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Jeffrey P. Donnelly is affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States. The primary areas of research they are involved in span Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a strong focus on subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, and Oceanography.

The scientist's work explores a range of topics including Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, Coastal and Marine Dynamics, Climate variability and models, Geological formations and processes, and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes.

Several recent papers highlight their research contributions:

  • Revising evidence of hurricane strikes on Abaco Island (The Bahamas) over the last 700 years, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Sea Level Rise Will Drive Divergent Sediment Transport Patterns on Fore Reefs and Reef Flats, Potentially Causing Erosion on Atoll Islands, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Centennial-Scale Shifts in Storm Frequency Captured in Paleohurricane Records From The Bahamas Arise Predominantly From Random Variability, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Increased typhoon activity in the Pacific deep tropics driven by Little Ice Age circulation changes, 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • Historically unprecedented Northern Gulf of Mexico hurricane activity from 650 to 1250 CE, 2020, Scientific Reports

Frequent co-authors with whom Jeffrey P. Donnelly has collaborated include:

  • Richard M. Sullivan (18 joint publications)
  • Peter J. van Hengstum (18 joint publications)
  • Tyler S. Winkler (14 joint publications)
  • Elizabeth J. Wallace (12 joint publications)
  • Michael Toomey (10 joint publications)

Their research has been published repeatedly in various scientific outlets. The most common publication venues include:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America (11 publications)
  • Scientific Reports (4 publications)
  • Geophysical Research Letters (3 publications)
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology (3 publications)
  • Marine Geology (3 publications)

Best Publications

  • Climate related sea-level variations over the past two millennia

    Andrew C. Kemp;Benjamin P. Horton;Jeffrey P. Donnelly;Michael E. Mann

  • Intense hurricane activity over the past 5,000 years controlled by El Niño and the West African monsoon.

    Jeffrey P. Donnelly;Jonathan D. Woodruff

  • Temperature-driven global sea-level variability in the Common Era

    Robert Evans Kopp;Andrew C. Kemp;Klaus Bittermann;Benjamin Horton

  • Rapid shoreward encroachment of salt marsh cordgrass in response to accelerated sea-level rise.

    Jeffrey P. Donnelly;Mark D. Bertness

  • 700 yr sedimentary record of intense hurricane landfalls in southern New England

    Jeffrey P. Donnelly;Sarah Smith Bryant;Jessica Butler;Jennifer Dowling

  • Atlantic hurricanes and climate over the past 1,500 years

    Michael E. Mann;Jonathan D. Woodruff;Jeffrey P. Donnelly;Zhihua Zhang

  • Seasonal, interannual, and mesoscale variability of the Black Sea upper layer circulation derived from altimeter data

    Gennady Korotaev;T. Oguz;A. Nikiforov;C. Koblinsky

  • Climatic control of Mississippi River flood hazard amplified by river engineering

    Samuel E. Munoz;Samuel E. Munoz;Liviu Giosan;Matthew D. Therrell;Jonathan W. F. Remo

  • Impact of climate change on New York City’s coastal flood hazard: Increasing flood heights from the preindustrial to 2300 CE

    Andra J. Garner;Michael E. Mann;Kerry A. Emanuel;Robert E. Kopp

  • Coupling instrumental and geological records of sea-level change: Evidence from southern New England of an increase in the rate of sea-level rise in the late 19th century

    Jeffrey P. Donnelly;Jeffrey P. Donnelly;Peter Cleary;Paige E. Newby;Robert Ettinger

  • Sedimentary evidence of intense hurricane strikes from New Jersey

    Jeffrey P. Donnelly;Stuart Roll;Micah Wengren;Jessica Butler

  • Hurricane Sandy's flood frequency increasing from year 1800 to 2100.

    Ning Lin;Robert Evans Kopp;Benjamin Horton;Jeffrey P. Donnelly

  • A backbarrier overwash record of intense storms from Brigantine, New Jersey

    Jeffrey P. Donnelly;Jeffrey P. Donnelly;Jessica Butler;Stuart Roll;Micah Wengren

  • Young Danube delta documents stable Black Sea level since the middle Holocene: Morphodynamic, paleogeographic, and archaeological implications

    Liviu Giosan;Jeffrey P. Donnelly;Stefan Constantinescu;Florin Filip

  • Exploring typhoon variability over the mid-to-late Holocene: evidence of extreme coastal flooding from Kamikoshiki, Japan

    Jonathan D. Woodruff;Jeffrey P. Donnelly;Akiko Okusu

  • Rapid wetland expansion during European settlement and its implication for marsh survival under modern sediment delivery rates

    Matthew L. Kirwan;A. Brad Murray;Jeffrey P. Donnelly;D. Reide Corbett

  • A decadally-resolved paleohurricane record archived in the late Holocene sediments of a Florida sinkhole

    D. Philip Lane;Jeffrey P. Donnelly;Jonathan D. Woodruff;Andrea D. Hawkes

  • Rapid sea-level rise and Holocene climate in the Chukchi Sea

    Lloyd D. Keigwin;Jeffrey P. Donnelly;Mea S. Cook;Neal W. Driscoll

  • Sedimentary evidence of hurricane strikes in western Long Island, New York

    Elyse Scileppi;Jeffrey P. Donnelly

  • Reconstructing relative flooding intensities responsible for hurricane-induced deposits from Laguna Playa Grande, Vieques, Puerto Rico

    Jonathan D. Woodruff;Jeffrey P. Donnelly;David Mohrig;Wayne R. Geyer

  • Climatic and megaherbivory controls on late-glacial vegetation dynamics: a new, high-resolution, multi-proxy record from Silver Lake, Ohio

    Jacquelyn L. Gill;John W. Williams;Stephen T. Jackson;Jeffrey P. Donnelly

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin P. Horton
Benjamin P. Horton City University of Hong Kong
Andrew C. Kemp
Andrew C. Kemp Tufts University
Kevin J. Anchukaitis
Kevin J. Anchukaitis University of Arizona
Andrew D. Ashton
Andrew D. Ashton Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Michael E. Mann
Michael E. Mann Pennsylvania State University
Bryan N. Shuman
Bryan N. Shuman University of Wyoming
Robert E. Kopp
Robert E. Kopp Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Patrick Louchouarn
Patrick Louchouarn Texas A&M University
Neil Pederson
Neil Pederson Harvard University

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