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Vanderbilt University: Nashville, Tennessee, US

2019-08-01 to present | Associate Professor (Earth and Environmental Sciences)
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Jessica Oster

Vanderbilt University: Nashville, TN, US

2012-01-01 to present | Assistant Professor (Earth and Environmental Sciences)
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Jessica Oster

Stanford University: Stanford, CA, US

2010-07-01 to 2011-12-31 | Postdoctoral Researcher (Geological and Environmental Sciences)
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Education and qualifications (2)

University of California Davis: Davis, CA, US

2010-06-15 | Ph.D. (Geology)
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Jessica Oster

Oberlin College: Oberlin, OH, US

2003-05-28 | BA (Geology)
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Works (43)

Coeval Holocene stalagmites record linkages between ENSO and Rocky Mountain hydroclimate for the past 2800 years

2025-03-17 | Preprint
DOI: 10.22541/essoar.174224426.69650262/v1
Contributors: Bryce K. Belanger; Warren D. Sharp; Christopher W. Kinsley; Yanjun Cai; Cameron B de Wet; Bryan L. McKenzie; Jessica Leigh Oster
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Calcium isotope ratios (δ44Ca) in coeval California stalagmites record hydroclimate shifts and reveal soil-to-cave carbon transformations during the last glacial period

2025-03-15 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu25-20160
Contributors: Jessica Oster; Erica Scarpitti; Cameron de Wet; Elizabeth Griffith
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Reconstructing Paleofire-Climate Connections in Speleothems Using Organic Molecules: A Source to Sink Perspective 

2025-01-20 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-13877
Contributors: Michael Hren; Zhao Wang; Jonathan Smolen; Yuval Burstyn; Kesego Letshele; Aida Zyba; Erica Scarpitti; Jessica Oster; Cameron De Wet; Isabel Montañez
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StalFire Consortium: Defining the paleoclimate-fire relationship in California across temporal and spatial scales 

2025-01-20 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-13457
Contributors: Isabel P. Montañez; Jessica L. Oster; Eliot A. Atekwana; Gabriel Bowen; Yuval Burstyn; Cameron de Wet; Elizabeth M. Griffith; Michael Hren; Kesego P. Letshele; Sarah Pederzani et al.
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Tropical mountain ice core  : A Goldilocks indicator for global temperature change

2025-01-20 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-10986
Contributors: Zhengyu Liu; Yuntao Bao; Lonnie Thompson; Ellen Mosley-Thompson; Clay Tabor; Guang Zhang; Mi Yan; Marcus Lofverstrom; Isabel Montanez; Jessica Oster
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Variations of fire events and vegetation in the western Sierra Nevada archived in speleothems during Dansgaard–Oeschger (D–O) cycles 

2025-01-20 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-11926
Contributors: Zhao Wang; Jonathan Smolen; Aida Zyba; Erica A. Scarpitti; Jessica L. Oster; Isabel P. Montañez; Michael Hren
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A Comparative Study of Cave System Calcium Isotope Ratios: Implications for Quantitative Reconstruction of Paleorainfall From Speleothems

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
2024-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1029/2024GC011691
Contributors: Cameron B. de Wet; Elizabeth M. Griffith; Andrea M. Erhardt; Jessica L. Oster
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A comparative study of cave system calcium isotope ratios: Implications for quantitative reconstruction of paleorainfall from speleothems

2024-06-10 | Preprint
DOI: 10.22541/essoar.171804092.21005935/v1
Contributors: Cameron de Wet; Elizabeth Morris Griffith; Andrea Erhardt; Jessica Leigh Oster
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North Atlantic meltwater during Heinrich Stadial 1 drives wetter climate with more atmospheric rivers in western North America

Science Advances
2023-11-17 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adj2225
Contributors: Jessica L. Oster; Sophia Macarewich; Marcus Lofverstrom; Cameron de Wet; Isabel Montañez; Juan M. Lora; Christopher Skinner; Clay Tabor
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Tropical mountain ice core δ 18 O: A Goldilocks indicator for global temperature change

Science Advances
2023-11-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adi6725
Contributors: Zhengyu Liu; Yuntao Bao; Lonnie G. Thompson; Ellen Mosley-Thompson; Clay Tabor; Guang J. Zhang; Mi Yan; Marcus Lofverstrom; Isabel Montanez; Jessica Oster
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North American Hydroclimate During Past Warms States: A Proxy Compilation‐Model Comparison for the Last Interglacial and the Mid‐Holocene

Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
2023-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1029/2022PA004528
Contributors: C. B. de Wet; D. E. Ibarra; B. K. Belanger; J. L. Oster
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A comparative study of cave system Ca isotope ratios with rainfall, δ13C, and trace element data: Implications for quantitative reconstructions of paleorainfall from speleothems

2023-05-15 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-16852
Contributors: Cameron de Wet; Elizabeth Griffith; Andrea Erhardt; Harold Bradbury; Alexandra Turchyn; Jessica Oster
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Coeval stalagmite records from the Rocky Mountains record Holocene climate change  

2023-05-15 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-4539
Contributors: Bryce Belanger; Cameron de Wet; Warren Sharp; Christopher Kinsley; Yanjun Cai; Jessica Oster
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Linked fire activity and climate whiplash in California during the early Holocene

2023-05-15 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-2097
Contributors: Jessica Oster; Julia Homann; Cameron de Wet; Sebastian Breitenbach; Thorsten Hoffmann
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Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in speleothems.

2023-05-15 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-1735
Contributors: Julia Homann; Sebastian Breitenbach; Stacy Carolin; David Hodell; Jessica Oster; Cameron de Wet; Thorsten Hoffmann
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Simulating Changes in Tropical Cyclone Activity During the Deglaciation

2023-05-15 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-17590
Contributors: Clay Tabor; Marcus Lofverstrom; Isabel Montañez; Jessica Oster; Colin Zarzycki
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Controls on Speleothem Initial 234U/238U Ratios in a Monsoon Climate

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
2023-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1029/2023GC010899
Contributors: Jessica L. Oster; Elli R. Ronay; Warren D. Sharp; Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach; David J. Furbish
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Linked fire activity and climate whiplash in California during the early Holocene

Nature Communications
2022-11-23 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-34950-x
Contributors: Julia Homann; Jessica L. Oster; Cameron B. de Wet; Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach; Thorsten Hoffmann
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North American hydroclimate during past warms states: A proxy network-model comparison for the Last Interglacial and the mid-Holocene

2022-08-12 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1002/essoar.10512149.1
Contributors: Cameron B. de Wet; Daniel Enrique Ibarra; Bryce K. Belanger; Jessica Leigh Oster
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A mechanistic understanding of oxygen isotopic changes in the Western United States at the Last Glacial Maximum

Quaternary Science Reviews
2021-12 | Journal article | Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing - review & editing
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107255
Part of ISSN: 0277-3791
Contributors: Clay Tabor; Marcus Lofverstrom; Jessica Oster; Barbara Wortham; Cameron de Wet; Isabel Montanez; Alan Rhoades; Colin Zarzycki; Chengfei He; Zhengyu Liu et al.
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A reactive transport approach to modeling cave seepage water chemistry I: Carbon isotope transformations

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
2021-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2021.06.041
Contributors: Jennifer L. Druhan; Corey R. Lawrence; Aaron K. Covey; Max G. Giannetta; Jessica L. Oster
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A reactive transport approach to modeling cave seepage water chemistry II: Elemental signatures

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
2021-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2021.06.040
Contributors: Jessica L. Oster; Aaron K. Covey; Corey R. Lawrence; Max G. Giannetta; Jennifer L. Druhan
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North American rainfall patterns during past warm states: A proxy network-model comparison for the Last Interglacial and the mid-Holocene

2021-03-04 | Other
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-6574
Contributors: Cameron de Wet; Jessica Oster; Daniel Ibarra; Bryce Belanger
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Using Micro-CT and petrographic analysis to select optimal U-Th samples from challenging stalagmites.

2021-03-03 | Other
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-3322
Contributors: Jessica Oster; Cameron de Wet; Kate Neal; Warren Sharp
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Semiquantitative Estimates of Rainfall Variability During the 8.2 kyr Event in California Using Speleothem Calcium Isotope Ratios

Geophysical Research Letters
2021-02-16 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1029/2020GL089154
Contributors: Cameron B. de Wet; Andrea M. Erhardt; Warren D. Sharp; Naomi E. Marks; Harold J. Bradbury; Alexandra V. Turchyn; Yiruo Xu; Jessica L. Oster
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Multi-proxy stalagmite records from northern California reveal dynamic patterns of regional hydroclimate over the last glacial cycle

Quaternary Science Reviews
2020-08 | Journal article | Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106411
Part of ISSN: 0277-3791
Contributors: Jessica L. Oster; Isabelle E. Weisman; Warren D. Sharp; Jessica Oster
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Main controls on the stable carbon isotope composition of speleothems

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
2020-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2020.03.042
Contributors: Jens Fohlmeister; Ny Riavo G. Voarintsoa; Franziska A. Lechleitner; Meighan Boyd; Susanne Brandtstätter; Matthew J. Jacobson; Jessica L. Oster
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Speleothem Paleoclimatology for the Caribbean, Central America, and North America

Quaternary
2019-01 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.3390/quat2010005
Contributors: Jessica Oster; Given Names Deactivated Family Name Deactivated; Natasha Sekhon; Monica M Arienzo; Matthew Lachniet
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Speleothem Paleoclimatology for the Caribbean, Central America, and North America

2019-01-10 | Other
DOI: 10.20944/preprints201901.0099.v1
Contributors: Jessica Oster; Sophie Warken; Natasha Sekhon; Monica Arienzo; Matthew Lachniet
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Glacial hydroclimate of western North America: insights from proxy-model comparison and implications for Lake Bonneville

2018-10-09 | Other
DOI: 10.31223/OSF.IO/H75MW
Contributors: Jessica Oster; Daniel Ibarra
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Lake area constraints on past hydroclimate in the western United States: Application to Pleistocene Lake Bonneville

2018-10-09 | Other
DOI: 10.31223/OSF.IO/RK5PE
Contributors: Daniel Ibarra; Jessica Oster; Matthew Winnick; Jeremy Rugenstein; Michael Byrne; C. Chamberlain
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Tracking regional and global teleconnections recorded by western North American speleothem records

Quaternary Science Reviews
2016-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.07.009
Contributors: Jessica L. Oster; Neil P. Kelley
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Evolution of moisture transport to the western U.S. during the last deglaciation

Geophys. Res. Lett.
2016-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/2016gl068389
Contributors: Corinne I. Wong; Gerald L. Potter; Isabel P. Montañez; Bette L. Otto-Bliesner; Pat Behling; Jessica L. Oster
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Pedothem carbonates reveal anomalous North American atmospheric circulation 70,000–55,000 years ago

Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2016-01-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1515478113
Contributors: Erik J. Oerter; Warren D. Sharp; Jessica L. Oster; Angela Ebeling; John W. Valley; Reinhard Kozdon; Ian J. Orland; John Hellstrom; Jon D. Woodhead; Janet M. Hergt et al.
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Stalagmite records of hydroclimate in central California during termination 1

Quaternary Science Reviews
2015-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.07.027
Contributors: Jessica L. Oster; Isabel P. Montañez; Laura R. Santare; Warren D. Sharp; Corinne Wong; Kari M. Cooper
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Northeast Indian stalagmite records Pacific decadal climate change: Implications for moisture transport and drought in India

Geophys. Res. Lett.
2015-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/2015gl063826
Contributors: Christopher G. Myers; Jessica L. Oster; Warren D. Sharp; Ralf Bennartz; Neil P. Kelley; Aaron K. Covey; Sebastian F.M. Breitenbach
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Steering of westerly storms over western North America at the Last Glacial Maximum

Nature Geosci
2015-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2365
Contributors: Jessica L. Oster; Daniel E. Ibarra; Matthew J. Winnick; Katharine Maher
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Millennial-scale variations in western Sierra Nevada precipitation during the last glacial cycle MIS 4/3 transition

Quaternary Research
2014-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2014.04.010
Contributors: Jessica L. Oster; Isabel P. Montañez; Regina Mertz-Kraus; Warren D. Sharp; Greg M. Stock; Howard J. Spero; John Tinsley; James C. Zachos
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Uranium isotopic variations in modern soils and dated soil minerals: Calibrating a potential paleo-rainfall proxy

Quaternary International
2013-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.07.099
Contributors: Jessica Oster; Katharine Maher; Daniel Ibarra
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Response of a modern cave system to large seasonal precipitation variability

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
2012-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2012.05.027
Contributors: Jessica L. Oster; Isabel P. Montañez; Neil P. Kelley
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Influence of eolian deposition and rainfall amounts on the U-isotopic composition of soil water and soil minerals

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
2012-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2012.04.004
Contributors: Jessica L. Oster; Daniel E. Ibarra; Caroline R. Harris; Katharine Maher
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Modeling speleothem δ13C variability in a central Sierra Nevada cave using 14C and 87Sr/86Sr

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
2010-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2010.06.030
Contributors: Jessica L. Oster; Isabel P. Montañez; Thomas P. Guilderson; Warren D. Sharp; Jay L. Banner
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Late Pleistocene California droughts during deglaciation and Arctic warming

Earth and Planetary Science Letters
2009-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.10.003
Contributors: Jessica L. Oster; Isabel P. Montañez; Warren D. Sharp; Kari M. Cooper
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Peer review (5 reviews for 4 publications/grants)

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