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Lorraine Lisiecki

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Lorraine Lisiecki is an American paleoclimatologist. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[1] She has proposed a new analysis of the 100,000-year problem in the Milankovitch theory of climate change.[2] She also created the analytical software behind the LR04,[3] a "standard representation of the climate history of the last five million years".[4]

She received the Subaru Outstanding Woman in Science Award from the Geological Society of America in 2008.[4]

References

  1. ^ USCB faculty page
  2. ^ Lorraine E. Lisiecki. "Links between eccentricity forcing and the 100,000-year glacial cycle". Nature Geoscience. doi:10.1038/ngeo828.
  3. ^ Paleoceangraphy, 2004
  4. ^ a b Geological Society of America, 2008 Subaru Outstanding Woman in Science Award