Our Research Focus

Research in the laboratory broadly focuses on development of quantitative paleoclimate proxies, and their application to intervals of time characterized by major and/or abrupt climate change including past periods of icehouse-to-greenhouse transitions through to the last deglaciation. Students are trained in a broad area of sedimentary geology and geochemistry, and commonly work in both terrestrial and marine systems at the nanometer to km-scale. Climate modeling via collaborations are a component of most projects in the group.

    Speleothem Paleoclimatology

  Moaning Cave, central Sierra Nevada foothills

California Climate of the Last Deglaciation and Pleistocene Glacial Cycles: Cave monitoring of Sierra Nevada cave systems, U-series dating and proxy records of Sierran stalagmites, and climate modeling of the Pacific Northwest

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    Deep-Time Paleoclimatology

Lake Titicaca, Bolivia

Late Paleozoic Ice Age: Integrated sequence stratigraphic, U-Pb dating, geochemical,and climate modeling studies of Permo-Carboniferous Basins

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