Robert S. Webb
Vitae
Vitae
NOAA Earth System Research Laboratories
Physical Science Division
325 Broadway
Boulder, CO 80305-3328
Voice: (303) 497-6967
FAX: (303) 497-7013 or (303) 497-6449
E-mail: Robert.S.Webb@noaa.gov
Physical Science Division
325 Broadway
Boulder, CO 80305-3328
Voice: (303) 497-6967
FAX: (303) 497-7013 or (303) 497-6449
E-mail: Robert.S.Webb@noaa.gov
Education
- Ph.D., Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University , Providence, RI, September 1989.
Thesis: Late Quaternary Water-level Fluctuations in the Northeastern United States, Primary advisor: Thompson Webb III - M.Sc., Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University , Providence, RI, May 1985.
- A.B., Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College , Hanover, NH, June 1981.
Professional Experience
2014 - present | Director Physical Science Division NOAA Earth System Research Laboratories, Boulder, CO |
2006 - 2013 | Chief Climate Analysis Branch Physical Science Division NOAA Earth System Research Laboratories, Boulder, CO |
2005 - 2006 | Interim Lead Climate Diagnostics Branch Physical Science Division NOAA Earth System Research Laboratories, Boulder, CO |
1999 - 2005 | Physical Scientist NOAA Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO |
1992 - 1999 | Physical Scientist NOAA Paleoclimatology Program National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder, CO |
1998 - | Faculty Member Graduate School Faculty University of Colorado, Boulder, CO |
1996 - 2002 | Research Associate II Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research University of Colorado, Boulder, CO |
1992 - 1995 | Affiliate Research Scientist Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research University of Colorado, Boulder, CO |
1990 - | Adjunct Associate Research Scientist Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory Columbia University, Palisades, NY |
1990 - 1992 | National Research Council Research Fellow NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY |
1989 Fall | Post-Doctoral Research Scientist
Department of Geological Sciences Brown University, Providence, RI |
1988 Summer | Young Scientists' Summer Program Research Assistant
Biosphere Dynamics Program International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria |
1982 - 1989 | Research and Teaching Assistant
Department of Geological Sciences Brown University, Providence, RI |
Publications
- Webb, R.S., and Webb, T. III, 1988. Rates of sediment accumulation in small lakes and mires of eastern North America. Quaternary Research 30, 284-297.
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Thorson, R.M., and Webb, R.S. 1991. Postglacial history of a cedar swamp in southeastern Connecticut,Journal of Paleolimnology 6, 17-35
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Overpeck, J.T., Webb, R.S. and Webb, T. III. 1992. Mapping eastern North America vegetation change over the past 18,000 years: no-analogs and the future, Geology 20, 1071-1074.
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Webb, R.S., and Overpeck, J.T., 1993. Carbon reserves released? Nature 361, 497-498.
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Webb, R.S., Rosenzweig, C., and Levine, E., 1993. Specifying land surface characteristics in GCMs: soil profile dataset and derived water-holding capacities, Global Biogeochemical Cycles 7, 97-108.
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Webb, R.S., Anderson, K.H., and Webb, T. III., 1993. Pollen response surface estimates of late Quaternary changes in moisture balance of the northeastern United States, Quaternary Research 40, 213-227.
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Anderson, D.M., and Webb, R.S., 1994. Ice-age tropics revisited? Nature 367, 23-24.
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Webb, R.S., Rind, D.H., Lehman, S.J., Healy, R.J., and Sigman, D. 1997. Influence of ocean heat transports on climate of the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature 385, 695-699.
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Bartlein, P.J., Anderson, K.A., Anderson, P.M., Edwards, M.E., Mock, C.J., Thompson, R.S., Webb, R.S., Webb T. III, and Whitlock, C., 1998. Paleoclimate Simulation for North America over the Past 21,000 Years: Features of the Simulated Climate and Comparisons with Paleoenvironmental Data. Quaternary Science Reviews 17, 549-586.
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Webb T. III, Anderson, K.A. , Bartlein, P.J., Webb, R.S., 1998. Late Quaternary Climate Change in Eastern North America: a Comparison of Pollen-Derived Estimates with Climate Model Results. Quaternary Science Reviews 17, 587-606.
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Joussaume, S., Taylor, K. E., Braconnot, P., Mitchell, J. F. B., Kutzbach, J. E., Harrison, S.P., Prentice, I. C., Broccoli, A. J., Abe-Ouchi, A., Bartlein, P. J., Bonfils, C., Dong, B., Guiot, J., Herterich, K., Hewitt, C. D., Jolly, D., Kim, J. W., Kislov, A., Kitoh, A., Loutre, M. F., Masson, McAvaney, V., B. McFarlane, N., de Noblet, N., Peltier, W. R., Peterschmitt, J.Y., Pollard, D., Rind, D., Royer J. F., Schlesinger, M. E., Syktus, J., Thompson, S., Valdes, P., Vettoretti, G., Webb, R. S., Wyputta, U., 1999. Monsoon changes for 6000 years ago: Results of 18 simulations from the Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP). Geophysical Research Letters 26, 859-862.
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Kerwin, M., Overpeck, J.T. Webb, R.S., DeVernal, A., Rind, D.H., and Healy, R.J., 1999. The role of oceanic forcing in mid-Holocene Northern Hemisphere Climatic Change. Paleoceanography 14, 200-210.
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Cole, J. E., Rind, D., Webb, R.S., Jouzel, J., and Healy, R.J., 1999. Global controls on interannual variability of precipitation d18O: the relative roles of temperature, precipitation amount, and vapor source region. Journal of Geophysical Research 104, 14223-14235.
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Alley, R.B., Clark, P.U., Keigwin, L.D., and Webb, R.S., 1999. Making Sense of Millennial-Scale Climate Change, in " Mechanisms of Millennial-Scale Global Climate Change", eds. Peter U. Clark, Robert S. Webb, and Lloyd D. Keigwin, AGU Monograph 385-394.
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Jackson, S., Webb, R.S., Overpeck, J.T., Anderson, K.A. and Webb, T. III, Williams, J., Hansen, B.C.S., 2000. Vegetation and Environment in eastern North America During the Last Glacial Maximum Quaternary Science Reviews 19, 489-508.
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Overpeck, J.T. and Webb, R.S., 2000. Non-glacial Rapid Climate Events: Past and Future. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A., 97: 1335-1338.
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Newby, P.E., Killoran, P., Waldorf, M.R., Webb, R.S., Webb, T. III, 2000. 11,500 Years of Sediment, Vegetation and Water Level Changes at the Makepeace Cedar Swamp, Southeastern Massachusetts. Quaternary Research 53, 352-368.
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Bush, M.B., Stute, M., Ledru, M.P., Behling, H., Colinvaux, P.A., De Oliveira, P.E., Grimm, E.C., Hooghiemstra, Haberle, H., S., Leyden, B.W., Salgado-Labouriau, M.L., Webb, R., 2001. Paleotemperature Estimates of the Lowland Americas Between 30 Degrees South and 30 degrees North at the Last Glacial Maximum. In 'Interhemispheric Climate Linkages',ed. V. Markgraf, Academic Press, 293-306.
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Charles, C.D., Rind, D., Healy, R., Webb, R, 2001. Tropical cooling and the isotopic composition of precipitation in general circulation model simulations of the ice age climate. Climate Dynamics 17(7), 489-502.
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Forman, S.L.,Oglesby, R., Webb, R.S. 2001. Temporal and spatial patterns of Holocene dune activity on the
Great Plains of North America: megadroughts and climate links. Global and Planetary Change 29, 1-29
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Mathieu, R., Pollard, D., Cole, J., White, J.W.C., Webb, R.S., Thompson, S.L. 2002. Simulation of Stable Water Isotopes Variations by the Genesis GCM for Present-Day Conditions. JGR, Vol. 107, No. D4, 2:1-15.
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Markgraf, V. Webb, R.S., Anderson, K.H. and Anderson, L. 2002. Modern Pollen Climate Calibration For Southern South America, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 181, 375-397.
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Mangan, J., Overpeck, J., Webb, R., Wessman, C., Goetz, A, 2004. Response of Nebraska Sand Hills Natural Vegetation to
Drought, Fire, Grazing, and Plant Functional Type Shifts as Simulated by the Century Model. Climatic Change 63: 49-90.
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Kerwin, M. W., J. T. Overpeck, R. S. Webb, K. H. Anderson, 2004. Pollen-based summer temperature reconstructions for the eastern Canadian boreal forest, subarctic, and Arctic. Quat. Sci. Rev., 23, 1901-
1924.
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Liu, Z. Y., S.-I. Shin, R. S. Webb, W. Lewis, and B. L. Otto-Bliesner, 2005. Atmospheric CO2 forcing on glacial thermohaline circulation and climate. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32(2), L02706,
10.1029/2004GL021929.
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Forman, S. L., L. Marin, J. Pierson, J. Gomez, G. H. Miller, and R. S. Webb, 2005. Aeolian sand depositional records from western Nebraska: Landscape response to droughts in the past 1500 years.
The Holocene, 15, 973-981.
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Shin S.-I., P.D. Sardeshmukh, R.S. Webb, R.J. Oglesby, J.J. Barsugli (2006). Understanding the Mid-Holocene Climate. Journal of Climate, 19, 2801-2817
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Kilbourne K.H., T.M. Quinn, T.P. Guilderson, R.S Webb, F.W. Taylor (2007). Decadal- to interannual-scale source water variations in the Caribbean Sea recorded by Puerto Rican coral radiocarbon. Clim Dyn DOI 10.1007/s00382-007-0224-2
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Kilbourne, K. H., T. M. Quinn, R. Webb, T. Guilderson, J. Nyberg, and A. Winter (2008), Paleoclimate proxy perspective on Caribbean climate since the year 1751: Evidence of cooler temperatures and multidecadal variability, Paleoceanography, 23, PA3220, doi:10.1029/2008PA001598
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Lowrey,J.L., Ray, A.J., Webb, R.S. (2009). Factors influencing the use of climate information
by Colorado municipal water managers. Climate Research, 40, 103Ð119, doi: 10.3354/cr00827
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Shin, S.I., Sardeshmukh,P.D., and R.S. Webb, 2010: Optimal Sea Surface Temperature forcing of North American Drought. Journal of
Climate. DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3360.1 [pdf]
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Hoerling M. P, J.K. Eischeid, X-W Quan, H.F. Diaz, R.S. Webb, R.M. Dole and DR Easterling (2012): Is a Transition to Semipermanent Drought Conditions Imminent in the U.S. Great Plains? J. Clim. 25 (24), 8380-8386.
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McAfee S.A., J.L. Russell R.S. Webb (2012): Influence of bias correction on simulated landcover changes. Geophys. Res. Lett., 39 (16), L16702.
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White A.B., B. Colman, G. Carter, F.M. Ralph, R.S. Webb, D.G. Bandon, C.W. King, P.J. Neiman, D.J. Gottas, et al. (February 2012): NOAA's rapid response to the Howard A. Hanson Dam flood risk management crisis. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 93, 189-07.
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Dole, R.M., M. Hoerling, A. Kumar, J. Eischeid, J. Perlwitz, X.W. Quan, G. Kiladis, R. Webb, D. Murray, M. Chen, K. Wolter, and T. Zhang (2013). The Making of An Extreme Event: Putting the Pieces Together. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 95, 427Ð440.
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Vano, J.A., B. Udall, D.R. Cayan, J.T. Overpeck, L.D. Brekke, T. Das, H.C. Hartmann, H.G. Hidalgo, M. Hoerling, G.J. McCabe, K. Morino, R.S. Webb, K. Werner, and D.P. Lettenmaier. (2014) Understanding Uncertainties in Future Colorado River Streamflow, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 95, 59-78.
Other Publications
- Prentice, I.C., Webb, R.S., et al. , 1989. Developing a global vegetation dynamics model: results of an IIASA summer workshop. IIASA Publication RR-89-7, Laxenburg, Austria.
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Webb, R.S., Rosenzweig, C.E., and Levine, E. 1991. A global data set of soil particle size information. NASA Technical Memorandum 4286.
Anderson, D. M., Webb, R.S., Overpeck, J.T., and Bauer, B., 1993. The NOAA Paleoclimatology Program: Using evidence from the past as a key to understanding and predicting future climate change. Earth System Monitor 3: 6-8.
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Webb, R.S., Overpeck J.T., D.M. Anderson, and others. 1993. World Data Center-A for Paleoclimatology at the NOAA Paleoclimatology Program. Journal of Paleolimnology 9: 69-75.
- Webb, R.S., Anderson, D.M., and J.T. Overpeck. 1994. Editorial: Archiving data at the World Data Center-A for Paleoclimatology. Paleoceanography 9: 391-393.
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Joussaume, Webb, R.S., and Taylor, K., 1995. The Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP). In "Global Paleoenvironmental Data: A report from the workshop sponsored by Past Global Changes (PAGES) August, 1993", Organized by J.T. Overpeck and J. Pilcher, edited by D.M. Anderson. PAGES Workshop Report Series 95-2
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Newby, P.E., Webb, R.S., Webb, T. III, 1995. Pollen and Sediment Records from Walter's Puddle in Central Delaware.Delaware Department of Transportation/U.S. Department of Transportation report, Archaeology Series No. 114, "Paleoenvironmental Studies of the State Route 1 Corridor: Contexts for Prehistoric Settlement, New Castle and Kent Counties, Delaware".
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Newby, P.E., Webb, R.S., Webb, T. III, 1995. Palynology and Paleohydrology of Central Delaware. Delaware Department of Transportation/U.S. Department of Transportation report, Archaeology Series No. 114, "Paleoenvironmental Studies of the State Route 1 Corridor: Contexts for Prehistoric Settlement, New Castle and Kent Counties, Delaware".
- Webb, R.S., 1995. Review of "Global Climates Since the Last Glacial Maximum" edited by H.E. Wright, J.E. Kutzbach, T. Webb III, W.F. Ruddiman, F.A. Street-Perrott, and P.J. Bartlein. Journal of Paleolimnology 14, 228-230.
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Overpeck, J., Webb, R. and Anderson, D. 1996. Teaming up to meet IGBP Paleoenvironmental data needs. IGBP Global Changes Newsletter 27: 28-29.
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Overpeck, J., Webb, R. 1999. Abrupt Climate Change Research. Quaternary Times, AMQUA June Newsletter.
- Clark, P.U., and Webb, R.S., Keigwin, L.D. (eds). "Mechanisms of Millennial-Scale Global Climate Change". AGU Geophysical Monograph 112, 1999.
- Vorosmarty, C.J, abd the NSF-ARCSS Hydrology Workshop Steering Committee 2001. The Hydrologic Cycle and its Role in Arctic and Global Environmental Change: a Rationale and Strategy for Synthesis Study: Fairbanks Alaska: Arctic Research Consortium of the US, 84 pp.
- Ojima, D.S., Lackett, J.M., and the Central Great Plains Steering Committee and Assessment Team, 2004. Preparing for a Changing Climate: The potential consequence of climate variability and change Ð Central Great Plains. Report for the US Global Change Research Program. Colorado State University. 103 pp.
- Schuck, E. C., W.M. Frasier, and R. Webb. 2003 ÒPreliminary Summary of the 2002 Colorado Drought SurveyÓ, Colorado Water, Volume 20, No. 3: 8-11.
- National Integrated Drought Information System Core Team 2004. Creating a Drought Early Warning System for the 21st Century. Western GovernorsÕ Association, pp 13.
- U.S. Climate Change Science Program, 2008. Synthesis and Assessment Product 3.4, Abrupt Climate Change, Final Report
- U.S. Climate Change Science Program, 2008. Synthesis and Assessment Product 5.3, Decision support experiments and evaluations using seasonal-to- interannual forecasts and observational data, Final Report.
- Ray, A.J., J.J. Barsugli, K.B Averyt, K.Wolter, M. Hoerling, N. Doesken, B. Udall, R. Webb 2008. Colorado Climate Change: A Synthesis To Support Water Resource Management and Adaptation, a report for the Colorado Water Conservation Board
- Brekke, LD, Kiang, JE, Olsen, JR, Pulwarty, RS, Raff, DA., Turnipseed, DP, Webb, RS, and White, KD, 2009, Climate change and water resources management - A federal perspective: USGS Circular 1331, 65 p. http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1331/.
- Central Valley Flood Management Planning Program Climate Change Scopeæ Definition Work Group (2010). 2012 Central Valley Flood Protection PlanÑClimate-Change Scope Definition Work Group Summary Report: California Department of Water Resources Flood Safe Report, 76 p.] http://www.water.ca.gov/cvfmp/docs/CCSDWGSummaryReport20091209.pdf
WWW Publications
- Overpeck, J.T., Woodhouse, C., Webb, R.S., and Anderson, D.M. (1999).
A Paleo Perspective on Global Warming, (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/home.html)
- Woodhouse, C., Webb, R.S., Overpeck, J.T., Lixey, L., Keltner, J., Heuer, C.L., Gross, W.S., Gille, E.P., Eakin, C.M., Bauer,. B.A. and Anderson, D.M. (2000).
North American Drought: A Paleo Perspective, (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/drought)
- Webb, R.S., Eischeid, J.K. et al (2003).
Global Patterns of the Risk of Seasonal Extremes Related to ENSO
- Webb, R.S., McNutt, C et al. (2009).
Report by Near Term Opportunity Team on Climate Impact Assessments and Climate Assessment to
identify near and long term opportunities for NOAA as part of a national climate service to support future regional, state, local, or
other climate impact assessment efforts.
- Lindley, S. T., C. B. Grimes, M. S. Mohr, W. Peterson, J. Stein, J. T. Anderson, L.W. Botsford, , D. L. Bottom, C. A. Busack, T.
K. Collier, J. Ferguson, J. C. Garza, A. M. Grover, D. G. Hankin, R. G. Kope, P. W. Lawson, A. Low, R. B. MacFarlane, K. Moore,
M. Palmer-Zwahlen, F. B. Schwing, J. Smith, C. Tracy, R. Webb, B. K. Wells, T. H. Williams (2009)
What caused the Sacramento River fall Chinook stock collapse? Pre-publication report to the Pacific Fishery Management Council.
Conferences, Workshops and Symposia Convened
- Fall 2005 - WWA Climate workshops for water managers, Golden, Colorado and Cheyenne, Wyoming.
- May 2005 - Planning Workshop to Develop Hydroclimatic Reconstructions for Decision Support in the Colorado River Basin, Tucson, AZ
- November 2004 - Colorado River Basin Outlook briefing for water managers, decision makers, and planning groups in the region in Salt Lake City, UT.
- December 2003 - AGU Fall Special Session "Ò Reconstructing Hydroclimatic Variability in North America: Progress, Methods, and Uncertainties ", San Francisco, CA (co-convened with C. Woodhouse)
- March 2001 - Pacific Climate Variability (PACLIM), annual meeting special session, Asilomar, CA: Decadal to Centennial Variation in the Late Holocene (co-convened with M. Hughes)
- May 2000 - AMQUA 16th Biennial Meeting Landscape and Biotic Responses to Climate Variablity: Future Impacts and Past Lessons, Fayetteville, AK, (program chair).
- December 1999 - AGU Fall Special Session 'Asssessing the Range of Central North American Droughts and Associated Land Cover Change', San Francisco, CA (co-convened with C. Woodhouse).
- June 1999 - NOAA/NASA Workshop: Assessing the full range of central North America Droughts and Associated Landcover Change, Boulder (co-convened with J. Overpeck, C. Woodhouse, D. Muhs).
- June 1998 - AGU Chapman Conference titled "Mechanisms of Millennial-Scale Global Climate Change", Snowbird, Utah (co-convened with P. Clark)
- June 1998 - GCIP Mississippi Basin June Conference session titled "Paleohydrology", St. Louis, MO. (co-convened with J. Knox).
- February 1998 - International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) PAGES (Past Global Changes) "Second Workshop on Global Paleoenvironmental Data", Boulder, CO, USA(co-convened with D. Anderson).
- October 1996 - Geological Society of Ameria Annual Meeting "Earth System Processes at the Last Glacial Maximum", San Francisco, CA (co-convened with B. Felzer).
- December 1995 - IGBP Past Global Changes "Paleoenvironmental Multiproxy Analysis and Mapping Project Workshop", San Francisco, CA.
- December 1995 - AGU Fall Special Session "Climate System Processes at the Last Glacial Maximum", San Francisco, CA (co-convened with A. Broccoli).
- December 1994 - IGBP Past Global Changes "Multiproxy Mapping Workshop ", San Francisco, CA (co-convened with E. Grimm, R. Graham).
- November 1991- NOAA/NASA sponsored "Late Quaternary Climate Model Boundary Conditions Workshop" at Lamont Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University,
Palisades, NY (co-convened with D. Rind and W. Ruddiman).