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Elizabeth Patterson
@paleopatt.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Lafayette College | paleoclimate • caves • corals | (she/her)

website: https://sites.google.com/view/elizabethpattersonphd
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🚨 New manuscript! 🚨

We use speleothem calcium isotopes and Mg/Ca to reconstruct rainfall amount. Turns out central Vietnam was 50 % drier during the LGM 🤯. Climate models agree but most underestimate rainfall change.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Quantifying changes in central Vietnam rainfall amount since the Late Pleistocene
Paleorecords of the Southeast Asian autumn monsoon indicate that global sea-level change drove abrupt shifts in rainfall, yet the magnitude of these c…
www.sciencedirect.com
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Starting my academic reading this year with a fascinating study documenting the frequency of tropical cyclones in the South China Sea over the past ~650 years. We need more of this type of data to understand extreme weather patterns and their relationship with climate.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
January 6, 2026 at 7:45 AM
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Excited to share our new paper (w/ @aakashsane.bsky.social @baylorfk.bsky.social) where we used the CESM-LME and information theory to understand Pacific decadal variability! 🌊
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
Understanding the characteristics and drivers of Pacific decadal variability in the Community Earth System Model Last Millennium Ensemble
link.springer.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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Thrilled to share our new paper in GRL investigating future changes to Indonesias Seas currents using a high resolution climate model (CESM-HR)!

doi.org/10.1029/2025...
Remote and Regional Drivers of the Indonesian Throughflow Under Future Warming: Implications for Inter‐Basin Freshwater Transport
Under future warming, Pacific wind changes reduce Indonesian Throughflow surface transport through the Halmahera Sea Future Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation decline induces oceanic adj...
doi.org
January 3, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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Exploring Drip Water Dynamics for Groundwater Recharge

The end of the year is approaching, and the papers and pre-prints are still coming from the groundwater and climate research team here and our collaborators. Here is a summary of our outputs the last three months of the year. All are…
Exploring Drip Water Dynamics for Groundwater Recharge
The end of the year is approaching, and the papers and pre-prints are still coming from the groundwater and climate research team here and our collaborators. Here is a summary of our outputs the last three months of the year. All are open-access, with links provided below Most recently, my photo made the cover of the Eos Buzz Newsletter, where Stacey Priestley (CSIRO) led this article with myself, Wendy Timms (Deakin), Margaret Shanafield (Flinders) and Martin Andersen (UNSW).
andy-baker.org
December 17, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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There aren't a lot of resources for what people can do to prevent the destruction of NCAR, so I made this:

#NCAR #climate #climatescience #weather #meteorology #activism #myresources
December 23, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Join us for a critical conversation on the future of U.S. atmospheric science.

UCAR President Antonio Busalacchi hosts this town hall on what’s at stake if NSF NCAR is dismantled.

buff.ly/jR6tGwo
December 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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#AGU25: Please consider showing up to support Cobb Lab early career researchers from Brown. I especially want to flag undergrad posters Thursday pm and *high school* posters Thursday am. I'm incredibly proud of their hard work to get to this point!
December 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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AGU25 attendees: Ever failed before? (probably, right?!). Then our panel discussion is for you! Come hear epic fail stories from your peers and maybe even share your own.

Tuesday 16:15-17:45, Room 343
agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...
December 15, 2025 at 12:08 AM
AGU25 attendees: Ever failed before? (probably, right?!). Then our panel discussion is for you! Come hear epic fail stories from your peers and maybe even share your own.

Tuesday 16:15-17:45, Room 343
agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...
December 15, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Here's the lineup of my group's presentations at #AGU25. Come meet with us!
December 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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🚨 New manuscript! 🚨

We use speleothem calcium isotopes and Mg/Ca to reconstruct rainfall amount. Turns out central Vietnam was 50 % drier during the LGM 🤯. Climate models agree but most underestimate rainfall change.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Quantifying changes in central Vietnam rainfall amount since the Late Pleistocene
Paleorecords of the Southeast Asian autumn monsoon indicate that global sea-level change drove abrupt shifts in rainfall, yet the magnitude of these c…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Who killed the hobbit? 💀🐘🦴⛰️🌧️☀️🪨⛏️

Our new paper out today in Communications Earth and Environment reveals the role of a major drought in the disappearance of the diminutive hominin Homo floresiensis.

theconversation.com/the-hobbits-...
theconversation.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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If you are at #AGU25 I shall be presenting a new reconstruction on Indian Summer Monsoon over the last millennium using speleothem records.
agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...
Has Industrial-Era Warming Already Triggered Thermodynamic Amplification of Indian Summer Monsoon Intensity?
How have natural variability and anthropogenic forcing shaped Indian Summer Mon...
agu.confex.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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I got my PhD in a geography department and the DDRIG program was crucial to funding the final push of measurements I needed for my dissertation. This sucks.
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.

Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
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www.livescience.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
🚨 New manuscript! 🚨

We use speleothem calcium isotopes and Mg/Ca to reconstruct rainfall amount. Turns out central Vietnam was 50 % drier during the LGM 🤯. Climate models agree but most underestimate rainfall change.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Quantifying changes in central Vietnam rainfall amount since the Late Pleistocene
Paleorecords of the Southeast Asian autumn monsoon indicate that global sea-level change drove abrupt shifts in rainfall, yet the magnitude of these c…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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📣 We just released a new free resource at @climatecentral.org - a 72-slide deck introducing key facts about climate change, including its causes, impacts, and solutions. It also comes with speaker notes and links for local storytelling.

➡️ www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... (English & Spanish)
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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As teams grow, new Ph.D. graduates are less likely to land tenure-track jobs and more likely to leave science—especially women and international researchers, according to research from last year. https://scim.ag/3JHinJs #ScienceMagArchives
Larger teams worsen academic career prospects
As teams grow, new Ph.D. graduates are less likely to land tenure-track jobs and more likely to leave science—especially women and international researchers
scim.ag
August 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Interested in #Maya history, #climate change, #stalagmites and #drought, and the #SYP autosampler? Read the latest in our detailed work on a sample from #Tzabnah cave! 😎 kudos to all our collaborators in #Mexico!
@andy-baker.bsky.social @mwclimatesci.bsky.social

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Classic Maya response to multiyear seasonal droughts in Northwest Yucatán, Mexico
Stalagmite record reveals 1- to 13-year droughts in NW Yucatán from 871 to 1021 CE, a time of profound Maya cultural change.
www.science.org
August 15, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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Great to see our work in @eos.org ! A good read for the evening! 😇 kudos to all our friends & colleagues that contribute to this ongoing endeavour - there is so much to learn! 🤩 together - always! @thomasopel.bsky.social @juvmcburst.bsky.social @pucicu.de @scitobias.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk
August 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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At some point, during grad school, @paleopatt.bsky.social, me, and other people joked on using Shaq as an unit system (distance, isotopic composition, etc). Glad to see the #Creepcast podcast having the same idea.
August 5, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Speleothem science is cool 😎🦇💧 - come join the party at #AGU25!

Submit your abstract to our session by July 30:

agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...
July 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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From ancient rainfall to roaming hominins — we’re connecting proxy records, climate models, and evolutionary stories. Join us at AGU 2025 to rethink how climate shaped human history.
#Paleoclimate #ProxyVsModel #HumanEvolution #30thJuly
July 28, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Excited to (finally) share my new paper on Pacific SST and western North America hydroclimate during the Holocene! TL;DR They are connected, CO2 and precession both affect hydroclimate. Thanks @xiaojingdu.bsky.social @meredithparish.bsky.social @baylorfk.bsky.social+others
dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024...
The Influence of Carbon Dioxide and Precession on Western North American Hydroclimate and Pacific Sea Surface Temperature During the Holocene
A network of proxy records shows western North American hydroclimate and Pacific sea surface temperature co-evolved during the Holocene The western North America became wetter while the eastern e...
dx.doi.org
July 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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We are pleased to have @cavemangriff.bsky.social and Sam Bova as invited speakers for our 4th #PaleoSEA session at #AGU25.

Last week to submit abstract: tinyurl.com/paleoSEA2025
AGU Student Travel Grant: www.agu.org/honors/fmstg
July 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Speleothem science is cool 😎🦇💧 - come join the party at #AGU25!

Submit your abstract to our session by July 30:

agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...
July 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM