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Diane received her PhD from University of Arizona in 2013, and was awarded a 2-year Advanced Study Program Postdoctoral Fellowship at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. She started as an Assistant Professor at Boston University in January 2016. She is now Assistant Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arizona, and the Director of Marine Research at the Biosphere 2.
Diane’s research bridges the fields of ecology, paleoecology, and paleoclimatology to investigate climates and reef systems of the past. Her work spans a range of scales from local (e.g., reef-scale circulation) to global (e.g., climate variability and change) and capitalizes on a blend of field and laboratory, observational and modeling, and experimental and theoretical approaches. She aims to improve our understanding of tropical-climate variability through investigations of topical-climate archives, including coral, speleothem, and marine and lake sediment records. She also aims to further investigate the stability of the coral-reef ecosystem through past climate changes. Determining whether the changes occurring on today’s reefs are unprecedented through geological time will improve our predictions of coral-reef resilience under future global climate change. Show Less
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Courses
- OSOcean Sciences
- MCVModes of Climate Variability
Grants
- Collaborative Research: Tracing Pacific Ocean Circulation and Ventilation During the Warm Pliocene Epoch
Co-Investigator (COI)
2023
$544.8K
Active - CAREER: Climate-Change Vulnerability In The Marshall Islands - Learning From The Past & Inspiring A New Future
Principal Investigator (PI)
2020
$681.2K
Active - Collaborative Research: P2C2--Unravelling the Signals in Tropical Pacific Lake Archives: Towards Improved Holocene Hydroclimate Reconstructions
Co-Investigator (COI)
2020
$547.2K
Active - Reconstructing Pacific Trade Wind Variability: Extending and Replicating a Promising New Coral Proxy
Principal Investigator (PI)
2018
$343.0K
Active - Maximizing the Potential of Tropical Climate Proxies Through Integrated Climate-Proxy Forward Modeling
Principal Investigator (PI)
2010
$23.5K
News
- Study solves long-standing mystery of what may have triggered ice age
2022
- Virtual Science Lecture Series to Examine Water's Cosmic Past and Challenging Future
2021
- First Evidence of Ocean Warming Around Galápagos Corals
2018
- UA Students Sweep Prestigious National Awards
2012
Publications (56)
Recent
- The Iso2k database: a global compilation of paleo-δ18O and δ2H records to aid understanding of Common Era climate
2020
- Is there a low-frequency bias in multiproxy reconstructions of tropical pacific SST variability?
2020
- The spectrum of Asian Monsoon variability: A proxy system model approach to the hydroclimate scaling mismatch
2020
- The Iso2k database: a global compilation of paleo-$delta$ 18 O and $delta$ 2 H records to aid understanding of Common Era climate
2020
- Enhanced El Ni~no-Southern Oscillation variability in recent decades
2019
- Building Resilient Reefs: Biosphere 2 Beyond
2019
- Extreme temperature events will drive coral decline in the Coral Triangle
2019
- Linking climate variability and growth in coral skeletal records from the Great Barrier Reef
2018
- Paired Density and Geochemistry Records Demonstrate the Combined Impact of Skeletal Density and Architecture on the Geochemistry of Modern and Sub-Fossil Corals from the Gal\'apagos Islands
2018
- Northern Galapagos Corals Reveal Twentieth Century Warming in the Eastern Tropical Pacific
2018
- Comparison among Proxy System Models ( PSM-MIPs )
2018
- Variability in oceanographic barriers to coral larval dispersal: Do currents shape biodiversity?
2018
- Northern Gal\'apagos corals reveal twentieth century warming in the eastern tropical Pacific
2018
- A preindustrial to present record of SST from Darwin Island, Gal\'apagos: constraining Eastern Pacific decadal variability
2017
- Spatial delta18Osw-SSS relationship across the western tropical Pacific Ocean
2017
- Constraining 20th Century Pacific Trade-Wind Variability Using Coral Mn/Ca
2017
- Global Synthesis of Common Era Hydroclimate using Water Isotope Proxies from Multiple Archives: First Results from the PAGES Iso2k Project
2017
- Tropical Pacific climate variability over the last 6000 years as recorded in Bainbridge Crater Lake, Galapagos
2017
- Spatiotemporal variability in the $\delta$18O-salinity relationship of seawater across the tropical Pacific Ocean
2017
- Spatiotemporal variability in the O-18-salinity relationship of seawater across the tropical Pacific Ocean
2017
- Saving our marine archives
2017
- Salinity information in coral delta18O records
2017
- Multi-proxy Reconstructions of the Eastern Equatorial Pacific: Measuring Sr/Ca, Ba/Ca, and Li/Mg in Modern Corals Using ICP-OES
2017
- Larval connectivity across temperature gradients and its potential effect on heat tolerance in coral populations
2016
- Climate, bleaching and connectivity in the Coral Triangle.
2016
- A Simple Proxy System Model of High-Latitude Encrusting Algal Oxygen Isotope Composition (delta18O)
2016
- Coral-based estimates of tropical Pacific climate during the Little Ice Age: Intercolony variability and the need for replication
2016
- Assessing multi-site delta O-18-climate calibrations of the coralline alga Clathromorphum across the high-latitude Northern Hemisphere
2016
- Data, age uncertainties and ocean $\delta$18O under the spotlight for Ocean2k Phase 2
2016
- An ensemble approach to reconstructing 20th century climate trends in data-sparse regions of the tropical Pacific using young fossil corals
2016
- Impacts of Larval Connectivity on Coral Heat Tolerance
2016
- Robust evidence for forced changes in ENSO: from the mid-Holocene to the 21st century
2016
- Variability in reef connectivity in the Coral Triangle
2015
- Spatiotemporal Variability in the Salinity-Oxygen Isotope Relationship of Seawater Across the Tropical Pacific Ocean
2015
- Assessing the Contribution of Sea Surface Temperature and Salinity to Coral delta18O using a Weighted Forward Model
2015
- Changing Trends and Variance in Eastern Equatorial Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures over the Twentieth Century
2015
- PRYSM: An open-source framework for PRoxY System Modeling, with applications to oxygen-isotope systems
2015
- A Probabilistic Model of Chronological Errors in Layer-Counted Climate Proxies
2014
- Developing a forward model of encrusting coralline algae
2014
- Early twentieth-century warming linked to tropical Pacific wind strength
2014
- A probabilistic model of chronological errors in layer-counted climate proxies: applications to annually banded coral archives
2014
- Climate influences on water and sediment properties of Genovesa Crater Lake, Galapagos
2014
- Variability in Pacific trade winds inferred from coral Mn/Ca: Implications for the rate of global warming
2014
- Coral-model comparison highlighting the role of salinity in long-term trends
2013
- Using palaeo-climate comparisons to constrain future projections in CMIP5
2013
- Applications of proxy system modeling in high resolution paleoclimatology
2012
- Reconciling coral-based reconstructions of tropical Pacific SST and salinity
2012
- Improving Holocene Climate Reconstructions from Gal\'apagos Lake Sediments: New Insights From Long-Term Lake Monitoring
2011
- Tropical climate trends inferred from coral delta18O: a comparison of CMIP5 forward-model results with paleoclimatic observations
2011
- Coral Records Of Recent Tropical Variability: What Do They Tell Us That We Don't Already Know?
2011
- Comparison of observed and simulated tropical climate trends using a forward model of coral $delta$ 18O
2011
- Intercomparison of 20th century tropical climate model hindcasts and coral delta18O data using a forward proxy system model
2010
- The Challenge of Low-Frequency ENSO Variability
2010
- Corals escape bleaching in regions that recently and historically experienced frequent thermal stress
2009
- A Paleoclimatic Context for Recent ENSO Activity
2008
- Return Periods of Anomalous Sea-Surface Temperature Events Inferred From Wavelet Analysis of Thermal Proxy Records in Corals: Implications for Coral Bleaching
2007