KJ
Member Since 2000
Kathleen R. Johnson
Professor, University of California Irvine
Immediate Past President, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Executive Committee
Professional Experience
University of California Irvine
Professor
2007 - Present
Education
University of California Berkeley
Doctorate
2004
Publications

High‐Resolution, Multiproxy Speleothem Record of the 8.2 ka Event From Mainland Southeast Asia
The 8.2 ka event is the most significant global climate anomaly of the Holocene epoch, but a lack of records from Mainland Southeast Asia (MSE...
December 13, 2023

California's Volatile Hydroclimate: Lessons From the Paleocl...
November 30, 2021

Isotopic signature of extreme precipitation events in the we...
August 12, 2016
AGU Abstracts
paleoCAMP (Paleoclimate Training in Climate Archives, Models, and Proxies): Developing an Inclusive Graduate Student Summer School in Paleoclimatology
CENTERING DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION, AND ACCESSIBILITY IN THE GEOSCIENCES: CELEBRATING SUCCESS STORIES IN EDUCATION AND RESEARCH TO ADDRESS CRITICAL SOCIETAL ISSUES II ORAL
education | 13 december 2024
Daniel E. Ibarra, Jessica E. Tierney, Kevin J. Anc...
paleoCAMP is a 2-week summer school for graduate students in paleoclimatology, hosted annually since 2022 in the Eastern Sierras. Our summer schools m...
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Imprints of global temperatures on the Southeast Asian Monsoon seen through speleothems and model simulations
CLIMATE OF THE COMMON ERA I ORAL
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 12 december 2024
Annabel Wolf, Shouyi Wang, Sebastian Breitenbach, ...
Global mean surface temperatures are intricately linked to the global hydrological cycle, especially in monsoonal regions. Yet, it remains unclear how...
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Assessing Proxy System Impacts on Southeast Asian Hydroclimate Records over the Last Millennium
SOUTHEAST ASIA AND THE INDO-PACIFIC: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT II POSTER
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 12 december 2024
Jarunetr (Nadia) Sae-Lim, Kathleen R. Johnson, Mic...
Due to limited hydroclimate observations, much of our understanding of monsoonal rainfall variability over mainland Southeast Asia comes from water-is...
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Volunteer Experience
2025 - 2026
Immediate Past President
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Executive Committee
2023 - 2024
Chair
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Canvassing Committee
2023 - 2024
Ex-officio
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Fellows Committee
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