Curriculum Vitae

 

Gerard H. Roe

Associate Professor,

Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences,

University of Washington.

 

ADDRESS

 

2206 N41st St

Seattle, WA 98103

phone: (206) 697-3298

office: (206) 543–4980

e-mail: gerard@ess.washington.edu

 

EDUCATION

 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology                                                    Cambridge, MA

Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science, June 1999. Dissertation under Prof. Richard

Lindzen: The mutual interaction between the great continental ice sheets and

atmospheric stationary waves.

 

Oriel College, University of Oxford                                                                 Oxford, UK

Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics. First Class Honors, June 1992.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

September 2007 to present: Associate Professor,                                                Seattle, WA

September 2003 to 2007: Assistant Professor

University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences,

Adjunct Associate Professor, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences

 

September 1999 to December, 2002: Postdoctoral Researcher,                           Seattle, WA

University of Washington, Quaternary Research Center/Joint Institute for

the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean.

 

September 1993 – March 1999: Graduate Research Assistant,                    Cambridge, MA

March 1999 – July 1999: Post-doctoral Associate,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Atmospheres,

Oceans, and Climate

 

CLASSES TAUGHT

 

ESS 201: The Earth system and climate, Winter, 2009

ESS 314: Geophysics: expedition to planet Earth, Winter 2004, Fall, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008

PCC/ATM/OCN/ESS 587: Climate dynamics, Fall 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008

ESS 416/516: Geophysics: the atmosphere, Spring 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006.

ESS 590: Special topics in climate: Heinrich events (seminar). Fall 2003, Winter,

 Spring 2004. Centennial variability (seminar), Winter 2005; African aridity

 (seminar), Winter, Õ06; The Holocene Express, Winter 2007.

ESS/ATM 590: Knowability and no ability in climate and earth sciences (seminar), Spring Ô06.

PCC 586: That sinking feeling: the thermohaline circulation (seminar). Spring, 2005.

ESS 534/ATM 514: Ice and climate modeling, Winter 2001.

ESS 431: Principles of glaciology (5 lecture model ice dynamics), Fall 2003.

 

GRADUATE ADVISEES

 

Alison Anders (ESS, PhD, 2005)=, Michael O'Neal (ESS, PhD, 2005)=, Drew Stolar (ESS, PhD, 2006)=, Noah Finnegan (ESS, PhD, 2006)=, Summer Rupper (ESS, MSc, 2004; ESS, PhD, 2007)*, Camille Li (ATM, PhD, 2007)#, Kevin Rennert (ATM PhD 2007)=, Kat Huybers (ESS, MSc 2007)*, Jane Locke (ESS PhD 2008)#, Jim Lutz (CFR PhD 2008)#, Robert Sheerer (ESS, MSc 2008)#, Eric Buer (ESS, MSc 2008)#, Jennifer Adams (CivE PhD 2007)#, Justin Minder (ATM PhD candidate)*, Kevin Wood (ESS PhD candidate)*, Sandra Penny (ATM PhD candidate)*, Michelle Koutnik (ESS PhD candidate)#, Ted Bohn (CivE PhD candidate) #, Rachel Headley (ESS, PhD candidate), Erin Burke (ESS PhD candidate)=, Nichole Feldl (ESS PhD candidate)=, Angela Pendergrass (At. Sci. PhD candidate)=, Brian Smoliak (At. Sci., PhD candidate)

=major research advisor,* formal advisor, #committee member (with research input)

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

In preparation

Roe., G.H., 2008: What do glaciers tell us about climate change? In preparation.

Roe, G.H., and M.T. Brandon, 2008: Critical form and feedbacks in mountain belt dynamics: the role of rheology. In preparation.

Roe, G.H., and D.S. Battisti, 2008: Knowability and no ability in climate and earth sciences. In preparation.

Huybers, K.M., and G.H. Roe, 2008: Glacier response to regional patterns of climate variability. In preparation.

 

Submitted:

Baker, M.B., and G.H. Roe, 2008: The shape of things to come: why is climate change so predictable? J. Climate, in review.

Minder, J.U., G.H. Roe, and D.R. Montgomery, 2008: Spatial patterns of rainfall and landslide hazard, Water Resources Research, in review.

Roe, G.H, and M.A. O'Neal, 2008: The response of glaciers to intrinsic climate variability: observations and models of late Holocene variations. J. Glaciology, in review.

Rupper, S.B., G.H. Roe, and A. Gillespie, 2008: Spatial patterns of glacier advance and retreat in Central Asia in the Holocene. Quat. Res., in review.

 

Published/in press (peer-reviewed):

Roe, G.H., 2008: Feedbacks, time scales, and seeing red. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences, in press.

Roe, G.H., K.X. Whipple, J.K. Fletcher, 2008: Feedbacks between climate, erosion, and tectonics in a critical wedge orogen. Amer. J. Sci., in press.

Minder, J.U., D.R. Durran, and G.H. Roe, A.M. Anders, 2008: The climatology of small-scale orographic precipitation over the Olympic mountains: Patterns and processes. Quat. J. Roy. Met. Soc., in press.

Rennert, K., G.H. Roe, C.M. Bitz, J. Putkonen, and D. Fischer, 2008: Rain-on-snow in the circumpolar Arctic: climatology and impacts. J. Climate, in press.

Anders, A.M., and G.H. Roe, D.R. Montgomery, and B. Hallet, 2008: Coupled evolution of topography and orographic precipitation in varied climates. Geology, 36, 479-482.

Rupper, S.B., and G.H. Roe, 2008: Glacier changes and regional climate – a mass and energy balance approach. J. Climate, in press.

Owen, L.A., G. Thackray, R.S. Anderson, J. Briner, D. Kaufman, G.H. Roe, W. Pfeffer, and C. Yi, 2008: Integrated research on mountain glaciers: Current status, priorities and future prospects. Geomorphology, in press.

Roe, G.H., 2008: On the paleoclimate interpretation of Chinese loess. Quat. Res., in press.

Roe, G.H., and M.B. Baker, 2007: Why is climate sensitivity so unpredictable? Science, 318, 629-632.

Stolar, D.R., G.H. Roe, and S.D. Willett, 2007: Controls on the patterns of topography and erosion rate in a critical orogen at steady state, J. Geophys. Res., 112, F04002.

Tomkin, J.T., and G.H. Roe, 2007: The response of a glaciated critical wedge orogen to changes in climate. Earth. Plan. Sci. Lett., 262, 385–397.

Anders, A.M., G.H. Roe, D.R. Durran, and J.R. Minder, 2007: Small-scale spatial gradients in climatological precipitation on the Olympic Peninsula. J. Hydromet., 8, 1068-1081.

Roe, G.H., 2006: In defense of Milankovitch. Geophys. Res. Lett. 33, L24703, doi:10.1029/2006GL027817.

Roe, G.H., D. Stolar, and S.D. Willett, 2006: The sensitivity of a critical wedge orogen to climatic and tectonic forcing. in: S.D. Willett, N. Hovius, M. Brandon, D.M. Fisher, (Eds), Tectonics, Climate, and Landscape Evolution: Geological Society of America Special Paper 398, Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, 227-239.

Roe, G.H., and M. Baker, 2006: Microphysical and geometrical controls on the pattern of orographic precipitation. J. Atmos. Sci., 63, 861–880.

Stolar, D., G.H. Roe, and S.D. Willett, 2006: Evolution of a critical orogen under various forcing scenarios: findings from a numerical sandbox. in: S.D. Willett, N. Hovius, M. Brandon, D.M. Fisher, (Eds), Tectonics, Climate, and Landscape Evolution: Geological Society of America Special Paper 398, Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, 240-250.

Anders, A.M., G.H. Roe, B. Hallet, D.R. Montgomery, N. Finnegan, and J. Putkonen, 2006: Spatial patterns of precipitation and topography in the Himalaya. in: S.D. Willett, N. Hovius, M. Brandon, D.M. Fisher, (Eds), Tectonics, Climate, and Landscape Evolution: Geological Society of America Special Paper 398, Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, 39-53.

Finnegan, N., G.H. Roe, D.R. Montgomery, B. Hallet, 2005: A scaling relationship for channel width in bedrock rivers. Geology, 33, 229-232.

Roe, G.H., 2005: Orographic precipitation. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 33: 645-671.

Anders, A.M, G.H. Roe, and D.R. Durran, 2004: Conference notebook Orographic precipitation and the form of mountain ranges. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 85, 498-499.

Roe, G.H., and E. J. Steig, 2004: On the characterization of millennial-scale climate variability. J. Climate, 17, 1929-1944.

Bitz, C.M., and G.H. Roe, 2004: A physical explanation for the high rate of sea-ice thinning in the Arctic Ocean.  J. Climate, 17, 3623-3632.

Rupper, S., E.J. Steig, and G.H. Roe, 2004: On the relationship between snow accumulation at Mt. Logan, Yukon, and climate variability in the North Pacific. J. Climate. 17,4724-4739.

Roe, G.H., D.R. Montgomery, and B. Hallet, 2003: Orographic climate feedbacks on the relief of mountain ranges. J. Geophys. Res., 108, doi:10.1029/2001JB001521.

Putkonen, J., and G.H. Roe, 2003: Rain-on-snow events, soil temperatures, and the sensitivity of ungulates to climate change. Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, doi: 10.1029/2002GL016326.

Roe, G.H., 2002: Modeling orographic precipitation over ice sheets: an assessment over Greenland. J. Glaciology, 48, 70-80.

Roe, G.H., D.R. Montgomery, and B. Hallet, 2002: Effects of orographic precipitation variations on the concavity of steady-state river profiles. Geology, 30,143-146.

Risbey, J.S., P.J. Lamb, R.L. Miller, M.C. Morgan, and G.H. Roe, 2002: Elucidating the structure of regional climate scenarios by combining synoptic and dynamic guidance and GCM output. J. Climate, 15, 1036-1050.

Roe, G.H., and R.S. Lindzen, 2001: The mutual interaction between continental-scale ice sheets and atmospheric stationary waves. J. Climate, 14, 1450-1465.

Roe, G.H., and R.S. Lindzen, 2001: A one-dimensional model for the interaction between ice sheets and atmospheric stationary waves. Climate Dynamics, 17, 479-487.

Roe, G.H., and M.R. Allen, 1999: Competing explanations for the 100,000-yr ice age cycle. Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 2259-2262.

Lindzen, R.S., and G.H. Roe, 1997: The effect of concentrated PV gradients on stationary waves: correction, J. Atmos. Sci., 54, 1815-1818.

Roe, G.H., and R.S. Lindzen, 1996: Baroclinic adjustment in a two level model with barotropic shear, J. Atmos. Sci., 53, 2749-2754.