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  • 2012 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Peter B deMenocal is affiliated with the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on fields within engineering, particularly ocean engineering and mechanical engineering, coupled with atmospheric science, earth-surface processes, and paleontology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Drilling and Well Engineering
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

Some recent papers coauthored by Peter B deMenocal, noting title, year, and venue, are:

  • The Greening of the Sahara: Past Changes and Future Implications, 2020, One Earth
  • Increased ecological resource variability during a critical transition in hominin evolution, 2020, Science Advances
  • Holocene bidirectional river system along the Kenya Rift and its influence on East African faunal exchange and diversity gradients, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Orbital- and Millennial-Scale Variability in Northwest African Dust Emissions Over the Past 67,000 years, 2021, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Relationship between individual chamber and whole shell Mg/Ca ratios in Trilobatus sacculifer and implications for individual foraminifera palaeoceanographic reconstructions, 2021, Scientific Reports

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Carl Richter
  • Thomas R. Janecek
  • Rainer Stax
  • Ralf Tiedemann
  • Ana Christina Ravelo

Peter B deMenocal has published in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • One Earth
  • Science Advances

In 2012, they were recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

Best Publications

  • A Pervasive Millennial-Scale Cycle in North Atlantic Holocene and Glacial Climates

    Gerard Bond;William Showers;Maziet Cheseby;Rusty Lotti

  • Abrupt onset and termination of the African Humid Period:rapid climate responses to gradual insolation forcing

    Peter deMenocal;Joseph D Ortiz;Tom Guilderson;Jess Adkins

  • African climate change and faunal evolution during the Pliocene-Pleistocene

    Peter B deMenocal

  • Plio-Pleistocene African Climate

    Peter B. deMenocal

  • Cultural Responses to Climate Change During the Late Holocene

    Peter B. deMenocal

  • Climate change and the collapse of the Akkadian empire: Evidence from the deep sea

    H. M. Cullen;P. B. deMenocal;S. Hemming;G. Hemming

  • Coherent high- and low-latitude climate variability during the holocene warm period

    Peter deMenocal;Joseph D Ortiz;Tom Guilderson;Michael Sarnthein

  • The Pliocene paradox (mechanisms for a permanent El Niño).

    A. V. Fedorov;P. S. Dekens;M. McCarthy;A. C. Ravelo

  • Did our species evolve in subdivided populations across Africa, and why does it matter?

    Eleanor M.L. Scerri;Eleanor M.L. Scerri;Mark G. Thomas;Andrea Manica;Philipp Gunz

  • North Atlantic influence on Tigris–Euphrates streamflow

    Heidi M. Cullen;Peter B. deMenocal

  • Rainfall regimes of the Green Sahara.

    Jessica E. Tierney;Francesco S. R. Pausata;Peter B. deMenocal

  • Orbital forcing of climate over South Africa: A 200,000-year rainfall record from the pretoria saltpan

    T.C. Partridge;P.B. Demenocal;S.A. Lorentz;M.J. Paiker

  • Mid-Holocene El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) attenuation revealed by individual foraminifera in eastern tropical Pacific sediments

    Athanasios Koutavas;Peter B. deMenocal;George C. Olive;Jean Lynch-Stieglitz

  • Abrupt Shifts in Horn of Africa Hydroclimate Since the Last Glacial Maximum

    Jessica Erin Tierney;Peter B. deMenocal

  • Climate and Human Evolution

    Peter B. deMenocal

  • IMPACT OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION ON MIDDLE EASTERN CLIMATE AND STREAMFLOW

    Heidi M. Cullen;Alexey Kaplan;Phillip A. Arkin;Peter B. deMenocal

  • Evidence for a change in the periodicity of tropical climate cycles at 2.4 Myr from whole-core magnetic susceptibility measurements

    Jan Bloemendal;Peter deMenocal

  • The magnitude, timing and abruptness of changes in North African dust deposition over the last 20,000 yr

    D. McGee;Peter B. deMenocal;Peter B. deMenocal;Gisela Winckler;Gisela Winckler;J. B. W. Stuut

  • Northward extent of East Asian monsoon covaries with intensity on orbital and millennial timescales.

    Yonaton Goldsmith;Wallace S. Broecker;Hai Xu;Pratigya J. Polissar

  • Interlaboratory study for coral Sr/Ca and other element/Ca ratio measurements

    Ed C. Hathorne;Alexander C. Gagnon;Thomas Felis;Jess F. Adkins

  • Did our species evolve in subdivided populations across Africa, and Why does it matter?

    Eleanor M.L. Scerri;Mark G. Thomas;Andrea Manica;Philipp Gunz

Frequent Co-Authors

Gisela Winckler
Gisela Winckler Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Jan-Berend W Stuut
Jan-Berend W Stuut Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Braddock K. Linsley
Braddock K. Linsley Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Jessica E. Tierney
Jessica E. Tierney University of Arizona
Jess F. Adkins
Jess F. Adkins California Institute of Technology
Sarah J. Feakins
Sarah J. Feakins University of Southern California
Steven L. Goldstein
Steven L. Goldstein Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Alexey Kaplan
Alexey Kaplan Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Robert B. Dunbar
Robert B. Dunbar Stanford University

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