CoRPS
The principal goal of the working group is to improve the interdisciplinary understanding of hydrological and climatological variability and extreme events in the past to inform and improve the prediction of future extreme events and their potential socioecological impacts.
We apply a diverse array of techniques and approaches to not only identify and characterize past extreme hydrologic and climatologic events but also to model future change. Much of our research focuses on geochronology, including the development of paleo hydroclimatic archives using (among others) archaeological materials, sclerochronology, dendrochronology, limnology, sedimentology, micropalaeontology, paleotempestology, speleothem analysis, and the use of stable and radiogenic isotopes. |
Primary Research Foci |
1. Reconstructing paleoclimate variation, including drought and past floods and flows in rivers that occurred before the historic record and in ungauged rivers.
2. Understanding the effects of past hydroclimate variability on people, societies, and Earth’s systems. 3. Integrating hydroclimate data derived from proxy and environmental reconstruction techniques into hydrologic models to improve understanding of future variability. 4. Reconstruction of extreme events within the paleo and historic period in both the terrestrial and marine records, finding links within these systems to determine large scale climatic drivers of extreme events. |