CCR Staff: Christine Shields, Associate Scientist

Short Bio

As the Community Climate System Model (CCSM) deep time paleoclimate liaison, I am involved with modelling the Earth's climate for time periods dating millions of years into the past. Ongoing research collaborations include studies from the Late Ordovician (445Ma, i.e. millions of years ago), the Permian/Triassic Boundary (250Ma), the Middle Cretaceous (100Ma), the Cretaceous/Triassic Boundary (65Ma), and the Paleo-Eocene Thermal Maximum (55Ma).

My focus as the deep time paleoclimate liaison is to foster collaborations aimed at providing better interaction between the university paleo-geography community and climate modellers. I often provide guidance on how to run and modify the CCSM for paleoclimate work.

I work with Jeff Kiehl, also in the Climate Change Research Section (CCR), for these paleoclimate efforts as well as assisting Dr. Kiehl with studying climate feedback processes for the Earth's climate system.

Paleo CCSM Documentation

Selected Posters & Presentations

Funding:

  • 75% NSF division of Earth Sciences NSF,EAR-0720307;
  • 25% Office of Science, (BER), US Department of Energy, grant number, DE-FC02-97ER62402