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Piston coring in the souteast Atlantic

Jenna splitting a sediment core

Jordan and the CTD

Palmyra Island - Coral

The Cold North Pacific

 

 

  

Chris Charles

Associate Professor
GEOSCIENCES RESEARCH DIVISION

Degrees
B.A., University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D., Columbia University

 

Interests

  • Paleoceanography/paleoclimatology
  • Isotope tracers of climate change
  • Deep sea sediment record of biogeochemical cycling

Publications
  • 1992. Evidence from Southern Ocean sediments for the effect of North Atlantic Deep Water flux on climate. Nature: 355:416-419.
  • 1997. Interaction between the ENSO and the monsoon in a coral record of tropical climate. Science: 277:925-928.
  • 2001. A central tropical Pacific coral demonstrates Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic decadal climate connections. Geophysical Research Letters: 28:2209-2212.
  • 2001. Pleistocene evolution of the ocean's carbonate system. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.: 192:109-124.
  • 2001. Tropical cooling and the isotopic composition of precipitation in general circulation model simulations of the ice age climate. Climate Dynamics: 17:489-502.

Students: Graduate students: 4