Oregon State University
College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric
Sciences
Climate Science Colloquium Series
Peter ClarkUniversity
Distinguished Professor of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences and
Member of the National Academy of Sciences
One if by land, two if by sea:
A revisionist history of the Ice Ages and implications for future
climate and sea levelThis talk was given Tuesday, April 7 at the LaSells
Stewart Center
"The Trilogy" (of papers Peter references)
Global and regional temperature change over the past 4.5 million years
Clark, P.U., Shakun, J.D., Rosenthal, Y., Köhler, P., and Bartlein, P.J., 2024, Global and regional temperature change over the past 4.5 million years: Science, v. 383, p. 884-890. doi:10.1126/science.adi1908
Mean ocean temperature change and decomposition of the benthic δ18O record over the past 4.5 million years
Clark, P.U., Shakun, J.D., Rosenthal, Y., Zhu, C., Bartlein, P.J., Gregory, J.M., Köhler, P., Liu, Z., and Schrag, D.P., 2025, Mean ocean temperature change and decomposition of the benthic δ18O record over the past 4.5 million years: Climate of the Past, v. 21, p. 973-1000. doi:10.5194/cp-21-973-2025 [Milanković Medalist paper]
Global mean sea level over the past 4.5 million years
Clark, P.U., Shakun, J.D., Rosenthal, Y., Pollard, D., Hostetler, S.W., Köhler, P., Bartlein, P.J., Gregory, J.M., Zhu, C., Schrag, D.P., Liu, Z., and Pisias, N.G., 2025, Global mean sea level over the past 4.5 million years: Science, eadv8389, doi:10.1126/science.adv8389.
