Rob DeConto has been elected as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), among the most prestigious distinctions in the earth, climate and space sciences. He joins just 54 other individuals in the 2022 Class of Fellows. See more details of the award in the UMass news release.
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Julie Brigham-Grette receives Distinguished Career Award from the American Quaternary Association
Julie Brigham-Grette was recently honored with the Distinguished Career Award from the American Quaternary Association. This award recognizes her decades-long commitment to and positive impact within Quaternary science community. Read more in the UMass news release.
UMass study: Coastal Northeast is warming faster than most other regions in the U.S.
In a paper recently published in Nature Climate Change, Ambarish Karmalkar, research assistant professor and investigator with UMass-Amherst’s Northeast Climate and Adaptation Science Center, described the accelerated warming and factors behind the trend. Read more in the UMass news release.
CSRC’s Julie Brigham-Grette playing a prominent role in international effort to limit GHG emissions
University of Massachusetts Amherst professor of geosciences Julie Brigham-Grette is playing a prominent role in a new international effort, named www.50×30.net, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. UMass-Amherst is a founding institution. Read more in the UMass press release.
Julie Brigham-Grette and Steve Petsch publish article in The Conversation
In an article published in The Conversation, CSRC members Julie Brigham-Grette and Steve Petsch write about how recent Arctic warming foreshadows big changes for the rest of the planet. Click here to read the article.
New paper on Future climate response to Antarctic Ice Sheet melt caused by anthropogenic warming
In a new paper published in Science Advances, CSRC PhD student Shaina Sadai and Rob DeConto along with Alan Condron (Woods Hole) and Davis Pollard (Penn State) examined impacts of accelerated ice melt from the Antarctic Ice Sheet on future climate. Read the press release here.
Julie Brigham-Grette awarded Geological Society of America (GSA) Continental Scientific Drilling Division (CSD) Distinguished Lecturer 2020
The Geological Society of America’s (GSA) Continental Scientific Drilling Division (CSD) Geosciences Professor Julie Brigham-Grette as one of its two Distinguished Lecturers for 2020, which means she will be available to give online seminars on her Arctic drilling research to geologists anywhere in the world by request this fall and into spring 2021. Read more in the UMass news release.
Huge Stores of Arctic Sea Ice Likely Contributed to Past Climate Cooling
In a new paper, Alan Condron (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), CSRC Director Ray Bradley, and graduate student Anthony Joyce propose that massive amounts of melting sea ice in the Arctic drained into the North Atlantic and disrupted climate-steering currents, thus playing an important role in causing past abrupt climate change after the last Ice Age. See the full press release and the paper published in Geology.
Rob DeConto Taking Part in Historic UN Climate Policy Session
This week, representatives of 195 member governments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are meeting at the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco with dozens of climate scientists who have prepared a draft “Summary for Policymakers” of their “Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC). ” Here read the UMass press release…
UMass Amherst Climate Researcher Raymond Bradley Receives High Honor from Canadian Society
Internationally recognized climate scientist and Distinguished Professor Raymond S. Bradley at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has been elected an International Fellow in the Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences Division of the Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) for “major contributions to our understanding of the nature and causes of climate change.” Read more …