April 3, 2024 Andrea Doggett (left) presented her poster titled "Reconstructing Central Tropical Pacific Climate of the last Millenium" at the Florida State University Undergraduate Research Symposium. Andrea completed her project under the guidance of her mentor, Taylor Conklin (right), as part of the FSU Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP).
March 20, 2024 Congratulations to our undergrad researcher, Sydney Garber, for her acceptance to Florida Atlantic University! Sydney will complete her Master's degree in Environmental Science where she will be joining the coastal studies lab.
March 11, 2024 Congratulations to lab manager, Raquel Pauly, for her acceptance to the Univeristy of Rhode Island! Raquel will complete her master's degree here while she continues to do research in climate change modelling.
February 16, 2024 Congratulations to David Hsu for passing is preliminary examinations! David is now a Ph.D. candidate and will continue researching tropical precipitation patterns under a myriad of climate forcings.
February 12, 2024 We now have a Kiel IV Carbonate Device and a Delta V Plus Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer in the Atwood Lab! Many, many thanks to Chris Maupin (center) and Hussein Sayani (left) for their invaluable help packing it for transport!
February 1, 2024 The aftermath of one of many coral slabbing sessions in Atwood Lab. The slabbing team: Sydney Garber, Raquel Pauly, Neda Mobasher, Taylor Conklin, Alyssa Atwood.
August 22, 2023 This summer, Alyssa Atwood, Taylor Conklin, and David Hsu travelled to Kiritmati, Kirbati (also known as Christmas Island) for the first time after delays from the COVID-19 pandemic to conduct research that will aid in our understanding of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO).
June 23, 2023 Congratulations to Andrea Moore for successfully defending her M.S. thesis. Andrea's thesis project explored the response of tropical hydroclimate to the most recent, abrupt global climate change event (the 8.2ka Event, ~8200 years ago) using a large multiproxy compilation, a new isotope-enabled climate model experiment, and robust data-model comparison techniques.
Below is a figure from Andrea's thesis, which shows the simulated anomalous precipitaiton δ18O (shading) and precipitation amount (contour lines) compared to the response recorded in tropical proxy data (symbols) in her compilation. For more details, Andrea's thesis is being prepared to be presented in a forthcoming publications.
May 11-12, 2023 Sydney Garber presented her poster titled "Mid-Holocene Climate Reconstructions from Kiritimati Coral Records" at the Florida Association of Environmental Professionals' Annual Symposium.
May 6, 2023 Congratulations to our undergraduate Raquel Pauly who has graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor's in Science with a major in meteorology and a minor in mathematics. Raquel has also graduated with honors and completed an honors in the major thesis titled "Data-Model Comparisons of Mid Holocene Climate in the Tropical Pacific."
April 6, 2023 Sylvia Long presented her poster titled "Developing the PAGES Seawater Database for Studying Past and Present Hydrology" at the Florida State University Undergraduate Research Symposium. Sylvia's Poster is attached below.
April 6, 2023 Sydney Garber presented her poster titled "Mid-Holocene Climate Reconstructions from Kiritimati Coral Records" at the Florida State University Undergraduate Research Symposium. Sydney's poster is attached below.
2022
December 2022 Congratulations to Raquel Pauly who travelled to Chicago to give an oral presentation on her research project, "Data-Model Comparisons of Mid-Holocene Climate in the Tropical Pacific," at the AGU Fall Meeting.
December 2022 Congratulations to Taylor Conklin, Sylvia Long, and Neda Mobasher on being recipients of the 2022 Florida State University Coastal and Marine Lab Academic Diving Scholarship.
October 2022 Congratulations to Raquel Pauly for being selected to give an oral presentation on her research project "Data-Model Comparisons of Mid-Holocene Climate in the Tropical Pacific," at the 2022 AGU Fall Meeting in Chicago, IL this December.
September 2022 Congratulations to Andrea Moore who has been awarded National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) small allocation for her thesis work (“North Atlantic Hosing and ITCZ Simulations with iCESM 1.2”)
August 2022 Congratulations to Sydney Garber for placing 3rd on her MagLab REU Class of 2022 presentation. Sydney presented her summer project "Developing Coral Records for Paleoclimate Reconstruction" as a 3-minute video pitch. https://nationalmaglab.org/education/college-students/reu
May 2022 Andrea Moore and Alyssa Atwood co-authored an article in Eos: DeLong, K. L., A. Atwood, A. Moore, and S. Sanchez (2022), Clues from the sea paint a picture of Earth’s water cycle, Eos, 103, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EO220231.
March 2022 Congratulations to Andrea Moore on her presentation on the PAGES CoralHydro2k Seawater d18O Database at Ocean Sciences Meeting 2022. Her poster is attached below
2021
July 2021 Congratulations to Luis Rodriguez on his virtual poster presentation "Diagenesis Scorecard for Constraining Uncertainty of Climate Variables in Holocene Coral Reconstructions" at the 2021 ICRS symposium. His poster is attached below.