Gordon C. Jacoby - Dr. Druid

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Gordon C. Jacoby
Senior Research Scientist
Tree-Ring Laboratory,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,
61 Route 9W,
Palisades, NY 10964
druid@ldeo.columbia.edu
(845) 365-8616, Fax: (845) 365-8152


Publications

    Education:

    • Ph.D. in Hydrogeology, Columbia University, 1971
      Thesis Advisor: Prof. A.N Strahler

    Positions Held:

    • Senior Research Scientist, LDEO, Palisades, New York,
      1987 - present

    • Research Scientist, LDEO, Palisades, New York,
      1984 - 1987

    • Research Associate, LDEO, Palisades, New York,
      1975 - 1984

    • Research Hydrogeologist, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UCLA
      1971

    • Visiting Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH,
      winter term, 1973

    Tree-Ring Experience:

    • Founded and have been chief scientist at the Tree-Ring Laboratory at LDEO
      since 1975.

    Scientific Organizations, Journals:

    • Geology: Editorial Board;
      Jan. 1995-1998

    • International Union of Forestry Research Organizations, Leader of Tree-Ring Analysis Group
      January 1988-1990

    • National Research Council Member of Committee on Opportunities in Hydrological Sciences
      1989-1990.

    • American Association for the Advancement of Science

    • American Geophysical Union; Comm. on Environ. Global Change

    • Tree-Ring Society


    Synergistic Activities:

    Seminars in Mongolia, Thailand, Siberia, and many US institutions

    Collaboration & data exchange with foreign scientists.

    Tree-ring data to ITRDB.

    Set up tree-ring labs in Mongolia & St. Petersburg, Russia.

    Trained students & scientists.

    A huge stump at Telmen Nuur in Mongolia.


    Fieldwork:

    Tree sampling in Thailand, Northern Australia, Alaska, Siberia, and Mongolia.

    Sampling a relict Siberian pine at SolDav with Dr. Baatarbileg Nachin (left) in Mongolia.


    Selected Publications:

    Pederson, N., G.C. Jacoby, R. D'Arrigo, B. Buckley, C. Dugarjav, and R. Mijiddorj. 2001.Hydrometeorological Reconstructions for Northeastern Mongolia Derived from Tree Rings: AD 1651-1995. Journal of Climate 14: 872-881.

    D'Arrigo, R., G. Jacoby, D. Frank, N. Pederson, B. Buckley, B. Nachin, R. Mijiddorj and C. Dugarjav. 2001. Two millennia of Mongolian temperature variability. Geophysical Research Letters 28: 543-546.

    D'Arrigo, R., G. Jacoby, N. Pederson, D. Frank, B. Buckley, B. Nachin, R. Mijiddorj and C. Dugarjav. 2000. Mongolian Tree Rings, Temperature Sensitivity and Reconstructions of Northern Hemisphere Temperature. The Holocene 10 (6): 669-672.

    Jacoby, G.C., N.V. Lovelius, O.I. Shumilov, O.M. Raspopov, J.M. Karbainov, D.C. Frank, 2000. Long-term temperature trends and tree growth in the Taymir Region of Northern Siberia, Quaternary Research 53, 312-318..

    Jacoby, G.C., R.D. D'Arrigo, N. Pederson, B.M. Buckley, C. Dugarjav, and R. Mijiddorj, 1999. Temperature and precipitation in Mongolia based on dendroclimatic investigations, IAWA Journal 20 (3) 339-350.

    Jacoby, G.C., R.D. D'Arrigo, and G. Juday, 1999. Tree-ring indicators of climatic change at northern latitudes, World Resources Review 11 (1) 21-29.

    Jacoby, G. C. and D'Arrigo, R. D., Tree rings, carbon dioxide, and climatic change, Proc. Nat'l. Acad. Sci., v. 94, 8350-8353, 1997.

    Jacoby, G.C., R.D. D'Arrigo and Ts. Davaajamts, Mongolian tree rings and 20th century warming, Science, 273, 771-773, 1996.

    D'Arrigo, R.D., G.C. Jacoby, M. Free, and A. Robock, 1999. Northern Hemisphere temperature variability for the past three centuries: tree-ring and model estimates. Climatic Change 42, 663-675.

    Jacoby, G.C., K.W. Workman, and R.D. D'Arrigo, 1999. Laki Eruption of 1783, Tree Rings, and Disaster for Northwest Alaska Inuit, Quaternary Science Reviews, 18, 1365-1371.

    D'Arrigo, R.D. and G.C.Jacoby, 1999. Northern North American tree-ring evidence for regional temperature changes after major volcanic events, Climatic Change 41, 1-15.

    Jacoby, G. C., 1997. Application of tree ring analysis to paleoseismology, Reviews of Geophysics, 35(2), 109-124.

    Jacoby, G.C., G.C. Wiles and R.D.D'Arrigo,1996. Alaskan dendroclimatic variations for the past 300 years along a north-south transect, in Tree Rings, Environment and Humanity, J.S. Dean, D.M. Meko and T.W. Swetnam, eds. Radiocarbon, 235-248.


Last Updated: February, 2001