Current vitae for Todd
Sowers
Born: August 20, 1960
Married to Margaret Peacock,
three children
Education
Ph.D. in Oceanography, University
of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography, Dr. Michael
Bender, advisor. 1991
M.S. in Oceanography, University
of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography, Dr. Michael Bender,
advisor. 1987
B.S. in Chemistry, Arizona
State University, Tempe, Arizona 1983
Employment
8/95- Assistant professor at the
Pennsylvania
State University department of Geosciences
10/93-7/95 Postdoctoral research
fellow at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
1991-93 Assistant marine scientist
at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography.
1985-91 Graduate research assistant.
Selected Publications
Severinghaus, J. P., T. A. Sowers
E. J. Brook, R. B. Alley and M. L. Bender, Timing of abrupt climate change
at the end of the Younger Dryas interval from thermally fractionated gases
in polar ice, Nature, 391, 141-146, 1998.
Sowers, T..et al., An inter-laboratory
comparison of techniques for extracting and analyzing trapped gases in
ice cores, Journal of Geophysical Research, 102, 26,527-26,539, 1997.
Brook, E., T. A. Sowers and J. Orchardo,
Rapid variations in atmospheric methane concentration during the past 110,000
years, Science, 273, 1087-1091, 1996
Sowers, T. and M. Bender, Climate
records covering the last deglaciation, Science, Vol 269, pp 210-214,
1995.
Bender, M., T. A. Sowers, and V.
Lipenkov, On the concentrations of O2, N2 and Ar
in trapped gases from ice cores, Journal of Geophysical Research, 100,
18,651-18,660, 1995.
Bender, M. L., T. A. Sowers, M-L.
Dickson, J. Orchardo, P. Grootes, P. A. Mayewski, and D. A. Meese, Climate
correlations between Greenland and Antarctica during the past 100,000 years,
Nature Vol. 372, p. 663-666, 1994
Sowers, T., M. Bender, L. Labeyrie,
D. Martinson, J. Jouzel, D. Raynaud, and Y. S. Korotkevich, 135,000 Year
Vostok-SPECMAP Common Temporal Framework, Paleoceanography , 6. 867-875,
1993
Sowers, T., M. Bender, D. Raynaud,
and Y. S. Korotkevich, The d15N of
N2 in air trapped in polar ice: a tracer of gas transport in
the firn and a possible constraint on ice age-gas age differences, Journal
of Geophysical Research, 97, 15,683-15,697, 1992.
Sowers, T., M. Bender, D. Raynaud,
Y. S. Korotkevich, and J. Orchardo, The d18O
of atmospheric O2 from air inclusions in the Vostok ice core:
Timing of CO2 and ice volume changes during the penultimate
deglaciation, Paleoceanography, 6, 679-696, 1991.
Sowers, T. A., M. L. Bender, and
D. Raynaud, Elemental and isotopic composition of occluded O2
and N2 in polar ice, Journal of Geophysical Research, 94, 5137-5150,
1989.
Craig, H., Y. Horibe, and T. A.
Sowers, Gravitational separation of gases and isotopes in polar ice
caps, Science, 242, 1675-1678, 1988.