Jennifer is interested in how plants respond to and affect climate. Her current research involves using an Earth system model to explore how climate, vegetation, and hydrology change under different atmospheric CO2 levels, orbital configurations, and vegetation feedbacks. This work could help us understand hothouse climates of the past as well as that predicted for the future under anthropogenic climate change.

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Selected Publications

Kowalczyk J. B., Royer D. L., Miller I. M., Anderson C. W., Beerling D. J., Franks P. J., Grein M., Konrad W., Roth‐Nebelsick A., Bowring S. A., & Johnson K. R. Multiple proxy estimates of atmospheric CO2 from an early Paleocene rainforest. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 33,1427-38 (2018). link

Royer, D. L., Donnadieu, Y., Park, J., Kowalczyk, J. B., & Godderis, Y. Error analysis of CO2 and O2 estimates from the long-term geochemical model GEOCARBSULF. American Journal of Science, 314, 1259-1283 (2014). link