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Mike Prentice, Affiliate Associate Professor

Department of Geological Sciences
Indiana University
611 N. Walnut Grove, Bloomington, IN 47405-2208

Phone: (812) 856-3117
Fax: (812) 855-2862
E-mail: mlprenti@indiana.edu

Education

• B.A., Geological Sciences with Engineering Certificate, Princeton University
• M.S., Geological Sciences, University of Maine
• Ph.D., Geological Sciences, Brown University

Professional Interests

Climate and paleoclimate change, paleolimnology, meteorology, glacial geology, carbonate geochemistry, paleoceanography, GIS, micropaleontology

Mike is an affiliate associate professor with both the Center for the Environment and the Meteorology program in the Chemistry, Earth, Atmospheric and Physical Science Department. He studies regional climate change on timescales of days to millions of years using instrumental records and natural sediment archives from lakes, glaciers, and the ocean. His work has principally been in New Guinea, Antarctica, and New England. The principal goal in each place is to reconstruct and understand the behavior of the regional climate system (atmosphere-land-ocean) and, additionally in Antarctica, the ice sheets. He focuses on the response of these regional systems to major changes in forcing on decadal and longer time periods. By covering the warmest and coldest regions on the planet, this work helps to predict both regional and global climate changes and their impacts. In addition to the remote work, Mike will study the recent history of NH lakes using the sediment record and also build a regional environmental information system that couples the atmosphere and land surface. He will teach both graduate and undergraduate courses in atmospheric and earth sciences.

Courses

• Long-term Enviromental Reconstruction (Paleoclimatology)
• Climate Change
• Glacial Geology
• Boundary-Layer Meteorology