Carrie Morrill - CV

RESEARCH FOCUS :

The goal of my research is to understand the causes and impacts of past climate change, and to use this information to anticipate future changes and their consequences. To accomplish this, I use lake sediments to document how climate varied in the past and coupled climate models to explore why these variations occurred. My current projects are focused on major changes during the Holocene (our present interglacial period) that happened relatively abruptly, over periods of decades to a century. These projects include: modeling the global impacts of freshwater anomalies in the North Atlantic and mapping the spatial extent of climate changes during the middle Holocene that possibly coincided with the collapse of several ancient civilizations.

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HONORS and AWARDS :

• NCAR Advanced Study Program Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2002
• Geological Society of America Outstanding Student Research Proposal Award, 2001
• NASA Space Grant Outreach Fellowship, 2000-2002
• National Science Foundation Earth Systems History Fellowship, 1999
• National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1997-2000
• University of California Regents Graduate Fellowship, 1996-1997

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS :

• American Geophysical Union
• American Quaternary Society

PUBLICATIONS :

• Morrill, C., Overpeck, J. T., Cole, J. E., Liu, K-B., Shen, C. and Tang, L. accepted. Holocene variations in the Asian monsoon inferred from the geochemistry of lake sediments in central Tibet. Quaternary Research.
• Morrill, C. and Jacobsen, R.M. 2005. How widespread were climate anomalies 8200 years ago? Geophysical Research Letters 32: 10.1029/2005GL023536.
• Morrill, C. 2004. The influence of Asian monsoon variability on the water balance of a Tibetan lake. Journal of Paleolimnology 32: 273-286.
• Morrill, C., Overpeck, J. T. and Cole, J. E. 2003. A synthesis of abrupt changes in the Asian summer monsoon since the last deglaciation. The Holocene 13: 465-476.
• Morrill, C. and Koch, P. L. 2002. Elevation or Alteration? Evaluation of isotopic constraints on paleoaltitude surrounding the Eocene Green River Basin. Geology 30: 151-154.
• Morrill, C., Small, E. E. and Sloan, L. C. 2001. Modeling orbital forcing of lake level change: Lake Gosiute (Eocene), North America. Global and Planetary Change 29: 57-76.
• Overpeck, J., Liu, K., Morrill, C., Cole, J., Shen, C., Anderson, D., and Tang, L. 2004. Holocene environmental change in the Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau region: lake sediments and the future, in Huber, U. M., Bugmann, H. K. M. and Reasoner, M. A. (Eds), Global Change and Mountain Regions: A State of Knowledge Overview. Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, in press.
• Wold, C. N., Schwartz, G. J. and Morrill, C. 1999. Digitized database of modern evaporites and their predicted distribution based on results from an atmospheric general circulation simulation, in Harff, J., Lemke, W. and Stattegger, K. (Eds), Computerized Modeling of Sedimentary Systems. New York, Springer Verlag, p. 149-168.
• Sloan, L. C. and Morrill, C. 1998. Orbital forcing and Eocene continental temperatures. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 144: 21-35.

PRESENTATIONS :

• Morrill, C. and Otto-Bliesner, B.L. The 8.2 ka event: A new data synthesis and model experiments using CCSM3. Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project II Workshop, Giens, France, April 3-8, 2005.
• Morrill, C. Translation of abrupt climate changes between the tropics and extratropics: Examples from the Holocene. American Geophysical Union Chapman Conference, .Tropical-Extratropical Climatic Teleconnections, A Long-Term Perspective., Honolulu, February 8-11, 2005.
• Morrill, C., Jacobsen, R.M. and Otto-Bliesner, B.L. Climate change at 8200 years BP: A synthesis of paleoclimate proxy records. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 13-17, 2004.
• Morrill, C. Timing and spatial extent of Mid-Holocene abrupt climate change. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 8-12, 2003.
• Morrill, C. and Otto-Bliesner, B. L. Changes in ENSO global teleconnections through the Holocene. XVI INQUA (International Union for Quaternary Research) Congress, Reno, July 23-30, 2003.
• Morrill, C., Overpeck, J. T., Cole, J. E., Liu, K-B. and Shen, C. Holocene lake level fluctuations of Ahung Co, Tibet. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, October 27-30, 2002.
• Morrill, C., Overpeck, J. T., Cole, J. E., Trumbore, S. E., Liu, K-B., Shen, C. and Tang, L. A Holocene lake level record from Tibet of century-scale fluctuations in the Asian summer monsoon. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 10-14, 2001.
• Morrill, C., Cole, J. E., Overpeck, J. T. and Liu, K-B. A synthesis of century-scale variations in the Asian monsoon since 13,000 years BP. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 15-19, 2000.

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