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Member Since 1984
Peter B. deMenocal
President and Director, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Member, Ocean Sciences Fellows Committee
President and Director
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
President and Director
2020 - Present
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
Professor
2019 - 2020
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New insights into reconstructing past wildfires: calibrating fire biomarker proxies in marine sediments using random forest models
APPLYING MACHINE LEARNING TO BETTER RECONSTRUCT AND UNDERSTAND PALEOCLIMATES AND PALEOECOLOGY POSTER
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 17 december 2025
Capturing Vegetation Gradients Along the West African Margin Using Terrestrial Plant Biomarkers in Marine Sediments
GEOCHEMISTRY, GEOPHYSICS, GEOSYSTEMS
19 july 2025
Orbital-scale climate and environmental responses of the Western Sahel to shifts in Cenozoic boundary conditions
INTEGRATING PROXY AND MODEL APPROACHES TO PALEOCLIMATE STUDIES IN THE CENOZOIC I POSTER
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 11 december 2024
Wildfire and Environmental Feedbacks in the Western Sahel: Responses to Cenozoic Boundary Shifts
PALEO- AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON FIRE IN THE EARTH SYSTEM II ORAL
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 10 december 2024
River activity during the early Holocene shaped distribution and diversity of vertebrates in the East African Rift
LIFE AND LANDSCAPES ACROSS SCALES: HOW SURFACE PROCESSES SHAPE AND ARE SHAPED BY ECOLOGY, EVOLUTION, AND BEHAVIOR II POSTER
earth and planetary surface processes | 14 december 2023
Terrestrial West African climate responses to orbital forcing across Neogene boundary condition changes
HYDROCLIMATE LESSONS FROM CENOZOIC PALEOCLIMATES II ELIGHTNING
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 12 december 2023
Hydroclimate Variability in the Equatorial Western Indian Ocean for the Last 250,000 Years
PALEOCEANOGRAPHY AND PALEOCLIMATOLOGY
29 january 2023
Characterizing Fire Regimes of Northwest African Savannas From the Last Glacial Maximum to the Late Holocene
HISTORICAL AND PALEO PERSPECTIVES ON FIRE IN THE EARTH SYSTEM II ORAL
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 12 december 2022
Volunteer Experience
2025 - 2027
Member
Ocean Sciences Fellows Committee
Honors & Awards
Cesare Emiliani Lecture
Received December 2014
Union Fellow
Received January 2012
Citation
For his seminal work linking Plio-Pleistocene and Holocene African climate variability to human evolution and culture.
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