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The
major emphasis of Harry Rowe’s research is to find evidence from
the geologic record that offers a better estimate of boundary conditions
for Holocene climates and models that simulate future climate change.
Dr. Rowe is establishing a field- and laboratory-based research program
that concentrates on reconstructing environmental change and identifying
the linkages between environments and natural/anthropogenic forcing mechanisms
responsible for change.
His current research interests include:
(1) reconstructing Holocene records of hydrologic balance from low- and
mid-latitude regions,
(2) assessing the impacts of large-scale shifts in the climate system
to marine, fluvio-lacustrine and groundwater systems, and
(3) developing/utilizing isotopic and chemical tracers in natural archives
(ocean and lake sediments, trees, corals, and speleothems) that record
temporal and spatial variability in the climate system and help to infer
very recent environmental change.
Dr. Rowe is particularly interested in understanding how long-term shifts
in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and the El Niño/Southern Oscillation
influence climate change in North and South America.
Rowe,
H.D., Dunbar, R.B., Mucciarone, D.A., Seltzer, G.O., Baker, P.A., and
Fritz, S.C., 2002: ‘Insolation, Moisture Balance and Climate Change
on the South American Altiplano since the Last Glacial Maximum’,
Climatic Change 52, 175-199.
Baker, P.A., Seltzer, G.O., Fritz, S.C., Dunbar, R.B., Grove, M.J., Tapia,
P.M., Cross, S. L., Rowe, H.D., and Broda, J.P., 2001: ‘The History
of South American Tropical Precipitation for the Past 25,000 Years’,
Science 291, 640-643.
Rowe, H.D., Guilderson, T.P., Dunbar, R.B., Southon, J.R., Seltzer, G.O.,
Mucciarone, D.A., Fritz, S.C., and Baker, P.A., in press: ‘Timing
of Late Quaternary Lake Level Change: Lake Titicaca, South America’.
Global and Planetary Change.
Abbott, M.B., Wolfe, B.B., Wolfe, A.P., Seltzer, G.O., Aravena, R., Mark,
B.G., Polissar, P.J., Rodbell, D.T., Rowe, H.D., and Vuille, M., in review:
‘Holocene Pelohydrology and Glacial History of the Central Andes
Using Multiproxy Lake Sediment Studies’. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology,
Palaeoecology.
Seltzer, G.O., Rodbell, D.T., Baker, P.A., Tapia, P.M., Fritz, S.C., Rowe,
H.D., and Dunbar, R.B., in press: ‘Early Warming of Tropical South
America at the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition’. Science