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Meredith C. Parish
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Contact Info
- Name
- Meredith C. Parish
- Preferred Pronouns
- she/her
- Job Title
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Website
- Office Number
- Research Hall, Room 275
Affiliations
Departments
- Atmospheric, Oceanic & Earth Sciences Department (Research Faculty)
Research Areas
- Climate Dynamics
- Climate Science
- Modeling and Simulation
- Paleoclimatology
Education
PhD, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University (2024)
About
I am a postdoctoral research fellow specializing in using climate model simulations and paleoclimate reconstructions to investigate the drivers of tropical climate change. My current research focuses on diagnosing the controls of pantropical precipitation during key periods such as the last deglaciation and the last interglacial. I hold an MS from the University of Wyoming, where I studied centennial-to-millennial scale climate variability in the western United States, and a PhD from Brown University, where my research centered on orbital-scale climate changes in the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool region. My overarching interest lies in understanding the forces that drive climate, especially precipitation, with the goal of constraining how future climate change will impact people.
Selected Publications
Parish, M., Russell, J., Konecky, B., Du, X., He, C., Bijaksana, S. and Vogel, H., 2024. Changes in Indo-Pacific Warm Pool hydroclimate and vegetation during the last deglaciation. Quaternary Science Reviews, 336, p.108755. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108755
Parish, M.C., Du, X., Bijaksana, S. and Russell, J.M., 2023. A brGDGT‐based reconstruction of terrestrial temperature from the Maritime Continent spanning the Last Glacial Maximum. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 38(3), p.e2022PA004501. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022PA004501
Zhao, B., Russell, J.M., Tsai, V.C., Blaus, A., Parish, M.C., Liang, J., Wilk, A., Du, X. and Bush, M.B., 2023. Evaluating global temperature calibrations for lacustrine branched GDGTs: Seasonal variability, paleoclimate implications, and future directions. Quaternary Science Reviews, 310, p.108124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108124
Parish, M.C., Calder, W.J. and Shuman, B.N., 2020. Millennial-scale increase in winter precipitation in the southern Rocky Mountains during the Common Era. Quaternary Research, 94, pp.1-13. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2019.85 Parish, M.C., Wolf, K.D., Higuera, P.E. and Shuman, B.N., 2022. Holocene water levels of Silver Lake, Montana, and the hydroclimate history of the Inland Northwest. Quaternary Research, 110, pp.54-66. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2022.17
Awards
AGU Outstanding Student Presentation Award, 2023. GSA Continental Scientific Drilling Division Student Research Grant, 2021
Contact Info
- Name
- Meredith C. Parish
- Preferred Pronouns
- she/her
- Job Title
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Website
- Office Number
- Research Hall, Room 275