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Jason E. Smerdon
Storke-Doherty Lecturer
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Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
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201A Oceanography
61 Route 9W - PO Box 1000
Palisades
NY
10964-8000
US
(845) 365-8493
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Fields of interest: 
Late-Holocene Paleoclimatology, Land-atmosphere Interactions, Proxy-Process Modeling, Statistical Climatology

My broad objective is to understand and characterize climate variability during the late-Holocene. My research focuses on statistical methods of large-scale climate reconstructions during this period, analyses of statistical climate reconstruction techniques using proxy and pseudo-proxy records, and modeling of the underlying connections between proxies and climate. Please see my publications page for more information on my contributions to these fields.

Projects:

  • Spectral characteristics of climate proxies and their expression in climate field reconstructions, NOAA (Lead PI)

  • Abrupt climate change in a warming world: Lessons from Holocene paleo and modern instrumental records, and model simulations (Co-PI)

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    Collaborative Research: Locally-constrained climate field reconstructions of the last

    millennium: Methods and application, NSF (Lead PI)

     

 

Education
Ph.D., Applied Physics
University of Michigan
2004
M.S., Physics
University of Michigan
2000
B.A., Physics Major
Gustavus Adolphus College
1998
Honors & Rewards:
Storke-Doherty Lectureship Award, LDEO and Columbia University 2007
Julian A. Crawford Memorial Prize in Physics, Gustavus Adolphus College, 1997
Lamont-Doherty Postdoctoral Fellowship, LDEO, 2005
Barnard Environmental Science/Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Barnard College, 2007
John Dorr Graduate Academic Achievement Award, University of Michigan 2005
First Decade Award for Early Professional Achievement, Gustavus Adolphus College 2008
Educational Activities:
Climatology, Environmental Science and Policy Program, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Student Companion to Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future
Selected Publications:
Detection of human influence on a new, validated 1500-year temperature reconstruction, Hegerl, G. C.; Crowley, T. J.; Allen, M.; Hyde, W. T.; Pollack, H. N.; Smerdon, J.; Zorita, E. , Journal of Climate, Feb, Volume 20, Issue 4, p.650-666, (2007), Doi 10.1175/Jcli4011.1

Effects of bottom boundary placement on subsurface heat storage: Implications for climate model simulations, Stevens, M. B.; Smerdon, J. E.; Gonzalez-Rouco, J. F.; Stieglitz, M.; Beltrami, H. , Geophysical Research Letters, Jan 18, Volume 34, Issue 2, p.-, (2007), Doi 10.1029/2006gl028546

Five centuries of climate change in Australia: the view from underground, Pollack, H. N.; Huang, S. P.; Smerdon, J. E. , Journal of Quaternary Science, Oct, Volume 21, Issue 7, p.701-706, (2006), Doi 10.1002/Jqs.1060

Simulating heat transport of harmonic temperature signals in the Earth's shallow subsurface: Lower-boundary sensitivities, Smerdon, J. E.; Stieglitz, M. , Geophysical Research Letters, Jul 21, Volume 33, Issue 14, p.-, (2006), Doi 10.1029/2006gl026816

Daily, seasonal, and annual relationships between air and subsurface temperatures, Smerdon, J. E.; Pollack, H. N.; Cermak, V.; Enz, J. W.; Kresl, M.; Safanda, J.; Wehmiller, J. F. , Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, Apr 4, Volume 111, Issue D7, p.-, (2006), Doi 10.1029/2004jd005578

Comments on "Testing the Fidelity of Methods Used in Proxy-Based Reconstructions of Past Climate": The role of the standardization interval, Smerdon, J. E.; Kaplan, A. , Journal of Climate, Nov 15, Volume 20, Issue 22, p.5666-5670, (2007), Doi 10.1175/2007jcli1794.1

Characterizing land-atmosphere coupling and the implications for subsurface thermodynamics, Stieglitz, M.; Smerdon, J. E. , Journal of Climate, Jan, Volume 20, Issue 1, p.21-37, (2007), Doi 10.1175/Jcli3982.1

Tropical climate influences on drought variability over Java, Indonesia, D'Arrigo, R.; Smerdon, J. E. , Geophysical Research Letters, Mar 8, Volume 35, Issue 5, p.-, (2008), Doi 10.1029/2007gl032589