Samantha Stevenson (0000-0002-1223-8521)

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I am an assistant professor at UC Santa Barbara, studying climate variability and change with an emphasis on the tropical Pacific. My work focuses mainly on climate modeling, but I also work with physical oceanographic observations and paleoclimate 'proxy' reconstructions.

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University of California, Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara, California, US

2017-07-01 to present | Assistant Professor (Bren School of Environmental Science and Management)

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Samantha Stevenson

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1223-8521

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University of California, Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara, California, US

National Center for Atmospheric Research: Boulder, CO, US

University of Hawaii at Manoa: Honolulu, Hawaii, US

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University of Colorado Boulder: Boulder, CO, US

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Collaborative Research: P2C2--A Model/Proxy Synthesis of Walker Circulation Trends During the Last Millennium

RAPID Collaborative Research: Ground Truthing Coral Proxy Reconstructions of ENSO by Observing the 2014-15 El Nino

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Human-driven greenhouse gas and aerosol emissions cause distinct regional impacts on extreme fire weather

Nuclear Niño response observed in simulations of nuclear war scenarios

Connections Between Mean North Pacific Circulation and Western US Precipitation Extremes in a Warming Climate

A Multidecadal-Scale Tropically Driven Global Teleconnection over the Past Millennium and Its Recent Strengthening

Tropical Pacific Decadal Variability and ENSO Precursor in CMIP5 Models

Understanding Diverse Model Projections of Future Extreme El Niño

Oxygen Isotopic Signatures of Major Climate Modes and Implications for Detectability in Speleothems

Marine wild-capture fisheries after nuclear war

Paleoclimate Constraints on the Spatiotemporal Character of Past and Future Droughts

Isolating the Evolving Contributions of Anthropogenic Aerosols and Greenhouse Gases: A New CESM1 Large Ensemble Community Resource

Simulating and Evaluating Atmospheric River‐Induced Precipitation Extremes Along the U.S. Pacific Coast: Case Studies From 1980–2017

The Potential Impact of Nuclear Conflict on Ocean Acidification

The Iso2k Database: A global compilation of paleo-δ&lt;sup&gt;18&lt;/sup&gt;O and δ&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;H records to aid understanding of Common Era climate

Comparison of past and future simulations of ENSO in CMIP5/PMIP3 and CMIP6/PMIP4 models

Variations in the Intensity and Spatial Extent of Tropical Cyclone Precipitation

The Influence of Volcanic Aerosol Meridional Structure on Monsoon Responses over the Last Millennium

The Connected Isotopic Water Cycle in the Community Earth System Model Version 1

Volcanic Eruption Signatures in the Isotope‐Enabled Last Millennium Ensemble

A robust null hypothesis for the potential causes of megadrought in western North America

Holocene lowering of the Laurentide ice sheet affects North Atlantic gyre circulation and climate

Twentieth Century Seawater $δ$18O Dynamics and Implications for Coral-Based Climate Reconstruction

ENSO's Changing Influence on Temperature, Precipitation, and Wildfire in a Warming Climate

Climate Variability, Volcanic Forcing, and Last Millennium Hydroclimate Extremes

Comparing proxy and model estimates of hydroclimate variability and change over the Common Era

Forced changes to twentieth century ENSO diversity in a last Millennium context

Role of eruption season in reconciling model and proxy responses to tropical volcanism

Saving our marine archives

The amplifying influence of increased ocean stratification on a future year without a summer

A multidisciplinary perspective on climate model evaluation for Antarctica

Climate variability and change since 850 CE: An ensemble approach with the Community Earth System Model

“El Niño like” hydroclimate responses to last millennium volcanic eruptions

Characterizing seawater oxygen isotopic variability in a regional ocean modeling framework: Implications for coral proxy records, Paleoceanography, 30, doi: 10.1002/2015PA002824

Decadal predictability of soil water, vegetation, and wildfire frequency over North America

Reply to comment by Karnauskas et al. on “Equatorial Pacific coral geochemical records show recent weakening of the Walker circulation”

Stochastically generated north american megadroughts

Analysis of low-frequency precipitation variability in CMIP5 historical simulations for southwestern North America

Equatorial Pacific coral geochemical records show recent weakening of the Walker Circulation

Paleoclimate data--model comparison and the role of climate forcings over the past 1500 years

Quantifying errors in coral-based ENSO estimates: Toward improved forward modeling of $δ$18O

Generalized linear modeling of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation with application to seasonal forecasting and climate change projections

Hurricane wake restratification rates of one-, two-and three-dimensional processes

Mean biases, variability, and trends in air--sea fluxes and sea surface temperature in the CCSM4

Significant changes to ENSO strength and impacts in the twenty-first century: Results from CMIP5

Understanding the ENSO--CO2 link using stabilized climate simulations

Will there be a significant change to El Niño in the twenty-first century?

ENSO model validation using wavelet probability analysis

Comparing proxy and model estimates of hydroclimate variability and change over the Common Era

ENSO's Changing Influence on Temperature, Precipitation, and Wildfire In a Warming Climate

Peer review (5 reviews for 1 publication/grant)

The Iso2k Database: A global compilation of paleo-δ<sup>18</sup>O and δ<sup>2</sup>H records to aid understanding of Common Era climate