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Terri Cook

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.

Nuns pose with a snowman at the Vatican in Rome on 26 February 2018.
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Using Multiple Models to Improve Seasonal Forecasting

by Terri Cook 15 April 201929 March 2022

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.

The Bas Glacier d’Arolla in Valais, Switzerland
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Decadal Changes in Glacial Discharge in the High Alps

by Terri Cook 12 April 20199 February 2023

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.

The Getz Ice Shelf in Antarctica
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Very Warm Water Observed Along West Antarctic Ice Shelf

by Terri Cook 11 April 201911 January 2022

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.

Tropical storm brews over Seychelles archipelago
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Precipitation in the Tropics: A New View

by Terri Cook 10 April 201913 February 2023

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

A satellite view of the Río de la Plata’s plume
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Unraveling the Origins of a Record-Setting Marine Heat Wave

by Terri Cook 8 April 201916 December 2021

The extreme heat wave in the southwestern Atlantic in 2017 was likely caused by upper atmosphere circulation patterns triggered by the Madden-Julian Oscillation tropical weather cycle.

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Subglacial Water Can Accelerate East Antarctic Glacier Flow

by Terri Cook 3 April 201928 July 2022

Airborne radar from the Recovery Glacier system demonstrates the importance of characterizing the underlying causes of ice flow speedup to understand how glacial discharge could change in the future.

Pacific waves crash against a seawall in La Jolla, Calif.
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Ocean Warming Resumes in the Tropical Pacific

by Terri Cook 1 April 20193 February 2023

The discovery of a decadal El Niño–like state associated with shifts in the Pacific trade winds could have important implications for predicting sea level in future decades.

Children help salvage and remove debris after the 2015 earthquake in Nepal
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How Do Main Shocks Affect Subsequent Earthquakes?

by Terri Cook 29 March 20192 December 2022

The results of a novel analysis of aftershock size distribution have important implications for more realistically assessing the seismic hazard of earthquake sequences.

Charred trees in the aftermath of a fire in Mali
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A 192,000-Year Record of Northwest African Fire History

by Terri Cook 19 March 20197 October 2021

Biomarker analyses from an offshore sediment core suggest that increased fire occurrence around 55,000 years ago coincided with increased fuel loads and human settlement in this region.

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Resolving a Cordilleran Conundrum

by Terri Cook 15 March 201927 October 2021

A novel geophysical technique documents the existence of a “missing” fault, along which major displacement could have occurred during the Cretaceous on North America’s northwest margin.

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