Erich Osterberg

|Associate Professor
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Associate Professor of Earth Sciences

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My overarching research objective is to understand how and why climate has changed and identify trends and sources of air pollution. My specialty is creating long (50-50,000 years) records of climate change and air pollution by analyzing chemical markers preserved in glacier ice cores. I also study data from weather stations and climate models to determine recent climate trends to differentiate natural cycles from human-caused changes. I am particularly interested in aspects of climate change that impact communities, including sea-level rise from melting glaciers, and the changing number and intensity of storms.

Contact

Fairchild, Room 205
HB 6105

Education

  • B.A. Middlebury College (1999)
  • M.S. University of Otago (2001)
  • Ph.D. University of Maine (2007)

Selected Publications

  • *Graduate Student;   **Undergraduate Student;   #Postdoctoral Fellow

    #Coffel, E., Lesk, C., Winter, J., Osterberg, E.C., Mankin, J., 2022. Crop-climate feedbacks boost U.S. maize and soy yields. Environmental Research Letters. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac4aa0.

  • *Huang, H., Patricola, C.M., Winter, J., Osterberg, E.C., Mankin, J.S., 2021. Rise in Northeast US extreme precipitation caused by Atlantic variability and climate change. Weather and Climate Extremes. doi: 10.1016/j.wace.2021.100351.

  • *Lewis, G., Osterberg, E.C., Hawley, R., Marshall, H.P., *Meehan, T., *Graeter, K., McCarthy, F., Overly, T., **Thundercloud, Z., Ferris, D., Koffman, B., Dibb, J., 2021. Atmospheric blocking drives recent albedo change across the Western Greenland Ice Sheet percolation zone. Geophysical Research Letters. doi: 10.1029/2021GL092814.

  • *Winski, D., Osterberg, E.C., Kreutz, K.J., Ferris, D.G., Cole-Dai, J., Thundercloud, Z., Huang, J., Alexander, B., Jaeglé, L., Kennedy, J.A., Larrick, C., Kahle, E.C., Steig, E.J., Jones, T.R., 2021. Seasonally-resolved Holocene sea ice variability inferred from South Pole ice core chemistry. Geophysical Research Letters. doi: 10.1029/2020GL091602. Selected for a Research Spotlight in EOS.

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