Past Climates |
The North American monsoon delivers half of annual precipitation to Tucson, Arizona, and is a major hydroclimatic feature of the southwestern United States and Mexico. Water resource managers are interested in potential changes in this system, especially as it appears that winter rain in the Southwest will likely decrease with global climate change. My research explores past changes in the North American monsoon in an effort to understand monsoon response to changes in radiative forcing. I use primarily cave speleothems to explore these changes. Learn more...
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Modern Cave Systems |
I'm also researching the relationship between climate and cave systems. Namely, I am exploring oxygen isotopes and other geochemical quantities in surface precipitation and dripwater. For this project, I traveled to 5-7 caves/month over a span of 5.5 years to collect rainwater, dripwater, and calcite on glass plates placed on top of speleothems. This work will lead to process-based paleoclimate interpretations from speleothems. Learn more...
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Future Cave Management |
Sampling speleothems for paleoclimate research is inherently destructive, because sampling must occur down the center of the speleothem (the growth axis). I have been a caver since I was a small child, and I felt myself experiencing an internal conflict between my cave conservation ethic and my desire to learn about past climates. So, it was decided to study this ethical dilemma by surveying paleoclimate scientists and other cave stakeholders, such as managers, owners, cavers, and so forth. The goal of this project is to outline a few best practice guidelines for sampling speleothems for this kind of research. Learn more...
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Other research experience |
Throughout my time in (& out of) school, I have had the opportunity to work with many amazing researchers on a number of research projects. Click here to learn more about my experience counting pollen grains to reconstruct past vegetation history, measuring gastropods to understand how body size relates to extinction risk, and assisting on international field projects.
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Publications
Peer-reviewed publications
Oswald, W.W., Foster, D.R., Shuman, B.N., Doughty, E.D., Faison, E.K., Hall, B.R., Hansen, B.C., Lindbladh, M., Marroquin, A. and Truebe, S.A., 2018. Subregional variability in the response of New England vegetation to postglacial climate change. Journal of biogeography, 45(10), pp.2375-2388.
Suckale, J., Saiyed, Z., Hilley, G., Alvisyahrin, T., Muhari, A., Zoback, M.L. and Truebe, S., 2018. Adding a community partner to service learning may elevate learning but not necessarily service. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 28, pp.80-87.
Payne, J.L., Truebe, S., Nützel, A., Chang, E.T. 2011. Local and global abundance associated with extinction risk in late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic gastropods. Paleobiology 37(4): 616-632.
Truebe, S.A., Ault, T.R., Cole, J.E. 2010. A forward model of cave dripwater δ18O and application to speleothem records. IoP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 9(1): doi: 10.1088/1755-1315/9/1/012022.
Other publications
Download my dissertation here: Past climate, modern caves, and future resource management in speleothem paleoclimatology (2016).
Truebe, S.A. 2012. Onyx Cave Water Monitoring Project Update #2: Preliminary Cave Microclimate Data. Desert Caver 41. Tucson, AZ.
Truebe, S.A., Cole, J., Lee, M., and Barnett, H. 2012. Reconciling speleothem sampling for paleoclimate research with cave conservation. National Cave and Karst Management Symposium Proceedings 2011: 149-153.
Truebe, S.A. 2009. Onyx Cave Water Monitoring Project Update #1: Setup and Project Motivation. Desert Caver 39. Tucson, AZ.
Online media
Truebe, S.A. 2011. Welcome back to “Wind-ter”: the Winter 2011-2012 Outlook for the Southwest. Southwest Climate Blog, Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS). Available online:http://www.southwestclimatechange.org/blog/13182.
Truebe, S.A. 2011. The North American (paleo)monsoon: What can the last few thousand years tell us about our future? Southwest Climate Blog, Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS). Available online:http://www.southwestclimatechange.org/blog/12325.
Truebe, S.A. 2010. Climate Models Versus Weather Models: Different Approaches for Different Needs.Southwest Climate Blog, Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS). Available online:http://www.southwestclimatechange.org/blog/9601.
Truebe, S.A. 2010. The Southwest Monsoon Under Climate Change: What the Models Tell (and Don't Tell) Us. Southwest Climate Blog, Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS). Available online:http://www.southwestclimatechange.org/blog/9674.
Multimedia
Video about caving produced for “Clearing the Air: Arizona’s Voice for Climate Science”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tipO822vYAk
Oswald, W.W., Foster, D.R., Shuman, B.N., Doughty, E.D., Faison, E.K., Hall, B.R., Hansen, B.C., Lindbladh, M., Marroquin, A. and Truebe, S.A., 2018. Subregional variability in the response of New England vegetation to postglacial climate change. Journal of biogeography, 45(10), pp.2375-2388.
Suckale, J., Saiyed, Z., Hilley, G., Alvisyahrin, T., Muhari, A., Zoback, M.L. and Truebe, S., 2018. Adding a community partner to service learning may elevate learning but not necessarily service. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 28, pp.80-87.
Payne, J.L., Truebe, S., Nützel, A., Chang, E.T. 2011. Local and global abundance associated with extinction risk in late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic gastropods. Paleobiology 37(4): 616-632.
Truebe, S.A., Ault, T.R., Cole, J.E. 2010. A forward model of cave dripwater δ18O and application to speleothem records. IoP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 9(1): doi: 10.1088/1755-1315/9/1/012022.
Other publications
Download my dissertation here: Past climate, modern caves, and future resource management in speleothem paleoclimatology (2016).
Truebe, S.A. 2012. Onyx Cave Water Monitoring Project Update #2: Preliminary Cave Microclimate Data. Desert Caver 41. Tucson, AZ.
Truebe, S.A., Cole, J., Lee, M., and Barnett, H. 2012. Reconciling speleothem sampling for paleoclimate research with cave conservation. National Cave and Karst Management Symposium Proceedings 2011: 149-153.
Truebe, S.A. 2009. Onyx Cave Water Monitoring Project Update #1: Setup and Project Motivation. Desert Caver 39. Tucson, AZ.
Online media
Truebe, S.A. 2011. Welcome back to “Wind-ter”: the Winter 2011-2012 Outlook for the Southwest. Southwest Climate Blog, Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS). Available online:http://www.southwestclimatechange.org/blog/13182.
Truebe, S.A. 2011. The North American (paleo)monsoon: What can the last few thousand years tell us about our future? Southwest Climate Blog, Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS). Available online:http://www.southwestclimatechange.org/blog/12325.
Truebe, S.A. 2010. Climate Models Versus Weather Models: Different Approaches for Different Needs.Southwest Climate Blog, Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS). Available online:http://www.southwestclimatechange.org/blog/9601.
Truebe, S.A. 2010. The Southwest Monsoon Under Climate Change: What the Models Tell (and Don't Tell) Us. Southwest Climate Blog, Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS). Available online:http://www.southwestclimatechange.org/blog/9674.
Multimedia
Video about caving produced for “Clearing the Air: Arizona’s Voice for Climate Science”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tipO822vYAk