James W. C. White

Associate Professor of Geological Sciences
Fellow, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Director, Environmental Studies Program

Ph.D., 1983, Columbia University

Research Interests:
Light Stable Isotope Laboratory: Global scale climate and environmental dynamics, carbon dioxide concentrations and climate from stable hydrogen isotopes peats and other organics, climate from deuterium excess and hydrogen isotopes in ice cores; isotopes in general circulation models; modern carbon cycle dynamics via isotopes of carbon dioxide and methane.

Courses Offered:

Global Change II

Environmental Issues

Stable Isotope Geochemistry

Global Change Literature I

Global Change Literature II

Recent Publications:

• Alley, R.B., Meese, D., Shuman, C.A., Gow, A.J., Taylor, K., Ram, M., Waddington, E.D., White, J.W.C., and Mayewski, P.A., Abrupt accumulation increase at the Younger Dryas termination in the GISP2 ice core, Nature, v362, pg527-529, 1993.
• White, J.W.C., Ciais, P., Figge, R.A., Kenny, R., and Markgraf, V., High resolution atmospheric pCO2 records from carbon isotopes in peat, Nature, v 367, pp 153-156, 1994.
• Francey, R.J., Ethridge, C., Tans, P.P., White, J.W.C., and Trolier, M., Secular trends in d13C of atmsopheric CO2: evidence for fluctuations in net biotic flux, Nature, v 373, pp. 326-330, 1995.
• White, J.W.C., Environmental studies at the University of Colorado, in Global Environmental Change Science: Education and Teaching, NATO ASI Series I: Global Environmental Change, v 29, ed by D.J. Waddington, pp 171-181, 1995.
• Ciais, P., Tans, P.P., Trolier, M., White, J.W.C., and Francey, R.J., A large Northern Hemisphere terrestrial CO2 sink indicated by the 13C/12C ratio of atmospheric CO2, Science, v 269, pp 1098-1102, 1995.
• White, J.W.C., L.K. Barlow, D. Fisher, P.M. Grootes, J. Jouzel, S.J. Johnsen, M. Stuiver, and H.B. Clausen. 1997. The climate signal in the stable isotopes of snow from Summit, Greenland: Results of comparisons with modern climate observations. Journal of Geophysical Research 102:26425-26439.
• Steig EJ, Brook EJ, White JWC, Sucher CM, Bender ML, Lehman SJ, Morse DL, Waddington ED, Clow GD. Synchronous climate changes in Antarctica and the North Atlantic. Science 282 (no. 5386), 92-95, 1998.
• Tans, P.P. and White, J.W.C, In Balance, with a little help from the plants, Science, 281, 183-184, 1998.
  

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