Jean Lynch-Stieglitz

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Jean Lynch-Stieglitz
Alma materColumbia University
Scientific career
InstitutionsGeorgia Institute of Technology
Thesis Controls on the isotopic composition of oceanic carbon and applications to paleoceanographic reconstruction  (1995)

Jean Lynch-Stieglitz is a paleoceanographer known for her research on reconstructing changes in ocean circulation over the last 100,000 years.

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Education and career

An interest in the natural world, combined with the logic of science and math, attracted Lynch-Stieglitz to science and after a summer at the Duke University Marine Laboratory she decided on a career in physical oceanography. [1] In 1986, she earned B.S. degrees in physics and geology from Duke University [2] and for two years she worked as an oceanographer at the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory. From 1988 until 1989 she worked at the Maryland Science Center and as a programmer at Johns Hopkins University before moving to Columbia University where she earned an M.A. (1991) and Ph.D. (1995) in geological sciences. [3] After two years as a postdoctoral scholar at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, in 1996 she returned to New York where she joined the faculty of the Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory. In 2004, Lynch-Stieglitz moved to the Georgia Institute of Technology where she was promoted to professor in 2010. [3]

From 2012 to 2015, Lynch-Stieglitz was the Editor of Earth and Planetary Science Letters. [4]

In 2015 Lynch-Stieglitz was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science "for bringing physical oceanography approaches to the study of transient circulation changes during ice ages, providing a window into the ocean’s interaction with today’s climate change." [5]

Research

Lynch-Stieglitz's research links the ocean and climate over the past 100,000 years. She has used carbon isotopes in benthic foraminifera to reconstruct air-sea exchange in carbon isotopes, [6] changes in the movement of deep water masses, [7] and Antarctic Intermediate Water in the transitions between glacial and interglacial periods. [8] In the Atlantic Ocean, she has examined movement of the Gulf Stream during the Last Glacial Maximum [9] and linked changes in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and to rapid changes in climate. [10] [11] [12] Her research also extends to regions where ice alters the exchange of carbon dioxide between atmosphere and ocean in glacial periods, [13] and work in the Pacific Ocean where she has examined sea surface temperatures from the Last Glacial Maximum to the present. [14]

Selected publications

Awards and honors

References

  1. ↑ Delaney, Peggy; Abrantes, Fatima; Alexander, Vera; Alldredge, Alice L.; Almogi-Labin, Ahuva; Alonso, Belén; Anand, Pallavi; Ates, Sibel Bargu; Bauch, Dorothea; Bell, Robin E.; Benitez-Nelson, Claudia (2005). "Autobiographical Sketches of Women in Oceanography". Oceanography. 18 (1): 65–246. ISSN   1042-8275. JSTOR   43925658.
  2. ↑ "Jean Lynch-Stieglitz". jls.eas.gatech.edu. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
  3. 1 2 "Lynch-Stieglitz CV" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-07-25. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
  4. ↑ "Elsevier Enhanced Reader". reader.elsevier.com. 337–338: 1. 2012.
  5. 1 2 "Six Faculty Named 2015 AAAS Fellows". news.gatech.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
  6. ↑ Lynch-Stieglitz, Jean; Stocker, Thomas F.; Broecker, Wallace S.; Fairbanks, Richard G. (1995). "The influence of air-sea exchange on the isotopic composition of oceanic carbon: Observations and modeling". Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 9 (4): 653–665. Bibcode:1995GBioC...9..653L. doi:10.1029/95GB02574. ISSN   1944-9224. S2CID   129194624.
  7. ↑ Lynch-Stieglitz, Jean; Fairbanks, Richard G. (May 1994). "A conservative tracer for glacial ocean circulation from carbon isotope and palaeo-nutrient measurements in benthic foraminifera" . Nature. 369 (6478): 308–310. Bibcode:1994Natur.369..308L. doi:10.1038/369308a0. ISSN   1476-4687. S2CID   4238180.
  8. ↑ Lynch-Stieglitz, Jean; Fairbanks, Richard G.; Charles, Christopher D. (1994). "Glacial-interglacial history of Antarctic Intermediate Water: Relative strengths of Antarctic versus Indian Ocean sources" . Paleoceanography. 9 (1): 7–29. Bibcode:1994PalOc...9....7L. doi:10.1029/93PA02446. ISSN   1944-9186.
  9. ↑ Lund, David C.; Lynch-Stieglitz, Jean; Curry, William B. (November 2006). "Gulf Stream density structure and transport during the past millennium". Nature. 444 (7119): 601–604. Bibcode:2006Natur.444..601L. doi:10.1038/nature05277. ISSN   1476-4687. PMID   17136090. S2CID   4431695.
  10. ↑ Lynch-Stieglitz, Jean (2017-01-03). "The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and Abrupt Climate Change" . Annual Review of Marine Science. 9 (1): 83–104. Bibcode:2017ARMS....9...83L. doi:10.1146/annurev-marine-010816-060415. ISSN   1941-1405. PMID   27814029.
  11. ↑ Liu, Z.; Otto-Bliesner, B. L.; He, F.; Brady, E. C.; Tomas, R.; Clark, P. U.; Carlson, A. E.; Lynch-Stieglitz, J.; Curry, W.; Brook, E.; Erickson, D. (2009-07-17). "Transient Simulation of Last Deglaciation with a New Mechanism for Bolling-Allerod Warming" . Science. 325 (5938): 310–314. Bibcode:2009Sci...325..310L. doi:10.1126/science.1171041. ISSN   0036-8075. PMID   19608916. S2CID   16383717.
  12. ↑ Lynch-Stieglitz, J.; Adkins, J. F.; Curry, W. B.; Dokken, T.; Hall, I. R.; Herguera, J. C.; Hirschi, J. J.-M.; Ivanova, E. V.; Kissel, C.; Marchal, O.; Marchitto, T. M.; McCave, I. N.; McManus, J. F.; Mulitza, S.; Ninnemann, U.; Peeters, F.; Yu, E.-F.; Zahn, R. (6 April 2007). "Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation During the Last Glacial Maximum" . Science. 316 (5821): 66–69. Bibcode:2007Sci...316...66L. doi:10.1126/science.1137127. ISSN   0036-8075. PMID   17412948. S2CID   44803349.
  13. ↑ Purcell, Conor (2017-06-19). "Thin ice: Vanishing ice only exacerbates a bad, climate change-fueled situation". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
  14. ↑ Koutavas, A. (12 July 2002). "El Nino-Like Pattern in Ice Age Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Temperature". Science. 297 (5579): 226–230. Bibcode:2002Sci...297..226K. doi:10.1126/science.1072376. PMID   12114619. S2CID   32854413.
  15. ↑ "Jean Lynch-Stieglitz". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
  16. ↑ "Historic Fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science". www.aaas.org. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
  17. ↑ "Cesare Emiliani Lecture | AGU". www.agu.org. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
  18. ↑ "2019 Class of AGU Fellows Announced". Eos. 15 August 2019. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
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