Lorraine Lisiecki
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Lorraine Lisiecki is an American
paleoclimatologist
. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara
. She has proposed a new analysis of the 100,000-year problem
in the Milankovitch theory
of climate change
. She also created the analytical software behind the LR04, a "standard representation of the climate history of the last five million years".
She received the Subaru Outstanding Woman in Science Award from the Geological Society of America
in 2008.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
paleoclimatologist
Paleoclimatology
Paleoclimatology is the study of changes in climate taken on the scale of the entire history of Earth. It uses a variety of proxy methods from the Earth and life sciences to obtain data previously preserved within rocks, sediments, ice sheets, tree rings, corals, shells and microfossils; it then...
. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, Santa Barbara
The University of California, Santa Barbara, commonly known as UCSB or UC Santa Barbara, is a public research university and one of the 10 general campuses of the University of California system. The main campus is located on a site in Goleta, California, from Santa Barbara and northwest of Los...
. She has proposed a new analysis of the 100,000-year problem
100,000-year problem
The 100,000-year problem is a discrepancy between past temperatures and the amount of incoming solar radiation, or insolation. The former rises and falls according to the strength of radiation from the sun, the distance from the earth to the sun, and the tilt of the Earth's poles...
in the Milankovitch theory
Milankovitch cycles
Milankovitch theory describes the collective effects of changes in the Earth's movements upon its climate, named after Serbian civil engineer and mathematician Milutin Milanković, who worked on it during First World War internment...
of climate change
Climate change
Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions or the distribution of events around that average...
. She also created the analytical software behind the LR04, a "standard representation of the climate history of the last five million years".
She received the Subaru Outstanding Woman in Science Award from the Geological Society of America
Geological Society of America
The Geological Society of America is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of the geosciences. The society was founded in New York in 1888 by Alexander Winchell, John J. Stevenson, Charles H. Hitchcock, John R. Proctor and Edward Orton and has been headquartered at 3300 Penrose...
in 2008.