and technological capabilities that could practically be undertaken to effectively fill these knowledge gaps.

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