Monday, March 30, 2015, 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Speaker
Diane Thompson
NCAR
Location:
ARC room 620
Abstract
Dr. Thompson will speak to tropical climate variability and its effects on coral reef ecosystems based on coral paleoclimate records, proxy-model comparisons and models of larval dispersal and reef connectivity.
Bio
Dr. Thompson is a postdoctoral fellow in Advanced Study Program working in the Climate and Global Dynamics Division. She received her PhD in 2013 from the University of Arizona, where she developed paleoclimate records from corals and lake sediments at sites across the equatorial Pacific Ocean to assess trends in the El Niño- Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the mean state of the tropical Pacific. With a background in Marine Ecology and Paleoclimatology, her research aims to improve our understanding of tropical climate variability and its effects on coral reef ecosystems. Ongoing research interests include reconstructing tropical wind, temperature, salinity and precipitation variability; proxy system modeling and proxy-model comparisons; modeling larval dispersal and reef connectivity; and predicting patterns of coral bleaching and reef stress.
Audience
Free and open to the public.