Maureen Raymo
Research Professor
Office: STO 127A
Phone: 617-353-4009
raymo@bu.edu
Maureen's Homepage
Climate - Surface Interactions Research Page
| Ph.D. | 1989 | Columbia University |
| M.Phil. | 1988 | Columbia University |
| M.A. | 1985 | Columbia University |
| Sc.B. | 1982 | Brown University |
Prof. 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. She uses stable isotopes of oxygen and carbon to study past ocean circulation and ice volume history and has recently proposed that changes in the gradient in insolation received between low and high latitudes controlled global ice volume in the late Pliocene and early Pleistocene. She also proposed 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, particularly in the Himalayas. Most of her work is based on data collected from deep-sea microfossils recovered using the capabilities of the research vessel JOIDES Resolution.
Selected Publications
Lisiecki, L., and M.E. Raymo. 2007. Plio-Pleistocene climate evolution: trends in obliquity and precession responses and glacial cycle shapes. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 26, p. 56.
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, v. 21, PA4206, doi: 10.1029/2005PA001241.