Paleoclimate
Paleoclimate
Reconstructing how terrestrial ecosystems are influenced by environmental perturbations, such as long and short term climate change events, mass extinctions, tectonic modification of sedimentary basins, and local changes to river and lake depositional systems is critical to allow us to better understand the Earth’s climate and biota in the past and the future. Our research focuses on topics including extreme climate variability, responses of fluvial, lacustrine, and hydrologic systems to climatic and environmental change, ecological changes, carbon cycling, hominid evolution, and elucidating the record and forcings for continental-scale climate variability.
Paleoclimate sub-discipline research:
| Fluvial Geomorphology | Geochemistry |
| Stable Isotope Geochemistry | Organic Geochemistry and Biogeochemistry |
| Geochronology | Human - Environment Interactions |
| Pedology and Paleopedology | Quantitative Geomorphology/Quaternary Environments |
| Geoarcheology | Stratigraphy and Sedimentology |
Faculty Research Interest
Dr. Stacy Atchley
- Fluvial Geomorphology
- Geochemistry
- Pedology and Paleopedology
- Statigraphy and Sedimentology
Dr. Steve Dworkin
- Geochemistry
- Stable Isotope Geochemistry
- Stratigraphy and Sedimentology
Dr. Joseph Ferraro
- Human - Environment Interactions
- Geoarcheology
Dr. James Fulton
- Geochemistry
- Stable Isotope Geochemistry
- Organic Geochemistry and Biogeochemistry
Dr. William Hockaday
- Geochemistry
- Stable Isotope Geochemistry
- Organic Geochemistry and Biogeochemistry
- Human -Environment Interactions
- Geoarcheology
Dr. Julie Hoggarth
- Human -Environment Interactions
- Geoarcheology
Dr. Lee Nordt
- Pedology and Paleopedology
- Quantitative Geomorphology/Quaternary Environments
- Geoarcheology
Dr. Daniel Peppe
- Geochronology
- Human -Environment Interactions
- Geoarcheology
- Stratigraphy and Sedimentology