RECENT NEWS
--2020-- 31 Jul. Phoebe and Dora successfully defend their dissertations in the same week. 18 May. Congratulations to Jiang on his new position at as a Project Scientist at NCAR! --2019-- 18 Sept. Jiang's Science Advances study on climate sensitivity is out! See a press release here. 13 Sept. Phoebe's study of the effect of forest structure on forest water cycling is published in JGR Biogeosciences! 1 Mar. Congratulations to Phoebe for receiving a prestigious Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship!! 30 Jan. Dora's paper on water isotopes over the Tibet/Himalaya region was published in Climates of the Past. --2018-- 14 Jul. Congrats to Rich on the publication of his JGR manuscript describing atmospheric water cycling at Camp Davis, Wyoming. 21 Jun. Postdoc opportunities in paleo/climate modeling using CESM available! See full description here. 16 Mar. Alex passes his qualifying exam! 15 Mar. Our Nature Communications paper is published here. Great job Chris S.! 9 Mar. Chris S. accepts faculty offer at the University of Massachusetts Lowell! 5 Mar. Sophia passes her qualifying exam! 16 Mar. Alex passes his qualifying exam! 15 Mar. Our Nature Communications paper is published here. Great job Chris S.! 9 Mar. Chris S. accepts faculty offer at the University of Massachusetts Lowell! 5 Mar. Sophia passes her qualifying exam! 24 Jul. Check out our new review paper on the Tectonic evolution of the Central Andes. 24 Apr. Congratulations to Andrew for passing his candidacy exam! 7 Apr. Phoebe presents a poster at the Michigan Geophysical Union at UM. 7 Apr. Phoebe presents a poster at the Michigan Geophysical Union at UM. 8 Mar. Rich is awarded the Dorr Graduate Student Achievement Award from our department! 25 Feb. Congratulations to Phoebe for passing her candidacy exam! 23 Feb. Chris talks science and drinks beer at Science Cafe on Ancient Climates, Future Climates--What can the deep past tell us? 25 Nov. Ashley Matheny's study on differing tree hydraulics is published in Ecohydrology. 16 Nov. Congratulations to Alexandre Pohl on his successful dissertation defense from LSCE! 24 Oct. See our new Nature Geoscience paper on CO2-climate-ecosystem linkages here. 15 Oct. Ran, Sierra and Clay both have papers coming out in November's Geology. 30 May. Chris and Phoebe get eaten alive by biting flies in Puno, Peru. 23 May. Chris and Phoebe leave for field work in southern Peru. 12 Apr. Rich successfully defended his PhD Thesis! He will be starting a post-doc at the University of Utah in May. 14-15 Jan. Attended DeepMIP planning meeting at NCAR to plan an Eocene modeling inter comparison project. Spent time with Ran and Clay, both happy post-docs at NCAR. 14-18 Dec. Rich, Clay, Chris S., Chana and Sierra will be representing the lab at AGU. 12 Dec. Check out Clay's newest publication on the mid-Pleistocene transition here in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.. 12 Dec. Chris S.'s study on tropical plumes is published here in Geophysical Research Letters. 4 Dec. Clay successfully defends his dissertation! 3 Nov. Rich's manuscript on long term evaporation over the central Andes is out! See it here in Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 10 Sept. Rich accepts a Postdoctoral Position with the Inter-university Training for Continental-ecology program at the University of Utah to start in 2016. 6. Sept. Dan Horton (PhD 2011) accepts position as Assistant Professor in the Dept of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Northwestern University. 28 Aug. Ran defends her dissertation: "Detangling climate and topographic history from Cenozoic proxy records: Examples from western North America and the Andes-eastern tropical Pacific" 12 Jun. Check out the June 12th issue of Science. Chris, Clay, and Joseph White (Baylor) have a paper on the effect of atmospheric oxygen on the climate! A press release of the article can be read here. 15 Jun. Clay and Ran attend the 20th Annual CESM Workshop in Breckenridge, CO. 27 May. Chris attended a workshop on climate-erosion-tectonic interactions in Taiwan and saw former lab members Shih-Yu Lee and Nadja Insel. 21 Apr. Rich's paper on the stable isotopes of the central Andes precipitation is published in Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 7 Apr. More great employment news...Alex has accepted a position at Industrial Economics Incorporated in Boston! 28 Mar. Ran will be joining the NCAR Paleoclimate Group as a Postdoctoral Researcher in September! 27 Mar. Clay is awarded a prestigious NCAR ASP Postdoctoral Fellowship! |