Identifying New Community-Driven Science Themes for NSF’s Support of
PALEOCLIMATE RESEARCH
PROCEEDINGS OF A WORKSHOP
Rachel Silvern and Alexandra Skrivanek, Rapporteurs
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
Board on Earth Sciences and Resources
Ocean Studies Board
Polar Research Board
Division on Earth and Life Studies
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PLANNING COMMITTEE ON IDENTIFYING NEW COMMUNITY-DRIVEN SCIENCE THEMES FOR NSF’S SUPPORT OF PALEO PERSPECTIVES ON CLIMATE CHANGE (P2C2): A WORKSHOP
ANDREA DUTTON (Chair), University of Wisconsin–Madison
TRIPTI BHATTACHARYA, Syracuse University
JULIE BRIGHAM-GRETTE, University of Massachusetts–Amherst
CHRISTO BUIZERT, Oregon State University
NATALIE BURLS, George Mason University
SARAH FEAKINS, University of Southern California
ISABEL P. MONTAÑEZ (NAS), University of California, Davis
KAUSTUBH THIRUMALAI, University of Arizona
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Staff
LAUREN EVERETT, Senior Program Officer (until June 2021)
RACHEL SILVERN, Associate Program Officer
ALEXANDRA SKRIVANEK, Associate Program Officer
ANNE LINN, Scholar (until April 2021)
MEGAN MAY, Associate Program Officer (until March 2021)
BRIDGET MCGOVERN, Research Associate
RITA GASKINS, Administrative Coordinator
ROB GREENWAY, Program Associate
BOARD ON ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE1
MARY GLACKIN (Chair), The Weather Company, an IBM Business
CYNTHIA S. ATHERTON, Heising-Simons Foundation
CECILIA BITZ, University of Washington
JOHN C. CHIANG, University of California, Berkeley
BRADLEY R. COLMAN, The Climate Corporation
BART E. CROES, California Air Resources Board
ROBERT B. DUNBAR, Stanford University
EFI FOUFOULA-GEORGIOU (NAE), University of California, Irvine
PETER C. FRUMHOFF, Union of Concerned Scientists
VANDA GRUBIŠIĆ, National Center for Atmospheric Research
ROBERT KOPP, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RUBY LEUNG (NAE), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
JONATHAN MARTIN, University of Wisconsin-Madison
AMY MCGOVERN, University of Oklahoma
JONATHAN PATZ, University of Wisconsin-Madison
J. MARSHALL SHEPHERD (NAS/NAE), University of Georgia
ALLISON STEINER, University of Michigan
DAVID W. TITLEY, U.S. Navy (ret.), Pennsylvania State University
ARADHNA TRIPATI, University of California, Los Angeles
DUANE E. WALISER, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
ELKE WEBBER, Princeton University
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Staff
AMANDA STAUDT, Senior Board Director
APURVA DAVE, Senior Program Officer
LAURIE GELLER, Senior Program Officer
APRIL MELVIN, Senior Program Officer
AMANDA PURCELL, Senior Program Officer
ALEX REICH, Associate Program Officer
RACHEL SILVERN, Associate Program Officer
SHELLY FREELAND, Financial Business Partner
RITA GASKINS, Administrative Coordinator
BRIDGET MCGOVERN, Research Associate
AMY MITSUMORI, Research Associate
ROB GREENWAY, Program Associate
KYLE ALDRIDGE, Program Assistant
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1 NAE, National Academy of Engineering; NAS, National Academy of Sciences.
Acknowledgments
This Proceedings of a Workshop was reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (National Academies) in making each published proceedings as sound as possible and to ensure that it meets the institutional standards for quality, objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the process.
We thank the following individuals for their review of this proceedings:
Pincelli Hull, Yale University
Darrell Kaufman, Northern Arizona University
Bette Otto-Bliesner, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Kaustubh Thirumalai, University of Arizona
Although the reviewers listed above provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the content of the proceedings nor did they see the final draft before its release. The review of this proceedings was overseen by James W. Hurrell, Colorado State University. He was responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this proceedings was carried out in accordance with standards of the National Academies and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content rests entirely with the rapporteurs and the National Academies.
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Contents
Background and Motivation for the Workshop
Workshop Planning and Structure
Understanding Past Climate Forcings and Sensitivity
Understanding Drivers of Past Climate Change
Reconstructing Global Climate Change and Climate Sensitivity
Glacial, Ocean, and Land Processes and Feedbacks
Ice-Sheet and High-Latitude Proxies and Feedbacks
Terrestrial Proxies and Feedbacks
Resolving Regional Climate Change: Advancing and Synthesizing Knowledge
Accessing Hydroclimate Archives and Fostering Proxy Innovation
Tools for Understanding Modes of Oceanic and Atmospheric Variabilit
Challenges of Chronology, Inter-Site, and Proxy-Model Comparison
How the Paleoclimate Community Can Better Engage on BAJEDI Issues
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Planning Committee Members
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