Braddock Linsley

Braddock Linsley is a Lamont Research Professor and also Director of the Lamont-Doherty Stable Isotope and Trace Element Laboratory. Dr. Linsley came to Lamont in 2011 after 16 years as a Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences at the University at Albany-SUNY. He is from the Connecticut shore where he developed a lifelong interest in the oceans. Following his Ph.D. research in marine sediment core-based paleoceanography at the University of New Mexico, Dr. Linsley began research developing the use of massive corals as recorders of near-monthly resolved changes in past oceanographic and climate conditions while a postdoctoral associate at Rice University in Houston. Over his career, his research has taken him to remote sites across the Pacific studying sediment cores and coral cores from Panamá, Clipperton Atoll, Fanning Atoll, Rarotonga, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, the Great Barrier Reef, the Makassar Strait in Indonesia, the Sulu Sea, and the New Guinea margin. This paleoclimate research has significantly advanced our understanding of interannual-multidecadal climate dynamics and millennial-scale variability in the ocean. Dr. Linsley teaches Monitoring and Analysis of Marine and Estuary Systems in the SUSCI program each spring and also teaches a class on Stable Isotope Geochemistry on alternate years for the CU Department of Earth and Environmental Science.