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

Climate Change

The Glomar Challenger deep-sea drilling vessel

Research Spotlight 9 hours ago

Late Cretaceous Extreme Warmth at High Southern Latitudes

New proxy data indicate sea surface temperatures at high southern latitudes reached over 35°C during a period of extreme greenhouse climate that began about 100 million years ago.

Biogeosciences

Scientists collect water samples in Antarctica.

Research Spotlight 9 hours ago

Antarctica’s Seasonal Streams Contribute Iron to the Ross Sea

Analysis of nutrient concentrations in four streams that discharge to the Southern Ocean indicates they are important sources of iron and phosphorous for coastal phytoplankton communities.

Climate Change

The Bayside Picnic Area in Queens, New York after Hurricane Sandy in 2012

Research Spotlight 19 April 2019

Meeting User Requirements for Sea Level Rise Information

A new framework based on decision analysis can help scientists produce practical data that support informed decisions about climate adaptations.

Ocean Sciences

Research Spotlight 19 April 2019

Numerical Models Overestimate Near-Inertial Wind Power Input

The first study to estimate the global wind power on internal gravity waves based solely on observations offers a new benchmark for comparing future calculations.

Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface

A flooded neighborhood in San Diego, California.

Research Spotlight 17 April 2019

If Precipitation Extremes Are Increasing, Why Aren’t Floods?

Improving our understanding of the relationship between changes in precipitation and flooding due to rising temperature is a new grand challenge for the scientific community, argue the authors of a recent commentary.

Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Volcanology

Research Spotlight 15 April 2019

How Do Intergranular Particles Affect the Flow of Ice?

Laboratory experiments that indicate rock particles can impede sliding along grain boundaries in ice may help researchers more accurately determine the composition of planetary ice masses.

Climate Change

Nuns pose with a snowman at the Vatican in Rome on 26 February 2018.

Research Spotlight 15 April 2019

Using Multiple Models to Improve Seasonal Forecasting

The first study to examine the ability of a suite of general circulation models to predict sudden warmings in Earth’s stratosphere highlights the potential for improving Northern Hemisphere forecasts.

Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface

The Bas Glacier d’Arolla in Valais, Switzerland

Research Spotlight 12 April 2019

Decadal Changes in Glacial Discharge in the High Alps

A new statistical analysis of daily, glacial runoff cycles offers a unique way of examining how Alpine glaciers have responded since the onset of rapid regional warming in the 1980s.

Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface

Research Spotlight 11 April 2019

Very Warm Water Observed Along West Antarctic Ice Shelf

Two years of mooring observations at the edge of the continental shelf show that wind stress and upwelling control the inflow of some of the warmest water observed at an ice shelf front in Antarctica.

Atmospheric Sciences

Tropical storm brews over Seychelles archipelago

Research Spotlight 10 April 2019

Precipitation in the Tropics: A New View

The first study to simultaneously investigate precipitation and cloud structures in tropical weather systems concludes observation systems significantly overestimate the height of raining clouds.

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Publications from T. Cook

Late Cretaceous Extreme Warmth at High Southern Latitudes

Antarctica’s Seasonal Streams Contribute Iron to the Ross Sea

Meeting User Requirements for Sea Level Rise Information

Numerical Models Overestimate Near-Inertial Wind Power Input

If Precipitation Extremes Are Increasing, Why Aren’t Floods?

How Do Intergranular Particles Affect the Flow of Ice?

Using Multiple Models to Improve Seasonal Forecasting

Decadal Changes in Glacial Discharge in the High Alps

Very Warm Water Observed Along West Antarctic Ice Shelf

Precipitation in the Tropics: A New View

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