Contact Information
Research Interests
Paleoclimate, climate change, paleolimnology, loess, stable isotope geochemistry, tropical Pacific climate variability.
Please see the Conroy Lab website for more details!
Education
- Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2011
Courses Taught
- GEOL 100: Planet Earth
- GEOL 484/IB 484: Paleoclimatology
- GEOL 593: Paleolimnology
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Plant Biology
Recent Publications
Chen, M., Conroy, J. L., Sanford, R. A., Chee-Sanford, J. C., & Connor, L. M. (2021). Interpreting lacustrine bulk sediment δ15N values using metagenomics in a tropical hypersaline lake system. Journal of Paleolimnology, 65(1), 151-168. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-020-00157-7
Dendy, S. N., Guenthner, W. R., Grimley, D. A., Conroy, J. L., & Counts, R. C. (2021). Detrital zircon geochronology and provenance of Pleistocene loess and contributing glacial sources, midcontinental USA. Quaternary Science Reviews, 273, [107201]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107201
Wyman, D. A., Conroy, J. L., Osburn, M. R., & Atwood, A. R. (2021). Coeval Drying Across the Central Tropical Pacific Over the Last Millennium. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 36(7), [e2021PA004311]. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021PA004311
Grimley, D. A., Counts, R. C., Conroy, J. L., Wang, H., Dendy, S. N., & Nield, C. B. (2020). Last glacial maximum ecology and climate from terrestrial gastropod assemblages in Peoria loess, western Kentucky. Journal of Quaternary Science, 35(5), 650-663. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3206
Grothe, P. R., Cobb, K. M., Liguori, G., Di Lorenzo, E., Capotondi, A., Lu, Y., Cheng, H., Edwards, R. L., Southon, J. R., Santos, G. M., Deocampo, D. M., Lynch-Stieglitz, J., Chen, T., Sayani, H. R., Thompson, D. M., Conroy, J. L., Moore, A. L., Townsend, K., Hagos, M., ... Toth, L. T. (2020). Enhanced El Niño–Southern Oscillation Variability in Recent Decades. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(7), [e2019GL083906]. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL083906
