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Timothy D. Herbert

Timothy D. Herbert

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Earth Science

D-Index
59
Citations
11221
World Ranking
2062
National Ranking
897

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Timothy D. Herbert is affiliated with Brown University in the United States. Their work focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with notable specialization in Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, Ocean Engineering, and Paleontology. The scientist's research extensively covers Geology and Paleoclimatology, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Drilling and Well Engineering, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Geological formations and processes, and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils.

Timothy D. Herbert has published in a variety of academic venues. Frequent publication sites include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Nature Communications

Sample recent papers illustrate the scope and focus of their research:

  • Poleward and weakened westerlies during Pliocene warmth, 2021, Nature
  • Tectonic degassing drove global temperature trends since 20 Ma, 2022, Science
  • Group 2i Isochrysidales produce characteristic alkenones reflecting sea ice distribution, 2021, Nature Communications
  • The Mid-Pleistocene Climate Transition, 2023, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Bihemispheric Warming in the Miocene Climatic Optimum as Seen From the Danish North Sea, 2020, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their research, with frequent co-authors including Franck Bassinot, Nicholas J Shackleton, William B Curry, Carl Richter, and Jan Backman. These partnerships reflect an extensive network within the fields of geology and climate science.

Timothy D. Herbert was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2020, recognizing their contributions to geophysical research.

Best Publications

  • Late Miocene global cooling and the rise of modern ecosystems

    Timothy D. Herbert;Kira T. Lawrence;Alexandrina Tzanova;Laura Cleaveland Peterson

  • Tropical ocean temperatures over the past 3.5 million years.

    Timothy D. Herbert;Laura Cleaveland Peterson;Kira T. Lawrence;Zhonghui Liu

  • Last Interglacial Climates

    George J. Kukla;Michael L. Bender;Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu;Gerard Bond

  • Evolution of the Eastern Tropical Pacific Through Plio-Pleistocene Glaciation

    Kira T. Lawrence;Zhonghui Liu;Timothy D. Herbert

  • Milankovitch climatic origin of mid-Cretaceous black shale rhythms in central Italy

    Timothy D. Herbert;Alfred G. Fischer

  • Collapse of the California Current During Glacial Maxima Linked to Climate Change on Land

    T. D. Herbert;J. D. Schuffert;D. Andreasen;L. Heusser

  • Greatly Expanded Tropical Warm Pool and Weakened Hadley Circulation in the Early Pliocene

    Chris M. Brierley;Alexey V. Fedorov;Zhonghui Liu;Timothy D. Herbert

  • High-amplitude variations in North Atlantic sea surface temperature during the early Pliocene warm period

    Kira T. Lawrence;Timothy D. Herbert;Catherine M. Brown;Maureen E. Raymo

  • Temperature and precipitation history of the Arctic

    G. H. Miller;J. Brigham-Grette;R. B. Alley;L. Anderson

  • High-resolution climatic evolution of coastal northern California during the past 16,000 years

    John A. Barron;Linda Heusser;Timothy Herbert;Mitchell Lyle

  • Marine barite as a monitor of seawater strontium isotope composition

    A. Paytan;M. Kastner;E. E. Martin;J. D. Macdougall

  • Astronomical calibration of the Matuyama-Brunhes boundary: Consequences for magnetic remanence acquisition in marine carbonates and the Asian loess sequences

    Lisa Tauxe;T. Herbert;N.J. Shackleton;Y.S. Kok

  • High-latitude influence on the eastern equatorial Pacific climate in the early Pleistocene epoch

    Zhonghui Liu;Timothy D. Herbert

  • Orbital tuning as an inverse problem: Chronology of the early Aptian oceanic anoxic event 1a (Selli Level) in the Cismon APTICORE

    A. Malinverno;E. Erba;T. D. Herbert

  • Mediterranean nutrient balance and episodes of anoxia

    Jorge Louis Sarmiento;Timothy Herbert;J. R. Toggweiler

  • Last Glacial Maximum to Holocene sea surface conditions at Umnak Plateau, Bering Sea, as inferred from diatom, alkenone, and stable isotope records

    Beth E. Caissie;Julie Brigham-Grette;Kira T. Lawrence;Timothy D. Herbert

  • Toward an orbital chronology for the early Aptian Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE1a, ~ 120 Ma)

    Yong Xiang Li;Timothy J. Bralower;Isabel P. Montañez;David A. Osleger

  • CAUSES OF ANOXIA IN THE WORLD OCEAN

    Jorge L. Sarmiento;Timothy D. Herbert;J. R. Toggweiler

  • Out of the Tropics: The Pacific, Great Basin Lakes, and Late Pleistocene Water Cycle in the Western United States

    Mitchell Lyle;Linda Heusser;Christina Ravelo;Masanobu Yamamoto

  • Alkenone Paleotemperature Determinations

    T.D. Herbert

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhonghui Liu
Zhonghui Liu University of Hong Kong
Mitchell W Lyle
Mitchell W Lyle Oregon State University
Linda E. Heusser
Linda E. Heusser Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Harry J. Dowsett
Harry J. Dowsett United States Geological Survey
Mark A. Altabet
Mark A. Altabet University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
John A. Barron
John A. Barron United States Geological Survey
Elisabetta Erba
Elisabetta Erba University of Milan
Julie Brigham-Grette
Julie Brigham-Grette University of Massachusetts Amherst
Robert F. Anderson
Robert F. Anderson Columbia University
Gisela Winckler
Gisela Winckler Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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