Peer-Reviewed Publications
1Mentored grad student
1Dendy, S.N., Guenthner, W.R., Grimley, D.A., Conroy, J.L., Counts, R.C. Detrital zircon geochronology and provenance of Pleistocene loess and contributing glacial sources, Midcontinental USA, Quaternary Science Reviews, in review
1Wyman, 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, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021PA004311
1Chen, M., Conroy, J.L., Sanford, R.S., Chee-Sanford, J.C., Connor, L.M. 2021. Interpreting lacustrine bulk sediment d15N values using metagenomics in a tropical hypersaline lake system, Journal of Paleolimology, 65(1): 151-168.
1Wyman, D.A., Conroy, J.L., and Karamperidou C. 2020. The tropical Pacific ENSO-mean state relationship in climate models over the last millennium. Journal of Climate, 33(17):7539-7551 https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0673.1
Grimley, D.A., Counts, R., Conroy, J.L., Wang, H., 1Dendy, S.N., 1Nield, C. 2020. Last glacial maximum ecology and climate from terrestrial gastropod assemblages in Peoria loess, western Kentucky, Journal of Quaternary Science https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3206
Konecky, B.L., McKay, N.P., Churakova (Sidorova), O.V., Comas-Bru, L., Dassié, E.P., DeLong, K.L., Falster, G.M., Fischer, M.J., Jones, M.D., Jonkers, L., Kaufman, D.S., Leduc, G., Managave, S.R., Martrat, B., Opel, T., Orsi, A. J., Partin, J.W., Sayani, H.R., Thomas, E.K., Thompson, D.M., Tyler, J.J., Abram, N.J., Atwood, A.R., Conroy, J.L., Kern, Z., Porter, T.J., Stevenson, S.L., von Gunten, L., and the Iso2k Project Members. 2020. The Iso2k Database: A global compilation of paleo-δ18O and δ2H records to aid understanding of Common Era climate, Earth System Science Data, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2020-5
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., Townsend, K., Hagos, M., O’Conner, G., Thompson, D.M., Toth, L.T., Conroy, J.L., and Moore, A.L. 2019. Enhanced central Pacific El Niño-Southern Oscillation in recent decades. Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2019GL083906
Conroy, J.L., Karamperidou, C., Grimley, D.A., and Guenthner, W.R. 2019. Westerly winds across eastern and mid-continental North America during the Last Glacial Maximum: A new data-model assessment, Quaternary Science Reviews, 220:14-29.
1Schmitt, S.J., Conroy, J.L., Flynn, T., Sanford, R., 1Higley, M.C., and Fouke, B.W. 2019. Salinity, microbe, and carbonate mineral relationships in brackish to hypersaline lake sediments: a case study from the tropical Pacific coral atoll of Kiritimati. The Depositional Record, doi: 10.1002/dep2.71
1Higley, M.C., and Conroy, J.L. 2019. The hydrological response of surface water on Kiritimati Island, Kiribati to recent climate variability. Hydrological Processes, doi: 10.1002/hyp.13465
Curry, B.B., 1Bruegger, A.R., Conroy, J.L. 2018. High stands and overflow history of glacial Lake Chicago and downstream impacts on Gulf of Mexico d18O values. Geology, https://doi.org/10.1130/G40170.1
Schaetzl R.J., Bettis, E.A., Crouvi, O., Fitzsimmons, K.E., Grimley, D.A., Hambach, U., Lehmkuhl, F., Marković, S.B., Mason, J.A., Owczarek, P., Roberts, H.M., Rousseau, D.-D., Stevens, T., Vandenberghe, J., Zárate, M., Veres D., Yang, S., Zech, M., Conroy, J.L., Dave, A.K., Faust, D., Hao, Q., Obreht, I., Prud’homme, C., Smalley, I., Tripaldi, A., Zeeden, C., Zech, R. 2018. Approaches and challenges to the study of loess—Introduction to the LoessFest Special Issue. Quaternary Research, 89, 563-618. doi:10.1017/qua.2018.15
1Higley, M.C., Conroy, J.L., 1Schmitt, S. 2018. Last millennium hydroclimate shifts in the central tropical Pacific. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, doi: 10.1002/2017PA003233
1Martin, N.J., Conroy, J.L, Noone, D., Cobb, K.M., Konecky, B., and Rea, S. 2018. Seasonal and ENSO Influences on the Stable Isotopic Composition of Galápagos Precipitation. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, doi:1002/2017JD027380
1Nash, T.A., Conroy, J.L., Grimley, D.A., Guenthner, W.R., Curry, B.B. 2018. Episodic deposition of Illinois Valley Peoria Silt in association with Lake Michigan Lobe fluctuations during the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary Research, doi:10.1017/qua.2017.66
Thompson, D.M., Conroy, J.L., Collins, A., Hlohowskyj, S., Overpeck, J.T., Riedinger-Whitmore, M., Cole, J.E., Bush, M.B., Whitney, H., Corley, T.L., Steinitz-Kannan, M. 2017. Tropical Pacific climate variability over the last 6000 years revealed from Bainbridge Crater Lake, Galápagos. Paleoceanography doi:10.1002/2017PA003089
Conroy, J.L., Thompson, D.M., Cobb, K.M., Noone, D., and Rea, S. 2017. Spatiotemporal variability in the salinity-oxygen isotope relationship of seawater across the tropical Pacific Ocean. Paleoceanography. doi:
Conroy, J.L., Hudson, A.M., Overpeck, J.T., Liu, K.-B., Wang, L., and Cole, J.E. 2017. The primacy of multidecadal to centennial variability over late-Holocene forced change of the Asian Monsoon on the southern Tibetan Plateau. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. doi: 1016/j.epsl.2016.10.044
Karamperidou, C., Jin, F.F., and Conroy, J.L. 2017. The importance of ENSO nonlinearities in tropical Pacific response to external forcing. Climate Dynamics, doi: 10.1007/s00382-016-3475-y
Conroy, J.L., Noone, D., Cobb, K. M., Moerman, J.W., and Konecky, B.L. 2016. Paired
stable isotopologues in precipitation and vapor: A case study within western
tropical Pacific storms. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres. doi:10.1002/2015JD023844
Conroy, J.L., Collins, A., Overpeck, J.T., Bush, M.B., Cole, J.E., and Anderson, D.J.
2015. A 400-year isotopic record of seabird response to eastern tropical Pacific
productivity. Geo: Geography and Environment. doi: 10.1002/geo2.11.
Conroy, J.L., Thompson, D.M., Collins, A., Overpeck, J.T., Cole, J.E., and Bush, M.B. 2014. Climate influences on water and sediment properties of Genovesa Crater Lake, Galápagos. Journal of Paleolimnology. doi:10.1007/s10933-014-9797-z
Conroy, J.L., Cobb, K.M., Lynch-Stieglitz, J., and Polissar, P.J. 2014. Constraints on the salinity-oxygen isotope relationship in the central tropical Pacific Ocean. Marine Chemistry. 161C pp. 26-33 doi:10.1016/j.marchem.2014.02.001
Conroy 2014 Marine Chemistry Data
Abraham, J.P., Baringer, M., Bindoff, N., Boyer, T., Cheng, L.J., Church, J.A., Conroy, J.L, Domingues, C.M., Fasullo, J.T., Gilson, J., Goni, G., Good, S., Gorman, J.M., Gouretski, V., Isjii, M., Johnson, G.C., Kizu, S., Lyman, J.M., MacDonald A., W.J. Minkowycz, Moffitt, S.E., Palmer, M., Piola, A., Reseghetti, F., Trenberth, K.E., Velicogna, I., Wijffels, S.E., Willis, J. 2013. A review of global ocean heat content observations: Implications for climate change. Review of Geophysics. doi:10.1002/rog.20022
Carolin, S., Cobb, K.M., Adkins, J.F., Clark, B. Conroy, J.L., Lejau, S., Malang, J. and Tuen, A.A. 2013. Varied response of western tropical Pacific hydrology to abrupt climate changes. Science. 340(6140):1564-1566
Conroy, J.L., Cobb, K.M., and D. Noone. 2013. Precipitation isotope variability across the tropical Pacific in the SWING2 model simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres. doi:10.1002/jgrd.50412
Conroy, J.L., Overpeck, J.T., Cole, J.E., Liu, K.-B., Wang, L., and Ducea, M.N. 2013. Dust and temperature influences on glaciofluvial sediment deposition in southwestern Tibet during the last millennium. Global and Planetary Change. doi:10.1016/ j.gloplacha.2013.04.009
Restrepo, A., Colinvaux, P., Bush, M., Correa-Metrio A., Conroy, J., Gardner, M.R., Jaramillo, P., Steinitz-Kannan, M., and Overpeck, J.T. 2012. Impacts of climate variability and human colonization on the vegetation of the Galápagos Islands. Ecology 93(8):1853-1866.
Conroy, J.L., and Overpeck, J.T. 2011. Regionalization of present-day precipitation across the greater monsoon region of Asia. Journal of Climate doi:10.1175/2011JCLI4033.1.
ConroyOverpeck2011_CMAP_regions
Conroy, J.L., Overpeck, J.T., and J.E. Cole. 2010. El Niño/Southern Oscillation and changes in the zonal gradient of tropical Pacific sea surface temperature over the last 1200 years. PAGES News 18(1):32-34.
Bush, M.B., Colinvaux, P.A., Steinitz-Kannan, M., Overpeck, J.T., Sachs, J., Cole, J.E., Collins, A., Conroy, J.L, Restrepo, A., and Zhang, Z. 2010. Forty years of paleoecology in the Galápagos. Galápagos Research. pg. 55-61.
Conroy, J.L., Overpeck, J.T., Cole, J.E., and Steinitz-Kannan, M. 2009. Variable oceanic influences on western North American drought over the last 1200 years. Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2009GL039558.
Conroy, J.L., Restrepo, A., Overpeck, J.T., Steinitz-Kannan, M., Cole, J.E., Bush, M.B., and Colinvaux, P.A. 2009. Unprecedented recent warming of surface temperatures in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. Nature Geoscience 2(1):46-50.
Conroy, J.L., Overpeck, J.T., Cole, J.E., Shanahan, T.M., and Steinitz-Kannan, M. 2008. Holocene changes in eastern tropical Pacific climate inferred from a Galápagos lake sediment record. Quaternary Science Reviews. 27(11-12): 1166-1180.
Neff, J.C., Ballantyne, A.P., Farmer, G.L., Mahowald, N.M., Conroy, J.L., Landry, C.C., Overpeck, J.T., Painter, T.H., Lawrence, C.R., Reynolds, R. 2008. Recent increases in eolian dust deposition due to human activity in the western United States. Nature Geoscience 1(3): 189-195.