Contact Information: Department of Geoscience
                                    University of Iowa                     Phone: (573) 884-9614
                                    121 Trowbridge Hall                 FAX: (573) 882-5458
                                    Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1379   Email: jeffrey-dorale@uiowa.edu

Education
Ph.D. 2001  Geology major, Quaternary Paleoecology minor, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
M.S. 1992   Geology, University of Iowa, Iowa City
B.S. 1988    Geology, University of Iowa, Iowa City

Positions
09/03 to present   Assistant Professor and Director of the Paul H. Nelson Stable Isotope Laboratory,                             University of Iowa
08/01 to 08/03     Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-Columbia
02/01 to 08/01     Post-doctoral associate, University of Minnesota
1994 to 2000       Teaching/Research Assistant, University of Minnesota
1991 to 1994       Hydrogeologist, Terra Clean, Inc., Des Moines, Iowa
1988 to 1991       Teaching/Research Assistant, University of Iowa

Research Interests
Paleoclimatology and paleoecology, global change. The use of isotopic and elemental tracers and chronometers to reconstruct past environmental conditions.

Advisors
Ph.D. Advisor: R. Lawrence Edwards
M.S. Advisors: Luis A. González & Mark K. Reagan

Honors & Awards

• Recipient of DISCCRS (Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Climate Change Research) award, competitive, 2003.
  
• Outstanding Student Paper Award in Ocean Sciences, AGU 2000 Meeting.
  
• H.E. Wright, Jr. Footsteps Award, 1998 (Awarded annually to one meritorious graduate student within the Dept. of Geology & Geophysics, U of Minnesota).

Research Grants
Collaborative Research: The ocean-atmosphere carbon cycle and climate change: Constraints from radiocarbon and climate history. National Science Foundation (OCE 0223344). 10/02-09/05. $150,002. P.I.

Recent Invited Talks

• Luther College (Decorah, IA) on October 3, 2003.
• University of Missouri-Kansas City on February 25, 2003.
• University of Missouri-Rolla on September 25, 2002.
• University of Iowa on September 13, 2002.
• Illinois State Museum on March 20, 2002.
• Trinity College (Hartford, CT) on March 1, 2002.
• Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory on October 12, 2001.

Publications

Dorale, J.A., Edwards, R.L., Alexander, C.A., Jr., Shen, Chaun-Chou, Richards, D.A., and Cheng, Hai, in press. Uranium-series dating of speleothems: Current techniques, limits & applications. In: Sasowsky, I.D. and Mylroie, J.E. (eds.), Studies of Cave Sediments: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, NY.

Richards, D.A. and Dorale, J.A., 2003. Uranium-series chronology and environmental applications of speleothems. In: Bourdon, B., Henderson, G.M., Lundstrom, C.C., and Turner, S.P. (eds.), Uranium-Series Geochemistry, Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry, Volume 52, 407-450.

Dorale, J.A., Edwards, R.L., and Onac, B.P., 2002. Stable isotopes as environmental indicators in speleothems. In: Yuan, D.-X. (ed.), Karst Processes and the Carbon Cycle, 107-120. Geological Publishing House, Beijing, China.

Shen, C.C., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H., Dorale, J.A., Thomas, R.B., Moran, S.B., Weinstein, S.E., and Hirschmann, M., 2002. Uranium and thorium isotopic and concentration measurements by magnetic sector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Chemical Geology 185, 165-178.

Wang, Y.G., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., An, Z.S., Wu, J.Y., Shen, C.-C., and Dorale, J.A., 2001. A high-resolution absolute-dated late Pleistocene monsoon record from Hulu Cave, China. Science 294, 2345-2348.

Dorale, J.A., Edwards, R.L., González, L., and Ito, E., 1998. Climate and vegetation history of the midcontinent from 75 to 25 ka: A speleothem record from Crevice Cave, Missouri, USA. Science 282, 1871-1874.

Baker, R.G., González, L.A., Raymo, M., Bettis, E.A. III, Reagan, M.K., and Dorale, J.A., 1998. Comparison of multiple proxy records of Holocene environments in the midwestern United States. Geology 26 (12), 1131-1134.

Dorale, J.A., González, L.A., Reagan, M.K., Picket, D.A., Murrell, M.T., and Baker, R.G., 1992. A high-resolution record of Holocene climate change in speleothem calcite from Cold Water Cave, Northeast Iowa. Science 258, 1626-1630.

Selected Abstracts

Oster, J.L., Dorale, J.A., Ray, S., Wang, X., and Edwards, R.L., 2002. Strontium and magnesium variations in a speleothem from Crevice Cave, Missouri: Potential for seasonal scale paleoclimate reconstruction. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 34, No. 6, p. 199; Denver National Meeting.

Curry, B.B., Dorale, J.A., and Henson, R.A., 2002. Function-fitting vegetation proxy record profiles of the Sangamon and Wisconsin episodes from Missouri and Illinois. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 34, No. 6, p. 299; Denver National Meeting.

Alexander, E.C., Jr., Dorale, J.A., Shade, B.L., Edwards, R.L., Lively, R.S., Worthington, S.R.H., Serefiddin, F., and Ford, D.C., 2001. A major revision of U/Th speleothem dates from Cold Water Cave, Iowa. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 33, No. 6, p. A-71; Boston National Meeting.

Dorale, J.A., Wang, Y., Cheng, H, and Edwards, R.L., 2000. Correlation of stalagmite ?18O records from Missouri and China with the Greenland ice cores. American Geophysical Union Abstracts with Programs; 2000 Fall Meeting.

Curry, B.B., Dorale, J.A., and Edwards, R.L., 2000. Correlation of a 100,000 year speleothem record with records of hydrology and vegetation from the North American Midcontinent. American Geophysical Union Abstracts with Programs; 2000 Fall Meeting.

Edwards, R.L., Dorale, J.A., Cheng, H., and Shen, C.C., 2000. Uranium-thorium and uranium-protactinium dating. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs; 2000 Annual Meeting, Reno, Nevada.

Dorale, J.A. and Edwards, R.L., 1999. A 130,000 year paleoclimatic record from speleothems from the North American Midcontinent. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 31, no. 7, p. A153; 1999 Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado.

Dorale, J.A., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., and Richards, D.A., 1999. Uranium-series dating of speleothems: Current techniques, limits, and applications. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 31, no. 7, p. A89; 1999 Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado.

Dorale, J.A., Edwards, R.L., and Ito, E., 1998. Midcontinental vegetation changes during substage 5e: A speleothem record from Crevice Cave, Missouri. American Geophysical Union Abstracts with Programs, v. 79, no. 45, p. F930; 1998 Fall Meeting.

Dorale, J.A., Edwards, R.L., Ito, E., and González, L.A., 1998. A speleothem record of midcontinental climate and vegetation change during marine oxygen isotope stages 3 and 4. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 30, no. 7, p. A260; 1998 Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario.