Dr. Matthew Huber
 Dr. Matthew Huber

Professor

E-mail: huberm@purdue.edu

Curriculum Vitae <pdf>

Associated Website(s) : Personal website, Purdue Climate Change Research Center(PCCRC), Atmosphere-Surface Interactions (ASI), Climate & Extreme Weather (CLEW)

 

Education

Ph.D.- University of California Santa Cruz (Earth Sciences)

M.S.-University of California Los Angeles (Atmospheric Sciences)

B.A.- University of Chicago (Geophysics Honors)

Research Interests

Past, present and future climate, mechanisms that govern climate, different forms that climates can take on Earth and other planets.

Teaching Interests

EAS 221 Survey of Atmosphere

EAS 320 Physics of Climate

EAS 520 Theory of Climate

EAS 591 Eocene-Oligocene Climate Change

EAS 591F Proposal Writing for Graduate Students

EAS 591M Modeling in Climate Change Science and Policy

EAS 591 Soil Moisture and Climtae Interactions

Awards and Honors

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

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

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

  • Director of Purdue program to distribute NWS Doppler radar data nationally

  • Associate Editor of Paleoceanography 2003-2005

  • Co-founder/Member Purdue Climate Change Research Center

  • Fellow of the Cyber Center

Professional Experience

  • Assistant Professor, EAS, Purdue University, 2003-present

  • Assistant Research Professor, DCESS, Niels Bohr Inst., University of Copenhagen, 2001-02

Selected Publications

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

  • Warnaar, J., Bijl, T.K., Huber, M., Sloan, L., Brinkhuis, H., Roehl, U., Sriver, R., Visscher, H. Orbitally forced climate changes in the Tasman sector during the Middle Eocene. Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimat., Palaeoecol., 280, 361-370, 2009. 2.

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

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

  • van Hooidonk, R., and M. Huber (2009), 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.

  • 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.

  • Liu, Z., M. Pagani, D. Xinniker, 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. Mueller, C.J. Poulsen, and J. Ribbe, Simulation of the Middle Miocene climate optimum, Geophys. Res. Lett., L04702, doi:10.1029/2008GL036571, 2009. 2.

  • 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. Rancost, Tropical sea temperatures in the high-latitude South Pacific during the Eocene, Geology, 37, 99-102; doi:10.1130/G25200A.1, 2009.

  • Herold, N., M. Seton, R. D. Mueller, Y. You, and M. Huber (2008), Middle Miocene tectonic boundary conditions for use in climate models, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 9, Q10009, doi:10.1029/2008GC002046. 2.

  • 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, in press.

  • You, Y., M. Huber, D. Mueller, C. J. Poulsen, and J. Ribbe, Simulation of the Middle Miocene Climate Optimum, Geophys. Res. Lett., in press.
    Abbot, D. S., M. Huber, G. Bousquet, C. C. Walker, High-CO2 Cloud Radiative Forcing Feedback over both Land and Ocean, Geophys. Res. Lett., in press.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Huber, M., and J. Trapp, A review of NEXRAD Level II: Data, distribution, and applications, J. Terrestrial Observation, in press.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • Y. 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

 

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