Dr. Stephen R. Meyers

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Dr. Stephen R. Meyers
Assistant Professor
Department of Geoscience
UW-Madison

Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2003

Quantitative Stratigraphy, Paleoclimatology, Sedimentary Geochemistry

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RESEARCH INTERESTS:

My research primarily addresses three topics: the mechanisms of climate change, the controls on the global carbon cycle, and the measurement of geologic time. These subjects are fundamentally interrelated, as there are linkages between climate and the carbon cycle, while the establishment of reliable chronologies is essential for evaluating climate forcing mechanisms and determining rates of climatic and biogeochemical change in Earth's past. My interdisciplinary approach to investigating these topics integrates data (primarily geochemical, sedimentologic and stratigraphic) with novel modeling and statistical techniques, to unravel the history of the climate system, oceans and geosphere.

While I am involved in a wide range of geoscience research, at present I am especially active in the development of quantitative approaches for the construction and evaluation of orbital time scales, the intercalibration of astrochronologic and radioisotopic data, and the evaluation of Earth System responses to orbital-insolation changes.

I AM NOW RECRUITING Ph.D. STUDENTS TO WORK ON THE FOLLOWING FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS:

Collaborative Research: Evolution of the Climate Continuum- Late Paleogene to Present, Stephen Meyers (Lead-PI) and Linda Hinnov (Co-PI), NSF Paleo Perspectives on Climate Change (Lead program Marine Geology and Geophysics). (view abstract)

Collaborative Research: Integrating Radioisotopic and Astronomical Time Scales for the Cretaceous, Bradley Singer (Lead-PI), Stephen Meyers (Co-PI), and Bradley Sageman (Co-PI), NSF Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology Program. (view abstract)

UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS:

ANNUAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA MEETING

Meyers, S.R., Singer, B.S.,Siewert, S.E., Sageman, B.B., Condon, D., Jicha, B.R., Sawyer, D.A., Obradovich, J.D., Coupling Orbital and Radioisotopic Chronometers: Lessons Learned from the Cretaceous Western Interior Basin (U.S.A.) (view abstract)

Ma, C., Meyers, S.R., Sageman, B.B., Singer, B.S., Testing the Astronomical Time Scale for Oceanic Anoxic Event 2, and its Extension into Cenomanian Strata of the Western Interior Basin (U.S.A.) (view abstract)

Singer, B.S., Condon, D., Jicha, B.R., Kuiper, K., Siewert, S.E., Meyers, S.R., Sageman, B.B., Sawyer, D.A., Obradovich, J.D., A Cretaceous to Pleistocene Perspective on Intercalibrating 40Ar/39Ar and U-Pb Radioisotopic Clocks (view abstract)

Wendler, J.E., Meyers, S.R., Wendler, I., Vogt, C., Kuss, J., Drivers of Cyclic Sea Level Change During the Cretaceous Greenhouse: A new Perspective from the Levant Platform (Jordan) (view abstract)

Doebbert, A.C., Lamaskin, T., Peters, S., Meyers, S.R., Carroll, A., A new Confidence-Limits Based Method for Comparing Detrital Zircon U-Pb Age Distributions (view abstract)

FALL AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION MEETING

Meyers, S.R., Hinnov, L.A., An Orbital Beat in the Equatorial Atlantic (~18-27 Ma): Reliable Chronometer or Wishful Thinking?

Hinnov, L.A., Meyers, S.R., and Florkowski, D.R., SPECMAP chronology in 2011

Aswasereelert, W., Meyers, S.R., Hinnov, L.A., Kelly, D.C., Evolution of the Climate Continuum, from the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum to the Present

Orland, I.J., Bar-Matthews, M., Ayalon, A., Burstyn, Y., Kozdon, R., Ushikubo, T., Matthews, A., Meyers, S., Valley, J. W., The seasonal climate record from Soreq Cave (Israel) speleothems

McIntosh, R., Douglas, P.M., Warren, C., Meyers, S.R., Coutros, P., Park, D.P., A record of early to middle Holocene hydrologic variability from the West African Sahel