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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
Professional Experience
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
President and Director
2020 - Present
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
Professor
2019 - 2020
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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Publications
Hydroclimate Variability in the Equatorial Western Indian Ocean for the Last 250,000 Years
Indian Ocean sea surface temperatures impact precipitation across the basin through coupled ocean‐atmosphere responses to changes in climate....
January 29, 2023
Orbital‐ and Millennial‐Scale Variability in Northwest Afric...
January 22, 2022
Foraminifera Trace Anthropogenic CO2 in the NW Atlantic by 1...
December 18, 2019
Leaf Wax δD and δ13C in Soils Record Hydrological and Enviro...
September 11, 2019
Influences of Temperature and Secondary Environmental Parame...
September 07, 2019
AGU Abstracts
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
Rachel Lupien, Kevin T. Uno, Peter B. deMenocal
Nearly 100 million people live in and depend on the Sahel for agriculture and natural resources. The region is sensitive to natural climate and enviro...
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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
Franziska Blattmann, Rachel Lupien, Kevin T. Uno, ...
Wildfires are essential to terrestrial ecosystems, playing a crucial role in nutrient and carbon cycles, particularly in highly seasonal environments ...
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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
René Dommain, Simon Riedl, Lydia A. Olaka, Peter B...
East Africa is a global biodiversity hotspot and shows distinct spatial patterns in the distribution and diversity of vertebrates. During the Quaterna...
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Volunteer Experience
2025 - 2027
Member
Ocean Sciences Fellows Committee
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