Diane M Thompson

Interests

Research

Applying ecology, paleoecology, and paleoclimatology to investigate climates and reef systems of the past, improve our understanding of tropical climate variability and change, and improve coral reef resilience.

Teaching

Climate variability & change, paleoclimate, oceanography, marine science

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Journals/Publications

• Reed, E. V., Thompson, D. M., Cole, J. E., Lough, J. M., Cantin, N. E., Cheung, A. H., Tudhope, A., Vetter, L., Jimenez, G., & Edwards, R. L. (2021). Impacts of Coral Growth on Geochemistry: Lessons from the Gal'apagos Islands. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, e2020PA004051.
• Sayani, H. R., Thompson, D. M., Carilli, J. E., Marchitto, T. M., Chapman, A. U., & Cobb, K. M. (2021). Reproducibility of coral Mn/Ca-based wind reconstructions at Kiritimati Island and Butaritari Atoll. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, e2020GC009398.
• Konecky, B. L., McKay, N. P., Comas-Bru, L., Dassi'e, E. P., DeLong, K. L., Falster, G. M., Fischer, M. J., Jones, M. D., Jonkers, L., Kaufman, D. S., & others, . (2020). The Iso2k database: a global compilation of paleo-$delta$ 18 O and $delta$ 2 H records to aid understanding of Common Era climate. Earth System Science Data, 12(3), 2261--2288.
• Loope, G., Thompson, D., & Overpeck, J. (2020). The spectrum of Asian Monsoon variability: A proxy system model approach to the hydroclimate scaling mismatch. Quaternary Science Reviews, 240, 106362.
• Loope, G., Thompson, D., Cole, J., & Overpeck, J. (2020). Is there a low-frequency bias in multiproxy reconstructions of tropical pacific SST variability?. Quaternary Science Reviews, 246, 106530.
• McManus, L. C., Vasconcelos, V. V., Levin, S. A., Thompson, D. M., Kleypas, J. A., Castruccio, F. S., Curchitser, E. N., & Watson, J. R. (2020). Extreme temperature events will drive coral decline in the Coral Triangle. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY.
• Grothe, P. R., Cobb, K. M., Liguori, G., Di, L. E., Capotondi, A., Lu, Y., Cheng, H., Edwards, R. L., Southon, J. R., Santos, G. M., & others, . (2019). Enhanced El Ni~no-Southern Oscillation variability in recent decades. Geophysical Research Letters.
• McManus, L. C., Vasconcelos, V. V., Levin, S. A., Thompson, D. M., Kleypas, J. A., Castruccio, F. S., Curchitser, E. N., & Watson, J. R. (2019). Extreme temperature events will drive coral decline in the Coral Triangle. Global Change Biology.
• Reed, E. V., Cole, J. E., Lough, J. M., Thompson, D., & Cantin, N. E. (2019). Linking climate variability and growth in coral skeletal records from the Great Barrier Reef. Coral Reefs, 38(1), 29--43.
• Thompson, D. M., Cole, J. E., & Morgan, K. (2019). Building Resilient Reefs: Biosphere 2 & Beyond. Reef Encounter.
• E.V., R. (2018). Linking climate variability and growth in coral skeletal records from the Great Barrier Reef. Coral Reefs, 1--15.
• Jimenez, G., Cole, J. E., Thompson, D. M., & Tudhope, A. W. (2018). Northern Gal'apagos corals reveal twentieth century warming in the eastern tropical Pacific. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(4), 1981--1988.
• Jimenez, G., Cole, J. E., Thompson, D. M., & Tudhope, A. W. (2018). Northern Gal\'apagos corals reveal twentieth century warming in the eastern tropical Pacific. Geophysical Research Letters.
• Jimenez, G., Cole, J. E., Thompson, D. M., & Tudhope, A. W. (2018). Northern Galapagos Corals Reveal Twentieth Century Warming in the Eastern Tropical Pacific. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, 45(4), 1981-1988.
• Thompson, D. M., Kleypas, J., Castruccio, F., Curchitser, E. N., Pinsky, M. L., J\"onsson, B., & Watson JR, . (2018). Variability in oceanographic barriers to coral larval dispersal: Do currents shape biodiversity?. Progress in oceanography, 165, 110--122.
• Conroy, J. L., Thompson, D. M., Cobb, K. M., Noone, D., Rea, S., & Legrande, A. N. (2017). Spatiotemporal variability in the $\delta$18O-salinity relationship of seawater across the tropical Pacific Ocean. Paleoceanography, 32(5), 484--497.
• Conroy, J. L., Thompson, D. M., Cobb, K. M., Noone, D., Rea, S., & Legrande, A. N. (2017). Spatiotemporal variability in the O-18-salinity relationship of seawater across the tropical Pacific Ocean. PALEOCEANOGRAPHY, 32(5), 484-497.
• Dassi\'e, E., Delong, K., Kilbourne, H., Williams, B., Abram, N. J., Brenner, L., Brahmi, C., Cobb, K. M., Corr\`ege, T., Dissard, D., & others, . (2017). Saving our marine archives.
• Thompson, D. M., Conroy, J. L., Collins, A., Hlohowskyj, S. R., Overpeck, J. T., Riedinger-Whitmore, M., Cole, J. E., Bush, M. B., Whitney, H., Corley, T. L., & Kannan, M. S. (2017). Tropical Pacific climate variability over the last 6000 years as recorded in Bainbridge Crater Lake, Galapagos. PALEOCEANOGRAPHY, 32(8), 903-922.
• Thompson, D. M., Conroy, J. L., Collins, A., Hlohowskyj, S. R., Overpeck, J. T., Riedinger-Whitmore, M., Cole, J. E., Bush, M. B., Whitney, H., Corley, T. L., & others, . (2017). Tropical Pacific climate variability over the last 6000 years as recorded in Bainbridge Crater Lake, Gal'apagos. Paleoceanography, 32(8), 903--922.
• Thompson, D. M., Conroy, J. L., Collins, A., Hlohowskyj, S., Overpeck, J. T., Riedinger-Whitmore, M., Cole, J. E., Bush, M. B., Whitney, H., Corley, T. L., & others, . (2017). Tropical Pacific climate variability over the last 6000 years as recorded in Bainbridge Crater Lake, Gal\'apagos. Paleoceanography.
• Kleypas, J. A., Thompson, D. M., Castruccio, F. S., Curchitser, E. N., Pinsky, M., & Watson, J. R. (2016). Larval connectivity across temperature gradients and its potential effect on heat tolerance in coral populations. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY, 22(11), 3539-3549.
• Kleypas, J. A., Thompson, D. M., Castruccio, F. S., Curchitser, E. N., Pinsky, M., & Watson, J. R. (2016). Larval connectivity across temperature gradients and its potential effect on heat tolerance in coral populations. Global change biology, 22(11), 3539--3549.
• McGregor, H. V., Martrat, B., Evans, M. N., Thompson, D., Reynolds, D., & Addison, J. A. (2016). Data, age uncertainties and ocean $\delta$ 18 O under the spotlight for Ocean2k Phase 2. Past Global Changes, 24(1), 44--44.
• McGregor, H. V., Martrat, B., Evans, M. N., Thompson, D., Reynolds, D., & Addison, J. A. (2016). Data, age uncertainties and ocean $\delta$18O under the spotlight for Ocean2k Phase 2.
• Ng, J. Y., Williams, B., Thompson, D. M., Mayne, C., Halfar, J., Edinger, E., & Johnson, K. (2016). Assessing multi-site $\delta$18O-climate calibrations of the coralline alga Clathromorphum across the high-latitude Northern Hemisphere. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 194, 279--290.
• Ng, J. Y., Williams, B., Thompson, D. M., Mayne, C., Halfar, J., Edinger, E., & Johnson, K. (2016). Assessing multi-site delta O-18-climate calibrations of the coralline alga Clathromorphum across the high-latitude Northern Hemisphere. GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA, 194, 279-290.
• Dee, S., Emile-Geay, J., Evans, M. N., Allam, A., Steig, E. J., & Thompson, D. M. (2015). PRYSM: An open-source framework for PRoxY System Modeling, with applications to oxygen-isotope systems. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 7(3), 1220--1247.
• Thompson, D. M., Cole, J. E., Shen, G. T., Tudhope, A. W., & Meehl, G. A. (2015). Early twentieth-century warming linked to tropical Pacific wind strength. NATURE GEOSCIENCE, 8(2), 117-121.
• Thompson, D. M., Cole, J. E., Shen, G. T., Tudhope, A. W., & Meehl, G. A. (2015). Early twentieth-century warming linked to tropical Pacific wind strength. Nature Geoscience, 8(2), 117.
• Comboul, M., Emile-Geay, J., Evans, M. N., Mirnateghi, N., Cobb, K. M., & Thompson, D. M. (2014). A probabilistic model of chronological errors in layer-counted climate proxies: applications to annually banded coral archives. Climate of the Past, 10(2), 825--841.
• Conroy, J. L., Thompson, D. M., Collins, A., Overpeck, J. T., Bush, M. B., & Cole, J. E. (2014). Climate influences on water and sediment properties of Genovesa Crater Lake, Gal\'apagos. Journal of paleolimnology, 52(4), 331--347.
• Conroy, J. L., Thompson, D. M., Collins, A., Overpeck, J. T., Bush, M. B., & Cole, J. E. (2014). Climate influences on water and sediment properties of Genovesa Crater Lake, Galapagos. JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY, 52(4), 331-347.
• Schmidt, G. A., Annan, J. D., Bartlein, P. J., Cook, B. I., Guilyardi, '., Hargreaves, J. C., Harrison, S. P., Kageyama, M., LeGrande, A. N., Konecky, B., & others, . (2014). Using palaeo-climate comparisons to constrain future projections in CMIP5.
• Evans, M. N., Tolwinski-Ward, S. E., Thompson, D. M., & Anchukaitis, K. J. (2013). Applications of proxy system modeling in high resolution paleoclimatology. Quaternary science reviews, 76, 16--28.
• Schmidt, G. A., Annan, J. D., Bartlein, P. J., Cook, B. I., Guilyardi, \., Hargreaves, J. C., Harrison, S. P., Kageyama, M., LeGrande, A. N., Konecky, B., & others, . (2013). Using palaeo-climate comparisons to constrain future projections in CMIP5. Climate of the Past, 10(1), 221--250.
• THOMPSON, D. M., Ault, T. R., Evans, M. N., Cole, J. E., Emile-Geay, J., & LeGrande, A. N. (2013). Coral-model comparison highlighting the role of salinity in long-term trends. El Ni\~no-Southern Oscillation.
• Thompson, D. M., Ault, T. R., Evans, M. N., Cole, J. E., & Emile-Geay, J. (2011). Comparison of observed and simulated tropical climate trends using a forward model of coral $delta$ 18O. Geophysical Research Letters, 38(14).
• Thompson, D. M., Ault, T. R., Evans, M. N., Cole, J. E., & Emile-Geay, J. (2011). Comparison of observed and simulated tropical climate trends using a forward model of coral d 18 O. Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L14706.
• Thompson, D. M., & Van, W. R. (2009). Corals escape bleaching in regions that recently and historically experienced frequent thermal stress. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 276(1669), 2893--2901.

Proceedings Publications

• Reed, E., Thompson, D. M., Cole, J. E., Lough, J., Vetter, L., Snyder, M., Jimenez, G., Tudhope, A. W., Edwards, R. L., & Cantin, N. E. (2018). Paired Density and Geochemistry Records Demonstrate the Combined Impact of Skeletal Density and Architecture on the Geochemistry of Modern and Sub-Fossil Corals from the Gal\'apagos Islands. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
• Thompson, D. M., Williams, B., Mette, M., & Rosenheim, B. (2018). Comparison among Proxy System Models (" PSM-MIPs"). In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, 20.
• Cheung, A. H., Cole, J. E., Vetter, L., Jimenez, G., Thompson, D. M., & Tudhope, A. W. (2017). Multi-proxy Reconstructions of the Eastern Equatorial Pacific: Measuring Sr/Ca, Ba/Ca, and Li/Mg in Modern Corals Using ICP-OES. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
• Conroy, J. L., Thompson, D. M., Dassi\'e, E., Stevenson, S., Konecky, B. L., DeLong, K. L., Sayani, H. R., Emile-Geay, J., Partin, J. W., Abram, N. J., & others, . (2017). Salinity information in coral delta18O records. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
• Jimenez, G., Cole, J. E., Vetter, L., Thompson, D. M., & Tudhope, A. W. (2017). A preindustrial to present record of SST from Darwin Island, Gal\'apagos: constraining Eastern Pacific decadal variability. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
• Konecky, B. L., Partin, J. W., Conroy, J. L., Fischer, M., Jones, M., Jonkers, L., McKay, N., Stevenson, S., Thompson, D. M., Tyler, J. J., & others, . (2017). Global Synthesis of Common Era Hydroclimate using Water Isotope Proxies from Multiple Archives: First Results from the PAGES Iso2k Project. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
• Sayani, H. R., Thompson, D. M., Carilli, J., Ireland, T. J., Cobb, K. M., Atwood, A. R., Grothe, P. R., Miller, S. J., Hitt, N. T., & O'Connor, G. (2017). Constraining 20th Century Pacific Trade-Wind Variability Using Coral Mn/Ca. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
• Thompson, D. M., Conroy, J. L., Wyman, A., & Read, D. (2017). Spatial delta18Osw-SSS relationship across the western tropical Pacific Ocean. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
• Curchitser, E. N., Kleypas, J. A., Castruccio, F. S., Drenkard, E., Thompson, D. M., & Pinsky, M. L. (2016). Climate, bleaching and connectivity in the Coral Triangle.. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
• Grothe, P. R., Cobb, K. M., Liguori, G., Di Lorenzo, E., Capotondi, A., Cheng, H., Edwards, R. L., Santos, G., Southon JR, ., Deocampo, D., & others, . (2016). Robust evidence for forced changes in ENSO: from the mid-Holocene to the 21st century. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
• Hitt, N. T., Cobb, K. M., Sayani, H. R., Grothe, P. R., Atwood, A. R., O'Connor, G., Chen, T., Hagos, M. M., Deocampo, D., Edwards, R. L., & others, . (2016). An ensemble approach to reconstructing 20th century climate trends in data-sparse regions of the tropical Pacific using young fossil corals. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
• Pinsky, M. L., Kleypas, J. A., Thompson, D. M., Castruccio, F. S., Curchitser, E. N., & Watson JR, . (2016). Impacts of Larval Connectivity on Coral Heat Tolerance. In American Geophysical Union, Ocean Sciences Meeting 2016, abstract\# PC54B-2254.
• Sayani, H. R., Cobb, K. M., Khare, A., Stone, C., Grothe, P. R., Chen, T., Lu, Y., Cheng, H., & Edwards, R. L. (2016). Coral-based estimates of tropical Pacific climate during the Little Ice Age: Intercolony variability and the need for replication. In American Geophysical Union, Ocean Sciences Meeting 2016, abstract\# PC54A-2239.
• Williams, B., Thompson, D. M., Crowley, M., Moulton, M., Ng, J., & Halfar, J. (2016). A Simple Proxy System Model of High-Latitude Encrusting Algal Oxygen Isotope Composition (delta18O). In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
• Conroy, J. L., Thompson, D. M., Martin, N. J., Cobb, K. M., & Noone, D. C. (2015). Spatiotemporal Variability in the Salinity-Oxygen Isotope Relationship of Seawater Across the Tropical Pacific Ocean. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
• Horlicka, K. A., Thompsonc, D., & Andersone, D. M. (2015). Assessing the Contribution of Sea Surface Temperature and Salinity to Coral delta18O using a Weighted Forward Model. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
• Jimenez, G., Cole, J. E., Thompson, D. M., & Tudhope, A. W. (2015). Changing Trends and Variance in Eastern Equatorial Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures over the Twentieth Century. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
• Thompson, D. M., Kleypas, J. A., Castruccio, F. S., Watson JR, ., & Curchitser, E. N. (2015). Variability in reef connectivity in the Coral Triangle. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
• Comboul, M., Emile-Geay, J., Evans, M. N., Mirnateghi, N., Cobb, K. M., & Thompson, D. M. (2014). A Probabilistic Model of Chronological Errors in Layer-Counted Climate Proxies. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
• Ng, J., Williams, B., Thompson, D. M., & Halfar, J. (2014). Developing a forward model of encrusting coralline algae. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
• Thompson, D. M., Cole, J. E., Shen, G. T., Tudhope, A. W., & Meehl, G. A. (2014). Variability in Pacific trade winds inferred from coral Mn/Ca: Implications for the rate of global warming. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
• Evans, M. N., Tolwinski-ward, S. E., Thompson, D. M., & Anchukaitis, K. J. (2012). Applications of proxy system modeling in high resolution paleoclimatology. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
• Thompson, D., Cole, J., & Tudhope, S. (2012). Reconciling coral-based reconstructions of tropical Pacific SST and salinity. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
• Cole, J. E., Thompson, D. M., Tudhope, A. W., & Shen, G. (2011). Coral Records Of Recent Tropical Variability: What Do They Tell Us That We Don't Already Know?. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
• Conroy, J. L., Thompson, D. M., Overpeck, J. T., Bush, M. B., & Cole, J. E. (2011). Improving Holocene Climate Reconstructions from Gal\'apagos Lake Sediments: New Insights From Long-Term Lake Monitoring. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
• Thompson, D. M., Evans, M. N., Cole, J. E., Ault, T. R., & Emile-Geay, J. (2011). Tropical climate trends inferred from coral delta18O: a comparison of CMIP5 forward-model results with paleoclimatic observations. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
• Cole, J. E., Ault, T. R., & Thompson, D. M. (2010). The Challenge of Low-Frequency ENSO Variability. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
• Thompson, D. M., Ault, T. R., Evans, M. N., Cole, J. E., & Emile-Geay, J. (2010). Intercomparison of 20th century tropical climate model hindcasts and coral delta18O data using a forward proxy system model. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
• Cole, J., Tudhope, S., Ault, T., Barnett, H., & Thompson, D. (2008). A Paleoclimatic Context for Recent ENSO Activity. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
• Thompson, D. M., & Woesik, R. (2007). Return Periods of Anomalous Sea-Surface Temperature Events Inferred From Wavelet Analysis of Thermal Proxy Records in Corals: Implications for Coral Bleaching. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.

Presentations

• Thompson, D. M. (2020, 02). Reconstructing climate from marine biogenic carbonates: an integrated approach for constraining uncertainties and facilitating proxy-model comparisons. Geoscience colloquium.
• Thompson, D. M. (2019, 08). Sediment archives of ENSO variability: new insights and novel proxies. PaleoENSO. Belitung, Indonesia.
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Others

• Thompson, D. M. (2013). Variability and trends in the tropical Pacific and the El Ni\~no-SouthernOscillation inferred from coral and lake archives.
• Thompson, D. M. (2008). Return Periods of Anomalous Sea-surface Temperature Events Inferred from a Meta-analysis of Thermal Proxy Records in Corals: Implications for Bleaching.