Publications (* designates student author)

Adkins, J.F., Cobb, K.M., Partin, J.W., Fernandez, D.P., U/Th-dating stalagmites from northern Borneo, In prep.

Partin, J.W.*, K.M. Cobb, J.F. Adkins, B. Clark. Trace element and carbon isotopic variations in cave dripwaters and stalagmites from northern Borneo. Submitted.

Jones, P.D. et al., High-resolution paleoclimatology of the last millennium: a review of current status and future prospects. Submitted.

Furtado, J, Di Lorenzo, E., Cobb, K.M., Bracco, A. Reconstructing tropical sea surface temperatures using precipitation proxy records:  methods and uncertainties, Submitted.

Di Lorenzo, E., Schneider, N., Cobb, K.M., Chhak, K., Franks, P.J., Miller, A.J., Bograd, S.J., Arango, H., Curchister, E., Powell, T.M., Riviere, P. North Pacific gyre oscillation controls salinity, nutrients, and Chl-a. doi:10.1029/2007GL032838, 2008.

Partin, J.W.*, K.M. Cobb, J.F. Adkins, B. Clark, D.P. Fernandez. Millennial-scale trends in west Pacific warm pool hydrology since the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature 449: 452-455, 2007.

Cobb, K.M., B. Clark , J.W. Partin, J.F. Adkins. Regional-scale climate influences on temporal variations in rainwater and cave dripwater oxygen isotopes in northern Borneo. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 263:  207-220, 2007.

Graham, N.E., Hughes, M.K., Ammann, C., Cobb, K.M., Hoerling, M.P., Kennett, D.J., Kennett, J.P., Rein, B., Stott, L., Wigand, P.E., Xu, T., Tropical Pacific-Mid-latitude teleconnections during medieval times, Climatic Change 81(1-2):  241-285, 2007.

Cobb, K.M., C.D. Charles, R.L Edwards, H. Cheng, M. Kastner. El Niño-Southern Oscillation and tropical Pacific climate during the last millennium. Nature 424:  271-276, 2003.  

Cobb, K.M., C.D. Charles, R.L. Edwards, H. Cheng, M. Kastner. U/Th-dating living and young fossil corals from the central tropical Pacific. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 210(1-2):  91-103, 2003.

Charles, C.D., K.M. Cobb, M.D. Moore, R.G. Fairbanks. Monsoon-tropical ocean interaction in a network of coral records spanning the 20th century. Marine Geology 201(1-3):  207-222, 2003.

Paytan, A, S. Mearon, K.M. Cobb, M. Kastner. Origin of barite deposits:  Sr and S isotope characterization. Geology 30(8):  747-750, 2002.

Cobb, K.M., Coral records of the El Nino-Southern Oscillation and tropical Pacific climate over the last millennium. Doctoral dissertation, Univ. of California, San Diego, 165pp., 2002.

Cobb, K.M., D.E. Hunter, C.D. Charles. A central tropical Pacific coral demonstrates Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic decadal climate connections. Geophys. Res. Lett. 28(11):  2209-2212, 2001.  

Recent Presentations

As the world warms:  coral records of climate change. (40 min) MACNA XX talk, Sept 7, 2008.

The Science of Global Warming and its Implications. (15 min) EPA Earth Week talk, April 16, 2008.

The Facts and Fiction of Climate Change. (45 min) Paideia Middle School, April 15, 2008.

Fact and Fiction of Global Warming. (15 min) Atlanta Kiwanis meeting, August 21, 2007.

The Science of Global Warming. (45 min) Reasons to Believe meeting, Jan 25, 2007.

Fact and Fiction in Climate Change Science. (15 min) Westminster High School, Jan 19, 2007.

Studying Climate with Corals. (45 min) Westminster Junior High, Jan 19, 2007.

Corals and climate research. (1 hour) Ocean Sciences Workshop, December 2, 2006.

The Science of Global Warming. (15 min) Sustainable Atlanta Roundtable, September 8, 2006.

The Science of Global Warming (45 min). Trinity Presbyterian Church, Earth Day, 2006.

Fossil coral snapshots of ENSO and tropical Pacific climate over the late Holocene. University of Iowa, March 31, 2006.

Speleothem records of precipitation in the West Pacific Warm Pool from LGM to present. Florida State University, April 14, 2006

Temporal variations in rainwater and dripwater geochemistry in Malaysian caves. Karst Records of Climate, Baile Herculane, Romania, May 28, 2006.

Media coverage

The Scientist article (February, 2007).

Time Magazine article (August 2004).

German Public Radio story (July 17, 2003).

San Diego Union Tribune article (July 17, 2003).

Earth and Sky Radio interview (April 3, 2002).

San Diego Union Tribune article (April 5, 2001).

Christian Science Monitor article (July 2001).