M. Huber                                        

 



CURRICULUM VITAE

               Matthew Huber                    Professor

                  Earth & Atmospheric Sciences

                  550 Stadium Mall Drive

                  Purdue University

                  West Lafayette, IN 47907-1397

                  http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~huberm

                   ResearcherID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-7677-2008

I. EDUCATION

University of California Santa Cruz, Earth Sciences                                                 Ph.D., 1997-2001

University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric Sciences                                    M.S., 1994-1997

University of Chicago, Geophysics, Honors in the Major                                          B.A.,  1990-1994


II. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor, EAS, Purdue University                                                             2007-present

Assistant Professor, EAS, Purdue University                                                                 2003-2007

Assistant Research Professor, Niels Bohr Inst., University of Copenhagen                  2001-2002


III. AWARDS, HONORS, AND DISTINCTIONS

Research on tropical cyclones and global warming highlighted as one of the top 100 scientific stories of 2007 (#37) by Discover Magazine (January 2008).

Research on Cretaceous-Tertiary impact highlighted as one of the 100 top scientific discoveries of 2004 by Discover Magazine (Jan. 2005).

Winner, IBM Scholars Program for Linux Award ($40,000, Dec. 2004)

Currently Associate Editor of AGU Journal, “Geochemistry, Geophysics and  Geosystems”

Fmr. Co-Chair of the NCAR CCSM Paleoclimate Working Group (2004-2006)

Director of Purdue’s Atmospheric Measurement and Prediction Consortium, Purdue’s initiative to distribute NWS Doppler radar data nationally

Fmr. Associate Editor of Paleoceanography 2003-2005

Co-founder/Member Purdue Climate Change Research Center

Fellow of Purdue’s Cyber Center (2006)


IV. PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS (* denotes a Huber student contribution)

Discussion of publications. 

I have published in a variety of journals and in several peer-review book chapters, a classification and further description of them follows.  In general, all of my journal publications are in journals considered at or near the top of their respective subfields―an objective ranking is shown below. All rankings in this list are from the 2005 or 2007 ISI ranking database and are based on Impact Factor, further broken down by subject category. The listing is: number of papers published--Journal Title: ISI ranking.  My current “h-index” as measured by ISI Webofscience is 14, and my average citation per peer-reviewed paper is 19.

3--Science: #1 Multidisciplinary Science; #6 out of all 6088 Science Journals in ISI

6--Nature: #2 Multidisciplinary Science; #11 out of all 6088 Science Journals in ISI

5--Paleoceanography: #5 Geosciences, Multidisciplinary; #2 Oceanography; #1 Paleontology

1--Journal Geophysical Research: #7 Geosciences, Multidisciplinary

7--Geophysical Research Letters: #9 Geosciences, Multidisciplinary

1--Reviews of Geophysics: #1, Geochemistry and Geophysics

2--Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems: #10, Geochemistry and Geophysics

2--Global and Planetary Change: #14 Geosciences, Multidisciplinary

4--Palaeogeog., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol.; #24 Geosciences, Multidisciplinary; #4 Paleontology

2--Geology; #1 Geology

1--Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences: #13 Meteorology and atmospheric science

Publications: Submitted, in review or in prep

Lyle, A. O., M. Lyle, and M. Huber, Methane production and storage in the early Cenozoic: Where were methane hydrates under warm earth conditions?  Paleoceanography, submitted.

Galeotti, S., A. von der Heydt, M. Huber, D. Bice, H. Dijkstra, T. Jilbert, L. Lanci, G.J. Reichart, Evidence for active ENSO variability in the late Miocene greenhouse climate, Geology, in review.

Accepted, in press, or published

2009

Williams, I . N. , R. T. Pierrehumbert , and M. Huber, Global warming,convective threshold and false thermostats, Geophys. Res. Lett.,36, L21805, doi:10.1029/2009GL039849, 2009.

Schwartz, F. W., E. A Sudicky, R. G. McLaren, Y. J. Park, M. Huber, and M. Apted, Transient 120,000-year response of the large regional flow system at Yucca Mountain, Nevada to complex cyclical variability in paleoclimate.  Ground Water, in press.

Warnaar, J., Bijl, P.K., Huber, M., Sloan, L., Brinkhuis, H., Röhl, U., Sriver, R., Visscher, H. Orbitally forced climate changes in the Tasman sector during the Middle Eocene. Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimat., Palaeoecol., 280, 361-370, 2009.

van Hooidonk*, R., and M. Huber, Quantifying the quality of coral bleaching predictions, Coral Reefs, 28, 579-587, doi:10.1007/s00338-009-0502-z, 2009.

Eldrett, J. S., D. R. Greenwood, I. Harding, and M. Huber, Increased seasonality in the latest Eocene to earliest Oligocene in northern high latitudes, Nature, 459, doi:10.1038/nature08069, 969-973, 2009.

van Hooidonk*, R., and M. Huber, Equivocal evidence for a thermostat and unusually low levels of coral bleaching in the Western Pacific Warm Pool, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L06705, doi:10.1029/2008GL036288, 2009.

Liu, Z., M. Pagani, D. Zinniker, R. DeConto, M. Huber, H. Brinkhuis, S. Shah, M. Leckie, and A. Pearson, Global cooling during the Eocene-Oligocene climate transition, Science, 323, 1187-1190, doi: 10.1126/science.1166368, 2009.

You, Y., M. Huber, D. Müller, C.J. Poulsen, and J. Ribbe, Simulation of the Middle Miocene climate optimum,Geophys. Res. Lett., L04702, doi:10.1029/2008GL036571, 2009.

Abbot, D. S., M. Huber, G. Bousquet, C. C. Walker, High-CO2 Cloud Radiative Forcing Feedback over both Land and Ocean, Geophys. Res. Lett., L05702, doi:10.1029/2008GL036703, 2009

Hollis, C., J., L. Handley, E. M. Crouch, H. E. G. Morgans, J. A. Baker, J. Creech, K. S. Collins, S. J. Gibbs, M. Huber, S. Schouten, J. C. Zachos, and R. D. Pancost, Tropical sea temperatures in the high-latitude South Pacific during the Eocene, Geology, 37, 99–102; doi: 10.1130/G25200A.1, 2009.

Huber, M., Snakes tell torrid tale, Nature, 457, 669-671, 2009.

Rao, G.S., Engel, B., Ebert, D., Fossum; B., Huber, M., Jafvert, C., Kumar, S., Merwade, V., Niyogi, D., Oliver, L., Prabhakar, S., Rochon, G., Song, C., Zhao, L., A vision of cyberinfrastructure for end-to-end environmental explorations (C4E4), J. Hydrologic Engr. 14, 53-64, 2009.

2008

Huber, M. and J. Trapp, A Review of NEXRAD Level II: Data, Distribution, and Applications, Journal of Terrestrial Observation, 1, 5-15, 2008

Herold, N. K., M. Seton, R. D. Müller, J. Y. You, and M. Huber, Middle Miocene tectonic boundary conditions for use in climate models, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 9, Q10009, doi:10.1029/2008GC002046, 2008.

Sriver R. L., M. Huber, and J. Nusbaumer, Investigating tropical cyclone-climate feedbacks using the TRMM Microwave Imager and the Quick Scatterometer, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 9, Q09V11, doi:10.1029/2007GC001842, 2008.

Huber, M., A hotter Greenhouse? Science, 321, 353-354, doi: 10.1126/science.1161170, 2008. (this was a peer-reviewed, unsolicited paper)

Lyle, M., J. Barron, T. J. Bralower, M. Huber, A. Olivarez-Lyle, A. C. Ravelo, D. K. Rea, and P. A. Wilson, The Pacific Ocean and the Cenozoic evolution of climate, Reviews of Geophysics, doi:10.1029/2005RG000190, 2008.

2007

Sriver*, R. L., and M. Huber, Observational evidence for an ocean heat pump induced by tropical cyclones, Nature, 447, 577-580, doi:10.1038/nature05785, 2007.

Sriver*,R., and M. Huber, Reply to Maue and Hart’s Comment.  Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L11704, doi:10.1029/2007GL029413, 2007.

2006

Thomas, E., H. Brinkhuis, M. Huber, and U. Röhl, An ocean view of the Early Cenozoic Greenhouse World, Oceanography, v. 19, 2006.

Sriver*, R., and M. Huber, Low frequency variability in globally integrated tropical cyclone power dissipation, Geophys. Res. Lett.,33, doi:10.1029/ 2006GL026167, L11705, 2006.

Brinkhuis, H., S. Schouten, M. E. Collinson, A. Sluijs, J. S. Sinninghe-Damste, G. R. Dickens, M. Huber, and 15 others, Episodic fresh surface waters in the early Eocene Arctic Ocean, Nature, 441, doi:10.1038/nature04692, 606-609, 2006.

Sluijs, A., S. Schouten, M. Pagani, N. Pedentchouk, H. Brinkhuis, J. Sinninghe Damsté, G. R. Dickens, M. Huber, and 7 others, Subtropical Arctic Ocean conditions during the Palaeocene Eocene thermal maximum, Nature, 441, doi:10.1038/nature/04668, 610-613, 2006.

Pagani, M., N. Pedentchouk, M. Huber, and 7 others, Arctic hydrology during global warming at the Paleocene/Eocene thermal maximum, Nature, 442, doi:10.1038/nature05043, 671-675, 2006.

Huber, M., and D. Nof, The ocean circulation in the Southern Hemisphere and its climatic impacts in the Eocene, Paleogeogr., Palaeoclim., Palaeocol., 231, 9-28, 2006.

A.Sun, E. Ess, D. Sapirstein, and M. Huber, Visualizing Oceanic and  Atmospheric Flows with Streamline Splatting, in Visualization and Data Analysis, Proc. of SPIE and IS&T Electronic Imaging 2006,R. F.  Erbacher, J. C. Roberts, and M. T. Katy,  ed., San Jose, CA, 12-23, 2006.

2005

2004

Huber, M., H. Brinkhuis, C. E. Stickley, K. Doos, A. Sluijs, J. Warnaar*, G. L Williams, and S. A. Schellenberg, Eocene circulation of the Southern Ocean: Was Antarctica kept warm by subtropical waters? Paleoceanography, PA4026, doi:10.1029/2004PA001014, 2004.

Stickley, C. E., H. Brinkhuis, S. A. Schellenberg, A. Sluijs, U. Rohl, M. Fuller, M. Grauert, M. Huber, J. Warnaar*, and G. L. Williams, Timing and nature of the deepening of the Tasmanian Gateway, Paleoceanography, PA4027, doi:10.1029/2004PA001022, 2004.

Sewall, J. O., M. Huber, and L. C. Sloan, A method for using a fully coupled climate system model to generate detailed surface boundary conditions for paleoclimate modeling investigations: an early Paleogene example. Glob. Planet. Change, 43, 173-182, 2004.

Galeotti, S., Brinkhuis, H. and M. Huber, Records of post Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary millennial-scale cooling from the western Tethys: A smoking gun for the impact-winter hypothesis, Geology, 32, 529-532, 2004.

2003

Huber, M., and R. Caballero, Eocene El Niño: Evidence for robust tropical dynamics in the "hothouse". Science, 299, 877-881, 2003.

Huber, M., L. C. Sloan, and C. Shellito, Early Paleogene oceans and climate: A fully coupled modelling approach using NCAR’s CSM, in Wing, S. L., Gingerich, P.D., Schmitz, B., and Thomas, E., eds., Causes and consequences of globally warm climates in the Early Paleogene. Geological Society of America Special Paper, v. 369, p. 25-47, 2003.

Shellito, C., L. C. Sloan, and M. Huber, Climate model constraints on atmospheric CO2 levels in the early-middle Palaeogene, Palaeogeog., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol. 193, 113-123, 2003.

Garric, G., and M. Huber, Quasi-decadal variability in paleoclimate records: Sunspot cycles or intrinsic oscillations? Paleoceanography, 18, doi:10.1029/2002PA000869, 2003.

2002

Huber, M., Straw Man 1: A preliminary view of the tropical Pacific from a global coupled climate model simulation of early Paleogene climate, in Lyle, M., P. A., Wilson, T. R. Janacek, et al., eds., Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports, v. 199, chapter 3, 2002.

2001

Huber, M., J. C.  McWilliams, and M. Ghil, A climatology of turbulent dispersion in the troposphere, J. Atm. Sci., 58, 2377-2394, 2001.

Huber, M., and L. C. Sloan, Heat transport, deep waters, and thermal gradients: Coupled simulation of an Eocene Greenhouse climate. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 3481-3484, 2001.

Sloan, L. C., and M. Huber, Eocene ocean responses to precessional forcing, Paleoceanography, 16, 100-111, 2001.

Sloan, L. C., and M. Huber, North Atlantic climate variability in the early Paleogene: A climate modeling sensitivity study, Geological Society of London Special Publication: Western North Atlantic Paleogene and Cretaceous Paleoceanography, v. 183, p. 253-272, 2001.

Sloan, L. C., M. Huber, T. J. Crowley, J. Sewall, and S. Baum, Effect of sea surface temperature configuration on model simulations of “Equable” climate in the early Eocene, Palaeogeog., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol., 167, 321-335, 2001.

2000

Huber, M., and L. C. Sloan, Climatic responses to tropical sea surface temperature changes on a “greenhouse” Earth. Paleoceanography, 15, 443-450, 2000.

Sewall, J. O., L. C. Sloan, M. Huber, and S. Wing, 2000, Climate sensitivity to changes in land surface characteristics, Glob. Planet. Change, 26, 445-465, 2000.

1999

Huber, M., and L. C. Sloan, Warm climate transitions: A general circulation modeling study of the Late Paleocene Thermal Maximum, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 16633-16655, 1999.

Sloan, L. C., M. Huber, and A. Ewing, Polar stratospheric cloud forcing in a Greenhouse World: A climate modeling sensitivity study, in Reconstructing Ocean History: A window into the Future, eds. Abrantes and Mix, Plenum Publishers, p. 273-293, 1999.

V. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Professional Affiliations

American Geophysical Union 1997-present

Community Climate System Model (CCSM) Paleoclimate Working Group 1998-present

American Meteorological Society 2007-present

Meetings and Conferences Organized, Conference Sessions Chaired

Conference Co-convener, Palaeogeography: The spatial context for understanding evolution of the Earth System, an international Joint Research Conference sponsored by the Geological Society of London and the Society of Sedimentary Geology (SEPM), held at St. Johns College, Cambridge University, August 11-13 2008.

Conference Scientific Committee, Climatic and Biotic Events of the Paleogene, major international conference, to be held in Wellington, New Zealand, January 12-15, 2009.

Session Co-Chair/Co-Convener, Tropical Cyclone-Climate Interactions on All Time scales. AGU, San Francisco, Dec., 2006.

Session Co-Chair/Co-Convener, Pole-Equator-Pole: Proxy and Modeling Perspectives on Cenozoic Climate Transitions. AGU, San Francisco, Dec., 2005.

Session Co-Chair/Co-Convener, From Greenhouse to Icehouse: Paleogene Global Change, Phytoplankton Response, and Atmospheric Carbon Removal. AGU, San Francisco, Dec., 2004.

Co-Chair/Co-Convener, CCSM Paleoclimate Working Group meetings, June 2004 (Santa Fe, NM), June 2005 (Breckenridge, CO); February 2006 (Madison, WI).

Summer Schools

Lecturer at the Urbino Paleoclimate Summer School, University of Urbino, Italy, July 2004,2006,2007,2008 (co-convener in 2005).  >50 graduate students, post-docs and industry researchers attended from around the world. (http://www.uniurb.it/ussp/)

Lecturer: EUROPROX International Graduate College Proxies in Earth History, April, 2005. EUROPROX is a co-operation between Dutch, French, English, American, and German research groups who join their expertise to approach the development, evaluation and application of marine palaeo-environmental proxies.

Lecturer: Earth System Science Summer School, August 2002, Borno, Sweden.

Professional Service

Associate Editor of Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems: 2008-present. G-Cubed is an electronic journal that publishes papers on the chemistry, physics, and biology of Earth and planetary processes, with a focus on interdisciplinary work. Papers should pertain to understanding the Earth as a system, including observational, experimental, and theoretical investigations of the solid Earth, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere at all spatial and temporal scales. G-Cubed is published jointly by AGU and the Geochemical Society.  As of 2007, ISI Impact Factor of 2.35 and it is ranked 15th in Geochemistry and Geophysics.

Associate Editor of Paleoceanography: 2003 to 2005. Paleoceanography is one of the most prestigious journals in my field.  In 2002, the Impact Factor was 3.871 and it was ranked #1 of 41 titles in Oceanography and #1 of 30 titles in Paleontology, and #2 of 122 titles in Geosciences and Interdisciplinary in the ISI Journal Citation Reports.  2004 numbers show an Impact Factor of 3.081, #3 in  Oceanography, #1 in Paleontology, and #4 in Geosciences and Interdisciplinary.

Co-Chair NCAR CCSM Paleoclimate Working Group (PaleoWG): 2004-2006. This involved some substantial activities including planning and organizing both the individual PaleoWG spring meetings and the part of the larger annual summer meetings.  The PaleoWG meetings typically have an attendance of approximately 25 people.  2005-2006 was a big year for us as we worked hard to entrain a broader swath of the paleoclimate community in this effort.  In addition to making the working group responsive to the needs of the community and to the CCSM project, as co-Chair, it was also my responsibility to oversee working group simulations carried out at NCAR and sometimes to run and analyze the simulations myself, and generally to keep the working group moving forward as part of a larger national and international initiatives to model climate change. 

I review ~5 papers per month. In the past 5 years I’ve reviewed papers for Climate Dynamics, Geology, Journal of Geology, Paleoceanography, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Tellus, Cretaceous Research, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Climate, Science, Nature, Proc. National Acad. Science, Journal of Geoscience Education, Paleo3, Journal of Physical Oceanography, J.G.R. Oceans.

I review ~6 proposals per year for NSF.

Other Synergistic activities

I was guest editor for a special issue of Geochemistry, Geophysics, GeoSystems on tropical cyclone and climate interactions on across time scales (2008).

Since 2004, I have been in charge of one of the 3 national streams of Level II Doppler radar data from the National Weather Service, FAA, and DOD to downstream clients including private industry, universities and other partners. This operates in collaboration with Purdue’s Information Technology organization. Approximately 100GB of data comes into the university and 200 GB leaves per day. See http://roskilde.eas.purdue.edu/~level2 . The data is provided without charge as a free service to downstream university partners and is used in teaching and research in atmospheric science departments throughout the country.

2005-2008 I was on the NSF-sponsored Teragrid Medium and Large Allocation Panels.  This panel meets ~four times per year to decide on the amount of computing time to be allocated to researchers based on a strict peer-review process.

I was participant/presenter in two NSF-sponsored workshops the “Geosystems Workshop” at NSF (2004), and the “Paleoelevation” Workshop held at Lehigh University (2005).  White papers emerged from these workshops that used by the community and NSF.

I was a participant/presenter at a workshop in Bremen, Germany “Towards an integrated data modeling perspective on Miocene Climate Change” (2006), from which emerged a commitment to produce a consensus, open, and freely available set of paleogeographic boundary conditions for Miocene paleoclimate modeling.  These conditions were developed by Huber in collaboration with a group at the University of Sydney (You, Herold, Mueller) as described in the Herold et al, paper submitted. 

I reviewed paleoclimatic proxies for a general readership which is used in classes and cited widely online: Huber, M., 2002, Global climate change: A glance in the rearview mirror, Geotimes, v. 46, p. 14-20.

I authored, “Paleoceanographic modeling”, a general introduction to the subject for Springer’s Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology & Ancient Environments, in press.

To broadly disseminate the results of my research I have collaborated with Purdue’s Information Technology staff to create an online, and Teragrid-enabled Data Portal to house climate model output and Doppler Radar Data. We anticipate growing this portal greatly.  See http://www.purdue.teragrid.org/portal.

To provide a means to entrain and educate the community in using the NCAR CCSM for paleoclimate purposes I have created a user-interactive web site, or wiki, which has proved to be an important place for many beginning paleoclimate models to start. See http://roskilde.eas.purdue.edu/~cdpl/phpwiki .

I prepared model results (which became an Ocean Drilling Program Initial Report Chapter) specifically for the purpose of guiding and enabling the drilling strategies in the eastern equatorial Pacific during ODP Leg 199.  This was the first time, to my knowledge that an ODP cruise has gone to sea with specially-prepared model results in hand.

I presented talks at international conferences and to individual departments, as well as to the local Kiwanis Club, Westminster Village (elder learning), a Dean’s Council meeting on climate change, high school students on campus, alumni gatherings, and to Vice Presidents of Starbucks Coffee (at Seattle headquarters) and to senior management of ExxonMobil.

In 2007, I appeared in “Super Comet--After the Impact” a movie which has been picked up by the Discovery Channel (USA and Europe). The movie is an “all ages” documentary of a fictionalized account of what would happen if a K-T type (dinosaur killer) bolide impacted the Earth today.  A book, in German, was published to accompany the movie and my research was featured in it.

In 2005, I presented at an “Advisory Council on Nuclear Waste” Meeting with regards to long term climate assessments for the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository.  My testimony entered into the official Nuclear Regulatory Commission record, and it appears to be affecting aspects of the national policy on the future of the Yucca Mountain project.

My recent papers sparked a lot of interest in the global community of learners, and I spent significant time giving interviews to the Voice of America and KPFK in Los Angeles, Earth and Sky Radio Series, Geotimes, the Washington Post, BBC Online (translated into 9 languages), MSNBC, Space.com, Discover Magazine, the New York Times (on three occasions), USA Today, Science (May, 2006), Nature (June, 2006/2007), Bloomberg and an ABC television News interview, as well as for the recent book, Stormworld by Chris Mooney.

Other Departmental and University Service

I was one of three main authors of a white paper that led to the creation of the Purdue Climate Change Research Center (PCCRC) and the hiring associated with it.

PCCRC Executive Committee, 2003-present.   

PCCRC standing committee, 2003-present.

PCCRC search committees (4 search committees, 4 faculty hired, 1 pending).

EAS search committees (2 search committees, 3 faculty hired not including the 4 hired in PCCRC searches).

EAS Department Computer Committee 2003-2005.

College of Science Dean’s Undergraduate Task Force (2005-2007). Goal of the task force  was to reformulate the entire undergraduate curriculum that has not been renovated for over thirty years.

EAS Department Graduate Committee 2003-2004.

EAS Department Undergraduate Committee 2005-2006.  We have substantially altered and made more flexible our undergraduate offerings while I have served.

EAS Department High Performance Computing Committee:2006-present (Chair).

EAS Department Alumni and Corporate relations committee 2007-present.

EAS Department Library Committee 2007-present.

I helped to write the proposals for two new $4,000,000 centers (funded by the Lilly Foundation), the Cyber Center and Center for the Environment. I was on the Executive Committee of the Center for the Environment and the Director Search Committee of the Cyber Center.

Since 2004, I have been in charge of one of the 3 national streams of Level II Doppler radar data from the National Weather Service, FAA, and DOD to downstream clients including private industry, universities and other partners. This operates in collaboration with Purdue’s Information Technology organization. Approximately 100GB of data comes into the university and 200 GB leaves per day. See http://roskilde.eas.purdue.edu/~level2 .

In 2006, I started a Consortium (Atmospheric Measurement and Prediction) to attract and disseminate gift funds for atmospheric science activities within the department and with an initial focus on issues relating Doppler radar data.

VI. TEACHING, LEARNING SERVICE, STUDENT ADVISING

Purdue Teaching

The Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department (EAS) is a combined geology, paleontology, environmental science, education, and atmospheric sciences department.  The majority of our undergraduate students are interested in careers in synoptic meteorology, but it is our experience that exposure to other disciplines and career paths is beneficial to all our students and frequently leads to a broadening of interests and future career prospects.  My goal has been to develop a program appropriate for studying climate and climate change.

Vision:Rapid advances in the vastly multi-disciplinary fields grouped under the heading of ‘climate change’ are challenging to communicate to a broader audience.  As the body of knowledge in these respective disciplines has deepened, the ability of scientists and students to keep up in both has flagged, leading inevitably to over-narrowing of student education or the watering-down of overly broad curricula.  This process of deepening, focusing, and diverging is natural in science.  But for the continued health of the disciplines steps need to be taken to prevent balkanization and to teach the next generation of scientists and non-scientists to better grasp broader fields of knowledge.

Strategy: I have adopted a two-tiered strategy to work to bridge this gap.  First, I have implemented graduate and undergraduate curriculum reforms and learning innovations at Purdue designed to entrain the next generation of scientists into cross disciplinary climate/environmental science. Second, these efforts have been disseminated through a broad teaching and engagement effort to communicate the state-of-the-art at levels appropriate for scientists and nonscientists.

Since arriving at Purdue 6 years ago, I have developed 8 new courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels.  All the courses represent contributions both to EAS and Purdue’s initiatives in climate change as represented by the Purdue Climate Change Research Center.

EAS 221:Survey of the Atmosphere: Fall 2003. ~180 non-science majors.

EAS 320: Physics of Climate: Spring, 2004-2007. ~15 undergrad majors.

EAS 403: Oceanography, Fall 2007, 5 grads and ugrads.

EAS 420: Global Climate Modeling: Fall, 2008. ~5 grads, 10 ugrads.

EAS 520: Theory of Climate: Fall 2004. ~8 grads.

EAS 591: Eocene-Oligocene Climate Change. Fall 2004. 4 grads.

EAS 591:Proposal Writing for Graduate Students: Fall 2003, 2004. ~15 grads.

EAS 591:Modeling in Climate Change Science and Policy: Spring 2006/2008. ~35 grad/ugrad students.

EAS 591:Soil Moisture and Climate Interactions:Spring 2007. 12 grad/ugrad students.

Selected Discussion of Courses

Physics of Climate (EAS 320)

After consultation with the atmospheric sciences faculty and the then department head (and voted upon by the faculty) a new requirement for all atmospheric science majors, Physics of Climate, designed and taught by Huber, was added.  This course uses the Peixoto and Oort (or similar) book, and emphasizes fundamental physical principles compared with observations, the pedagogical technique emphasizes teaming and authentic learning principles.  The course is taught in a computer lab and students (usually about 20) engage in programming exercises using the NCAR Command Language (an IDL or Matlab-like interpreted language) nearly every class period.  A major final project that emphasizes accomplishing a genuine research result makes up most of the course grade. 

Theory of Climate (EAS 520)

At the upper undergraduate/lower graduate level, I developed a second course, Theory of Climate (which was already on the books), with the same basic approach as the lower-level Physics of Climate course.  The course presumes advanced mathematics and physics understanding and is less descriptive and more quantitative and covers more ground, but bears much in common with the previous course.  More physical oceanography and basic baroclinic instability and turbulence theory is taught. 

Proposal Writing in the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (591F)

A third course I have developed is a course in Proposal writing, which I co-taught with Andy Freed (solid earth scientist) at the graduate level for two years (it is ongoing).  This is a writing and peer-review intensive course with active student involvement.  This course has consistently had one of the largest enrollments (~13) of graduate courses offered in EAS in the past several years. To ensure proper attention is paid to technical writing improvement, an English Ph.D. student is hired as T.A. for the course.  Students are led through the process of writing 1 page (AGU or AMS-style) abstracts to a full 15 page NSF-style proposal.  Some students arrive in this course near the beginning of their graduate careers, in which case this is an excellent opportunity to develop a Ph.D. proposal. Some come in towards the end, in which case they learn valuable job skills.  Some use this as an opportunity to receive exhaustive peer review of a chapter of their dissertation.  At least one student received a full external fellowship based on her excellent hard work in the class (an EPA fellowship).

Models in Climate change Science and Public Policy (EAS 591M and PoliSci 520A)

I engaged in significant preparation activities for a cross-disciplinary, cross-college course in Models in Climate Change Science and Public Policy (with Leigh Raymond), which was taught in Spring 2006 and is being taught again in 2008.  The course gathers students working in natural and social sciences to study and analyze climate issues.  A key requirement of the class is having students work in teams of ~3 on semester-long projects to generate climate policy recommendations, based on their own analysis of output from an integrated suite of scientific, economic, and political models of climate change impacts.  By requiring students to work directly with these models, rather than simply hearing lectures about them, the course also embraces an “active learning” pedagogy that has been widely cited as more effective than standard lecturing techniques.  This course is taught at the advanced undergraduate/graduate level with students ranging from political science undergraduates to synoptic meteorology students and we insisted in having a strong authentic learning-based approach.

Soil Moisture and Climate Interactions (EAS 591)

In spring 2007, I taught a graduate level course on hydroclimatology from the point of view of relating soil moisture to climate through its associated processes and feedbacks.  Students are drawn from Civil Engineering, Agronomy, EAS, Agricultural and Biological Engineer, and Environmental Studies, making this an exciting and multi-disciplinary course.  The course is half lectures and half discussion of current papers in the field.  The course will be completed by final group project that will involve analyzing climate and soil model output to studying the relationship between climate change and soil hydrology.

Graduate Students (Huber supervisor)

Ryan Sriver (Ph.D. 2007--Currently NOAA Global Climate Change Post-doctoral fellow with Michael Mann at Penn State)

Ruben van Hooidonk (Ph.D. 2009)

Aaron Goldner Ph.D.. continuing)

Aisha Reed (M.S. completed).  Aisha received a Congressional Black Caucus Congressional Fellowship (1-year in a congressional office in Washington, D.C.). This is a highly prestigious and competitive one-year award that places her in Washington, D. C. working closely with a Congressman.  She was working with Bennie Thompson from Mississippi's 2nd District, her home district.  He is the ranking Democrat in Homeland Security, so Aisha has the opportunity to work on different Homeland Security issues.  In this capacity she wrote a policy paper dealing with FEMA.


Graduate Student Advising Committee

Vimal Mishra (Purdue Phd Ag, student continuing)   

Sultan Ahmed (Purdue Phd Engineering, student continuing)

Ben MacCall (Ph.D. 2006 Purdue)

Brooke Halvorson (MS 2006, Purdue)

Ki-Hong Min (Ph.D. 2006, Purdue)

Sarah Anderson-Bereznicki (M.S. 2006, Purdue)

Jeroen Warnaar (Ph.D. 2006, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)


Undergraduates

Amanda Sheffield (2005)

Jesse Nusbaumer  (2006-2008)

Joe Pavich (2006-2007)

VII. GRANTS AND AWARDS

0927946-ATM        Collaborative Research: The Role of Deep-Ocean Circulation in Greenhouse Climates: Integrating Numerical Simulations with Proxy Data of Water Mass Composition

Dates:                    08/15/2009 - 07/31/2012

Amount                 $55,663.00

0902780-ATM        Collaborative Research: Understanding the Role of a High-Latitude Convective Cloud Feedback in Equable and Future Climate Dynamics

Dates:                     06/15/2009 - 05/31/2012

Amount                  $188,021.00

0902882-OCE        Collaborative Research: Integrating proxies and Earth System Models to elucidate water cycle dynamics: Did global warming cause an enhanced hydrological cycle in the Eocene?

Dates:                     8/1/09 – 7/31/12

Amount                 $472,346.00


NSF ATM               SGER: Testing the Tropical Cyclone-Induced Ocean Heat Pump Hypothesis in CCSM

Dates:                     7/15/07-7/14/08

Amount                  37,806

NSF ATMCollaborative Research: Water Balance of Western North America:  Dynamics of the Miocene Summer Monsoon (co-PI)

Dates:        2/15/05 – 1/31/08

Amount        $230,060

NSF ATM Sub-daily Scale Extreme Precipitation in Future Climate-change Scenarios: A Pilot Study (co-PI)

Dates:        2/1/06 – 1/31/08

Amount:         $275,075

UCAR/NSF Equipment to Enhance the Capacity to Process and Disseminate Value-added Weather Data at Purdue University (co-PI)

Dates:        7/11/05 – 6/15/06

Amount:         $10,362

Purdue Integrating Models of Climate Change for Cross-Disciplinary Learning, Teaching and Learning with Technology Program (co-PI)

Dates:5/05-5/06

Amount:$8750

IBM        IBM Faculty Award (PI)

Dates:        12/22/04

Amount:        $40,000

PRF        The effects of tropical cyclones on climate (PI)

Dates:         8/16/04—8/15/06

Amount:         $29,627

NSF ATM  SGER: construction of ‘deep’ paleoclimate Community Climate System Model (CCSM) simulations (PI)

Dates:                       7/04-1/06

Amount                    $31,374

VIII.  INVITED TALKS (*Huber student presentations)


The role of Hurricanes in Past and Future Climate, Symposium 'Dynamic Earth'. University of Utrecht, September 22, 2009.

A Sensitive Earth:Implications of Eocene Climate for Future Greenhouse Projections. The 'Umbgrove Lecture',  University of Utrecht, September 21, 2009.  The Umbgrove Lectures are organized by the staff of the Earth Sciences Department at the Utrecht University, and are named after the Dutch geologist J.H.F. Umbgrove.

Connecting the tropics and the poles with heat transport and teleconnections.  First Antarctic Climate Evolution Symposium, Granada, Spain, September 8, 2009.

What natural global warming in the past tells us about the future. Ministry for the Environment, Wellington, New Zealand, July 22, 2009.

Huber, M., Heating up a Warm World, Climatic and Biotic Events of the Paleogene, Wellington, New Zealand, January 2009.

Huber, M., Hydrological Cycle Feedbacks in the Eocene UltraGreenhouse: Heat Death, Hyperthermals, and Heat Transport, AGU Chapman Conference on Atmospheric Water Vapor and Its Role in Climate, October, 2008.

Huber, M., Hurricanes, Heat Death, and Thermostats, Lamont-Doherty Observatory, September, 2008.

Huber, M., Paleoclimate modelling of the PETM and the impact of gas venting, University of Oslo, PGP, August, 2008.

Huber, M., The importance of paleogeography for paleoclimate modeling,  Palaeogeography: The spatial context for understanding evolution of the Earth System, an international Joint Research Conference sponsored by the Geological Society of London and the Society of Sedimentary Geology (SEPM), held at St. Johns College, Cambridge University, August, 2008.

Huber, M., Equable climates and the low gradient problem: Progress in understanding Eocene climate, Oslo, International Geophysical Congress, August, 2008.

Huber, M., Montefeltro Lecture, University of Urbino, July, 2008.

Huber, M., Heat death, hyperthermals, hurricanes and the Eocene, Meteorological Institute of Stockholm, June, 2008.

Sriver*, R. L. and Huber, M., Effect of tropical cyclone winds on the upper ocean, NCAR/UCAR Junior Faculty Forum on Future Scientific Directions, Boulder, CO, July, 2008.

Huber, M., The low gradient problem, Harvard University, April, 2008.

Huber, M., Hurricanes, Heat Death, Hyperthermals:Increased vertical mixing as a possible solution to the equable climate problem,  Texas A&M, February, 2008.

Huber, M., Hurricanes, Heat Death, Hyperthermals:Cyclone-induced mixing as a possible solution to the equable climate problem, Geophysics Department, University of Chicago, November, 2007.

Huber, M., The role of tropical cyclones in the climate system, SUNY Stony Brook, NY, November, 2007.

Huber, M., Potential impacts of CO2 and ocean circulation on the Eocene-Oligocene transition, Oct 1, Geology and Geophysics Department--Topics in Global Climate Change series, Yale University, Oct 1, 2007.

Huber, M., Tropical Cyclone Induced Ocean Mixing and Climate, Geology and Geophysics Department--Departmental Seminar, Yale University, Oct 3, 2007.

Huber, M., PETM climate dynamics and data-model comparison, NCAR PETM Data-model integration Workshop, Santa Fe, New Mexico, May 31, 2007.

Huber, M., New insights into equable climates, 2nd Darwin Azolla Project meeting, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, May 7, 2007.

Huber, M., Amplifiers, Thermostats, Capacitors, New Insights into Building and Demolishing 'Greenhouse' Climates, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences--Departmental Seminar, MIT, February 28, 2007.

Huber, M., How greenhouse climates work, University of Maryland, November, 2006.

Huber, M., The lack of a self-consistent explanation of the PETM and Paleocene-Eocene warmth: constraints imposed by climate sensitivity, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Chicago, IL, September 2006.

Huber, M., Tropical Cyclone-Induced Ocean Heat Transport: Is This The Missing Process That Explains Early Paleogene Climate? Climate and Biota of the Early Paleogene, Bilbao Spain, June 2006.

Huber, M. Back to the Future: Paleoclimate Insights into Climate of the Next Million Years, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, August 2006.

Huber, M., Drying the American West in the Miocene, University of Bremen, Germany, June 2006.

Huber, M., and R. van Hooidonk, Corals and Climate:Deep Time/Real Time, NOAA Integrated Coral Observing Network/Coral Reef Early Warning System (ICON/CREWS) Meeting, La Parguera, Puerto Rico, USA, Apr. 2006.

Huber, M., Tropical-extratropical ocean-atmosphere interactions and global warming—A glance in the rearview mirror and the view ahead, Rice University, Texas, Feb., 2006.

Pagani, M., N. Pedentchouk, M. Huber, A. Sluijs, S. Schouten, H. Brinkhuis, J. S. Sinninghe Damste, and G. R. Dickens, The Arctic's hydrology during global warming at the Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum. American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2005.

Sluijs, A., S. Schouten, M. Pagani, H. Brinkhuis, J. Sinninghe Damste, G. R. Dickens, M. Huber, G. Reichart, R. Stein, L. J. Lourens, Extremely high Late Paleocene - Early Eocene sea surface temperatures on the North Pole. American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2005.

Huber, M., Enthalpy and paleoelevation. NSF workshop on paleoelevation. Lehigh University, Summer 2005.

Huber, M., and H. Brinkhuis, Likely and unlikely ocean feedbacks on global climate during the Eocene-Oligocene transition. Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference, Spring 2005.

Huber, M., Evolution of climate in the Yucca Mountain area over the next million years. Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Advisory Committee on Nuclear Waste, Las Vegas, Fall 2005.

Huber, M., In the Wake of Katrina—What do we really know about hurricanes? Purdue Discovery Lecture Series, Fall 2005.

Huber, M., Global Environmental Change Simulation: Cyberinfrastructure Challenges and Opportunities. Supercomputing-05. Seattle, Fall 2005.

Huber, M., No time like the present…Testing climate change theories: Making better predictions. New Economy New Rules, Indianapolis, August 2005. This is weekly event, sponsored by a legal firm, which is broadcast statewide.

Huber, M., Pattern and Process in Earth's History: Climate deterioration during the Eocene-Oligocene Transition as a Case Study. Europrox Meeting, April 2005. Bremen Germany.

Huber, M., Eocene ocean circulation: Bringing models and data together, Workshop in “Greenhouse Climate and Carbon Cycle Dynamics: Lessons from the Early Cenozoic", Bremen University, November 2004.

Huber, M., Sleeping Dogs of the Cenozoic, Dept. of Geology, IUPUI, Oct., 2004.

Huber, M., Application of coupled climate models in the Cenozoic, Parts 1 and 2, Workshop in “Climate modeling on geological time scales”, Utrecht Centre of Geosciences, October, 2004.

Huber, M., Construction of ‘Deep’ Paleoclimate CCSM Simulations, National Center for Atmospheric Research CCSM Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 2004.

Huber, M., and R. Caballero, The sleeping dragon slumbered while El Niño was in the Greenhouse, 13 Conf. Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere, American Meteorological Society, Portland, Aug, 2004.

Huber, M., Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions in the "Greenhouse" Climate of the Eocene and a comparison with other paleoclimates, Duke University, March, 2004.

Huber, M., A preliminary view of the Eocene tropical Pacific Ocean from fully coupled climate model simulations, Ocean Drilling Program Leg 199 Post-Cruise Meeting, Urbino Italy, Oct 2003.

Huber, M., Eocene El Niño, National Center for Atmospheric Research CCSM Meeting, Breckenridge, Colorado, USA, June 2003.

Huber, M., Pulling on the Sleeping Dragon’s Tail: The role of the ocean in past greenhouse climates, Meteorological Institute of Stockholm, Stockholm University, Sweden, June 2003.

Huber, M., Building an equable climate: Putting the pieces together, Geological Society of America Meeting, Denver, Colorado, USA, Oct. 2002.

Huber, M., Pulling the sleeping dragon’s tail, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, Wellington, New Zealand, July 2002.

Huber, M., Spin up of an Eocene CCSM simulation, National Center for Atmospheric Research CCSM Meeting, Breckenridge, Colorado, USA, June 2002.

Huber, M., Eocene ocean-atmosphere interactions, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, April 2002.

Huber, M., Eocene ocean-atmosphere interactions, University of Utrecht Biology Dept. March 2002.

Huber, M., Fully coupled modelling of the Eocene: from the bottom of the ocean to the top of the atmosphere, University of Chicago Geophysics Dept., June 2001.

Huber, M., and L. C. Sloan, Results from the first CSM simulations of early Paleogene climate: What role do the oceans play in maintaining warm climates? Climate System Model Workshop, Breckenridge CO, June 2001.

Huber, M., and L. C. Sloan, Spinup of the NCAR Ocean Model: Effects of ‘Degraded’  boundary conditions, Climate System Model Workshop, Breckenridge CO, June 2000.

Sloan, L.C., M. Huber, R. Peters, and A. Ewing, Modeling the Paleogene, Part I: Paleogene terrestrial climate change predicted from climate modeling studies: GFF, v. 122, p. 146-147, 2000 (results presented in Göteborg, Sweden, June 1999).

Sloan, L. C., R. Peters, M. Huber, J. O. Sewall, and M. Snyder, Causes and consequences of early Cenozoic warmth, Geological Society of America, Pardee Symposium, Oct., 1999.

Huber, M., and L. C. Sloan, CCM3 and greenhouse climates of the early Eocene, Climate System Model Workshop, Breckenridge CO, June 1999.

Huber, M., and L. C. Sloan, Preliminary results from an Eocene CCM3 experiment, Climate System Model Workshop, Breckenridge CO, June 1998.

Sloan, L. C., M. Huber, and C. Morrill, Climate of the Paleocene/Eocene Boundary: A climate modeling investigation, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting San Francisco, CA, Dec. 1997.

IX.  CONTRIBUTED TALKS/Posters (* Huber student presentations)

Huber, M., and R. L. Sriver, Investigating Tropical Cyclone-Induced Feedbacks Using an Ocean General Circulation Model, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December, 2008.

Sriver*, R. L. and Huber, M., The effect of tropical cyclone winds on the upper ocean, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December, 2008.

Bice, D. M., S. Galeotti, M. Huber, A. von der Heydt, H. Dijkstra, T. Jilbert, L. Lanci, G. Reichart, and L. Smith, Interannual climate variability recorded by late Miocene laminated gypsums: evidence for ENSO in the Mediterranean, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December, 2008.

Huber, M., Nusbaumer*, J., and Sriver*, R. L., Importance of changes in extreme weather events for the maintenance of past warm climates, AGU Chapman Conference on Atmospheric Water Vapor and Its Role in Climate, Kailua-Kona, HI, October, 2008.

von der Heydt, A.; Galeotti, S.; Huber, M. ; Bice, D.; Dijkstra, H.A.; Jilbert, T.; Lanci, L.; Reichart, G.-J., Evidence for ENSO variability in the late Miocene, European Geophysical Union Meeting, Vienna, Apr. 2008.

Bijl, P.K.; Warnaar, J.; Brinkhuis, H.; Pross, J. ; Sluijs, A.; Stickley, C.E.; Guerstein, R.; Huber, M.; Visscher, H., Early Paleogene dinoflagellate biogeography of the Southern Ocean; implications for surface-water circulation, European Geophysical Union Meeting, Vienna, Apr. 2008.

Handley, L.; Hollis, C. ; Crouch, E. ; Schouten, S.; Huber, M.; Morgans, H.; Pearson, P. ; Baker, J.; Burgess, C.; Pancost, R., Dramatic high latitude sea surface temperature change during the Paleogene: New multi-proxy records from New Zealand, European Geophysical Union Meeting, Vienna, Apr. 2008.

Handley, L., C. Hollis, E. Crouch, S. Schouten, M. Huber, H. Morgan, P. Pearson, J. S. Sinninghe Damse, C. Burgess, and R. D. Pancost, Integrated biomarker records reveal complex and dramatic changes in high latitude climate during the Paleogene, Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference, Spring 2008.

Pagani, M., Z. Liu, and M. Huber, The role of pCO2 during the Eocene-Oligocene climate transition, Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference, Spring 2008.

Sriver*, R. L., Huber, M., and Nusbaumer*, J., Applying TMI retrievals of sea surface temperature and surface winds to understanding tropical cyclone-induced climatic feedbacks, The Third NASA/JAXA International TRMM Science Conference, Las Vegas, NV, February, 2008.

Sriver*, R. L. and Huber, M, Climatic feedbacks between tropical cyclones, temperature and vertical ocean mixing, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December, 2007.

Basumallik, A., Zhao, L., Song, C. X., Lee, W., Sriver*, R. L., and Huber, M., Push-button Community Climate System Model on the TeraGrid, International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Reno, NV, November, 2007.

Basumallik, A., Zhao, L., Song, C. X., Sriver*, R. L., and Huber, M., A community climate system modeling portal for the Teragrid, Teragrid Annual Conference, Madison, WI, June, 2007.

Merwade, V., L. Zhao, C. X. Song, Y. M. Kim, R. Kalyanam, D. Ebert, B. Engel, R. Govindaraju, M. Huber, C. Jafvert, D. Niyogi, S. Prabhakar, and S. Kumar, Interweaving Data and Computation for End-to-End Environmental Exploration on the TeraGrid,Teragrid Annual Conference, Madison, WI, June, 2007.

Huber, M., and R. Sriver*, Tropical Cyclones as Climate Drivers: Lessons from the Past and Future Directions, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2006

Sriver*, R. and M. Huber, Tropical Cyclone-Induced Ocean Mixing, Ocean Heat Transport, and the Potential for Climatic Feedbacks, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2006

Van Hooidonk*, R. and M. Huber, The Impact of Tropical Cyclones on Coral Bleaching and Coral Disease, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2006.

You, Y., D. Muller, M. Huber, B. Otto-Bliesner, C. Poulsen, M. Sdrolias and J. Ribbe, Sensitivity study of the role of vegetation in Miocene Climate change, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2006.

You, Y., Müller, R.D., Huber, M. Otto-Bliesner, B., Poulsen, C., Sdrolias M. and Ribbe, J., 2006, Sensitivity study of the role of vegetation in Miocene climate change, American Geophysical Union Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Beijing, China, July, 2006.

Sluijs, A., Schouten, S., Brinkhuis, H., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., Dickens, G.R., Huber, M., Reichart, G.J., Pagani, M., and L. J. Lourens, L.J., A subtropical North Pole during the late Paleocene - early Eocene, European Geophysical Union Meeting, Vienna, Apr. 2006.

Huber, M., Report on Paleoclimate Working Group Proposed Activities, NCAR CCSM Paleoclimate Working Group Meeting, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisc., Feb. 2006.

Sriver*, R., and M. Huber, Estimating Ocean Heat Transport Attributable to Tropical Cyclone Activity Using ERA-40 Data. American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2005.

Van Hooidonk*, R., and M. Huber, The role of tropical cyclones in maintaining Paleogene climate. American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2005.

Lyle, M., Huber, M., and A. Olivarez Lyle , Paleocene-Eocene Boundary: Methane hydrate reservoirs on a warm Earth, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2005.

Brinkhuis, H., S. Schouten, M. E. Collinson, A. Sluijs, J. S. Sinninghe-Damste‚ G. R. Dickens, M. Huber, T. M. Cronin, J. P. Bujak, R. Stein, J. S. Eldrett, I. C. Harding, and F. Sangiorgi, A giant Arctic freshwater pond at the end of the Early Eocene; Implications for ocean heat transport and carbon cycling. American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2005.

Warnaar, J., Brinkhuis, H., Stickley, C.E., Sluijs, A., and M. Huber, Timing, nature and consequences of the deepening of the Tasmanian Gateway. European Geophysical Union Meeting, Vienna, Apr. 2005.

Huber, M., and R. Caballero, Irrepressible El Niño: Perspectives on ENSO and climate change from the deep past, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2004.

Sriver*, R., and M. Huber, Tropical cyclone-induced ocean mixing and ocean heat transport, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2004.

Stickley, C. E., et al., Timing and nature of the deepening of the Tasmanian Gateway, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2004.

Brinkhuis, H., M. Huber, A. Sluijs, J. Warnaar, J. P. Bujak, J. C. Zachos, From Greenhouse to Icehouse: Evidence for Late Early Eocene concomitant cooling of Southern Ocean surface waters and global deep waters from dinoflagellate endemism, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2004.

Huber, M., Error estimates for the enthalpy method of estimating paleoelevations, European Geophysical Union, Apr. 2004.

Huber, M., Coupled general circulation model predicted modes of climate variability during the Eocene hothouse, European Geophysical Union, Apr. 2004.

Caballero, R., and M. Huber, Thermostats, radiator fins, ENSO, and the importance of ocean-atmosphere interactions in the Tropics, European Geophysical Union, Apr. 2004.

Huber, M., and H. Brinkhuis, Antarctic cryospheric development was driven by greenhouse gas changes, not be changes in ‘thermal isolation’ rom ocean currents: A data and model perspective, European Geophysical Union, Apr. 2004.

Stickley, C. E., H. Brinkhuis, S. A. Schellenberg, A. Sluijs, U. Roehl, M. Fuller, M. Grauert, M. Huber, J. Warnaar, G. L. Williams, Timing and nature of the opening of the Tasmanian Gateway at the Eocene-Oligocene transition: ODP Site 1172, European Geophysical Union, Apr. 2003.

Brinkhuis, H., M. Huber, S. A. Schellenberg, C. Stickley, A. Sluijs, J. Warnaar, and G. L. Williams, Is the opening of the Tasmanian Gateway related to earliest Oligocene Antarctic cryospheric development, European Geophysical Union, Apr. 2003.

Huber, M., H. Brinkhuis, et al., Was Antarctica kept warm by subtropical waters in the Eocene? Part 2: Climate Model results, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2002.

Kronborg, M., and M. Huber, Climate of the Early Paleogene Tropics: The "forecast" from a coupled climate model, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2002.

Garric, G., and M. Huber, Internal Atmosphere-ocean variability as a cause of apparent quasi-decadal variability in paleoclimate records? American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2002.

Caballero, R. and M. Huber, A Two-Column Model of the Tropical Climate and ENSO, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2002

Doos, K., M. Huber, and R. Caballero, Did Latent Heat Transport Increase in the "Hothouse" Climate of the Eocene? American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2002.

Brinkhuis, H., M. Huber, et al., Was Antarctica kept warm by subtropical waters in the Eocene? Part 1: Evidence from biotic endemism, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2002.

Huber, M., The oceans role in the initiation, maintenance, and termination of Paleogene warm climate, Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Wellington, New Zealand, July 2002.

Huber, M., Modelling the warm climates of the early Paleogene with NCAR’s CSM: Consequences of ocean-atmosphere interaction for the cool tropics paradox, European Geophysical Society Meeting, Nice, France, April, 2002.

Huber, M. Model predicted ocean and atmospheric heat transports at ~ 50 mya: Implications the role of ocean heat transport changes in past climates, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, Honolulu, CA, Feb. 2002.

Shellito, C., L. C.. Sloan, and M. Huber, Constraining pCO2 levels in the early-middle Paleogene, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2001.

Huber, M., and L. C. Sloan, Results from the first fully coupled general circulation model simulations of early Paleogene climate: What role do the oceans play in maintaining past warm climates? Climate and Biota of the Early Paleogene,Wyoming, July 2001.

Huber, M., and L. C. Sloan, Initial  results of a fully coupled modelling investigation into the "Greenhouse" climate of the Eocene using NCAR's CSM. American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 1999.

Sloan, L.C., D. Greenwood, S. Wing, and M. Huber, Causes of Paleogene climate change, Australian Geologic Convention, Sydney, Australia, July, 2000.

Huber, M., and L. C. Sloan, The challenges of modelling extreme warm climates: Old problems, new models, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 1999.

Peters, R., L. C. Sloan, and M. Huber, Sensitivity of early Cenozoic climate to high methane concentrations and polar stratospheric clouds: Implications for high latitude faunal migration, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 1999.

Sewall, J. O., L. C. Sloan, and M. Huber, Sensitivity of regional climates to land surface changes, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 1999.

Huber, M., and L. C. Sloan, Modeling the Paleogene, Part II: Paleogene wind-driven ocean circulation changes predicted from climate modeling studies: GFF, v. 122, p. 80-81, 2000 (results presented in Göteborg, Sweden, June 1999).

Huber, M., and L.C. Sloan, Upwelling, gyres, and the wind-driven ocean circulation during warm climate intervals, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting San Francisco, CA, Dec. 1998.

Huber, M., and L. C. Sloan, A model climatology of the Paleocene/Eocene Boundary, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 1997.

Huber, M., and R.T. Pierrehumbert, The tropical water vapor distribution during CEPEX, American Meteorological Society, Dallas, TX, Jan. 1995.