Dr. Matthew Huber

Assistant Professor

E-mail: huberm@purdue.edu

Associated Website(s) : Personal website, Purdue Climate Change Research Center(PCCRC), Atmosphere-Surface Interactions (ASI), Climate & Extreme Weather (CLEW)

Education

Ph.D.- University of California Santa Cruz (Earth Sciences)

M.S.-University of California Los Angeles (Atmospheric Sciences)

B.A.- University of Chicago (Geophysics Honors)
Teaching Interests

EAS 221 Survey of Atmosphere

EAS 320 Physics of Climate

EAS 520 Theory of Climate

EAS 591 Eocene-Oligocene Climate Change

EAS 591F Proposal Writing for Graduate Students

EAS 591M Modeling in Climate Change Science and Policy

EAS 591 Soil Moisture and Climtae Interactions

Research Interests

Past, present and future climate, mechanisms that govern climate, different forms that climates can take on Earth and other planets.

Awards / Honors

  • Winner, IBM Scholars Program for Linux Award ($40,000, Dec. 2004)

  • Research on Cretaceous-Tertiary impact highlighted as one of the 100 top scientific discoveries of 2004 by Discover Magazine (Jan. 2005).

  • Co-Chair of the NCAR CCSM Paleoclimate Working Group (2004-2006)

  • Director of Purdue program to distribute NWS Doppler radar data nationally

  • Associate Editor of Paleoceanography 2003-2005

  • Co-founder/Member Purdue Climate Change Research Center

  • Fellow of the Cyber Center

Professional Experience

  • Assistant Professor, EAS, Purdue University, 2003-present

  • Assistant Research Professor, DCESS, Niels Bohr Inst., University of Copenhagen, 2001-02

Selected Publications

  • Sriver*, R., and M. Huber, Observational Evidence that Tropical Cyclones Drive Ocean Heat Transport, Nature, in review (2nd round).

  • Lyle, M., J. Barron, T. J. Bralower, M. Huber, A. Olivarez-Lyle, A. C. Ravelo, D. K. Rea, and P. A. Wilson, The Pacific Ocean and the Cenozoic Evolution of Climate, Reviews of Geophysics, in review (2nd round).

  • Huber, M., and J. Trapp, A review of NEXRAD Level II: Data, distribution, and applications, J. Terrestrial Observation, in press.

  • Thomas, E., H. Brinkhuis, M. Huber, and U. Röhl, An Ocean View of the Early Cenozoic Greenhouse World, Oceanography, v. 19, 2006.

  • Sriver*, R., and M. Huber,  Low frequency variability in globally integrated tropical cyclone power dissipation, Geophys. Res. Lett.,33, doi:10.1029/ 2006GL026167, L11705.

  • Brinkhuis, H., S. Schouten, M. E. Collinson, A. Sluijs, J. S. Sinninghe-Damste, G. R. Dickens, M. Huber, and 15 others, Episodic fresh surface waters in the early Eocene Arctic Ocean, Nature, 441, doi:10.1038/nature04692, 606-609.

  • Sluijs, A., S. Schouten, M. Pagani, N. Pedentchouk, H. Brinkhuis, J. Sinninghe Damsté, G. R. Dickens, M. Huber, and 7 others, Subtropical Arctic Ocean conditions during the Palaeocene Eocene thermal maximum, Nature, 441, doi:10.1038/nature/04668, 610-613.

  • Pagani, M., N. Pedentchouk, M. Huber, and 7 others, Arctic hydrology during global warming at the Paleocene/Eocene thermal maximum, Nature, 442, doi:10.1038/nature05043, 671-675.

  • Huber, M., and D. Nof, The ocean circulation in the Southern Hemisphere and its climatic impacts in the Eocene, Paleogeogr., Palaeoclim., Palaeocol., 231, 9-28, 2006

  • Y. Sun, E. Ess, D. Sapirstein, and M. Huber, Visualizing Oceanic and  Atmospheric Flows with Streamline Splatting, in Visualization and  Data Analysis, Proc. of SPIE and IS&T Electronic Imaging 2006,R. F.  Erbacher, J. C. Roberts, and M. T. Katy,  ed., San Jose, CA, 12-23, 2006.

  • Huber, M., H. Brinkhuis, C. E. Stickley, K. Doos, A. Sluijs, J. Warnaar*, G. L Williams, and S. A. Schellenberg, Eocene circulation of the Southern Ocean: Was Antarctica kept warm by subtropical waters? Paleoceanography, PA4026, doi:10.1029/2004PA001014.

  • Stickley, C. E., H. Brinkhuis, S. A. Schellenberg, A. Sluijs, U. Rohl, M. Fuller, M. Grauert, M. Huber, J. Warnaar*, and G. L. Williams, Timing and nature of the deepening of the Tasmanian Gateway, Paleoceanography, PA4027, doi:10.1029/2004PA001022.