INSTAAR: James White

Fellow and Director of INSTAAR; Professor of Geological Sciences, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder.

PhD, Columbia University, 1983.

James.White@Colorado.edu
(303) 492-5494, 492-8437, 492-7909

INSTAAR Directorate Members

Specialty: Global change, paleoclimate dynamics, biogeochemistry.

Research Interests: Light Stable Isotope Laboratory: global scale climate and environmental dynamics, carbon dioxide concentrations and climate from stable hydrogen isotopes peats and other organics, climate from deuterium excess and hydrogen isotopes in ice cores; isotopes in general circulation models; modern carbon cycle dynamics via isotopes of carbon dioxide and methane.

Selected Publications:

White, J.W.C., (2006). Book Review: "William Ruddiman, Review of Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate", Science, 311, p 472.
D. F. Ferretti,, J. B. Miller, J. W. C. White, K. R. Lassey, D. C. Lowe, and D. M. Etheridge, (2006). Stable isotopes provide revised global limits of aerobic methane emissions from plants, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 6, 5867–5875.
P. Bousquet, P. Ciais, J. B. Miller, E. J. Dlugokencky, D. A. Hauglustaine, C. Prigent, G. R. Van der Werf, P. Peylin, E.-G. Brunke, C. Carouge, R. L. Langenfelds, J. Lathie`re, F. Papa, M. Ramonet, M. Schmidt, L. P. Steele, S. C. Tyler & J. White (2006). Contribution of anthropogenic and natural sources to atmospheric methane variability, Nature, Vol 443|28, pp441-443, September.
V. Masson-Delmotte, J. Jouzel, A. Landais, M. Stievenard, S. J. Johnsen, J. W. C. White, M. Werner, A. Sveinbjornsdottir, K. Fuhrer, (2005). GRIP Deuterium Excess Reveals Rapid and Orbital-Scale Changes in Greenland Moisture Origin, Science, vol 309, pp 118-121.
Jouzel, Jean, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Michel Stiévenard, Amaëlle Landais, Françoise Vimeux, Sigfus J. Johnsen, Arny E. Sveinbjörnsdottir, James W.C. White, (2005). Rapid deuterium-excess changes in Greenland ice cores: a link between the ocean and the atmosphere, C. R. Geoscience, 337, pp 957–969.
D. F. Ferretti, J. B. Miller, J. W. C. White, D. M. Etheridge, K. R. Lassey, D. C. Lowe, C. M. MacFarling Meure, M. F. Dreier, C. M. Trudinger, T. D. van Ommen, R. L. Langenfelds, (2005). Unexpected Changes to the Global Methane Budget over the Past 2000 Years, Science, 309, pp1714-1717.
Brook, Edward J., James W.C. White, Annie S.M. Schilla, Michael L. Bender, Bruce Barnett, Jeffery P. Severinghaus, Kendrick C. Taylor, Richard B. Alley, Eric J. Steig, (2005). Timing of millennial-scale climate change at Siple Dome, West Antarctica, during the last glacial period, Quaternary Science Reviews 24, 1333–1343.
NorthGRIP Project Members, (2004). High resolution climate record of the Northern Hemisphere into the last interglacial period. Nature 431: 147-151.
Smith, F.A.; White, J.W.C., (2004). Modern calibration of phytolith carbon isotope signatures for C-3/C-4 paleograssland reconstruction. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 207(3-4): 277-304.
Vaughn, B.H.; Miller, J.; Ferretti, D.F.; White, J.W.C., (2004). Stable isotope measurements of atmospheric CO2 and CH4. In: de Groot, P.A. (ed.), Handbook of Stable Isotope Analytical Techniques, Volume 1, Elsevier: 272-304.
Miller, J.B.; Tans, P.P.; White, J.W.C.; Conway, T.J.; Vaughn, B.W. , (2003). The atmospheric signal of terrestrial carbon isotopic discrimination and its implication for partitioning carbon fluxes. Tellus Series B-Chemical and Physical Meteorology 55(2): 197-206.
Tian, L.; Yao, T.; Schuster, P.F.; White, J.W.C.; Ichiyanagi, K.; Pendall, E.; Pu, J.; Wu, Y. (2003). Oxygen-18 concentrations in recent precipitation and ice cores on the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres 108(D9): article 4293.

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