Cumulative Bio-Bibliography

CUMULATIVE BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHY

April 2004

LISA CIRBUS SLOAN

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

7/03 – presentProfessor, Dept. Earth Sciences, Univ. California Santa Cruz

7/99 – 6/03Associate Professor, Dept. Earth Sciences, Univ. California Santa

Cruz

7/95 - 6/99Assistant Professor, Dept. Earth Sciences, Univ. California

Santa Cruz

9/92 - 6/95Research Scientist, Institute of Marine Sciences, and Lecturer, Dept. Earth

Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz

5/90-9/92Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences Dept., and Dept. Geological Sciences, University of

Michigan

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Geosciences1990Pennsylvania State University

M.S. Geology1986Kent State University

B.S. Geology1982Allegheny College

PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE AND ACTIVITY

HONORS

1999Elected Associate Fellow of Canadian Institute for Advanced Research

1998Awarded D. and L. Packard Foundation Fellowship

AWARDS and GRANTS

Awarded Grants

Future regional climate change in the ten hydrologic regions of California: A climate

modeling investigation, University of California Center for Water Resources (12/1/03 –

11/31/04) ($32,524, PI Sloan)

Collaborative Research: Surface-atmosphere feedbacks and Holocene climate variations

ineastern North America: Linkages, impacts and governing mechanisms, National Science

Foundation (ESH) (10/1/03 – 9/30/07) ($369,609, PI Sloan)

Acquisition of a computational laboratory for regional, interdisciplinary investigation of

climatic and environmental change, National Science Foundation Major Research

Instrumentation Program (9/01/02 – 8/31/05) ($482,457 + $207,000 match, PI Sloan)

Consequences of greenhouse warming for biocomplexity and biogeochemical cycles: A multidisciplinary case study across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary, National Science Foundation Biocomplexity Program (10/01/01 – 9/30/06) ($2,500,000; $216,000 to coPI Sloan)

Program for Modeling Earth System History, National Science Foundation, ($65,000 to co-PI Sloan) (9/15/01 – 4/30/02)

Global and Hemispheric implications of anthropogenically-forced Arctic atmospheric circulation, National Science Foundation Polar Programs/Arctic System Science (9/1/01 – 8/31/05) ($247,295, PI Sloan)

Impacts and environmental catastrophes: A study of the effects of impacts events on the climate system,NASA Exobiology Program (4/01-3/04) ($186,000 total, $24,241 to CoPI Sloan)

Program for Modeling Earth System History, National Science Foundation, ($2,500,000 total budget for all institutions for a 2-year period; ~$10,000 to co-PI Sloan, as direct payment of travel costs) (8/1/00 – 7/30/02)

To What Extent Can Increased Evapotranspiration in the Great Plains of the United States Due to Groundwater-Based Irrigation Alter Climate?NASA (7/99 - 6/02) ($225,622, $15,370 to co-PI Sloan)

Collaborative Research: The causes and consequences of the late Paleocene Thermal Maximum: An integrated data and model approach, National Science Foundation (1/99-12/03) ($216,925; to co-PIs Sloan and Zachos at UCSC)

A Regional-Scale Modeling Investigation of California’s Climate and Hydrologic Response to Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide: Collaborative Proposal (1/99-9/00) ($45,000; PI Sloan)

David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship (9/98-8/03) ($625,000; PI Sloan)

An iteratively coupled modeling approach to the “equable climate problem”, National Science Foundation, (9/98-8/01) ($102,565, PI Sloan)

Exploration of natural climate variability on multidecadal to century timescales, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (8/98-10/99) ($73,748, PI Sloan)

Modeling anthropogenic desiccation of the Aral Sea: A unique test of the predictive capabilities of a regional earth system model, National Science Foundation, (8/96 - 9/99) ($175,000, PI Sloan)

Investigating a possible new source of modeling error for estimates of continental surface temperatures in paleoclimatic studies, National Science Foundation, (8/96- 9/99) ($135,810, PI Sloan)

PMIP Analysis, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (ended 8/98) ($25,400, PI Sloan)

Paleoclimate model intercomparison project (PMIP) analysis, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (ended 4/98) ($48,348, PI Sloan)

Linking Climate Change Through Sediment Records: A Modeling Approach, UCSC Committee on Research grant (ended 6/96) ($2,000, PI Sloan)

Surface processes and climatic and environmental change in California , UCSC Junior Faculty and Affirmative Action Awards (ended 6/97) ($5,351, PI Sloan)

Silicon Graphics Instruments computer purchase, National Science Foundation

supplemental funds ($15,000, co-PIs Vallis, Sloan)

SGI computer terminal purchase, UCSC Junior Faculty Award, ($5000, PI Sloan)

Workshop on Climate Intervals of Extreme Warmth, A Drilling Implementation Plan, Joint Oceanographic Institutions/U.S. Science Advisory Committee (ended 10/96) ($10,000, PI Sloan)

GCM Investigations of Climate Sensitivity in Earth History, Lawrence Livermore

National Laboratory (ended 10/96) ($9,858, PI Sloan)

Paleodata calibration of greenhouse gas forcing effect upon climate, National Institute for Global Environmental Change (ended 7/96) ($25,000, PI Sloan)

Climate sensitivity in Earth history, Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (ended 7/95) ($42,000, PI Sloan)

Polar clouds, climate, and seasonality in the Paleogene, National Science Foundation, (ended 5/97) ($75,750, PI Sloan)

Paleoclimate studies with Earth System Models, Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (ended 2/94) ($48,000, PI Sloan)

Investigation of climate warmth and climatic change during the early Eocene, with D. Rea of the University of Michigan and E. Barron of Pennsylvania State University; National Science Foundation, (ended 5/95) ($99,736; PI Rea, co- written by Sloan for postdoctoral funding)

Honors, Awards, and Grants to Students Under My Advisement

2003

Cota-Robles Graduate Fellowship, to D. Santiago ($40,000)

2002

Travel and meeting grant for L. Shellito, to attend and speak at Seventh Annual CCSM

Workshop ($1,200)

Dean’s Undergraduate Thesis Award to J. Rivers ($200)

Travel grant for L. Shellito, to attend the Helmholtz Institute for Supercomputational Physics supercomputing school ($1,000)

ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists) Graduate Student Fellowship to

Noah Suresh Diffenbaugh ($10,000)

2001

UC Revelle Climate Change grant for Mark Snyder to attend the American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting ($700)

Travel and meeting grant to attend the Sixth Annual CCSM Workshop, to L. Shellito

($500)

Travel and meeting grant to attend the Sixth Annual CCSM Workshop, to

M. Huber ($500)

UCSC travel and research grant to K. Lawrence ($342)

Dean’s Undergraduate Thesis Award to A.K. Mayes ($200)

2000

Dean’s Graduate Fellowship, to L. Shellito

Dean’s Undergraduate Thesis Award to K. Dole ($200)

Full Scholarship, Travel, Registration and Participation in the Second Annual Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences Fluid Dynamics Summer School, to M. Huber (approx. $1,500)

C.DELSI Undergraduate Research Award , Predicted changes in the distribution of Yucca brevifolia due to climate change and elevated CO2, to K. Dole ($250)

1999

NDSEG/Dept. of Defense Graduate Student Fellowship to J. Sewall ($58,000)

1998

NATO/ASI CCM3 Workshop Participant (tuition and registration), to M. Huber, ($2,000)

1997

Best Student Presentation, to E. Small, American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting, Baltimore, MD, May, 1997

Impact of the Eocene Green River Lake System on Regional Seasonality: A Climate Modeling and Stable Isotopic Study, NSF Graduate Student Fellowship, to C. Morrill ($45,000)

Eocene Continental Paleoclimate, Geological Society of America Research Grant, to C. Morrill ($1,500)

1996

Modeling Anthropogenic Desiccation of the Aral Sea, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation Dissertation Fellowship, to E. Small) ($16,000)

Modeling anthropogenic desiccation of the Aral Sea, American Geophysical Union Horton Research Grant, to E. Small ($11,000)

Modeling anthropogenic desiccation of the Aral Sea, Geological Society of America Research Grant, to E. Small ($2,000)

Sedimentary analysis of the Pescadero back-barrier lagoon, San Mateo County, California, Friends of Long Marine Laboratory Research Grant, to B.Wills ($500)

WRITINGS AND CREATIVE ACTIVITIES

ARTICLES IN PROGRESS

A method for using a fully-coupled climate system model to generate detailed surface boundary conditions for paleoclimate modeling investigations: An early Paleogene example, Sewall, J.O., Huber, M., and Sloan, L. Cirbus, Global and Planetary Change, in review, 2004.

Modeled Regional Climate Change in the Hydrologic Regions of California: A CO2 Sensitivity Study, Snyder, M.A., Sloan, L.C., and Bell, J.L., Jour. American Water Resources Assoc., in press, 2004.

Mid-Holocene orbital forcing of regional-scale climate: A case study of western North America using a high-resolution RCM, Diffenbaugh, N.S., and Sloan, L.C., Jour. Climate, in press, 2004.

Less ice, less tilt, less chill: The influence of a seasonally ice-free Arctic Ocean and reduced obliquity on early Paleogene climate, Sewall, J.O., and Sloan, L. Cirbus, in press, Geology, 2004.

ARTICLES PUBLISHED in PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS

Disappearing Arctic sea ice reduces available water in the American west, Sewall, J.O., and Sloan, L. Cirbus, Geophys. Res. Lett. 31 L06209, doi: 10.1029/2003GL019133, 2004.

Could land cover feedbacks alter near-shore upwelling regimes? , Diffenbaugh, N.S., Snyder, M.A., and Sloan. L.C., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 101, 27-31, 2004.

Regional changes in extreme climatic events, Bell, J.L., Sloan, L.C., and Snyder, M.A., Jour. Climate, 17, 81-87, 2004.

Regional climate change impacts: The role of institutional adaptability, Haddad, B. M., Sloan, L. C., Snyder, M.A., and Bell, J.L., International Journal of Sustainable Development, v. 6, 265-282, 2003.

Future climate change and upwelling in the California Current, Snyder, M.A., Sloan, L.C., Diffenbaugh, N.S., and. Bell, J.L., Geophys. Res. Lett.,30 (15), 1823, 10.1029/2003/GL017647, 2003.

Orbital suppression of wind driven upwelling in the California Current at 6 ka, Diffenbaugh, N.S., Sloan, L.C., and Snyder, M.A., Paleoceanography, 18 (2), 1051, 10.1029/2003PA000865, 2003.

Vegetation sensitivity to global anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions in a topographically complex region, Diffenbaugh, N.S., Sloan, L. C., Snyder, M.A., Bell, J.L., Kaplan, J., Shafer, S.L., and Bartlein, P.J., Global Biogeochemical Cycles 17 (2), 1067.10.1029/200BG001974, 2003.

Chicxulub and climate: Effects of stratospheric injections of impact-produced S-bearing gases, Pierazzo, E., Hahmann, A., and Sloan, L. C., Astrobiology 3 (1), 99 – 118, Rubey Symposium Special Volume, 2003.

Evaluating pCO2 levels in the early-middle Paleogene, Shellito, L.J., Sloan, L. Cirbus, and Huber, M., Palaeogeog., Palaeoclim., Palaeoecol.,193, 112-123, 2003.

The relative importance of climate change and the physiological effects of CO2 on freezing tolerance for the future distribution of Yucca brevifolia, Dole, K.P., Loik, M., and Sloan, L. Cirbus, Global and Planetary Change, v. 36, p.137-146, 2003.

Terrestrial climatic response to precessional orbital forcing in the Eocene, Lawrence, K.T., Sloan, L. Cirbus, and Sewall, J.O., Geological Society of America Special Volume 369, Causes and consequences of globally warm climates in the early Paleogene (eds. Wing, S.L., Gingerich, P.D., Schmitz, B., and Thomas, E.), pp 65-77, 2003.

Early Paleogene oceans and climate: A fully coupled modeling approach using the NCAR CCSM, Huber, M., Sloan, L. C., and Shellito, L.J., Geological Society of America Special Volume 369, Causes and consequences of globally warm climates in the early Paleogene, (eds. Wing, S.L., Gingerich, P.D., Schmitz, B., and Thomas, E.), pp 65-77, 2003.

Evaluation of Northern Hemisphere natural climate variability in multiple temperature reconstructions and global climate model simulations, Bell, J.L., Sloan, L. Cirbus, Revenaugh, J., and Duffy, P.B., Global and Planetary Change, 37, 2003; doi: 10.1016/S0921-8181(02)000189-3.

Climate responses to a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide for a climatically vulnerable region, Snyder, M.A., Bell, J.L., Sloan, L. Cirbus, Duffy, P. B., and Govindasamy, B., Geophys. Res. Letters, 7 June 2002 (vol.29, 10.1029/2001GL014431, 2002).

Global climate sensitivity to land surface change: The Mid Holocene revisited, Diffenbaugh, N. S., and Sloan, L. Cirbus, Geophys. Res. Letters, 30 May 2002 (vol. 29, 10.1029/2002/GL014880, 2002).

Equable Paleogene climates: The result of a stable, positive Arctic Oscillation?, Sewall, J.O., and Sloan, L. Cirbus, Geophys. Res. Letters, v. 28, 3693-3696, 2001.

Heat transport, deep waters, and temperature gradients: Coupled simulation of an Eocene “Greenhouse” climate, Huber, M., Sloan, L. Cirbus, Geophys. Res. Letters, v. 28, 3481-3484, 2001.

Modeling orbital forcing of lake level change: Lake Gosiute (Eocene), North America, Morrill, C., Small, E. E., and Sloan, L. Cirbus, Global and Planetary Change, v. 29, 57-76, 2001.

Trends, rhythms, and aberrations in global climate 65 Ma to present, Zachos, J., Pagani, M., Sloan, L. C., Thomas, E., and Billups, K., Science, v. 292, 686-693, 2001.

Effect of sea surface temperature configuration on model simulations of “equable” climate in the early Eocene, Sloan, L. Cirbus, Huber, M., Crowley, T.J., Sewall, J.O., and Baum, S., Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v.167, 321-335, 2001.

Eocene Oceanic Responses to Orbital Forcing on Precessional Time Scales, Sloan, L. Cirbus, and Huber, M., Paleoceanography, v. 16, 101-111, 2001.

Changes in surface air temperature caused by desiccation of the Aral Sea,Small, E. E., Sloan, L. Cirbus, and Nychka, D., Jour. Climate, v. 14, p. 284-299, 2001.

The effects of desiccation and climatic change on the hydrology of the Aral Sea, Small, E.E., Giorgi, F., Sloan, L. Cirbus, and Hostetler, S., Jour. Climate, v. 14, p. 300-322, 2001.

Climate sensitivity to changes in land surface characteristics, Sewall, J.O., Sloan, L. Cirbus, Huber, M., and Wing, S., Global and Planetary Change v. 26, p. 445-465, 2000,

High concentrations of greenhouse gases and polar stratospheric clouds: A possible solution to high latitude faunal migration at the Latest Paleocene Thermal Maximum, Peters, R. B., and Sloan, L. Cirbus, Geology, v. 28, p. 979-982, 2000.

Modeling the Paleogene, Part I: Paleogene terrestrial climate change predicted from climate modeling studies, Sloan, L. Cirbus, Huber, M., Peters, R., and Ewing, A., GFF, (Geological Society of Sweden), v. 122, p. 146-147, 2000.

Modeling the Paleogene, Part II: Paleogene wind-driven ocean circulation changes predicted from climate modeling studies, Huber, M, and Sloan, L. Cirbus, GFF (Geological Society of Sweden), v. 122, p. 80-81, 2000.

Climatic responses to tropical sea surface temperature changes on a “greenhouse” Earth, Huber, M, and Sloan, L. Cirbus, Paleoceanography, v. 15, 443-450, 2000.

Effect of flux adjustments on temperature variability in climate models, Duffy, P.B., Bell, J., Covey, C., Sloan, L., and the CMIP investigators, Geophys. Res. Lett., v. 27, p. 763-766, 2000.

Comparison of temperature variability in observations and sixteen climate model simulations, Bell, J., Duffy, P., Covey, C., and Sloan, L. Cirbus, and the CMIP investigators, Geophys. Res. Lett., v. 27, p. 261-264, 2000.

Early Paleogene Warm Climates and Biosphere Dynamics: Meeting in Göteborg Makes Progress in Deciphering the Dynamics of Past Greenhouse Worlds , Sloan, L. Cirbus, Schmitz, B., Aubry, M.-P., and Zachos, J., Paleoceanography, v. 14, p. 559-560, 1999.

Warm Climate Transitions: A General Circulation Modeling Study of the Late Paleocene Thermal Maximum (~56 Ma), Huber, M., and Sloan, L. Cirbus, Jour. Geophys.Research, v. 104, p.16633-16655, 1999.

Simulating the water balance of the Aral Sea with a coupled modeling system, Small, E.E., Sloan, L. Cirbus, Hostetler, S. and Giorgi, F.,Jour. Geophys. Research, v. 104, p.6583-6602, 1999.

Regional climate model simulation of precipitation in central Asia: Mean and interannual variability, Small, E.E., Giorgi, F., and Sloan, L. Cirbus, Jour. Geophys. Research, v. 104, p.6563-6582, 1999.

Orbital Forcing and Eocene Continental Temperatures, Sloan, L. Cirbus and Morrill, C., Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 144, p. 21-35, 1998.

Polar stratospheric clouds: a high latitude winter warming mechanism in an ancient greenhouse world, Sloan, L. Cirbus, and Pollard, D., Geophysical Research Letters, v. 25, p. 3517-3520, 1998.

A comparison of spatially-resolved and global mean reconstructions of continental denudation under ice-free and present conditions, Sloan, L. Cirbus, Bluth, G. J. S., and Filippelli, G., Paleoceanography, v. 12, p. 147-160, 1997.

Paleoclimate data constraints on climate sensitivity: The paleocalibration method, Covey, C., Sloan, L. Cirbus, and Hoffert, M. I., Clim. Change, v. 32, p. 1-20, 1996.

Modeling of Middle Pliocene climate with the NCAR Genesis general circulation model, Sloan, L. Cirbus, Crowley, T. J., and Pollard, D., Marine Micropaleontology, v. 27, p. 51-61, 1996.

Climates and climate variability of the Pliocene, Poore, R. Z. and Sloan, L. Cirbus, MarineMicropaleontology, v. 27, p. 1-2, 1996.

The role of oceanic heat transport in early Eocene climate, Sloan, L. Cirbus, Walker, J. C. G., and Moore, Jr., T.C., Paleoceanography, v. 10, p. 347-356, 1995.

Atmospheric carbon dioxide and early Eocene climate: A general circulation modeling sensitivity study, Sloan, L. Cirbus, and Rea, D. K., Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 119, p. 275-292, 1995.

Model-model and data-model comparisons: Applications to the PRISM project, Sloan, L. Cirbus, U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 94-23, R. S. Thompson, ed., p. 69-70, 1994.

"Equable" climates during the early Eocene: Significance of regional paleogeography for North American climate, Sloan, L. Cirbus, Geology, v. 22, p. 881-884, 1994.

Modeling of Mid-Pliocene climate with the NCAR Genesis GCM, Sloan, L. C., U. S. Geological Survey Open File Report 94-588, S. E. Ishman, ed., p. 24, 1994.

Possible methane-induced polar warming in the early Eocene Sloan, L. Cirbus, J. C. G. Walker, Moore, T.C. ,Jr., Rea, D. K., and Zachos, J. C., Nature, v. 357, p. 320-322, 1992.

A comparison of Eocene climate model results to quantified to paleoclimatic interpretations, Sloan, L. Cirbus and Barron, E. J., Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v.93, p.183-202, 1992.

Paleoclimate of the Kimmeridgian/Tithonian (Late Jurassic) world: II, Sensitivity tests comparing three different paleotopographic settings, Moore, G. T., Sloan, L. Cirbus, Hayashida, D.N., and Umrigar, N.P., Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 95, p. 229-252, 1992.

Something is wrong with climate theory, Walker, J. C. G. and Sloan, L. Cirbus, Geotimes, June 1992, p. 16-18, 1992.

Reply to comments on "Equable" climates during Earth history?, Sloan, L. Cirbus and Barron, E. J., Geology, v. 19, p. 540-542, 1991.

"Equable" climates during Earth history?, Sloan, L. Cirbus and Barron, E. J.,, Geology, v. 18, p. 489-492, 1990.

PUBLISHED BOOK CHAPTERS

North Atlantic climate variability in the early Paleogene: A climate modelling sensitivity study, Sloan, L. Cirbus, and Huber, M., in, Western North Atlantic Palaeogene and Cretaceous Palaeoceanography, Geological Society of London Special Publications 183, 253-272, 2001.

An early Eocene ocean general circulation model simulation: Comparison of the three-dimensional temperature field with isotopic paleotemperatures, Bice, K. L., Sloan, L. Cirbus, and Barron, E. J., in press, in, Warm Climates in Earth History, edited by B. T. Huber, K. G. MacLeod, and S. L. Wing, Columbia University Press, pp. 79 - 131, 2000.

Polar Stratospheric Cloud Forcing in a Greenhouse World: A Climate Modeling Sensitivity Study, Sloan, L. Cirbus, Huber, M., and Ewing, A., in, Reconstructing Ocean History: A Window into the Future, (Eds. F. Abrantes and A. Mix), Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, pp. 273 - 293, 1999.

Global climate of the late Paleocene Epoch: Modeling the circumstances associated with a climatic “event”, Sloan, L. Cirbus and Thomas, E., in, Paleocene/Eocene Boundary, edited by W. Berggren, M.-P. Aubrey, and S. Lucas, Columbia University Press, p. 138-157, 1998.

Paleogene climatic evolution: A climate model investigation of the influence of continental elevation and sea surface temperature upon continental climate,Sloan, L. Cirbus and Barron, E. J., in,"Eocene-Oligocene Climatic and Biotic Evolution", edited by D. Prothero and W. Berggren, Princeton University Press, p. 202-217, 1992.

Evidence from the Antarctic continental margin of Late Paleogene ice sheets: A manifestation of plate reorganization and synchronous changes in atmospheric circulation over the emerging southern ocean?, Bartek, L. R., Sloan, L. Cirbus, Anderson, J. B. and Ross, M. I., in, "Eocene-Oligocene Climatic and Biotic Evolution", edited by D. Prothero and W. Berggren, Princeton University Press, p. 131-159, 1992.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

The Year in Review: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, L. Peterson and L. C. Sloan, Geotimes, v. 46, p. 41-42, July 2001.

The Year in Review: Paleoclimatology and Paleoceanography, L. Peterson and L. C. Sloan, Geotimes, v. 45, p. 42-45, July 2000.

Book Review: Creeping environmental problems and sustainable development in the Aral Sea Basin, L. Cirbus Sloan and M.A. Snyder, Global and Planetary Change, 2000.

The Year in Review: Paleoclimatology and Paleoceanography, L.C. Sloan and L. Peterson, Geotimes, p. 50-51, July 1999.

A View Through the Rocks, L. Cirbus Sloan, Science, v. 284, p.597, April, 1999.

The Year in Review: Paleoclimatology and Paleoceanography, L. Peterson and L. C. Sloan, Geotimes, February 1998.

Paleoclimatology, L. Cirbus Sloan, in, Encyclopedia of EarthSciences, Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, 1997.

The Rock-Weathering Cycle, L. Cirbus Sloan,in, Encyclopedia of Climate andWeather, Oxford University Press, 1996.

Determination of critical factors in the simulation of Eocene global climate, with special reference to North America, L. Cirbus Sloan, Ph.D. dissertation, The Pennsylvania State University, December, 1990, 282 pp., 1990.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

UNIVERSITY SERVICE - DEPARTMENT of EARTH SCIENCES

2003-2005Graduate Faculty Advisor/Representative

2001-2003Undergraduate Faculty Advisor

2000-2001Member, Search Committee for Earth Sciences Department faculty member

in area of “Atmospheric/Climate Dynamics”

1999-2000Member, Search Committee for Earth Sciences Department faculty member in area of “Water and Surface Processes”

1999-2001Member, CDELSI Steering Committee

1999-2001Chair, CDELSI Research Awards Committee

1999Member, Department Chair Search Committee

1998-2000Undergraduate Awards Coordinator

1998-2000Helped to design and implement CDELSI as a successful interdisciplinary research initiative in the Natural Sciences Division

1997-2000Member, Graduate Admissions Committee

1995-2000Member, Curriculum Committee