Assistant Professor Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science E-mail: [email protected] Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32306 Education 2015Ph.D. School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Thesis: Mechanisms of Tropical Pacific Climate Change During the Holocene. Advisors: Julian Sachs and David Battisti. 2010M.S. University of Washington, Oceanography. 2010Certificate in Climate Sciences, University of Washington, Program on Climate Change. 2006B.A. University of California, Berkeley, Atmospheric Science. 2006B.A. University of California, Berkeley, Physics.
Research Interests
Paleoclimatology
Tropical climate change and variability
Stable isotope and trace element geochemistry of coral
Integrating paleoclimate reconstructions with dynamical theory and numerical simulation of the climate system
Data-model intercomparison
Primary Appointments 2019–present Assistant Professor, Florida State Univ., Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences. 2015–2019Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Berkeley, Geography Dept. & Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Earth and Atm. Sciences. Hosts: John Chiang and Kim Cobb. 2007–2015Graduate Research Assistant. University of Washington, School of Oceanography. Research Advisors: Julian Sachs and David Battisti. 2006–2007Postgraduate Research Assistant. University of California Berkeley, Geography Department. Research Advisor: Robert Rhew. Fellowships and Awards 2023 Dean's Postdoctoral Scholar Fellow Award 2022 Honorable Mention for the NHMFL Mentoring Award 2015–2017 NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow 2015–2017 NSF Ocean Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (declined) 2015–2017 NSF Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined) 2009–2014NSF Graduate Research Fellow 2010–2012DOE Graduate Research Environmental Fellow 2008–2009Egtvedt Endowment in the School of Oceanography Recipient 2007–2008University of Washington Program on Climate Change Fellow 2007–2008University of Washington Graduate School Fund for Excellence and Innovation recipient 2006–2007Charles H. Ramsden Endowed Fund Research Fellow Publications Submitted/In review/In press:
Rodriguez, L.G., Atwood, A.R., Cobb, K.M., Sayani, H.R., Grothe, P.R. (subm., Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology). “A coral diagenesis and physiology framework for improving coral d18O paleoclimate reconstructions.”
Published:
Konecky, B. L., McKay, N., Falster, G., Stevenson, S. L., Fischer, M. J., Atwood, A. R., Thompson, D. M., Jones, M. D., DeLong, K. L., Tyler, J. J., Martrat, B., Thomas, E. K., Conroy, J. L., Dee, S. G., Jonkers, L., Churakova, O. V., Kern, Z., Opel, T., Porter, T. J., Sayani, H. R., Skrzypek, G., and Iso2k Project Members (2023). “Temperature-driven changes in the global water cycle during the past two millennia.” Nature Geoscience, 997–1004. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01291-3
Stevenson, S., Cobb, K. M., Merrifield, M., Powell, B., Sanchez, S., Nusbaumer, J., O’Connor, G., Atwood. A. (2023). "Contrasting central equatorial Pacific oxygen isotopic signatures of the 2014/2015 and 2015/2016 El Niño events." Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL104454. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL104454
Walter, R. M., Sayani, H. R., Felis, T., Cobb, K. M., Abram, N. J., Arzey, A. K., Atwood, A. R., Brenner, L. D., Dassié, É. P., DeLong, K. L., Ellis, B., Emile-Geay, J., Fischer, M. J., Goodkin, N. F., Hargreaves, J. A., Kilbourne, K. H., Krawczyk, H., McKay, N. P., Moore, A. L., Murty, S. A., Rosabelle Ong, M., Ramos, R. D., Reed, E. V., Samanta, D., Sanchez, S. C., Zinke, J., and the PAGES CoralHydro2k Project Members (2023). "The CoralHydro2k Database: a global, actively curated compilation of coral δ18O and Sr/Ca proxy records of tropical ocean hydrology and temperature for the Common Era", Earth System Science Data, 15, 2081–2116.https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2022-172/
Dee, S.G., Bailey, A., Conroy, J.L., Atwood, A., Stevenson, S., Nusbaumer, J., Noone, D. (2023). “Water isotopes, climate variability, and the hydrological cycle: recent advances and new frontiers”. Environmental Research: Climate 2, 022002. https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-5295/accbe1
Chiang, J. C. H., Atwood, A. R., Vimont, D. J., Nicknish, P. A., Roberts, W. H. G., Tabor, C. R., Broccoli, A. J. (2022). “Two annual cycles of the Pacific cold tongue under orbital precession.” Nature 611, 295–300. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05240-9
Zhang, X., Atwood, A. R., Nag, B., & Cobb, K. M. (2022). “The tropical Pacific annual cycle and ENSO in PMIP4 simulations of the mid-Holocene.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 127, e2021JC017587. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JC01758
Donohoe, A., Atwood, A. R., Battisti, D. S. (2022). “Optimal geometric characterization of forced zonal mean tropical precipitation changes.” Climate Dynamics 59, 2181–2196. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-022-06203-6
Hitt, N. T., Sayani, H. R., Atwood, A. R., Grothe, P. R., Maupin, C., Lu, Y., Cheng, H. Edwards, R. L., Deocampo, D. M., Cobb, K. M. (2022). “Central equatorial Pacific warming and freshening in the 20th century: New insights from a coral ensemble approach.” Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2021GL094051. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL094051
O’Connor, G. K., Cobb, K. M., Sayani, H. R., Atwood, A. R., Grothe, P. R., Stevenson, S., Baum, J. K., Chen, T., Claar, D. C., Hitt, N. T., Lynch-Stieglistz, J., Schmidt, G. A., Walter, R. (2021). Coral oxygen isotope and in situ records capture the 2015/2016 El Niño event in the central equatorial Pacific.” Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL094036. https://doi. org/10.1029/2021GL09403
Wyman, D. A., Conroy, J. L., Osburn, M. R., and Atwood, A. R. (2021). Coeval drying across the central tropical Pacific over the last millennium. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 36, e2021PA004311. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021PA00431
Atwood, A. R., Battisti, D. S., Wu, E., Frierson, D. M. W., Sachs, J. P. (2021). “Data-Model Comparisons of Tropical Hydroclimate Changes Over the Common Era." Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 36, e2020PA003934. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020PA003934 [link]
Baldwin, J. W., Atwood, A. R., Vecchi, G. A., Battisti, D. S. (2021). “Outsize Influence of Central American Orography on Global Climate.” AGU Advances, 2, e2020AV000343. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020AV000343 [link]
Atwood, A. R., Donohoe, A., Battisti, D. S., Liu, X., & Pausata, F. S. R. (2020). "Robust longitudinally variable responses of the ITCZ to a myriad of climate forcings." Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL088833. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088833 [link]
Konecky, B. L., McKay, N. P., Churakova (Sidorova), O. V., Comas-Bru, L., Dassié, E. P., DeLong, K. L., Falster, G. M., Fischer, M. J., Jones, M. D., Jonkers, L., Kaufman, D. S., Leduc, G., Managave, S. R., Martrat, B., Opel, T., Orsi, A. J., Partin, J. W., Sayani, H. R., Thomas, E. K., Thompson, D. M., Tyler, J. J., Abram, N. J., Atwood, A. R., Conroy, J. L., Kern, Z., Porter, T. J., Stevenson, S. L., von Gunten, L., and the Iso2k Project Members (2020). “The Iso2k Database: A global compilation of paleo-δ18O and δ²H records to aid understanding of Common Era climate.” Earth System Science Data. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2261-2020 [link]
Donohoe, A., Atwood, A. R., Byrne, M. P (2019). “Controls on the width of tropical precipitation and its contraction under global warming.” Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082969 [link].
Zhang, H., Griffiths, M. L., Chiang, J. C.H., Kong, W., Wu, Sh., Atwood, A. R., Huang, J., Cheng, H., Ning, Y., Xie, S. (2019). “East Asian hydroclimate modulated by the position of the westerlies during Termination I.” Science 362, 580-583. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat9393 [link].
PAGES Hydro2k Consortium: Smerdon, J. E., Luterbacher, J., Phipps, S. J., Anchukaitis, K. J., Ault, T., Coats, S., Cobb, K. M., Cook, B. I., Colose, C., Felis, T., Gallant, A., Jungclaus, J. H., Konecky, B., LeGrande, A., Lewis, S., Lopatka, A. S., Man, W., Mankin, J. S., Maxwell, J. T., Otto-Bliesner, B. L., Partin, J. W., Singh, D., Steiger, N., Stevenson, S., Tierney, J. E., Zanchettin, D., Zhang, H., Atwood, A. R., Andreu-Hayles, L., Baek, S. H., Buckley, B., Cook, E. R., D'Arrigo, R., Dee, S., Griffiths, M., Kulkarni, C., Kushnir, Y., Lehner, F., Leland, C., Linderholm, H. W., Okazaki, A., Palmer, J., Piovano, E., Raible, C. C., Rao, M. P., Scheff, J., Schmidt, G., Seager, R., Widmann, M., Williams, A. P., Xoplaki, E. (2017). “Comparing proxy and model estimates of hydroclimate variability and change over the Common Era.” Climate of the Past 13, 1851-1900. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1851-2017 [link]
Atwood, A. R., Battisti, D. S., Wittenberg, A. T., Roberts, W. H. G., Vimont, D. J. (2017). “Characterizing unforced multi-decadal variability of ENSO: A case study with the GFDL CM2.1 coupled GCM.” Climate Dynamics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-016-3477-9 [link]
Atwood, A. R., Wu, E., Frierson, D. M. W., Sachs, J. P., Battisti, D. S. (2016). “Quantifying climate forcings and feedbacks over the last millennium in CMIP5-PMIP3 models.” Journal of Climate 29, 1161-1178. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0063.1 [link]
Atwood, A. R. and Sachs, J. P. (2014). “Separating ITCZ- and ENSO-related rainfall changes in the Galápagos over the last 3 kyr using D/H ratios of multiple lipid biomarkers.” Earth and Planetary Science Letters 404, 408-419. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2014.07.038 [link]
Atwood, A. R., Volkman, J. K., Sachs, J. P. (2014). “Characterization of unusual sterols and long chain diols, triols, keto-ols and n-alkenols in El Junco Lake, Galápagos.” Organic Geochemistry 66, 80-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2013.11.004 [link]
Myhrvold, C. L., Janny, F., Nelson, D., Ladd, S. N., Atwood, A. R., Sachs, J. P. (2014). “Holocene Closure of Lib Pond, Marshall Islands.” PLoS ONE 9, e90939. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0090939 [link]
Atwood, A. R. and Sachs, J. P. (2012). “Purification of dinosterol from complex mixtures of sedimentary lipids for hydrogen isotope analysis.” Organic Geochemistry 48, 37-46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2012.04.006 [link]
Teh, Y. A., Mazeas, O., Atwood, A. R., Abel, T., Rhew, R. C. (2009). “Hydrologic regulation of gross methyl chloride and methyl bromide uptake from Alaskan Arctic tundra.” Global Change Biology 15, 330-345. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01749.x [link]
Teh, Y. A., Rhew, R. C., Atwood, A., Abel, T. (2008). “Water, temperature, and vegetation regulation of methyl chloride and methyl bromide fluxes from a shortgrass steppe ecosystem.” Global Change Biology 14, 77-91. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01480.x [link]
Rhew, R. C., Teh, Y. A., Abel, T., Atwood, A., Mazeas, O. (2008). “Chloroform emissions from the Alaskan Arctic tundra.” Geophysical Research Letters 35, L21811. https://doi.org/10.1029/2008GL035762 [link]
Non-peer reviewed:
Atwood, A.R. (2015). “Mechanisms of Tropical Pacific Climate Change During the Holocene.” PhD thesis. University of Washington. [link]
DeLong, K. L., Atwood, A., Moore, A., Sanchez, S. (2022). “Clues from the sea paint a picture of Earth’s water cycle,” Eos, 103, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EO220231
Research Grants Current and recent: 2022-2027 "CAREER: Contextualizing recent extreme El Niño events over the late Holocene using trace element paleothermometry in tropical Pacific corals." PI: Alyssa Atwood (FSU); $684,736. 2021-2024 "Collaborative Research: Central tropical Pacific climate variability over the last millennium," NSF OCE-2103035. PI: Alyssa Atwood (FSU); $345,825 (FSU portion). 2022-2023 “CoralHydro2k Data Stewardship Scholarship,” PAGES-Past Global Changes. PI: Alyssa Atwood (FSU); $15,000. 2020-2023 “Collaborative Research: Response of the Tropical Pacific to the Abrupt Climate Change Event 8,200 Years Ago”, NSF EAR-2002444. PI: Alyssa Atwood (FSU); $173,502 (FSU portion). 2021-2022 “CoralHydro2k Data Stewardship Scholarship,” PAGES-Past Global Changes. PI: Alyssa Atwood (FSU); $11,190. 2019-2022 “The tropical Pacific mean state, annual cycle and ENSO in Holocene corals: a multi-proxy approach”, NSF MG&G-1903640. PI: Alyssa Atwood (FSU); $609,869. 2020 “Constraining Tropical Rainfall Changes from Sparse Networks of Paleoclimate Data”, FSU First Year Asst. Professor Summer Award. PI: Alyssa Atwood (FSU); $20,000. 2017-2020 “Collaborative Research: The expansion/contraction of the intertropical convergence zone; an emerging mechanism of tropical precipitation changes for reinterpreting paleoclimate records”, NSF AGS-GEO/ATM-1702776. PI: Alyssa Atwood (UCB); $105,561 (UCB portion).
Selected Oral Presentations 12/2022 “Uncovering 'Hidden' Insights from the Ocean in the PAGES CoralHydro2k Seawater δ18O Database.” PP23A-01, AGU Fall Meeting. Invited. 12/2022 “Announcing Phase 4 of PAGES 2k: Hydroclimate of the Common Era.” PP56A-05, AGU Fall Meeting. 12/2022 “Is the concept of a zonal mean ITCZ shift useful?” NCAR Paleoclimate Advances Webinar Series (PAWS). Invited. 12/2021 “Importance of Central American Orography on Tropical Pacific Climate and Inter-Basin Interactions in Modern and Past Climates,” OS41B-03, AGU Fall Meeting. Invited. 07/2021 "Reducing Uncertainties in Coral-Based Climate Reconstructions from the Central Pacific During the Holocene," ICRS2021-2498, International Coral Reef Symposium. 02/2021 "Importance of Central American Orography on Tropical Pacific Climate and Inter-Basin Interactions," WCRP-CLIVAR Workshop on: Climate Interactions Among the Tropical Basins. Invited. 12/2020 “Data-Model Comparisons of Tropical Hydroclimate Changes Over the Common Era,” PP034-02, AGU Fall Meeting. 10/2020 “Robust longitudinally variable responses of the ITCZ to a myriad of climate forcings,” Univ. of Virginia Department of Environmental Sciences seminar. Invited. 05/2020 “Robust longitudinally variable responses of the ITCZ to a myriad of climate forcings,” Univ. of Hawaii Oceanography Department seminar. Invited. 12/2019 “Is the concept of a zonally-averaged tropical precipitation change useful?” AGU Fall Meeting. 12/2018 “Tropical Pacific climate over the last 6,500 years – insights from a coral ensemble approach and an isotope enabled GCM,” AGU Fall Meeting. 08/2018 “A coral ensemble approach to reconstructing mean climate and seasonality in the central Pacific,” Goldschmidt Conference, Boston, MA. 07/2018 “Characterizing zonal variations in the shift of tropical precipitation to climate forcing,” WCRP Grand Challenge Meeting on Monsoons and Tropical Rain Belts, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. 02/2018 “The Influence of Mean State Changes on ENSO During the Mid-Holocene: Insights from Coral Records and an Isotope-Enabled GCM,” Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, OR. 09/2017 “A Coral Ensemble Approach to Reconstructing Central Pacific Climate Change During the mid- Holocene,” GeoBremen, Bremen, Germany. 08/2017 “High latitude teleconnections to tropical mean climate: paleoclimate data and models,” US CLIVAR Summit, Baltimore, MD. Invited. 03/2017 “Proxy and modeling evidence of the 8.2 kyr event in the eastern equatorial Pacific,” 28th Pacific Climate Workshop, Pacific Grove, CA. 12/2016 “A Coral Ensemble Approach to Reconstructing Central Pacific Climate Change During the Holocene,” 185396, AGU Fall Meeting. 06/2016 “Hydroclimate changes in the tropical Pacific over the last millennium: data model comparisons and possible mechanisms,” PAGES2k-PMIP3 Workshop: Comparing Data and Model Estimates of Hydroclimate Variability and Change over the Common Era, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Invited. 07/2016 “Tropical Pacific climate change and ENSO evolution during the Holocene,” NOAA Climate and Global Change Summer Institute, Steamboat Springs, CO. 12/2015 “Possible mechanisms of a southward shift in tropical precipitation during the Little Ice Age,” PP44B-06 AGU Fall Meeting. Invited. 10/2015 “Why was there a Little Ice Age?” Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory seminar. Invited. 09/2015 “Spatial variations of the ITCZ response to North Atlantic freshwater forcing,” Workshop on Monsoons & ITCZ: the annual cycle in the Holocene and the future, Columbia University. Invited. 09/2015 “Why was there a Little Ice Age?” U.C. Berkeley Atmospheric Science Center seminar. Invited. 11/2014 “Possible mechanisms of a southward shifted ITCZ during the Little Ice Age,” Univ. of Washington Chemical Oceanography seminar. 09/2014 “The influence of a weakened AMOC on the El Niño-Southern Oscillation,” U.S. AMOC Science Team Meeting, Seattle, WA. 12/2013 “Last millennium climate change in CMIP5 models,” PP41B-07 AGU Fall Meeting. 09/2013 “The Little Ice Age in CMIP5,” University of Edinburgh School of Geosciences seminar. 12/2012 “Holocene climate changes in the eastern equatorial Pacific from hydrogen isotopes of multiple biomarkers from a Galápagos lake,” PP24B-04 AGU Fall Meeting. 10/2012 “Initial investigations on the interactions between ENSO and the mean state of the tropical Pacific,” Univ. of Washington Chemical Oceanography seminar. 08/2011 “Mean state changes in the tropical Pacific and El Nino-Southern Oscillation Variability: Paleoclimate evidence and climate modeling investigations,” DOE Global Change Education Program Workshop, Knoxville, TN. 10/2010 “Holocene rainfall variations from hydrogen isotope ratios of algal biomarkers in a Galápagos Island lake sediment,” Univ. of Washington Graduate Climate Conference. 11/2008 “What can Christmas Island tell us about rainfall in the tropical Pacific over the last millennium? Univ. of Washington Chemical Oceanography seminar. Advising Primary advisor for Luis Rodriguez, David Hsu, and Neda Mobasher (FSU PhD students), Andrea Moore (FSU MS graduated 08/2023), and Taylor Conklin (FSU MS student), Raquel Pauly (FSU Honors program) Thesis committee member for Virginia Biede, Catherine Stauffer, Heather Forrer, John Uehling, Charles Fite, Michael Secor, Fucheng Yang (FSU PhD students), Lindsay Hooper, Gwen Dmitruk, Adihan Yulanda Widyaningsih, Carly Narotsky, Lindsay Lawrence, Megan Moore, Hanna Brasseur, Ian Siew (FSU MS students) Supervisor for undergraduate students Raquel Pauly, Sydney Garber, Lee Wall, Sylvia Long, Olivia Graff (FSU), Melat Hagos, Gemma O’Connor, Kayla Townsend (Georgia Institute of Tech.), Elynn Wu and Kyle Thomas (Univ. of Washington) and postgraduate Aaron Jones (Georgia Institute of Tech.)
Teaching & Course Development Paleoclimatology: Data, Models, & Theory (OCC 5930/MET 6155/GLY 5297, FSU, Fall19, Fall21, Fall23) Climate Change Science (MET 3013, FSU, Spr20, Spr21, Spr22, Spr 23, Spr24) Fundamentals of Climate and Global Dynamics (MET 6155/OCP 5930, FSU, Fall20) Professional Development Graduate Seminar (OCC 5930, FSU, Fall23) Field course: Exploration seminar in the Marshall Island (Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Washington, 2009) Course development for Global Climate Change (Washington State University Extension Carbon Masters Program, 2008 – 2009)
Selected Service & Outreach Activities Journal editor or peer reviewer
Associate Editor for the Journal of Climate (2021-present)
Ad hoc proposal reviewer for US National Science Foundation programs: Climate and Largescale Dynamics, Ocean Sciences, and CAREER (2018-present)
Peer reviewer for scientific journals: Nature; Nature Geoscience; Geophysical Research Letters; Journal of Climate;Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology; Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems;Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Quaternary Science Reviews; Organic Geochemistry; Geology; Journal of Geophysical Research–Atmospheres. (2013-present)
Chairing of a meeting session or workshop organizer
Co-organizer, PAGES Topical Science Meeting “Centennial climate variability at regional scale in models and reconstruction” (March 7-10, 2023)
Sessionco-chair for “Advancing Paleoclimatology by Combining Data, Models, and Theory,” AGU Fall Meeting (12/2020; 12/2021; 12/2022; 12/2023)
Sessionco-chair for “Using observations and paleoclimate data to constrain El Niño-Southern Oscillation dynamics,” AGU Fall Meeting (12/2019)
Co-organizer, US CLIVAR Water Isotopes and Climate Workshop (10/2019)
Sessionco-chair for “The global expression of the 8.2 ka event,” AGU Fall Meeting (12/2018)
Sessionco-chair for “Applications of high-resolution geochemical proxies: seasonality and past climate variability,” Goldschmidt Conference (8/2018)
Co-organizer, Science Leadership and Management, UC Berkeley; Organize yearly seminar series and end-of-year workshop for graduate students and postdocs to promote leadership development in early career scientists. (2016-2018)
Project leader or coordinator
Project coordinator for Phase 4 of the PAGES 2k Network “Hydroclimate of the Common Era” (2021-present)
Project leader of the PAGES CoralHydro2k Project “Tropical ocean hydroclimate and temperature from coral archives” (2020-present)
Project coordinator for the US CLIVAR Working Group on “Water Isotopes in the Climate” (2018-present)
Member of the PAGES Iso2k Project “A global synthesis of Common Era hydroclimate using water isotopes” (2018-2022)
Public Outreach
Scientist volunteer, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory Open House, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory Open House (2020, 2024)
Scientist and volunteer, Developed teacher-training resources and serve as a science expert for high school science teachers, Educurious (2013–2018)
Invited Speaker, "Climate change impacts in the Pacific Northwest", Everett Public Library (2014)
Invited Speaker, Delivered invited lecture on "Our changing oceans" to the Highland Community College Environmental Chemistry class, Highland Community College (2012)
Invited speaker, Delivered invited lecture on "Current and future ocean change" to the Interlake High School AP Environmental Science class in Bellevue, WA, Interlake High School (2012)
Scientist and volunteer, Developed a pilot program and curricular materials for the Carbon Masters and Carbon Coaches community education programs, Washington State University Extension (2009–2010)
Co-organizer, Co-organized a 1-day climate change symposium in Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands, University of Washington (2009)
Co-organizer, US Congressional Delegation-House Science and Technology Committee to the Galápagos Islands (2008)
Volunteer, Technical Advisory Panel member and Science Judge for Washington Regional Ocean Sciences Bowl (02/2008)