Thomas Bauska
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Thomas Bauska
Royal Society Fellow
Biography
- Royal Society University Research Fellow, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK (2019-present)
- Postdoc, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (2015-2018)
- Postdoc, CEOAS, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA (2014-2015)
- Ph.D., Geology with minor in Oceanography, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA (2013)
- B.S., Geophysical Sciences with honors, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA (2007)
Research interests
The overarching goal of my research is to use the climate and carbon cycle variability of the past to inform projections of the future. I reconstruct past changes in the carbon cycle by measuring the concentration and isotopic composition of greenhouse gases trapped in polar ice cores. More recently, I have been working on developing new methods for measuring the isotopes of water in hydrated minerals and fluid inclusions to understand past changes in the hydrological cycle.
2022
Menking, J.A., Shackleton, S.A., Bauska, T.K., Buffen, A.M., Brook, E.J., Barker, S., Severinghaus, J.P., Dyonisius, M.N., Petrenko, V.V. (2022) Multiple carbon cycle mechanisms associated with the glaciation of Marine Isotope Stage 4. Nature Communications 13, 5443. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33166-3
2021
Yu, Z., Joos, F., Bauska, T.K., Stocker, B.D., Fischer, H., Loisel, J., Brovkin, V., Hugelius, G., Nehrbass-Ahles, C., Kleinen, T., Schmitt, J. (2021) No support for carbon storage of >1,000 GtC in northern peatlands. Nature Geoscience. 14,465–467 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00769-2
Bauska, Thomas K. , Marcott, Shaun A., Brook, Edward J. (2021) Abrupt changes in the global carbon cycle during the last glacial period. Nature Geoscience, 14. 91-96. 10.1038/s41561-020-00680-2
2020
Gázquez, Fernando, Bauska, Thomas K. , Comas-Bru, Laia, Ghaleb, Bassam, Calaforra, José-María, Hodell, David A. (2020) The potential of gypsum speleothems for paleoclimatology: application to the Iberian Roman Humid Period. Scientific Reports, 10. 13 pp. 10.1038/s41598-020-71679-3
Dyonisius, M.N., Petrenko, V.V., Smith, A.M., Hua, Q., Yang, B., Schmitt, J., Beck, J., Seth, B., Bock, M., Hmiel, B., Vimont, I., Menking, J.A., Shackleton, S.A., Baggenstos, D., Bauska, T.K., Rhodes, R.H., Sperlich, P., Beaudette, R., Harth, C., Kalk, M., Brook, E.J., Fischer, H., Severinghaus, J.P., Weiss, R.F. (2020) Old carbon reservoirs were not important in the deglacial methane budget. Science. 367, 907. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax0504
Shackleton, S., Baggenstos, D., Menking, J.A., Dyonisius, M.N., Bereiter, B., Bauska, T.K., Rhodes, R.H., Brook, E.J., Petrenko, V.V., McConnell, J.R., Kellerhals, T., Häberli, M., Schmitt, J., Fischer, H., Severinghaus, J.P. (2020) Global ocean heat content in the Last Interglacial. Nature Geoscience. 13, 77–81. doi:10.1038/s41561-019-0498-0
2019
Menking, J.A., Brook, E.J., Shackleton, S.A., Severinghaus, J.P., Dyonisius, M.N., Petrenko, V., McConnell, J.R., Rhodes, R.H., Bauska, T.K., Baggenstos, D., et al. (2019) Spatial pattern of accumulation at Taylor Dome during Marine Isotope Stage 4: stratigraphic constraints from Taylor Glacier. Climate of the Past 15, 1537–1556.
Shackleton, S., Bereiter, B., Baggenstos, D., Bauska, T. K., Brook, E. J., Marcott, S. A., & Severinghaus, J. P. (2019) Is the noble gas‐based rate of ocean warming during the Younger Dryas overestimated? Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 5928-5936. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082971
2018
Evans, N. P., Bauska, T. K., Gázquez-Sánchez, F., Brenner, M., Curtis, J. H., and Hodell, D. A. (2018) Quantification of drought during the collapse of the classic Maya civilization. Science, 361 (6401), 498-501. DOI: 10.1126/science.aas9871
Bauska, T. K., Brook, E. J., Marcott, S. A., Baggenstos, D., Shackleton, S., Severinghaus, J. P., & Petrenko, V. V. (2018) Controls on millennial‐scale atmospheric CO2 variability during the last glacial period. Geophysical Research Letters, 45. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL077881
Gázquez, F., Morellón, M., Bauska, T., Herwartz, D., Surma, J., Moreno, A., Staubwasser, M., Valero-Garcés, B., Delgado-Huertas, A., and Hodell, D.A. (2018) Triple oxygen and hydrogen isotopes of gypsum hydration water for quantitative paleo-humidity reconstruction. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 481, 177-188.
2017
Bauska, T.K., Walters, G., Gázquez, F., Hodell, D.A. (2017) On-line Differential Thermal Isotope Analysis of Hydration Water in Minerals by Cavity Ring-down Laser Spectroscopy. Analytical Chemistry, 2018, 90 (1), 752–759 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b03136
Petrenko, V.V., Smith, A.M., Schaefer, H., Riedel, K., Brook, E., Baggenstos, D., Harth, C., Hua, Q., Buizert, C., Schilt, A., Fain, X., Mitchell, L., Bauska, T.,Orsi, A., Weiss, R.F., Severinghaus, J.P. (2017) Minimal geological methane emissions during the Younger Dryas–Preboreal abrupt warming event. Nature 548, 443–446.
Baggenstos, D., Bauska, T.K., Severinghaus, J.P., Lee, J.E., Schaefer, H., Buizert, C., Brook, E.J., Shackleton, S., and Petrenko, V.V. (2017) Atmospheric gas records from Taylor Glacier, Antarctica, reveal ancient ice with ages spanning the entire last glacial cycle. Climate of the Past 13, 943–958.
2016
Bauska, T.K., Baggenstos, D., Brook, E.J., Mix, A.C., Marcott, S.A., Petrenko, V.V., Schaefer, H., Severinghaus, J.P., and Lee, J.E. (2016) Carbon isotopes characterize rapid changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide during the last deglaciation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1513868113
Petrenko, V.V., Severinghaus, J.P., Schaefer, H., Smith, A.M., Kuhl, T., Baggenstos, D., Hua, Q., Brook, E.J., Rose, P., Kulin, R., Bauska, T.K., et al. (2016) Measurements of 14C in ancient ice from Taylor Glacier, Antarctica constrain in situ cosmogenic 14CH4 and14CO production rates. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 177, 62-77.
2015
WAIS Divide Project Members (lead author: Christo Buizert) (2015) Precise interpolar phasing of abrupt climate change during the last ice age. Nature,520, 661–665.
Bauska, T.K., Joos, F., Mix, A.C., Roth, R., Ahn, J., and Brook, E.J. (2015) Links between atmospheric carbon dioxide, the land carbon reservoir and climate over the past millennium. Nature Geoscience, 8, 383–387.
2014
Schilt, A., Brook, E.J., Bauska, T.K., Baggenstos, D., Fischer, H., Joos, F., Petrenko, V.V., Schaefer, H., Schmitt, J., Severinghaus, J.P., et al. (2014) Isotopic constraints on marine and terrestrial N2O emissions during the last deglaciation. Nature, 516, 234–237.
Marcott, S.A., Bauska, T.K., Buizert, C., Steig, E.J., Rosen, J.L., Cuffey, K.M., Fudge, T., Severinghaus, J.P., Ahn, J., Kalk, M.L., et al. (2014) Centennial-scale changes in the global carbon cycle during the last deglaciation. Nature, 514, 616–619
Bauska, T.K., Brook, E., Mix, A., and Ross, A. (2014) High-precision dual-inlet IRMS measurements of the stable isotopes of CO2 and the N2O / CO2 ratio from polar ice core samples. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 7, 3825–3837.
Publications from NERC Open Research Archive
2024
King, Amy C.F. ORCID record for Amy C.F. King, Bauska, Thomas K. ORCID record for Thomas K. Bauska, Brook, Edward J., Kalk, Mike, Nehrbass-Ahles, Christoph, Wolff, Eric W., Strawson, Ivo, Rhodes, Rachael H., Osman, Matthew B.. (2024) Reconciling ice core CO2 and land use change following New World-Old World contact. Nature Communications, 15. 9 pp. 10.1038/s41467-024-45894-9
Grieman, Mackenzie M., Nehrbass-Ahles, Christoph, Hoffmann, Helene M., Bauska, Thomas K. ORCID record for Thomas K. Bauska, King, Amy C.F. ORCID record for Amy C.F. King, Mulvaney, Robert ORCID record for Robert Mulvaney, Rhodes, Rachael H., Rowell, Isobel F., Thomas, Elizabeth R. ORCID record for Elizabeth R. Thomas, Wolff, Eric W.. (2024) Abrupt Holocene ice loss due to thinning and ungrounding in the Weddell Sea Embayment. Nature Geoscience. 9 pp. 10.1038/s41561-024-01375-8
2022
Menking, James A., Shackleton, Sarah A., Bauska, Thomas K. ORCID record for Thomas K. Bauska, Buffen, Aron M., Brook, Edward J., Barker, Stephen, Severinghaus, Jeffrey P., Dyonisius, Michael N., Petrenko, Vasilii V.. (2022) Multiple carbon cycle mechanisms associated with the glaciation of Marine Isotope Stage 4. Nature Communications, 13. 10 pp. 10.1038/s41467-022-33166-3
2021
Yu, Z., Joos, F., Bauska, T.K. ORCID record for T.K. Bauska, Stocker, B.D., Fischer, H., Loisel, J., Brovkin, V., Hugelius, G., Nehrbass-Ahles, C., Kleinen, T., Schmitt, J.. (2021) No support for carbon storage of > 1,000 GtC in northern peatlands.. Nature Geoscience, 14. 4 pp. 10.1038/s41561-021-00769-2
Bauska, Thomas K. ORCID record for Thomas K. Bauska, Marcott, Shaun A., Brook, Edward J.. (2021) Abrupt changes in the global carbon cycle during the last glacial period. Nature Geoscience, 14. 18 pp. 10.1038/s41561-020-00680-2
2020
Gázquez, Fernando, Bauska, Thomas K. ORCID record for Thomas K. Bauska, Comas-Bru, Laia, Ghaleb, Bassam, Calaforra, José-María, Hodell, David A.. (2020) The potential of gypsum speleothems for paleoclimatology: application to the Iberian Roman Human Period.. Scientific Reports, 10. 13 pp. 10.1038/s41598-020-71679-3
Dyonisius, M.N., Petrenko, V.V., Smith, A.M., Hua, Q., Yang, B., Schmitt, J., Beck, J., Seth, B., Bock, M., Hmiel, B., Vimont, I., Menking, J.A., Shackleton, S.A., Baggenstos, D., Bauska, T.K. ORCID record for T.K. Bauska, Rhodes, R.H., Sperlich, P., Beaudette, R., Harth, C., Kalk, M., Brook, E.J., Fischer, H., Severinghaus, J.P., Weiss, R.F.. (2020) Old carbon reservoirs were not important in the deglacial methane budget. Science, 367. 907-910. 10.1126/science.aax0504
Shackleton, S., Baggenstos, D., Menking, J.A., Dyonisius, M.N., Bereiter, B., Bauska, T.K. ORCID record for T.K. Bauska, Rhodes, R.H., Brook, E.J., Petrenko, V.V., McConnell, J.R., Kellerhals, T., Häberli, M., Schmitt, J., Fischer, H., Severinghaus, J.P.. (2020) Global ocean heat content in the Last Interglacial. Nature Geoscience, 13. 77-81. 10.1038/s41561-019-0498-0
2019
Menking, James A., Brook, Edward J., Shackleton, Sarah A., Severinghaus, Jeffrey P., Dyonisius, Michael N., Petrenko, Vasilii, McConnell, Joseph R., Rhodes, Rachael H., Bauska, Thomas K. ORCID record for Thomas K. Bauska, Baggenstos, Daniel, Marcott, Shaun, Barker, Stephen. (2019) Spatial pattern of accumulation at Taylor Dome during Marine Isotope Stage 4: stratigraphic constraints from Taylor Glacier. Climate of the Past, 15. 1537-1556. 10.5194/cp-15-1537-2019
Royal Society University Research Fellowship (2018-2023): Probing the deepest ice cores for new modes of carbon cycle variability with a novel, ultra-high-resolution CO2 method
Royal Society Research Fellows’ Enhancement Award (2018-2021): Augmenting ice core records with continuous histories of CO2, CH4 and N2O
NERC Capital Grant (2019-2020) – UK Relic Air Extraction and Gas Analysis System (UK RArE-GAS)
2024
Ice on show at Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition
Event 2 July, 2024
Antarctic ice explains dip in CO2 levels
News 5 March, 2024
2021
Ice Core Gas Lab
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2015
Ice core aquisition and analysis
Facility