Contact Information
Research Interests
paleoclimate variability on interannual to millennial timescales, paleolimnology, stable isotope hydrology, stable isotope geochemistry
Education
Ph.D. 2011, University of Arizona
M.S., 2006, University of Arizona
B.A., 2003, College of Wooster
Awards and Honors
2019 NSF CAREER award
2017 Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow, National Academy of Sciences
2015, 2017, 2018 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent
2013 Arnold O. Beckman Award, UIUC Campus Research Board
2013 Selected participant, DISCCRS VIII (DISsertations initiative for the advancement of Climate Change ReSearch)
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Earth Science and Environmental Change
Associate Professor, Plant Biology
External Links
Honors & Awards
2019 NSF CAREER award
2017 Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow, National Academy of Sciences
2015, 2017, 2018 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent
2013 Arnold O. Beckman Award, UIUC Campus Research Board
2013 Selected participant, DISCCRS VIII (DISsertations initiative for the advancement of Climate Change ReSearch)
Recent Publications
Bailey, A., Noone, D., Dee, S., Nusbaumer, J., Conroy, J., Stevenson, S., & Atwood, A. (2025). Toward a process-oriented understanding of water in the climate system: recent insights from stable isotopes. Environmental Research: Climate, 4(1), Article 012002. https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-5295/ada17b
Conroy, J. L., Karamperidou, C., & Grimley, D. A. (2025). Near-surface winds at the southern Laurentide ice margin through the last deglaciation. Quaternary Research (United States). Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2024.62
Murray, N. K., Conroy, J. L., Colin, P. L., Cobb, K. M., & Noone, D. C. (2025). Western Pacific Warm Pool δ18O Response to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(3), Article e2024GL113366. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL113366
Dendy, S. N., Guenthner, W. R., Grimley, D. A., & Conroy, J. L. (2024). Quantifying Pleistocene loess provenance in midcontinental North America using a mixing model: Implications for glacial lobe evolution along the southern Laurentide ice sheet. Geosphere, 20(6), 1655-1669. https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02770.1
Grimley, D. A., Loope, H. M., Jacobs, P. M., Nash, T. A., Dendy, S. N., Conroy, J. L., & Curry, B. B. (2024). Updated chronology for Peoria Silt (loess) accumulation in Illinois and western Indiana from radiocarbon dating of terrestrial gastropod shells. Quaternary Research (United States), 121, 40-58. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2024.15