James M. Russell

Russell received a B.A. in Earth and Environmental Science from Wesleyan University in 1998.{{Cite web|url=https://vivo.brown.edu/docs/j/jarussel_cv.pdf?dt=505010101|title=James M. Russell CV|website=Researchers at Brown|language=en|access-date=2020-07-17}} Russell then worked as a Junior Scientist at the Limnological Research Center at the University of Minnesota for one year before beginning his Ph.D. in ecology at the University of Minnesota. Russell's doctoral advisor was {{Interlanguage link|Thomas C. Johnson|lt=|||qid=Q64014687}}.{{Cite web|url=https://www.d.umn.edu/~tcj/TCJcv.pdf|title=Thomas C. Johnson CV|website=University of Minnesota Duluth|language=en|access-date=2020-07-17}} Russell's dissertation in 2004 was titled The Holocene Paleolimnology and Paleoclimatology of Lake Edward, Uganda-Congo.{{Cite web|url=https://cbs.umn.edu/academics/departments/eeb/graduate/alumni-directory#RussellJames|title=Graduate student alumni directory|website=University of Minnesota,College of Biological Sciences|language=en|access-date=2020-07-17|archive-date=2020-07-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200724180331/https://cbs.umn.edu/academics/departments/eeb/graduate/alumni-directory#RussellJames|url-status=dead}}

Russell is a paleoclimatologist and climatologist.{{Cite web|title=James M. Russell|url=https://vivo.brown.edu/display/jarussel|access-date=2020-07-17|website=Researchers at Brown|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|title=James Russell|url=https://www.brown.edu/academics/institute-environment-society/people/details/james-russell|access-date=2020-07-17|website=Institute at Brown for Environment and Society|language=en}} After graduating from the University of Minnesota, Russell joined the Large Lakes Observatory at the University of Minnesota Duluth. In 2006, Russell joined the faculty of Brown University, where he was awarded tenure and the Royce Family Professorship of Teaching Excellence, in recognition of his teaching ability in 2018. He was awarded the AGU Willi Dansgaard Award in 2020.{{Cite web |title=AGU - American Geophysical Union |url=https://www.agu.org/honors/dansgaard/past-recipients |access-date=2024-02-12 |website=www.agu.org}}

Russell's primary fields are paleoclimatology, paleolimnology, and paleoecology. He is particularly well known for his work reconstructing climates from Tropical lake sediments.{{Cite web|url=https://news.brown.edu/articles/2015/05/towuti|title= Project seeks climate clues deep in Indonesian lakebed|website=News from Brown|language=en|access-date=2020-07-17}}

According to Scopus, he has published 113 research articles so far with 37366 citations and has an H-index of 32.{{Cite web|title=Scopus preview - Scopus - Author details (Russell, James M.)|url=https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57203364777|access-date=2020-07-24|website=www.scopus.com}}

• 2017-2020: Associate Editor for Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2020-07-24|title=James Russell|url=https://vivo.brown.edu/docs/j/jarussel_cv.pdf?dt=505010101|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}}
• 2016–present: Editorial board member for Quaternary International.

• 2008-2011: Joukowsky Family Assistant Professorship in Geological Sciences.
• 2013–present: Chairman of the Board of Directors, Drilling, Observation, and Sampling of the Earth's Continental Crust (DOSECC).

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• Jacquelyn Gill (2012-2013)
• Sarah Ivory (2014-2016)
• Sylvia G. Dee (2015-2017)

• Jessica Tierney (Ph.D. 2010)
• Shannon Loomis (Ph.D. 2013)
• Bronwen Konecky (Ph.D. 2013)
• Jessica Rodysill (Ph.D. 2013)
• Satrio Wicaksono (Ph.D. 2016)
• William C. Daniels (Ph.D. 2017)
• Rachel Lupien (Ph.D. 2019)
• Nora Richter (Ph.D. 2020)
• Richard Vachula (Ph.D. 2020)
• Sloane Garelick (Ph.D. 2022)

• Climate-Driven Ecosystem Succession in the Sahara: the past 6000 years.{{Cite book|last=Kröpelin, S. Verschuren, D. Lézine, A.-M. Eggermont, H. Cocquyt, C. Francus, P. Cazet, J.-P. Fagot, M. Russell, J.M. Darius, F. Conley, D.J. Schuster, M. Suchodoletz, H. Von Engstrom, D.R.|title=Climate-Driven Ecosystem Succession in the Sahara : the past 6000 years.|oclc=695108421}}

• Climate-driven ecosystem succession in the Sahara: the past 6000 years.{{Cite journal|last1=Brovkin|first1=V.|last2=Claussen|first2=M.|date=2008-11-28|title=Comment on "Climate-Driven Ecosystem Succession in the Sahara: The Past 6000 Years"|journal=Science|volume=322|issue=5906|pages=1326b|doi=10.1126/science.1163381|pmid=19039121|bibcode=2008Sci...322.1326B |issn=0036-8075|doi-access=free}}
• Northern hemisphere controls on tropical southeast African climate during the past 60,000 years.{{Cite journal|last1=Tierney|first1=J. E.|last2=Russell|first2=J. M.|last3=Huang|first3=Y.|last4=Damste|first4=J. S. S.|last5=Hopmans|first5=E. C.|last6=Cohen|first6=A. S.|date=2008-10-10|title=Northern Hemisphere Controls on Tropical Southeast African Climate During the Past 60,000 Years|journal=Science|volume=322|issue=5899|pages=252–255|doi=10.1126/science.1160485|pmid=18787132|bibcode=2008Sci...322..252T |s2cid=7364713|issn=0036-8075}}
• Classification of lacustrine sediments based on sedimentary components.{{cite book | doi=10.1007/3-540-31079-7_44 | chapter=Classification of sediments and sedimentary rocks | title=Sedimentology | series=Encyclopedia of Earth Science | date=1978 | last1=Friedman | first1=Gerald M. | pages=202–216 | isbn=978-0-87933-152-8 }}

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