Robert S. Webb

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Robert S. Webb
Vitae

NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory
Physical Science Division
Climate Analysis Branch
325 Broadway
Boulder, CO 80305-3328
Voice: (303) 497-6967
FAX: (303) 497-7013 or (303) 497-6449
E-mail: Robert.S.Webb@noaa.gov

Education

Ph.D., Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University , Providence, RI, September 1989.
Thesis: Late Quaternary Water-level Fluctuations in the Northeastern United States, Primary advisor: Thompson Webb III
M.Sc., Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University , Providence, RI, May 1985.
A.B., Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College , Hanover, NH, June 1981.

Professional Experience

2006 - present	Chief Climate Analysis Branch Physical Science Division NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO
2005 - 2006	Interim Lead Climate Diagnostics Branch Physical Science Division NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO
1999 - 2005	Physical Scientist NOAA Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO
1992 - 1999	Physical Scientist NOAA Paleoclimatology Program National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder, CO
1998 -	Faculty Member Graduate School Faculty University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
1996 - 2002	Research Associate II Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
1992 - 1995	Affiliate Research Scientist Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
1990 -	Adjunct Associate Research Scientist Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory Columbia University, Palisades, NY
1990 - 1992	National Research Council Research Fellow NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY
1989 Fall	Post-Doctoral Research Scientist Department of Geological Sciences Brown University, Providence, RI
1988 Summer	Young Scientists' Summer Program Research Assistant Biosphere Dynamics Program International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
1982 - 1989	Research and Teaching Assistant Department of Geological Sciences Brown University, Providence, RI

Publications

Webb, R.S., and Webb, T. III, 1988. Rates of sediment accumulation in small lakes and mires of eastern North America. Quaternary Research 30, 284-297.
Thorson, R.M., and Webb, R.S. 1991. Postglacial history of a cedar swamp in southeastern Connecticut,Journal of Paleolimnology 6, 17-35
Overpeck, J.T., Webb, R.S. and Webb, T. III. 1992. Mapping eastern North America vegetation change over the past 18,000 years: no-analogs and the future, Geology 20, 1071-1074. Webb, R.S., and Overpeck, J.T., 1993. Carbon reserves released? Nature 361, 497-498.
Webb, R.S., Rosenzweig, C., and Levine, E., 1993. Specifying land surface characteristics in GCMs: soil profile dataset and derived water-holding capacities, Global Biogeochemical Cycles 7, 97-108.
Webb, R.S., Anderson, K.H., and Webb, T. III., 1993. Pollen response surface estimates of late Quaternary changes in moisture balance of the northeastern United States, Quaternary Research 40, 213-227.
Anderson, D.M., and Webb, R.S., 1994. Ice-age tropics revisited? Nature 367, 23-24.
Webb, R.S., Rind, D.H., Lehman, S.J., Healy, R.J., and Sigman, D. 1997. Influence of ocean heat transports on climate of the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature 385, 695-699.
Bartlein, P.J., Anderson, K.A., Anderson, P.M., Edwards, M.E., Mock, C.J., Thompson, R.S., Webb, R.S., Webb T. III, and Whitlock, C., 1998. Paleoclimate Simulation for North America over the Past 21,000 Years: Features of the Simulated Climate and Comparisons with Paleoenvironmental Data. Quaternary Science Reviews 17, 549-586.
Webb T. III, Anderson, K.A. , Bartlein, P.J., Webb, R.S., 1998. Late Quaternary Climate Change in Eastern North America: a Comparison of Pollen-Derived Estimates with Climate Model Results. Quaternary Science Reviews 17, 587-606.
Joussaume, S., Taylor, K. E., Braconnot, P., Mitchell, J. F. B., Kutzbach, J. E., Harrison, S.P., Prentice, I. C., Broccoli, A. J., Abe-Ouchi, A., Bartlein, P. J., Bonfils, C., Dong, B., Guiot, J., Herterich, K., Hewitt, C. D., Jolly, D., Kim, J. W., Kislov, A., Kitoh, A., Loutre, M. F., Masson, McAvaney, V., B. McFarlane, N., de Noblet, N., Peltier, W. R., Peterschmitt, J.Y., Pollard, D., Rind, D., Royer J. F., Schlesinger, M. E., Syktus, J., Thompson, S., Valdes, P., Vettoretti, G., Webb, R. S., Wyputta, U., 1999. Monsoon changes for 6000 years ago: Results of 18 simulations from the Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP). Geophysical Research Letters 26, 859-862.
Kerwin, M., Overpeck, J.T. Webb, R.S., DeVernal, A., Rind, D.H., and Healy, R.J., 1999. The role of oceanic forcing in mid-Holocene Northern Hemisphere Climatic Change. Paleoceanography 14, 200-210.
Cole, J. E., Rind, D., Webb, R.S., Jouzel, J., and Healy, R.J., 1999. Global controls on interannual variability of precipitation d18O: the relative roles of temperature, precipitation amount, and vapor source region. Journal of Geophysical Research 104, 14223-14235.
Alley, R.B., Clark, P.U., Keigwin, L.D., and Webb, R.S., 1999. Making Sense of Millennial-Scale Climate Change, in " Mechanisms of Millennial-Scale Global Climate Change", eds. Peter U. Clark, Robert S. Webb, and Lloyd D. Keigwin, AGU Monograph 385-394.
Jackson, S., Webb, R.S., Overpeck, J.T., Anderson, K.A. and Webb, T. III, Williams, J., Hansen, B.C.S., 2000. Vegetation and Environment in eastern North America During the Last Glacial Maximum Quaternary Science Reviews 19, 489-508.
Overpeck, J.T. and Webb, R.S., 2000. Non-glacial Rapid Climate Events: Past and Future. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A., 97: 1335-1338.
Newby, P.E., Killoran, P., Waldorf, M.R., Webb, R.S., Webb, T. III, 2000. 11,500 Years of Sediment, Vegetation and Water Level Changes at the Makepeace Cedar Swamp, Southeastern Massachusetts. Quaternary Research 53, 352-368.
Bush, M.B., Stute, M., Ledru, M.P., Behling, H., Colinvaux, P.A., De Oliveira, P.E., Grimm, E.C., Hooghiemstra, Haberle, H., S., Leyden, B.W., Salgado-Labouriau, M.L., Webb, R., 2001. Paleotemperature Estimates of the Lowland Americas Between 30 Degrees South and 30 degrees North at the Last Glacial Maximum. In 'Interhemispheric Climate Linkages',ed. V. Markgraf, Academic Press, 293-306.
Charles, C.D., Rind, D., Healy, R., Webb, R, 2001. Tropical cooling and the isotopic composition of precipitation in general circulation model simulations of the ice age climate. Climate Dynamics 17(7), 489-502.
Forman, S.L.,Oglesby, R., Webb, R.S. 2001. Temporal and spatial patterns of Holocene dune activity on the Great Plains of North America: megadroughts and climate links. Global and Planetary Change 29, 1-29
Mathieu, R., Pollard, D., Cole, J., White, J.W.C., Webb, R.S., Thompson, S.L. 2002. Simulation of Stable Water Isotopes Variations by the Genesis GCM for Present-Day Conditions. JGR, Vol. 107, No. D4, 2:1-15.
Markgraf, V. Webb, R.S., Anderson, K.H. and Anderson, L. 2002. Modern Pollen Climate Calibration For Southern South America, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 181, 375-397.
Mangan, J., Overpeck, J., Webb, R., Wessman, C., Goetz, A, 2004. Response of Nebraska Sand Hills Natural Vegetation to Drought, Fire, Grazing, and Plant Functional Type Shifts as Simulated by the Century Model. Climatic Change 63: 49-90.
Kerwin, M. W., J. T. Overpeck, R. S. Webb, K. H. Anderson, 2004. Pollen-based summer temperature reconstructions for the eastern Canadian boreal forest, subarctic, and Arctic. Quat. Sci. Rev., 23, 1901- 1924.
Liu, Z. Y., S.-I. Shin, R. S. Webb, W. Lewis, and B. L. Otto-Bliesner, 2005. Atmospheric CO2 forcing on glacial thermohaline circulation and climate. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32(2), L02706, 10.1029/2004GL021929.
Forman, S. L., L. Marin, J. Pierson, J. Gomez, G. H. Miller, and R. S. Webb, 2005. Aeolian sand depositional records from western Nebraska: Landscape response to droughts in the past 1500 years. The Holocene, 15, 973-981.
Shin S.-I., P.D. Sardeshmukh, R.S. Webb, R.J. Oglesby, J.J. Barsugli (2006). Understanding the Mid-Holocene Climate. Journal of Climate, 19, 2801-2817
Kilbourne K.H., T.M. Quinn, T.P. Guilderson, R.S Webb, F.W. Taylor (2007). Decadal- to interannual-scale source water variations in the Caribbean Sea recorded by Puerto Rican coral radiocarbon. Clim Dyn DOI 10.1007/s00382-007-0224-2
Kilbourne, K. H., T. M. Quinn, R. Webb, T. Guilderson, J. Nyberg, and A. Winter (2008), Paleoclimate proxy perspective on Caribbean climate since the year 1751: Evidence of cooler temperatures and multidecadal variability, Paleoceanography, 23, PA3220, doi:10.1029/2008PA001598
Lowrey,J.L., Ray, A.J., Webb, R.S. (2009). Factors influencing the use of climate information by Colorado municipal water managers. Climate Research, 40, 103Ð119, doi: 10.3354/cr00827

Other Publications

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WWW Publications

Overpeck, J.T., Woodhouse, C., Webb, R.S., and Anderson, D.M. (1999). A Paleo Perspective on Global Warming, (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/home.html)

Woodhouse, C., Webb, R.S., Overpeck, J.T., Lixey, L., Keltner, J., Heuer, C.L., Gross, W.S., Gille, E.P., Eakin, C.M., Bauer,. B.A. and Anderson, D.M. (2000). North American Drought: A Paleo Perspective, (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/drought)

Conferences, Workshops and Symposia Convened

Fall 2005 - WWA Climate workshops for water managers, Golden, Colorado and Cheyenne, Wyoming.
May 2005 - Planning Workshop to Develop Hydroclimatic Reconstructions for Decision Support in the Colorado River Basin, Tucson, AZ
November 2004 - Colorado River Basin Outlook briefing for water managers, decision makers, and planning groups in the region in Salt Lake City, UT.
December 2003 - AGU Fall Special Session "Ò Reconstructing Hydroclimatic Variability in North America: Progress, Methods, and Uncertainties ", San Francisco, CA (co-convened with C. Woodhouse)
March 2001 - Pacific Climate Variability (PACLIM), annual meeting special session, Asilomar, CA: Decadal to Centennial Variation in the Late Holocene (co-convened with M. Hughes)
May 2000 - AMQUA 16th Biennial Meeting Landscape and Biotic Responses to Climate Variablity: Future Impacts and Past Lessons, Fayetteville, AK, (program chair).
December 1999 - AGU Fall Special Session 'Asssessing the Range of Central North American Droughts and Associated Land Cover Change', San Francisco, CA (co-convened with C. Woodhouse).
June 1999 - NOAA/NASA Workshop: Assessing the full range of central North America Droughts and Associated Landcover Change, Boulder (co-convened with J. Overpeck, C. Woodhouse, D. Muhs).
June 1998 - AGU Chapman Conference titled "Mechanisms of Millennial-Scale Global Climate Change", Snowbird, Utah (co-convened with P. Clark)
June 1998 - GCIP Mississippi Basin June Conference session titled "Paleohydrology", St. Louis, MO. (co-convened with J. Knox).
February 1998 - International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) PAGES (Past Global Changes) "Second Workshop on Global Paleoenvironmental Data", Boulder, CO, USA(co-convened with D. Anderson).
October 1996 - Geological Society of Ameria Annual Meeting "Earth System Processes at the Last Glacial Maximum", San Francisco, CA (co-convened with B. Felzer).
December 1995 - IGBP Past Global Changes "Paleoenvironmental Multiproxy Analysis and Mapping Project Workshop", San Francisco, CA.
December 1995 - AGU Fall Special Session "Climate System Processes at the Last Glacial Maximum", San Francisco, CA (co-convened with A. Broccoli).
December 1994 - IGBP Past Global Changes "Multiproxy Mapping Workshop ", San Francisco, CA (co-convened with E. Grimm, R. Graham).
November 1991- NOAA/NASA sponsored "Late Quaternary Climate Model Boundary Conditions Workshop" at Lamont Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY (co-convened with D. Rind and W. Ruddiman).

Physical Sciences Division