Eelco Rohling (scientist)

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Born1963
Heiloo
NationalityDutch
CitizenshipNetherlands
EducationBSc, 1984; MSc, 1987; PhD, 1991
Alma materUtrecht University
OccupationGeologist

Eelco Rohling (born 1963, Heiloo) is a Dutch-born geologist specialising in ocean and climate change. He currently is Professor at The Australian National University (Canberra, Australia), and has a secondary affiliation at the University of Southampton (UK).

Academic career and research

Rohling studied Geology at Utrecht University (BSc, 1984; MSc, 1987; PhD, 1991).[1] He works on ocean and climate change through Earth history, with specific interest in abrupt natural climate changes in the past that may provide context to current climate change. Rohling was awarded the American Geophysical Union Maurice Ewing Medal[2] for advances in the quantification of past sea-level variations[3][4] and climate sensitivity.[5][6] Most notably, Rohling's group and their international collaborators discovered how sea-level variations were recorded in detail in the chemical composition of microfossil shells in sea-floor sediments from the Red Sea, which they then used to develop a continuous sea-level record over the last 550,000 years.[7][8] This record revealed the rates of rise for more than 120 events of global ice-volume reduction, where the rate of rise was known previously for only 1 of these events.[9][10] Rates of sea-level rise of more than 3 meters per century were found during the last interglacial, the last time sea level (because of natural reasons) reached levels higher than today.[11][12] The findings were also used to quantify the radiative feedback of ice sheets in climate change, which helped place tighter bounds on the sensitivity of temperature to changes in the radiative balance of climate, or climate sensitivity[13][14][15]. Rohling's work furthermore advanced understanding of environmental change in the Mediterranean region (including North Africa) and its role in driving the period development of anoxic conditions in Mediterranean deep waters, which caused the deposition of organic-rich sediments called Sapropel|sapropels,[16][17][18] as well as interactions between climate change and human (and animal) evolution, dispersal, and societal changes.[19] Rohling has approached these research topics as part of a broader portfolio,[20][21] which includes ongoing (modern) changes and the urgency and means for society to address modern climate change.[22][23][24]

A list of the major publications underpinning these statements is given below.

Rohling has also published three public-oriented books: The Oceans: a Deep History,[25] The Climate Question: Natural Cycles, Human Impact, Future Outlook,[26] and Rebalancing Our Climate: The Future Starts Today.[27]

Editorships

  • Founding Editor-in-Chief, Oxford Open Climate Change, Oxford University Press (2020–Present)
  • Editor, AGU, Reviews of Geophysics (2010–2021)
  • Editor, AGU, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology|Paleoceanography (2006–2009) (& Associate Editor 2001–2005)
  • Guest editor/associate editor:
    • AGU, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology|Paleoceanography & Paleoclimatology (2019-20, Miocene issue)
    • AGU, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology|Paleoceanography (2018-19, R.C. Thunell memorial issue)
    • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (2017-18, H. Elderfield memorial issue)
    • Marine Micropalaeontology 40 (2000, Forams’98 issue)
    • Marine Geology 153 (1999, R. Kidd & C. Vergnaud-Grazzini memorial issue)

Awards and honors

2021 American Geophysical Union Maurice Ewing Medal

2019 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher

2017 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union

2012 Australian Laureate Fellowship|Australian Laureate Fellow

2010 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award

2008 Correspondent (overseas Fellow of Dutch nationality), Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science.

References

  1. Director (Research Services Division). "Professor Eelco J. Rohling". researchers.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  2. "Congratulations to the 2021 AGU Union Medal, Award, and Prize Recipients". Eos. 2021-09-15. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  3. "New climate record challenges ideas about recent glaciations". www.earthmagazine.org. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  4. "Ice sheet collapse 135,000 years ago may help explain climate change". ABC News. 2015-06-10. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  5. Lea, David W. (2015). "News and Views: Climate sensitivity in a warmer world". Nature. 518 (7537): 46–47. doi:10.1038/518046b.
  6. Timmer, John (2012-11-28). "How sensitive is the climate to added CO2?". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  7. Chappell, John (1998). "New and Views: Jive talking". Nature. 394 (6689): 130–131. doi:10.1038/28054.
  8. Sirocko, Frank (2003). "News and Views: Ups and downs in the Red Sea". Nature. 423 (6942): 813–814. doi:10.1038/423813a.
  9. NBC News (2014-09-26). "Ancient Records Reveal Scary Sea-Level Scenarios". NBC News. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  10. Hannam, Peter (2019-11-06). "Past Antarctic ice melt reveals potential for 'extreme sea-level rise'". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  11. Berardelli, Phil. "Lessons From an Interglacial Past". www.science.org. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  12. Hannam, Peter (2019-11-06). "Past Antarctic ice melt reveals potential for 'extreme sea-level rise'". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  13. "Carbon Dioxide the Dominant Control on Global Temperature and Sea Level Over the Last 40 Million Years". Skeptical Science. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  14. Schwartz, John (2020-07-22). "How Much Will the Planet Warm if Carbon Dioxide Levels Double?". The New York Times. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  15. "International analysis narrows range of climate's sensitivity to CO2: Four years of research confidently narrows range of 1.5°C-4.5°C down to 2.3°C-3.9°C". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  16. "'New pathway' for African exodus". 2008-10-14. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  17. "Out of Africa, Across a Wet Sahara". www.science.org. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  18. Armstrong, Anna (2008). "Recreating an atmosphere". Nature Climate Change. 1 (809): 108. doi:10.1038/climate.2008.78.
  19. "Classic Maya Civilization collapse related to modest rainfall reductions, research suggests". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  20. "'Snowball Earth' may have been triggered by underwater volcanoes". ABC News. 2016-01-18. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  21. Haley, Brian A. (2020). "News and Views: Pacific push into the Atlantic". Nature Geoscience. 13 (9): 595–596. doi:10.1038/s41561-020-0626-x.
  22. "Methane seeps from Arctic sea-bed". 2009-08-18. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  23. "Negative emissions tech: can more trees, carbon capture or biochar solve our CO2 problem?". the Guardian. 2017-05-04. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  24. Bradley, James (2018-08-01). "The end of the oceans". The Monthly. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  25. ROHLING, EELCO J. (2017). The Oceans: A Deep History. Princeton University Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctvc77hkh. ISBN 978-1-4008-8866-5.
  26. Rohling, Eelco J. (2019), The Climate Question: Natural Cycles, Human Impact, Future Outlook, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780190910877.003.0010, retrieved 2022-03-16
  27. Rohling, Eelco J. (2021-10-21). "Rebalancing Our Climate". doi:10.1093/oso/9780197502556.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-750255-6. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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