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Halimeda Kilbourne, Ph.D.

Location:

Chesapeake Biological Laboratory

Research Topics:

Climate Change

Research Interests:

Paleoclimatology and Paleoceanography. Putting modern climate variability into historical context and expanding our knowledge of the processes causing climate variability on seasonal to millennial time scales. Including such topics as: exploring the link between ocean circulation and climate and understanding the climatological controls on tropical cyclone activity.

Visit http://www.umces.edu/hali-kilbourne for more about their expertise, education, and contact information.

Students:

2023 - Adriana Vélez-Galiano, University of Puerto Rico - Arecibo

2022 - Dalia Bercow, Haverford College

2021 - Jeanne DeMeo, Pitzer College

2019 - Abigail Nalesnik, Salisbury University

2015 - Jessalyn Kohn, University of Arkansas Fayetteville

2014 - Elsa Chen, Skidmore College

2013 - Sean Pearson, Gettysburg College

2011 - Jaimie Little, Mars Hill College

2010 - Candice Canady, Southern Arkansas University

Student Publications:

Xu, Y-Y., S. Pearson*, and K. H. Kilbourne. 2015. Assessing coral Sr/Ca–SST calibration techniques using the species Diploria strigosa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 440:353-362 .

Student Presentations:

Bercow, D.* and H. Kilbourne. 2023. Settlement of mustard hill coral (Porites astreoides) on carbon-efficient alternative concretes. ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
DeMeo, J.* and H. Kilbourne. 2022. Comparing paleoclimate reconstructions of the North Atlantic Oscillation: finding the signal in the noise. Ocean Sciences Meeting, Virtual.
Nalesnik, A.*, and H. Kilbourne. 2020. Cooler and More Variable Medieval Climate in the Northern Caribbean indicated by Pseudodiploria strigosa and Orbicella faveolata Coral Sr/Ca-based Temperature Records from the 11th Century. Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Kohn, J.* and H. Kilbourne. 2016. The importance of coral growth environment for coral strontium/calcium-based ocean temperature reconstructions . Ocean Sciences Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana .
Pearson, S. P., K. H. Kilbourne and Y. Xu. 2014. Calibration of modern coral climate signals to ensure accuracy of paleoclimate determinations in Anegada, British Virgin Islands . Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii .
Canady, C.S.*, and K.H. Kilbourne. 2011. Surprisingly cool coral geochemistry based paleotemperatures in the Caribbean at the end of the Little Ice Age . ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico .

RECENT REU FELLOWS

Valeria Guevara
University: Florida International University
Class Year: 2024
Shannon Yang
University: University of Georgia Athens
Class Year: 2015
Nathan Cole-Dai
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Class Year: 2024
Abigail Gross
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Class Year: 2024
Steven Weyrauch
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Tyrell Cooper
University: The College of Wooster
Class Year: 2024
Vivek Veluvali
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Ivy Hicks
University: Whitman College
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Evan Merk
University: Washington College
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Iman Deanparvar
University: Panola College
Class Year: 2024
Liz Collazo
University: University of Puerto Rico Humacao
Class Year: 2024
Emma Langsford
University: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Class Year: 2024
Cristopher Fan
University: University of Connecticut
Class Year: 2024
Sarah Gasko
University: University of Michigan
Class Year: 2024

REU NEWS

Eight students will be presenting the summer work at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in March 2022!
2019 REUs presented at the CERF Conference in Mobile, AL
Olivia Saliger won a student presentation awards for talk at the 2019 Coastal Estuarine Research Federation Meeting. Her REU mentor was Judy O'Neil.
Congratulations to 2015 REU Alison Aceves for being selected as an honorable mention in the 2015 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program competition.
In February 2016, seven REUs from the 2015 cohort presented their research findings at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Congratulations to 2015 REU Hope Ianiri on receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2016)!
Jeanette Davis, Ph.D. (REU '06) published a children's book, Science is Everywhere.
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