The Rowan Oceanography - Paleoceanography Investigation Center (TROPIC)

The TROPIC lab uses various palaeoclimatological methods to investigate past climate and climate change. We're currently working on various projects, including:

• The role of insolation in forcing ENSO change during the late Pleistocene and Holocene
• Tropical Pacific mean state and variability during the Common Era (the last 2000 years)
• The relationship between Holocene tropical Atlantic variability, ENSO and the Atlantic Niño, the Green Sahara, and tropical circulation
• Changing modes of Pacific tropical variability from the Holocene through the Last Glacial maximum
• The relationship between discrete proxy measures of past sea surface temperatures, seasonality, and water column structure
• New applications and improving methods and understanding of individual foraminifera reconstructions of  paleoclimate variability