
Contact Information
Research Areas
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
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Geology
Associate Professor, Plant Biology
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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
Chen, M., Conroy, J. L., Sanford, R. A., Wyman-Feravich, D. A., Chee-Sanford, J. C., & Connor, L. M. (2023). Tropical lacustrine sediment microbial community response to an extreme El Niño event. Scientific reports, 13(1), [6868]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-33280-2
Conroy, J. L., Murray, N. K., Patterson, G. S., Schore, A. I. G., Ikuru, I., Cole, J. E., Chillagana, D., & Echeverria, F. (2023). Equatorial Undercurrent Influence on Surface Seawater δ18O Values in the Galápagos. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(4), [e2022GL102074]. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL102074
Dee, S. G., Bailey, A., Conroy, J. L., Atwood, A., Stevenson, S., Nusbaumer, J., & Noone, D. (2023). Water isotopes, climate variability, and the hydrological cycle: recent advances and new frontiers. Environmental Research: Climate. https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-5295/accbe1
Bush, M. B., Conrad, S., Restrepo, A., Thompson, D. M., Lofverstrom, M., & Conroy, J. L. (2022). Human-induced ecological cascades: Extinction, restoration, and rewilding in the Galapagos highlands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(24), [e2203752119]. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2203752119
Chen, M., Conroy, J. L., Geyman, E. C., Sanford, R. A., Chee-Sanford, J. C., & Connor, L. M. (2022). Stable carbon isotope values of syndepositional carbonate spherules and micrite record spatial and temporal changes in photosynthesis intensity. Geobiology, 20(5), 667-689. https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12509