Gerard H. Roe
Associate Professor,
Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences,
University of Washington.
2206 N41st St
Seattle, WA 98103
phone: (206) 697-3298
office: (206) 543-4980
e-mail: gerard@ess.washington.edu
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.
Spetember 2007 to present: Associate Professor Seattle, WA
January 2003 to September 2007: Assistant Professor,
University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences,
Adjunct Assistant 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: Post-doctoral Associate, Cambridge, MA
March 1999 - July 1999: Graduate Research Assistant,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Atmospheres,
Oceans, and Climate
March 1999: Consultant Boulder, CO
Stratus Consulting, EPA-funded project on regional climate change.
1992-1993, and Summer, 1990: Researcher Ann Arbor, MI
University of Michigan, Space Physics Research Laboratory (SPRL)
Associate Editor, Quaternary Research, Sept 2004 to present.
Carl-Gustav Rossby Award for "Most Outstanding Thesis" submitted to the Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate, 1998-99.
Oxford University Exhibition, June 1990.
ESS 314: Geophysics: expedition to planet Earth, Winter 2004, Fall, 2004, 2005, 2006
PCC/ATM/OCN/ESS 587: Climate dynamics, Fall 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
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 2006; Holocene Express, Winter 2007.
ESS/ATM 590: Knowability and no ability in climate and earth sciences (seminar), Spring 2006.
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.
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 candidate)=, Justin Minder (ATM PhD candidate)*, Kat Huybers (ESS PhD candidate)*, Kevin Wood (ESS PhD candidate)*, Sandra Penny (ATM PhD candidate)*, Michelle Koutnik (ESS PhD candidate)#, Jane Locke (ESS PhD candidate)#, Jim Lutz (CFR PhD candidate)#, Jennifer Adams (CivE PhD candidate)#, Robert Sheerer (ESS MSc candidate)#, Eric Buer (ESS MSc candidate)#, Rachel Headley (ESS PhD candidate)#, Ted Bohn (CivE PhD candidate)#.
=major research advisor,*formal advisor, #committee member (with research input)
PUBLICATIONS
- Roe,
G.H., and M.T. Brandon, 2007: Critical form and feedbacks in mountain
belt
dynamics: the role of rheology. In preparation.
- Roe,
G.H., and D.S. Battisti, 2007: Knowability and no ability in climate
and earth
sciences. In preparation.
- O'Neal,
M.A., and G.H. Roe, 2007: The response of glaciers to intrinsic climate
variability: observations and models of late Holocene variations. In
preparation.
- Rennert,
K., G.H. Roe, C.M. Bitz, J. Putkonen, and D. Fischer, 2006:
Rain-on-snow in the
circumpolar Arctic: climatology and impacts. In preparation.
- Rupper,
S.B., G.H. Roe, and A. Gillespie, 2006: Spatial patterns of glacier
advance and
retreat in Central Asia in the Holocene. In preparation.
- Rupper,
S.B., and G.H. Roe, 2006: Glacier changes and regional climate - a mass and
energy
balance approach. In preparation.
Submitted:
- Roe, G.H., 2007: On the paleoclimate interpretation of Chinese loess. Submitted to Quaternary Research
- Anders, A.M., G.H. Roe, D.R. Montgomery, and B. Hallet, 2007: Coupled evolution of topography and orographic precipitation in varied climates. Submitted to Geology.
- Tomkin, J.T., and G.H. Roe, 2007: The response of a glaciated critical wedge orogen to changes in climate. In review, Earth Plan. Sci. Lett.
- Roe,
G.H., K.X. Whipple, J.K. Fletcher, 2007: Feedbacks between climate,
erosion,
and tectonics in a critical wedge orogen. In review.
- 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. In review, J. Geophys. Res.
Published/in press (peer-reviewed):
- 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. Accepted J. Hydrometeorology.
- 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.