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Jud Partin

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RESEARCH SCIENTIST

Jud seeks to understand how externally-forced and internally-driven changes affect the earth’s climate. He uses paleoclimate archives to help evaluate both current climate trends and climate models, which are used to project future changes. Jud focuses on producing long records of hydroclimate using speleothems, corals, and forams from the tropics as well as quantifying the uncertainty of climate reconstructions and then comparing the paleoclimate data to climate model output.

INTERESTS

paleoclimate, data-model comparisons, tropical climate

CURRENT PROJECTS

Abrupt Climate Change
Tropical Hydroclimate Changes
Reconstructions of Past ENSO Variability

ACADEMICS

Ph.D., Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology
M.A., Physical Chemistry, University of Southern California
B.S., Chemistry, The Citadel

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Phone: 512-471-5172
Email: jpartin@ig.utexas.edu
Twitter: @junglecave 
Office: 2.112
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HIGHLIGHTS

Climate scientist moves research online, while learning to homeschool
El Niño, La Niña Rising
UTIG researchers aim to study future sea level changes by obtaining paleosea records in the Federal States of Micronesia
Going Against Greenland
Jud Partin’s Research Appears in National News Outlets

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