Maria Rosabelle Ong

Columbia University

Email:

mongSPAMFILTER@amnh.org

Phone:

212-769-5311

Research Interests

Ross’s research focuses on investigating short-term and long term (decadal-to-centennial) scale climate variability and ocean atmosphere interactions through the reconstruction of paleoenvironmental records using geochemical techniques, such as stable isotope and trace metal analysis of carbonates and water.

Her work involves utilizing the geochemistry of slow growing brain corals from the Caribbean to understand how changes in environmental parameters such as sea surface temperature (SST) and sea surface salinity (SSS) interact with climate teleconnections such as the North Atlantic Oscillation and the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation in the Common Era. She is currently working on the calibration and reconstruction of SST derived from a new coral species collected from Trinidad and Tobago. Her goal is to be able to contribute to better understanding the natural variability of the climate and ocean systems and how they have changed in the past, to give us a better insight into predicting future climate change.

Publications

Goodkin, N. F., Samanta, D., Bolton, A., Ong, M. R., Phan, K. H., Vo, S. T., Karnauskas, K. B., Hughen, K. A., (2021). Natural and Anthropogenic Forcing of Multi-decadal to Centennial Scale Variability of Sea Surface Temperature in the South China Sea. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. (Manuscript submitted).

Goodkin, N. F., Bolton, A., Hughen, K. A., Karnauskas, K. B., Griffin, S., Phan, K. H., Vo, S. T., Ong, M. R., Druffel, E. R. M. (2019). East Asian Monsoon variability since the sixteenth century. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(9), 4790-4798. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL081939

He, S., Goodkin, N. F., Jackisch, D., Ong, M. R., Samanta, D. (2018). Continuous real‐time analysis of the isotopic composition of precipitation during tropical rain events: Insights into tropical convection. Hydrological Processes. 32(11), 1531-1545.