Maureen Raymo
Research Professor
Office: CAS 135
Phone: 617.353.4009
E-mail: raymo@bu.edu
Maureen’s Homepage
Educational Background
| Ph.D. |
1989 |
Columbia University |
| M.Phil. |
1988 |
Columbia University |
| Sc.B. |
1982 |
Brown University |
Research
Maureen Raymo studies the causes of climate change over Earth’s history, in particular the role played by the global carbon cycle and Earth’s orbital variations around the Sun. Most of her work is based on data collected from deep-sea sediment and microfossils recovered using the research vessel JOIDES Resolution. She uses the stable isotopes of oxygen and carbon to study past ocean circulation and ice volume history and is well known for her proposal that the cooling of global climate over the last 40 million years was caused primarily by enhanced chemical weathering and consumption of atmospheric CO2 in the mountainous regions of the world, especially in the Himalayas.
Climate and Earth History research group
Coastal and Marine Science research group
Geochemistry research group
Recent Students
- Ben Costanza; MA (2007); Late Pliocene / Early Pleistocene Glacial Meltwater Discharge to the Gulf of Mexico: Evidence from ODP Site 625
Recent Undergraduate Theses
- Greer Dolby; BA (2008)
- Kelly Rabejohns; BA (2008)
- Drew Fetterman; BA (2007)
Selected Publications (*=student)
- Kawamura, K., F. Parrenin, L. Lisiecki, R. Uemura, F. Vimeux, J. P. Severinghaus, M. A. Hutterli, T. Nakazawa, S. Aoki, J. Jouzel, M. E. Raymo, K. Matsumoto, H. Nakata, H. Motoyama, S. Fujita, K. Goto-Azuma, Y. Fujii, and O. Watanabe (2007), Northern Hemisphere forcing of climatic cycles in Antarctica over the past 360,000 years, Nature, 448, p. 912-917, doi:10.1038/nature06015.
- Lisiecki, L., and M.E. Raymo (2007), Plio-Pleistocene climate evolution: trends in obliquity and precession responses and glacial cycle shapes. Quaternary Science Reviews, 26, p. 56.
- Raymo, M. E., L. E. Lisiecki, and K. H. Nisancioglu (2006), Plio-Pleistocene Ice Volume, Antarctic Climate, and the Global δ18O Record, Science, 313, p. 492, doi:10.1126/science.1123296.
- Tziperman, E., M.E. Raymo, P. Huybers, and C. Wunsch (2006), Consequences of pacing the Pleistocene 100 kyr ice ages by nonlinear phase locking to Milankovitch forcing. Paleoceanography, 21, PA4206, doi: 10.1029/2005PA001241.
- Lisiecki, L.*, and M. E. Raymo (2005), A Plio-Pleistocene stack of 57 globally distributed δ18O records, Paleoceanography, 20, PA1003, doi:10.1029/2004PA001071.
- Mudelsee, M., and M.E. Raymo (2005), Slow dynamics of the Northern Hemisphere Glaciation, Paleoceanography, 20, PA4022, doi:10.1029/2005PA001153.
- Raymo, M.E., D.W. Oppo, B.P. Flower, D.A. Hodell, J. McManus, K.A. Venz*, K.F. Kleiven, K. McIntyre (2004), Stability of North Atlantic water masses in face of pronounced natural climate variability, Paleoceanography, 19, PA2008, doi:10.1029/2003PA000921.
- Raymo, M.E. and K.H. Nisancioglu* (2003), The 41 Kyr world: Milankovitch’s other unsolved mystery, Paleoceanography, 18, DOI 10.1029/2002PA000791.
