Author Profile: T Cook

Terri Cook

Biography

Terri Cook is an award-winning freelance writer whose career has focused on exploring and explaining the 4.5-billion-year-history of the remarkable planet we live on. Cook, who has an M.S. degree in Earth science from the University of California, Santa Cruz, writes about geology, ecology, and the environment—as well as wine, tea, hiking, and biking—for a diverse group of publications, including Eos, Scientific American, NOVA Next, Science News, and EARTH magazine, as well as Avalon Travel and numerous other travel-related publications. Her reporting has taken her to 25 states and 20 countries scattered across 5 continents, from the depths of the Grand Canyon to the sandy Australian Outback to the mist-shrouded summit of Bali’s Mount Batur. As the coauthor of three popular guidebooks, including Hiking the Grand Canyon’s Geology and Geology Underfoot Along Colorado’s Front Range, Cook gives frequent presentations about geology and science communication. She is the recipient of a 2016 European Geosciences Union Science Journalism Fellowship and is based in beautiful Boulder, Colo.

Publications from T. Cook

Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface

Research Spotlight 13 August 2020

Lake Ice—and Ecosystems—in a Warming World

Extending ice records and standardizing sampling protocols are among recommendations to help researchers better predict how changing ice cover will affect aquatic ecosystems.

Biogeosciences

A view of corals just below the ocean surface off American Samoa

Research Spotlight 24 July 2020

Corals Make Reliable Recorders of El Niño Fluctuations

A new tool that reconciles modeling and paleoclimate data builds confidence that tropical Pacific corals reliably archive natural variability in the El Niño–Southern Oscillation climate pattern.

Ocean Sciences

Diagrams of modeled plastic particle concentrations in the ocean after 10 simulated years, starting from an initial uniform distribution over the entire globe

Research Spotlight 26 September 2019

How Are Microplastics Transported to Polar Regions?

New modeling indicates that global subsurface ocean currents distribute submerged microplastics along very different routes than those traveled by floating plastic debris.

Geology & Geophysics

Satellite view of the Salton Sea and surroundings in California

Research Spotlight 23 September 2019

Distant Quake Triggered Slow Slip on Southern San Andreas

A high-resolution map of surface displacements indicates that the 2017 Chiapas earthquake caused substantial creep along a segment of the San Andreas Fault, located 3,000 kilometers away.

Geology & Geophysics

Diagram showing the subduction of the Ionian tectonic plate beneath the Tyrrhenian plate off the coast of Italy

Research Spotlight 11 September 2019

New Volcanic Complex Found Below the Southern Tyrrhenian Sea

Researchers have identified a previously unknown volcanic-intrusive complex that originated through the melting of mantle material at the northern edge of the Ionian slab.

Climate Change

A view from orbit of part of Earth’s surface

Research Spotlight 13 August 2019

Past Climate Sensitivity Not Always Key to the Future

New research suggests that changes in continental configuration, solar brightness, and background atmospheric carbon dioxide levels all conspire to drive Earth’s climate sensitivity over geologic time.

Climate Change

Diagram showing the locations and deploying countries of more than 1,400 sea surface temperature-measuring ocean drifters

Research Spotlight 31 July 2019

Updating a Crucial Source of Sea Surface Temperature Data

A new version of a major sea surface temperature data set reduces systematic errors in measurements of one of the most important indicators of the state of Earth’s climate system.

Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface

An illustration showing microscopic colloidal particles adhered to sand grains in an aquifer from which groundwater is being pumped to the surface via a well.

Research Spotlight 25 July 2019

Treating Colloids as Clusters Better Predicts Their Behavior

New research suggests that an accurate prediction of colloidal particle mobilization in the environment should account for the effect of clustering.

Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface

Lupines bloom in Illilouette Creek Basin in Yosemite National Park.

Research Spotlight 22 July 2019

Restoring Natural Fire Regimes Can Yield More Water Downstream

Research in Yosemite National Park offers a new benchmark for understanding water balance changes in a mountainous basin 4 decades after its natural wildfire regime was reestablished.

Geology & Geophysics

The International Ocean Discovery Program’s JOIDES Resolution sits in port in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, at the end of IODP Expedition 318 in 2010.

Research Spotlight 15 July 2019

An Integrated History of the Australian-Antarctic Basin

The first basin-wide compilation of seismic and geologic data shows that both margins experienced similar sedimentation patterns prior to the onset of Antarctic glaciation.

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Publications from T. Cook

Lake Ice—and Ecosystems—in a Warming World

Corals Make Reliable Recorders of El Niño Fluctuations

How Are Microplastics Transported to Polar Regions?

Distant Quake Triggered Slow Slip on Southern San Andreas

New Volcanic Complex Found Below the Southern Tyrrhenian Sea

Past Climate Sensitivity Not Always Key to the Future

Updating a Crucial Source of Sea Surface Temperature Data

Treating Colloids as Clusters Better Predicts Their Behavior

Restoring Natural Fire Regimes Can Yield More Water Downstream

An Integrated History of the Australian-Antarctic Basin

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