Dr. Terry Quinn Associate Director, UTIG Research Professor, UTIG Professor, Department of Geological Sciences Ph.D., Brown University, 1989 Telephone 512-471-0377 email: quinn@ig.utexas.edu

Field of Study:
Paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, sedimentary geology and geochemistry

About Terry: Dr. Quinn is one of several faculty members who regularly teaches the carbonate rocks portion of the class Sedimentary Rocks (GEO416M). He also teaches a graduate course in Geoclimatology, which examines the geologic record of climate change as recorded in sedimentary archives.

Dr. Quinn’s research interests focus on using the geochemistry of marine sediments and coral reefs to investigate climate variability and changes in mean climate state in the geologic record. He is particularly interested in developing tools to better constrain uncertainties in proxy records of climate and to collaborate with climate dynamicists to better integrate geologic records of climate change with predictions of climate models.

Research Projects
Holocene/Deglacial Abrupt Climate Change and Variability of the Western Pacific Warm Pool from Multidecadal to Century Scale Coral Climate Records

A Coral-based Reconstruction and Analysis of Subdecadal- to Multidecadal-scale Climate Variability in the Cuban Sector of the Tropical North Atlantic/Caribbean Sea

Terry's UTIG Contributions  (Publications)