Director
Professor Jeffrey J. Park
Director
Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies
E-mail: jeffrey.park@yale.edu
Phone: (203) 432-3172
Jeffrey Park has been a faculty member in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Yale University since 1986. Born in Los Angeles and tossed from his bed by the 1971 Sylmar earthquake, Jeffrey earned his PhD at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1985, developing computer algorithms to simulate Earth's natural free oscillations. At Yale Jeffrey has continued to study earthquake waves and what they can tell us about tectonic-plate motion, mountain-building, and volcanism, including field projects in Kamchatka and Italy. Jeffrey developed techniques to analyze time series of climate variations both in the geological past and within the past few centuries: climate cycles in the Cretaceous super-greenhouse caused by changes in Earth's orbit, the onset of major Pleistocene ice-age cycles, coherent interannual and decadal climate cycles in 20th-century temperature data, and the correlation of aerosols and clouds in recent satellite observations. Professor Park was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2006.
Jeffrey co-revised the geology textbook Dynamic Earth with Brian Skinner and Stephen Porter in 2002-3. In 1992-4 he served as Chairman of the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS), a nonprofit research consortium, and during 2005-2007 chaired the IRIS Standing Committee for the Global Seismographic Network. Jeffrey has sat on the governing boards of the American Institute of Physics and the American Geophysical Union. During 2002-8 he served as the Chairman of the Environmental Studies Program, an undergraduate major in Yale College. |
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