Department of Geosciences Environmental Studies Laboratory : Former Graduate Students

 
Here is a list of previous graduate students and their earned degree, current whereabouts, thesis title, and thesis publications.

Mailing Address
1040 E. Fourth St.
Department of Geosciences
University of Arizona
Gould-Simpson Room 208
Tucson, AZ 85721-0077

Telephone Number
1.520.621.8025

Facsimile Number
1.520.621.2672

 

 

 

 
 

Allison Drake, M.S.

INSTAAR Stable Isotope Laboratory
Unversity of Colorado

 
 

Konrad Hughen

Konrad Hughen, Ph.D.


Assistant Scientist of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Dissertation Title: Development and Application of Varved Sediment Records for Geochronological and Paleoclimatic Research (Global Climate Change)

 

Hughen, K., S. Lehman, J. Southon, J. Overpeck, O. Marchal, C. Herring, and J. Turnbull. 2004. 14C activity and global carbon cycle changes over the past 50,000 years. Science 303: 202-207.

Hughen, K.A., J.R. Southon, S.J. Lehman, and J.T. Overpeck. 2000. Synchronous radiocarbon and climate shifts during deglaciation. Science 290: 1951-1954.

Hughen, K.A., J.T. Overpeck, and R.F. Anderson. 2000. Recent warming in a 500-year palaeotemperature record from varved sediments, Upper Soper Lake, Baffin Island, Canada. The Holocene 10: 9-19.

Hughen, K.A., J.T. Overpeck, S.J. Lehman, M. Kashgarian, J. Southon, and L.C. Peterson. 1998. A new 14C calibration data set for the last deglaciation based on marine varves. Radiocarbon 40: 483-494.

Hughen, K.A., J.T. Overpeck, S.J. Lehman, M. Kashgarian, L.C. Peterson, and R. Alley. 1998. Deglacial 14C calibration, activity and climate from a marine varve record. Nature 391: 65-68.

Hughen, K.A., J.T. Overpeck, L.C. Peterson, and S. Trumbore. 1996. Abrupt deglacial climatic change in the tropical Atlantic. Nature 380: 51-54.

 
 
Mike Kerwin

Mike Kerwin, Ph.D.


Assistant Professor of Geography
University of Denver

Dissertation Title: Quantifying and Modeling Holocene Climate Variability Based on Modern and Fossil Pollen Records from the Eastern Canadian Arctic and Subarctic

 

Kerwin, M.W., J.T. Overpeck, R.S. Webb, and K.H. Anderson. 2004. Pollen-based summer temperature reconstructions for the eastern Canadian boreal forest, subarctic, and Arctic. Quaternary Science Reviews 23: 1901-1924.

Kerwin, M., J.T. Overpeck, R.S. Webb, A. DeVernal, D.H. Rind, and R.J. Healy. 1999. The role of oceanic forcing in mid-Holocene northern hemisphere climatic change. Paleoceanography 14: 200-210.

Others in preparation

 
 
Kathy Likos

Kathy Likos, M.S.

High School Teacher of College Preparatory Chemistry and Integrated Science
Tucson, Arizona

 
 
Carrie Morrill

Carrie Morrill, PhD. (jointly advised with Julie Cole)

Post-doctoral Scientist
National Center for Atmospheric Research

Dissertation Title: Century-scale Changes in Asian Summer Monsoon Precipitation during the Holocene

 

Morrill, C., J.T. Overpeck, J.E. Cole, K-b Liu, C. Shen, and L. Tang. 2005. Holocene variations in the Asian monsoon inferred from the geochemistry of lake sediments in central Tibet. Quaternary Research (in press).

Morrill, C., J.T. Overpeck, and J.E. Cole. 2003. A synthesis of abrupt changes in the Asian summer monsoon since the last deglaciation. The Holocene 13: 465-476.

Others in preparation

 
 
Alex Robertson

Alex Robertson, M.S.

High School Teacher of Science and Math
Boulder, Colorado

Thesis Title: Simulated and Observed Climate Variability of the Last 500 Years

 
Robertson, A.D., J.T. Overpeck, D. Rind, E. Mosley-Thompson, G.A. Zielinski, J.L. Lean, D. Koch, J.E. Penner, I. Tegen, and R. Healy. 2001. Hypothesized climate forcing time series for the last 500 years. Journal of Geophysical Research 106: 14,783-14,803.
 
 
Tim Shanahan

Tim Shanahan, Ph.D.

Post-doctoral Researcher
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Dissertation Title: West African Monsoon Variability from a High-Resolution Paleolimnological Record Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana

 
 
Frank Urban

Frank Urban, M.S. (jointly advised with Julie Cole)

U.S. Geological Survey
Denver, Colorado

Thesis Title: Multiple Modes of Tropical Pacific Climate Variability Recorded in the delta-18O of Corals from the Gilbert Islands, Kiribati, West Central Pacific

 

Urban, F.E., J.E. Cole, and J.T. Overpeck. 2000. Influence of mean climate change on variability in a 155-year tropical Pacific coral record. Nature 407: 989-993.

 

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