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Jessica Tierney

January 01, 1970

Jessica E. Tierney (born 1982) is an American paleoclimatologist who has worked with geochemical proxies such as marine sediments,[1] mud,[2][3] and TEX86,[4] to study past climate in East Africa.[5] Her papers have been cited more than 2,500 times; her most cited work is Northern Hemisphere Controls on Tropical Southeast African Climate During the Past 60,000 Years.[6] Tierney is currently a professor of geosciences and the Thomas R. Brown Distinguished Chair in Integrative Science at the University of Arizona and faculty affiliate in the University of Arizona School of Geography, Development and Environment[7][3][8][9] Tierney is the first climatologist to win NSF's Alan T Waterman Award (2022) since its inception in 1975.[10]

Jessica Tierney
Born1982
San Francisco, CA
Alma materBrown University, B.A., M.Sc., & Ph.D.
AwardsNSF Alan T. Waterman Award

Packard Foundation Fellow

AGU Fellow
Scientific career
FieldsPaleoclimatology, Paleoceanography
InstitutionsUniversity of Arizona, Professor, 2015 - Present
ThesisAn Organic Geochemical Perspective on Tropical East African Paleoclimate (2010)
Doctoral advisorJames M. Russell
Other academic advisorsPeter B. de Menocal
Notable studentsTripti Bhattacharya
Websitewww.geo.arizona.edu/~jesst/

Early life and education edit

Tierney was born in San Francisco, California, and grew up in Marin County. Tierney completed her bachelor's degree in geology in 2005 at Brown University, where she researched trace elements in Peru Margin sediments for her thesis. She completed her Masters and PhD in geology at Brown University with a focus in paleoclimatology and organic geochemistry under the advisement of James M. Russell.[11] At Brown, she also worked closely with Yongsong Huang. Sediment cores from Lake Tanganyika allowed Tierney to examine changes in precipitation and temperature during the past glacial cycle in East Africa. She completed her postdoctoral work at Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory with paleo-oceanographer Peter deMenocal.[11] Tierney worked as an assistant scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution[5] before arriving at the University of Arizona[7] where she is an associate professor.

Research edit

Tierney is notable in paleoclimatology for her climate research using organic biomarkers.[11] Her career studying past climate change was driven by her passion for both history and science.[11][5] Tierney, along with Peter deMenocal and Paul Zander, studied the past climate of the Horn of Africa. They took cores of marine sediment, testing for alkenones, and concluded that about 70,000 years ago this region experienced a change from a wet climate to a dry, cold climate. Tierney and the co-authors determine this climate shift, which coincides with climate change and human activity,[1] to be the force behind human migration.[12][7][13] In addition, Tierney uses mud and leaf wax to learn about precipitation and the evolution of monsoons.[2][3][14] Tierney also uses TEX86, a biomarker that tracks temperature, to study past climate in the tropics[4] on decadal and interannual scales;[6] for example, examining the relationship Indo-Pacific variability and East African rainfall.[15]

Awards edit

Selected publications edit

  • Northern hemisphere controls on tropical southeast African climate during the past 60,000 years, Science, 2008[6][21]
  • Distributions of branched GDGTs in a tropical lake system: implications for lacustrine application of the MBT/CBT paleoproxy, Organic Geochemistry, 2009[6][22]
  • Environmental controls on branched tetraether lipid distributions in tropical East African lake sediments, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2010[6][23]
  • Multidecadal variability in East African hydroclimate controlled by the Indian Ocean, Nature, 2013[6][24]

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Hotter, Drier, Hungrier: How Global Warming Punishes the World's Poorest". Retrieved 2018-11-08.
  2. ^ a b "UA researchers use mud to predict monsoon trends". KVOA.com. 2018-09-21. Retrieved 2018-11-08.
  3. ^ a b c "Chemical fossils". Chemistry World. Retrieved 2018-11-08.
  4. ^ a b "The arc of TEX86 with Jessica Tierney". Forecast: a podcast about climate science and climate scientists. 2017-07-12. Retrieved 2018-11-08.
  5. ^ a b c d "Jessica Tierney – Honors Program". Honors Program. Retrieved 2018-11-08.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Jessica Tierney – Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2018-11-08.
  7. ^ a b c "Ancient humans left Africa to escape drying climate". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 2018-11-08.
  8. ^ "Jessica Tierney Named Thomas R. Brown Distinguished Chair in Integrative Science". College of Science. 2022-04-21. Retrieved 2022-05-05.
  9. ^ "Jessica Tierney". 29 October 2021.
  10. ^ "NSF recognizes 3 scientists with the Alan T. Waterman Award". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
  11. ^ a b c d Star, Tom Beal Arizona Daily. "Scientist loves climate history – and her tattoo proves it". Arizona Daily Star. Retrieved 2018-11-08.
  12. ^ Kaenel, ClimateWire, Camille von. "Horn of Africa Grows Hotter and Drier". Scientific American. Retrieved 2018-11-08.
  13. ^ Tierney, Jessica E.; deMenocal, Peter B.; Zander, Paul D. (2017-10-02). "A climatic context for the out-of-Africa migration". Geology. 45 (11): 1023–1026. Bibcode:2017Geo....45.1023T. doi:10.1130/G39457.1. ISSN 0091-7613.
  14. ^ Mace, Mikayla. "Ocean muck used by UA researchers to study ancient monsoons, help improve forecasting". Arizona Daily Star. Retrieved 2018-11-08.
  15. ^ Ummenhofer, Caroline C.; Kulüke, Marco; Tierney, Jessica E. (April 2018). "Extremes in East African hydroclimate and links to Indo-Pacific variability on interannual to decadal timescales". Climate Dynamics. 50 (7–8): 2971–2991. Bibcode:2018ClDy...50.2971U. doi:10.1007/s00382-017-3786-7. hdl:1912/10299. ISSN 0930-7575. S2CID 134263671.
  16. ^ "UArizona paleoclimatologist to receive NSF's highest early-career honor". University of Arizona News. 2022-04-20. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
  17. ^ "UA Scientists Selected as Authors for International Climate Report". UANews. Retrieved 2018-11-08.
  18. ^ "UA Geoscientist Awarded Packard Fellowship". UANews. Retrieved 2018-11-08.
  19. ^ "Pieter Schenck Awards". EAOG. Retrieved 2018-11-08.
  20. ^ "Jessica Tierney Receives Macelwane Award from American Geophysical Union". Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Retrieved 2018-11-14.
  21. ^ Tierney, Jessica E.; Russell, James M.; Huang, Yongsong; Damsté, Jaap S. Sinninghe; Hopmans, Ellen C.; Cohen, Andrew S. (2008-10-10). "Northern Hemisphere Controls on Tropical Southeast African Climate During the Past 60,000 Years". Science. 322 (5899): 252–255. Bibcode:2008Sci...322..252T. doi:10.1126/science.1160485. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 18787132. S2CID 7364713.
  22. ^ Tierney, Jessica E.; Russell, James M. (2009-09-01). "Distributions of branched GDGTs in a tropical lake system: Implications for lacustrine application of the MBT/CBT paleoproxy". Organic Geochemistry. 40 (9): 1032–1036. doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2009.04.014. ISSN 0146-6380.
  23. ^ Tierney, J.E.; Russell, J.M.; Eggermont, H.; Hopmans, E.C.; Verschuren, D.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2010-09-01). "Environmental controls on branched tetraether lipid distributions in tropical East African lake sediments". Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 74 (17): 4902–4918. Bibcode:2010GeCoA..74.4902T. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2010.06.002. ISSN 0016-7037.
  24. ^ Tierney, Jessica E.; Smerdon, Jason E.; Anchukaitis, Kevin J.; Seager, Richard (2013-01-17). "Multidecadal variability in East African hydroclimate controlled by the Indian Ocean". Nature. 493 (7432): 389–392. Bibcode:2013Natur.493..389T. doi:10.1038/nature11785. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 23325220. S2CID 4364392.
  25. ^ "Late-twentieth-century warming in Lake Tanganyika unprecedented since AD 500, Nature Geosci 3". 2010. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.703.892. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  26. ^ Tierney, Jessica E.; Russell, James M.; Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S.; Huang, Yongsong; Verschuren, Dirk (2011-04-01). "Late Quaternary behavior of the East African monsoon and the importance of the Congo Air Boundary". Quaternary Science Reviews. 30 (7–8): 798–807. Bibcode:2011QSRv...30..798T. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.01.017. ISSN 0277-3791.
  27. ^ Tierney, Jessica E.; deMenocal, Peter B. (2013-11-15). "Abrupt Shifts in Horn of Africa Hydroclimate Since the Last Glacial Maximum". Science. 342 (6160): 843–846. Bibcode:2013Sci...342..843T. doi:10.1126/science.1240411. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 24114782. S2CID 26666581.
  28. ^ Tierney, Jessica E.; Oppo, Delia W.; Rosenthal, Yair; Russell, James M.; Linsley, Braddock K. (March 2010). "Coordinated hydrological regimes in the Indo-Pacific region during the past two millennia" (PDF). Paleoceanography. 25 (1): PA1102. Bibcode:2010PalOc..25.1102T. doi:10.1029/2009pa001871. hdl:1912/3863. ISSN 0883-8305.
  29. ^ Tierney, Jessica E.; Russell, James M.; Huang, Yongsong (2010-03-01). "A molecular perspective on Late Quaternary climate and vegetation change in the Lake Tanganyika basin, East Africa". Quaternary Science Reviews. 29 (5–6): 787–800. Bibcode:2010QSRv...29..787T. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.11.030. ISSN 0277-3791.

External links edit

  • Official website

January 01, 1970
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Jessica E Tierney born 1982 is an American paleoclimatologist who has worked with geochemical proxies such as marine sediments 1 mud 2 3 and TEX86 4 to study past climate in East Africa 5 Her papers have been cited more than 2 500 times her most cited work is Northern Hemisphere Controls on Tropical Southeast African Climate During the Past 60 000 Years 6 Tierney is currently a professor of geosciences and the Thomas R Brown Distinguished Chair in Integrative Science at the University of Arizona and faculty affiliate in the University of Arizona School of Geography Development and Environment 7 3 8 9 Tierney is the first climatologist to win NSF s Alan T Waterman Award 2022 since its inception in 1975 10 Jessica TierneyBorn1982San Francisco CAAlma materBrown University B A M Sc amp Ph D AwardsNSF Alan T Waterman Award Packard Foundation Fellow AGU FellowScientific careerFieldsPaleoclimatology PaleoceanographyInstitutionsUniversity of Arizona Professor 2015 PresentThesisAn Organic Geochemical Perspective on Tropical East African Paleoclimate 2010 Doctoral advisorJames M RussellOther academic advisorsPeter B de MenocalNotable studentsTripti BhattacharyaWebsitewww wbr geo wbr arizona wbr edu wbr jesst wbr Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Research 3 Awards 4 Selected publications 5 References 6 External linksEarly life and education editTierney was born in San Francisco California and grew up in Marin County Tierney completed her bachelor s degree in geology in 2005 at Brown University where she researched trace elements in Peru Margin sediments for her thesis She completed her Masters and PhD in geology at Brown University with a focus in paleoclimatology and organic geochemistry under the advisement of James M Russell 11 At Brown she also worked closely with Yongsong Huang Sediment cores from Lake Tanganyika allowed Tierney to examine changes in precipitation and temperature during the past glacial cycle in East Africa She completed her postdoctoral work at Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory with paleo oceanographer Peter deMenocal 11 Tierney worked as an assistant scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 5 before arriving at the University of Arizona 7 where she is an associate professor Research editTierney is notable in paleoclimatology for her climate research using organic biomarkers 11 Her career studying past climate change was driven by her passion for both history and science 11 5 Tierney along with Peter deMenocal and Paul Zander studied the past climate of the Horn of Africa They took cores of marine sediment testing for alkenones and concluded that about 70 000 years ago this region experienced a change from a wet climate to a dry cold climate Tierney and the co authors determine this climate shift which coincides with climate change and human activity 1 to be the force behind human migration 12 7 13 In addition Tierney uses mud and leaf wax to learn about precipitation and the evolution of monsoons 2 3 14 Tierney also uses TEX86 a biomarker that tracks temperature to study past climate in the tropics 4 on decadal and interannual scales 6 for example examining the relationship Indo Pacific variability and East African rainfall 15 Awards editNSF s Alan T Waterman Award 2022 16 A lead author for the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC 2021 17 Packard Science and Engineering Fellowship 2015 2020 18 Pieter Schenk Award 2015 19 James B Macelwane Medal 2014 5 20 Selected publications editNorthern hemisphere controls on tropical southeast African climate during the past 60 000 years Science 2008 6 21 Distributions of branched GDGTs in a tropical lake system implications for lacustrine application of the MBT CBT paleoproxy Organic Geochemistry 2009 6 22 Environmental controls on branched tetraether lipid distributions in tropical East African lake sediments Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 2010 6 23 Multidecadal variability in East African hydroclimate controlled by the Indian Ocean Nature 2013 6 24 Late twentieth century warming in Lake Tanganyika unprecedented since AD 500 Nature Geoscience 2010 6 25 Late Quaternary behavior of the East African monsoon and the importance of the Congo Air Boundary Quaternary Science Reviews 2011 6 26 Abrupt Shifts in Horn of Africa Hydroclimate Since the Last Glacial Maximum Science 2013 6 27 Coordinated hydrological regimes in the Indo Pacific region during the past two millennia Paleoceanography 2010 6 28 A molecular perspective on Late Quaternary climate and vegetation change in the Lake Tanganyika basin East Africa Quaternary Science Reviews 2010 6 29 References edit a b Hotter Drier Hungrier How Global Warming Punishes the World s Poorest Retrieved 2018 11 08 a b UA researchers use mud to predict monsoon trends KVOA com 2018 09 21 Retrieved 2018 11 08 a b c Chemical fossils Chemistry World Retrieved 2018 11 08 a b The arc of TEX86 with Jessica Tierney Forecast a podcast about climate science and climate scientists 2017 07 12 Retrieved 2018 11 08 a b c d Jessica Tierney Honors Program Honors Program Retrieved 2018 11 08 a b c d e f g h i j k Jessica Tierney Google Scholar Citations scholar google com Retrieved 2018 11 08 a b c Ancient humans left Africa to escape drying climate EurekAlert Retrieved 2018 11 08 Jessica Tierney Named Thomas R Brown Distinguished Chair in Integrative Science College of Science 2022 04 21 Retrieved 2022 05 05 Jessica Tierney 29 October 2021 NSF recognizes 3 scientists with the Alan T Waterman Award www nsf gov Retrieved 2022 04 21 a b c d Star Tom Beal Arizona Daily Scientist loves climate history and her tattoo proves it Arizona Daily Star Retrieved 2018 11 08 Kaenel ClimateWire Camille von Horn of Africa Grows Hotter and Drier Scientific American Retrieved 2018 11 08 Tierney Jessica E deMenocal Peter B Zander Paul D 2017 10 02 A climatic context for the out of Africa migration Geology 45 11 1023 1026 Bibcode 2017Geo 45 1023T doi 10 1130 G39457 1 ISSN 0091 7613 Mace Mikayla Ocean muck used by UA researchers to study ancient monsoons help improve forecasting Arizona Daily Star Retrieved 2018 11 08 Ummenhofer Caroline C Kuluke Marco Tierney Jessica E April 2018 Extremes in East African hydroclimate and links to Indo Pacific variability on interannual to decadal timescales Climate Dynamics 50 7 8 2971 2991 Bibcode 2018ClDy 50 2971U doi 10 1007 s00382 017 3786 7 hdl 1912 10299 ISSN 0930 7575 S2CID 134263671 UArizona paleoclimatologist to receive NSF s highest early career honor University of Arizona News 2022 04 20 Retrieved 2022 04 21 UA Scientists Selected as Authors for International Climate Report UANews Retrieved 2018 11 08 UA Geoscientist Awarded Packard Fellowship UANews Retrieved 2018 11 08 Pieter Schenck Awards EAOG Retrieved 2018 11 08 Jessica Tierney Receives Macelwane Award from American Geophysical Union Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Retrieved 2018 11 14 Tierney Jessica E Russell James M Huang Yongsong Damste Jaap S Sinninghe Hopmans Ellen C Cohen Andrew S 2008 10 10 Northern Hemisphere Controls on Tropical Southeast African Climate During the Past 60 000 Years Science 322 5899 252 255 Bibcode 2008Sci 322 252T doi 10 1126 science 1160485 ISSN 0036 8075 PMID 18787132 S2CID 7364713 Tierney Jessica E Russell James M 2009 09 01 Distributions of branched GDGTs in a tropical lake system Implications for lacustrine application of the MBT CBT paleoproxy Organic Geochemistry 40 9 1032 1036 doi 10 1016 j orggeochem 2009 04 014 ISSN 0146 6380 Tierney J E Russell J M Eggermont H Hopmans E C Verschuren D Sinninghe Damste J S 2010 09 01 Environmental controls on branched tetraether lipid distributions in tropical East African lake sediments Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 74 17 4902 4918 Bibcode 2010GeCoA 74 4902T doi 10 1016 j gca 2010 06 002 ISSN 0016 7037 Tierney Jessica E Smerdon Jason E Anchukaitis Kevin J Seager Richard 2013 01 17 Multidecadal variability in East African hydroclimate controlled by the Indian Ocean Nature 493 7432 389 392 Bibcode 2013Natur 493 389T doi 10 1038 nature11785 ISSN 0028 0836 PMID 23325220 S2CID 4364392 Late twentieth century warming in Lake Tanganyika unprecedented since AD 500 Nature Geosci 3 2010 CiteSeerX 10 1 1 703 892 a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a Cite journal requires journal help Tierney Jessica E Russell James M Sinninghe Damste Jaap S Huang Yongsong Verschuren Dirk 2011 04 01 Late Quaternary behavior of the East African monsoon and the importance of the Congo Air Boundary Quaternary Science Reviews 30 7 8 798 807 Bibcode 2011QSRv 30 798T doi 10 1016 j quascirev 2011 01 017 ISSN 0277 3791 Tierney Jessica E deMenocal Peter B 2013 11 15 Abrupt Shifts in Horn of Africa Hydroclimate Since the Last Glacial Maximum Science 342 6160 843 846 Bibcode 2013Sci 342 843T doi 10 1126 science 1240411 ISSN 0036 8075 PMID 24114782 S2CID 26666581 Tierney Jessica E Oppo Delia W Rosenthal Yair Russell James M Linsley Braddock K March 2010 Coordinated hydrological regimes in the Indo Pacific region during the past two millennia PDF Paleoceanography 25 1 PA1102 Bibcode 2010PalOc 25 1102T doi 10 1029 2009pa001871 hdl 1912 3863 ISSN 0883 8305 Tierney Jessica E Russell James M Huang Yongsong 2010 03 01 A molecular perspective on Late Quaternary climate and vegetation change in the Lake Tanganyika basin East Africa Quaternary Science Reviews 29 5 6 787 800 Bibcode 2010QSRv 29 787T doi 10 1016 j quascirev 2009 11 030 ISSN 0277 3791 External links editOfficial website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Jessica Tierney amp oldid 1205629531, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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