About Jeremy

I am interested in understanding long-term controls on the Earth’s climate and hydrological cycle, particularly over the Cenozoic. During this interval, the Earth underwent a fundamental shift in its climate, transitioning from the hot, high-CO2 climate that characterized the Cretaceous and Eocene to the relatively cool, low-CO2 climate of today. Understanding this transition can elucidate first-order controls on Earth’s climate as well as improve understanding of what our future climate may resemble given current projections of CO2 emissions.

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Interests

  • Paleoclimate
  • Geochemistry
  • Earth History
  • Tectonics

Education

PhD, Earth System Science - Stanford University
Stanford, CA, 2016

BS, Earth Sciences - Rice University
Houston, TX, 2009

Awards, Honors, Grants

  • Warner Outstanding Paper Award, 2021
  • Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018
  • ETH Fellow, 2017
  • Udall Scholar, 2007
  • NOAA Hollings Scholar, 2007

Selected Publications

Drier winters drove Cenozoic open habitat expansion in North America

  • Tyler Kukla, Jeremy K. Caves Rugenstein, Daniel E. Ibarra, Matthew J. Winnick, Caroline A. E. Strömberg, & C. Page Chamberlain,

Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO2

  • The Cenozoic CO2 Proxy Integration Project (CenCO2PIP) Consortium,

The Hydroclimate and Environmental Response to Middle Miocene Warming in the Southwestern USA: Stable Isotope Evidence

  • Siânin Spaur, Daniel J. Koning, Matthew Heizler, Scott Aby, Garrett Williamson, Jeffrey R. Knot, R. Paul Acosta, & Jeremy K. C. Rugenstein,

Stable isotopes (d18O and d2H) of surface water in the arid Chinese Pamir, Central Asia: Implications for moisture sources and paleoenvironmental reconstructions

  • S Chen, JKC Rugenstein, A Mulch,

Stable isotope evidence for rapid uplift of the central Apennines since the Late Pliocene

  • M San José, JK Caves Rugenstein, MG Fellin, D Cosentino, M Ghinassi, I Martini, & C Faccenna,

Neogene evolution of paleoenvironments in the North American Great Plains from a stable isotope perspective

  • L Manser, T Kukla, & JKC Rugenstein,

Isotope Mass Balance Constraints Preclude that Mafic Weathering Drove Neogene Cooling

  • JKC Rugenstein, DE Ibarra, S Zhang, NJ Planavsky, Fv Blanckenburg,

The Neogene de-greening of Central Asia

  • JK Caves, DY Moragne?, DE Ibarra, BU Bayshashov, Y Gao, MM Jones, A Zhamangara, AY Arzhannikova, SG Arzhannikov, & CP Chamberlain,

Late Miocene uplift of the Tian Shan and Altai and reorganization of Central Asia climate

  • JK Caves, BU Bayshashov, A Zhamangara, AJ Ritch, DE Ibarra, DJ Sjostrom, HT Mix, MJ Winnick, & CP Chamberlain.,

Cenozoic carbon cycle imbalances and a variable weathering feedback

  • JK Caves, AB Jost, KV Lau, & K Maher,

Neogene cooling driven by land surface reactivity rather than increased weathering fluxes

  • JK Caves Rugenstein, DE Ibarra, & Fv. Blanckenburg ,

Cenozoic stable isotope constraints on the Eurasian continental interior hydroclimate response to high CO2

  • Ellie Driscoll, Michael R. Needham, Patrick W. Keys, & Jeremy K. C. Rugenstein,

CO2 drawdown from weathering is maximized at moderate erosion rates

  • Aaron Bufe, Jeremy K. C. Rugenstein, & Niels Hovius,

Memberships

  • Geochemical Society
  • European Geosciences Union
  • American Geophysical Union
  • Geological Society of America

Web Links

GeoPAST Group website