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CHARLES, CHRISTOPHER

Professor

Degrees:

  • B.A., University of California, Berkeley
  • Ph.D., Columbia University

Research Interests:

  • Paleoceanography/paleoclimatology
  • Isotope tracers of climate change
  • Deep sea sediment record of biogeochemical cycling

Courses Recently Taught:

  • ESYS10: Intro to Environmental Systems
  • ESYS102: The Solid and Fluid Earth
  • SIO 138: The Coral Reef Environment
  • SIO 201: Geological Record/Climate Chng
  • SIO 240: Marine Geology
  • SIO 25: Climate Change and Society
  • SIO138: The Coral Reef Environment
  • SIO201: Geological Record/Climate Chng
  • SIO240: Marine Geology
  • SIO25: Climate Change and Society

Mentoring:

  • Ricther, Daniel (Graduate; 2005-)
  • Roach, Lydia (Graduate; 2004-)
  • Rafter, Patrick (Graduate; 2002-)
  • Munson, Jenna (Graduate; 2001-2008)
  • Field, David (Graduate; 2000-2005)
  • Cobb, Kim (Graduate; 1996-2002)
  • Hunter, David (Graduate; 1994-2003)
  • Mortyn, P. Graham (Graduate; 1994-2001)
  • Ninnemann, Ulysses (Graduate; 1992-1999)

Home Department:
GRD

Mailing Address:
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla CA, 92093
Mail Code: 0244

Email: ccharles@ucsd.edu


Scripps Scholars Profile: http://scrippsscholars.ucsd.edu/ccharles

Lab Website: charleslab.ucsd.edu

Publications:

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1992. Evidence from Southern Ocean sediments for the effect of North Atlantic Deep Water flux on climate. Nature: 355:416-419.

1997. Interaction between the ENSO and the monsoon in a coral record of tropical climate. Science: 277:925-928.

2001. A central tropical Pacific coral demonstrates Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic decadal climate connections. Geophysical Research Letters: 28:2209-2212.

2001. Pleistocene evolution of the ocean's carbonate system. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.: 192:109-124.

2001. Tropical cooling and the isotopic composition of precipitation in general circulation model simulations of the ice age climate. Climate Dynamics: 17:489-502.

2003: Deep sea sedimentary analogs to the Vostok Ice Core. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 4:8405

2003: El Niņo-Southern Oscillation and tropical Pacific climate during the last millennium. Nature 424:271-276

2006: Twentieth century warming reflected in planktonic foraminifera of the California Current. Science 311:63-66

2007: Deconvolution of the atmospheric radiocarbon record in the last 50,000 years Earth and Planetary Science Letters 258: 550-560


Last Modified: Nov 25, 2008