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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]

Education

Lisiecki received her S.B. in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science in 1999 and also obtained an S.M. in Geosystems in 2000 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She also earned a S.M. and Ph.D. in Geological Sciences, both from Brown University in 2003 and 2005. Lisiecki's Ph.D. thesis was titled “Paleoclimate time series: New alignment and compositing techniques, a 5.3-Myr benthic δ18O stack, and analysis of Pliocene-Pleistocene climate transitions”.[5]

Research Interests

Lisiecki's current research focuses on paleoclimatology. Lisiecki uses various computational methods to interpret and compare different paleoclimate records. In specific, she is interested in the evolution of the Plio-Pleistocene climate due to its relation to the Milankovitch forcing, 100-kyr glacial cycles, the carbon cycle, and deep-ocean circulation. Currently, Lisiecki designs and develops software for rendering age models and stratigraphy.[5][6]

Awards

  • Editors' Citation for Excellence in Refereeing for Paleoceanography, 2008[6]
  • Joukowsky Outstanding Dissertation Award, 2005[6]

References

  1. ^ USCB faculty page
  2. ^ Lorraine E. Lisiecki (2010). "Links between eccentricity forcing and the 100,000-year glacial cycle". Nature Geoscience. 3 (5): 349–352. doi:10.1038/ngeo828.
  3. ^ Paleoceangraphy, 2004
  4. ^ a b Geological Society of America, 2008 Subaru Outstanding Woman in Science Award
  5. ^ a b "Lorraine Lisiecki's CV" (PDF).
  6. ^ a b c "Lorraine Lisiecki". lorraine-lisiecki.com. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
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