Why do we say that Dr. Kim Cobb may be the Indiana Jones of Climate?
If you watch Weather Geeks Sunday at Noon ET, you will understand. First
off, if you are under 35, Indiana Jones was an adventurous professor
that traveled the world in search of rare archaeological finds in the
Raiders of the Lost Ark series of movies. But I digress (smile).
Kim Cobb does the same except she goes to remote places looking for past clues about climate to inform the current and future discussion. As I write this, I believe that she is somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Dr. Cobb is a outstanding professor at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) that employs paleoclimate methods in her research. She was also featured in the Showtime Documentary, Years of Living Dangerously. She uses corals, stalagmites, water isotopes, and modeling as her website puts it:
"to inform projections of future climate change. We focus primarily on the generation of new high-resolution records of past tropical Pacific climate variability from corals and cave stalagmites, with an emphasis on the last decades to centuries. Through the thoughtful combination of climate models and data, we seek to characterize natural climate variability in this region and identify climate trends that are associated with anthropogenic climate change..."
Dr. Cobb will also place the current El Nino into context with past El Ninos studied in her paleoclimate data and discuss the current global coral bleaching event.
This is one of those WxGeeks episodes that may be outside of your comfort zone but you will learn something. I promise. You will not regret turning over to the Weather Channel for this episode of WxGeeks.
Be sure to watch Weather Geeks this Sunday at Noon ET (11 am CT, 10 am MT, 9 am PT) and tell a friend.
Also, keep your eyes open for next week's episode:
November 22nd: Dr. Judah Cohen (AER) discusses Seasonal Predictions and Polar Vortex Relationships
Follow @WxGeeksTWC or @DrShepherd2013 on Twitter.
Find us on Facebook at WxGeeks (Link) or Dr. Marshall Shepherd (Link)
Kim Cobb does the same except she goes to remote places looking for past clues about climate to inform the current and future discussion. As I write this, I believe that she is somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Dr. Cobb is a outstanding professor at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) that employs paleoclimate methods in her research. She was also featured in the Showtime Documentary, Years of Living Dangerously. She uses corals, stalagmites, water isotopes, and modeling as her website puts it:
"to inform projections of future climate change. We focus primarily on the generation of new high-resolution records of past tropical Pacific climate variability from corals and cave stalagmites, with an emphasis on the last decades to centuries. Through the thoughtful combination of climate models and data, we seek to characterize natural climate variability in this region and identify climate trends that are associated with anthropogenic climate change..."
Dr. Cobb will also place the current El Nino into context with past El Ninos studied in her paleoclimate data and discuss the current global coral bleaching event.
This is one of those WxGeeks episodes that may be outside of your comfort zone but you will learn something. I promise. You will not regret turning over to the Weather Channel for this episode of WxGeeks.
Be sure to watch Weather Geeks this Sunday at Noon ET (11 am CT, 10 am MT, 9 am PT) and tell a friend.
Also, keep your eyes open for next week's episode:
November 22nd: Dr. Judah Cohen (AER) discusses Seasonal Predictions and Polar Vortex Relationships
Follow @WxGeeksTWC or @DrShepherd2013 on Twitter.
Find us on Facebook at WxGeeks (Link) or Dr. Marshall Shepherd (Link)
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