CCR has been an internationally recognized leader in paleoclimatic research since its founding in 1962. Director Reid Bryson was one of the first to highlight the vulnerability of early agricultural societies to climate variability, while Director John Kutzbach’s work established that past variations in the strength of subtropical monsoons are strongly controlled by ariations in the earth’s orbit. Today, CCR researchers are at the forefront of using earth system models and proxy data extracted from the geological record to gain insights into the natural and anthropogenic processes controlling climate variability, and the effects of past climate change on species and ecosystems.
Principal Investigators
Sara Hotchkiss, Zhengyu Liu, Michael Notaro, Steve Vavrus, John (Jack) Williams
Affiliates
Mark Chandler, Bob Gallimore, Marjeta Jeraj, Samantha Kaplan, Clay Kelly, Shaun Marcott, Joe Mason, Stephen Meyers, David Mladenoff, Ian Orland
Current and Recent Projects
EarthCube IA: Collaborative Proposal: Building Interoperable Cyberinfrastructure (CI) at the Interface between Paleogeoinformatics and Bioinformatics
Jack Williams
Collaborative Research: Last Interglacial Earth System: testing transient climate and ice-sheet simulations with a proxy-data network
Feng He, CCR Associate Scientist
Michael Notaro, CCR Associate Director, Senior Scientist
Steve Vavrus, Senior Scientist
ARRA Collaborative Research: Exploring the Early Anthropogenic Hypothesis
Steve Vavrus, Senior Scientist
John Kutzbach, Professor Emeritus
P2C2 — Implications of the Early Anthropogenic Hypothesis
Steve Vavrus, Senior Scientist
John Kutzbach, Professor Emeritus
Floral and Faunal Community Responses to Late-Quaternary Climate Change
Jack Williams, Director
Incorporating Biotic Interactions into Models of Species Assemblages Under Climate Change: A Comparison of Single-Species and Community-Level Approaches
Jack Williams
Simulating and Understanding Abrupt Climate-Ecosystem Changes During Holocene with NCAR-CCSM3
Zhengyu Liu, Professor
Growth of the Tibetan Plateau and Eastern Asia Climate: Clues to Understanding the Hydrological Cycle
Zhengyu Liu, Professor
John Kutzbach, Professor Emeritus
Transient Climate Evolution of the last 21,000 years (TraCE-21): Understanding Deglacial Climate Changes using CCSM
Zhengyu Liu, Professor
Pliocene and Pleistocene transient climate simulations and model-proxy comparisons for surface temperature and monsoon circulation
Zhengyu Liu, Professor
Isotope-enabled Transient Climate Evolution of the last 21,000 years (iTRACE21) —-Understanding Deglacial Climate/Isotope Changes using iCESM
Zhengyu Liu, Professor