Harvard Climate Seminar

"The Ocean’s Buoyancy Budget and Changes in the Overturning Circulation over Glacial Cycles" with Jess Adkins, Smits Family Professor of Geochemistry & Global Environmental Science, Caltech.

"The Ocean’s Buoyancy Budget and Changes in the Overturning Circulation over Glacial Cycles" with Jess Adkins, Smits Family Professor of Geochemistry & Global Environmental Science, Caltech.

Jess Adkins is a chemical oceanographer interested in using trace metals to better understand the mechanisms of rapid climate change and climate evolution. His current work is centered around the geochemical investigation of past climates, primarily the last few glacial/interglacial cycles that span a few hundred thousand years. The Holocene, the last 10,000 years, is marked by relative climatic stability when compared to the preceding glacial period where there are large and very fast transitions between cold and warm times. As an oceanographer, Adkins tries to understand the coupled ocean/ atmosphere system during these shifts by monitoring the deep ocean’s behavior. Much of his work focuses on developing a new climate archive that has the potential to revolutionize the types of information we can obtain about oceanographic climate change.

This event is sponsored by the Harvard Oceanography Committee, the Harvard University Center for the Environment, and the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability

Contact: laura_hanrahan@harvard.edu