INSTAAR: David Anderson

Fellow of INSTAAR; Adjoint Associate Professor of Geological Sciences, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder; Director, World Data Center for Paleoclimatology and Chief of Paleoclimatology Branch of the National Climatic Data Center, United States Department of Commerce, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

PhD, Brown University, 1991.

david.m.anderson@noaa.gov
(303) 497-6237

INSTAAR Directorate Members

Specialty: Paleoceanography, marine geology, quantitative paleoenvironmental reconstruction.

Research Interests: Research on the marine geologic record of climate change, with emphasis on quantitative estimates of past ocean temperature and ocean upwelling/productivity. Projects include reconstructions of ocean carbonate ion concentration related to the ocean's role in the global carbon cycle, reconstruction of long term trends in the Asian summer monsoon, and projects to reconstruct the coastal ocean currents in the eastern Pacific and their influence of the climates of North and South America.

Selected Publications:

Anderson, D. M., and Woodhouse, C. A., 2005. Climate change: Let all the voices be heard. Nature, 433:587-588.
Gupta, A.K., and Anderson, D.M., 2005, Mysteries of the Indian monsoon system, Journal Geological Society of India, 65, 54-60.
Gupta, A. K., Anderson, D. M., and J. T. Overpeck 2003. Abrupt Changes in the Holocene Asian Southwest Monsoon and Their Links to the North Atlantic. Nature, 421:354-357.
Moy, C. M., Seltzer, G. O., Rodbell, D. T., and D. M. Anderson, 2002. Oscillation in ENSO Activity at Millennial Time Scales During the Holocene. Nature, 420:162-165.
Anderson, D. M., and Overpeck, J. T., and A. K. Gupta, 2002. Increase in the Asian SW Monsoon During the Past Four Centuries. Science, 297:596-599.
Anderson, D. M., and Archer, D. 2002. Glacial-intergacial stability of ocean pH inferred from foraminifer dissolution rates. Nature, 416:70-73.
Smith, L. M., A. E. Jennings, J. P. Sachs, Anderson, D. M., and A. DeVernal. 2001. Anomalously low d13C events during deglaciation of the east Greenland continental shelf adjacent to the Denmark Strait. Geophysical Research Letters, 28(11): 2217-2220.
Anderson, D. M. 2001. Attenuation of Millennial Scale Events by Bioturbation in Marine Sediments. Paleoceanography, 16:352-357.
Rodbell, D.T., G.O. Seltzer, D.M. Anderson, M.B. Abbott, D.B. Enfield, and J.H. Newman, 1999. An 15,000-year record of El Nino-driven alluviation in Southwestern Ecuador, Science, 283:516-520.
Anderson, D. M. and R. B. Archer 1999. Preliminary evidence of early deglaciation in Southern Chile. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 146: 295-301.
Overpeck, J. T., Anderson, D. M., Trombore, S., and Prell, W. L., 1996. The Southwest Monsoon over the last 18,000 years. Climate Dynamics, 12:213-225.
Mortyn, P. G., Thunell, R. C., Anderson, D. M., Stott, L. D., Le, J., 1996. Sea surface temperatures in the Southern California Borderlands during the last glacial-interglacial cycle. Paleoceanography, 11:415-430.

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