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Benjamin Cook
Adjunct Associate Research Scientist
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Biology and Paleo Environment
Lecturer
Earth and Environmental Sciences
61 Route 9W - PO Box 1000
Palisades
NY
10964-8000
US
Fax: 
(845) 365-8152
bc9z@ldeo.columbia.edu
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Fields of interest: 
Drought, Climate-Ecosystem Interactions, Statistical Climatology, Climate Modeling
Education
List of degrees from highest to lowest:
Ph.D.
University of Virginia
05/2007
M.S.
University of Virginia
01/2004
B.S.
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
05/2001
Group: 
Tree-Ring Lab
Honors & Awards: 
NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship
Maury Environmental Sciences Prize (UVA)

Referenced in the Following News Items:

Scientists See Fingerprint of Warming Climate on Droughts Going Back to 1900
Drought: A Wide-Angle Picture
Global Warming Pushes Wines Into Uncharted Terroir
Syria’s Drought Likely Its Most Severe in More than 900 Years
Warming Pushes Western U.S. Toward Driest Period in 1,000 Years
Warming Climate May Spread Drying to a Third of Earth, Says Study
Study Predicts Lag In Summer Rains Over Parts Of U.S. And Mexico
Forest Razing by Ancient Maya Worsened Droughts, Says Study
Experiments May Understate Plant Responses to Climate
Irrigation’s Cooling Effects May Mask Warming, For Now
In Upstate New York, 42,225 Daily Temperature Readings, and Counting

Selected Publications:

Amplification of the North American "Dust Bowl" drought through human-induced land degradation Cook, B. I.; Miller, R. L.; Seager, R. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Mar 31 Volume: 106 Issue: 13 p.: 4997-5001 (2009) DOI 10.1073/pnas.0810200106
Effects of global irrigation on the near-surface climate Sacks, W. J.; Cook, B. I.; Buenning, N.; Levis, S.; Helkowski, J. H. Climate Dynamics Aug Volume: 33 Issue: 2-3 p.: 159-175 (2009) DOI 10.1007/s00382-008-0445-z
Dust and sea surface temperature forcing of the 1930s "Dust Bowl" drought Cook, B. I.; Miller, R. L.; Seager, R. Geophysical Research Letters Apr 22 Volume: 35 Issue: 8 p.: - (2008) Doi 10.1029/2008gl033486
Rapid vegetation responses and feedbacks amplify climate model response to snow cover changes Cook, B. I.; Bonan, G. B.; Levis, S.; Epstein, H. E. Climate Dynamics Mar Volume: 30 Issue: 4 p.: 391-406 (2008) DOI 10.1007/s00382-007-0296-z
Dust and sea surface temperature forcing of the 1930s "Dust Bowl" drought Cook, B. I.; Miller, R. L.; Seager, R. Geophysical Research Letters Apr 22 Volume: 35 Issue: 8 p.: - (2008) Doi 10.1029/2008gl033486
Dust-rainfall feedbacks in the West African sahel Hui, W. J.; Cook, B. I.; Ravi, S.; Fuentes, J. D.; D'Odorico, P. Water Resources Research May 14 Volume: 44 Issue: 5 p.: - (2008) Doi 10.1029/2008wr006885