Member Since 1996
Kim Cobb
Director, Brown University
Kim Cobb is the Director of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society at Brown University, and Professor in Environment and Society as well as Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences. As a climate scientist, she uses observations of past and present climate to advance our understanding of future climate change impacts, with a focus on climate extremes and coastal flooding. As a mother to four, Kim is a strong advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion in all that she does.
Professional Experience
Brown University
Director
2022 - Present
Georgia Institute of Technology
Professor
2004 - 2022
Education
Doctorate
2002
Honors & Awards
Union Fellow
Received December 2023
Citation
For transformative contributions to understanding tropical paleoclimate and cross-disciplinary support of outreach and diversity
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Cesare Emiliani Lecture
Received December 2022
Publications
Borneo Stalagmite Evidence of Significantly Reduced El Nino‐Southern Oscillation Variability at 4.1 ...

The timing and geographic extent of a potential “4.2 ky event” remain highly contested. Here we present records of ENSO variabilit...

March 23, 2024
AGU Abstracts
Central equatorial Pacific climate change over the last 7,000 years from a large ensemble of Kiritimati coral records
OCEAN SCIENCES 2024
climate and ocean change | 23 february 2024
Alyssa R. Atwood, Kim Cobb, Pamela R. Grothe, Sydn...
Paleoclimate records across the Pacific provide evidence for substantial changes in ENSO variability over the Holocene. However, changes in the backgr...
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Beyond Porites corals – evaluating the geochemistry from large skeletal architectural corals from the central tropical Pacific as reliable archives for climate change
OCEAN SCIENCES 2024
climate and ocean change | 22 february 2024
Pamela R. Grothe, Jacob Cantor, Jessica Oberlies ,...
Short instrumental climate records in the central tropical Pacific prevent a robust evaluation of long-term trends in climate models, translating into...
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Reflections on a decade of continuous stable water isotope monitoring in the tropical Pacific: What have we learned?
WATER ISOTOPE SYSTEMATICS: IMPROVING MODERN AND PALEOCLIMATE INTERPRETATIONS II ORAL
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 14 december 2023
Jessica L. Conroy, Nicole K. Murray, Fernando Eche...
Stable oxygen and hydrogen isotope values are invaluable tools for the climate and paleoclimate communities. They provide some of the most robust evid...
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Volunteer Experience
2020 - 2021
Member
Joanne Simpson Medal Committee
2015 - 2018
Editor
Geophysical Research Letters
2017 - 2017
Member
Perlman Award Committee
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