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Director of Undergraduate Studies
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Oregon, 1994

Department of Geography
Callcott, Room 211
Columbia, SC 29208
Phone: (803) 777-1211   Fax: (803) 777-4972
E-mail: mockcj@sc.edu

Areas of Interest
Synoptic climatology
Paleoclimatology
Climatic hazards
Arctic and alpine environments
Historical environmental change

Publications

Kokorowski, H.D., P.M. Anderson, C.J. Mock, and A.V. Lozhkin.  "A Re-Evaluation and Spatial Analysis of Evidence for a Younger Dryas Climatic Reversal in Beringia."   Quaternary Science Reviews (in press).

Landsea, C.W., D.A. Glenn, W. Bredemeyer, M. Chenoweth, R. Ellis, J. Gamache, L. Hufstetler, _____, R. Perez, R. Prieto, J. Sánchez-Sesma, D. Thomas, and L. Woolcock. "A Reanalysis of the 1911 to 1920 Atlantic Hurricane Database." Journal of Climate 21: 2138-2168.

_____. 2008. "Tropical Cyclone Variations in Louisiana, U.S.A. since the Late Eighteenth Century." Geochemistry, Geophysics, and Geosystems. 9, Q05V02, doi:10.1029/2007GC001846.

Vaquero, J.M., R. García-Herrera, D. Wheeler, M. Chenoweth and _____. 2008. "An Historical Analogue of 2005 Hurricane Vince." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 89: 191-201.

_____, J. Mojzisek, M. Chenoweth, M. McWaters, and D.W. Stahle. 2007. "The winter of 1827-1828 over eastern North America: a season of extraordinary climatic anomalies, societal impacts, and false spring." Climatic Change 81: 87-115.

_____. 2007. Paleodrought and Society. In: The Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science (S. Elias, Chief Editor), Elsevier Press, U.K., pp. 1959-1966.

_____. 2007. Paleo-ENSO and teleconnections. In: The Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science (S. Elias, Chief Editor), Elsevier Press, U.K., pp. 1935-1942.

_____. 2007. Overview of Paleoclimatology. In: The Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science (S. Elias, Chief Editor), Elsevier Press, U.K., pp. 1867-1872.

Miller, D.L., C.I. Mora, H.D. Grissino-Mayer, _____, M.E. Uhle, and Z. Shar. 2006. "A proxy record of tropical cyclones preserved in the oxygen isotopes of tree-ring cellulose." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103(39): 14294-14297.

_____. 2006. "Some comments on reconstructing the historical climate of California," U.S.A. Nuovo Cimento 29(1): 55-63.

_____. 2004. "Tropical cyclone reconstructions from documentary records; examples from South Carolina". In: Hurricanes and Typhoons: Past, Present, and Future, pp. 121-148, (R. J. Murnane and K.B. Liu eds.), Columbia University Press.

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D.S. Kaufman, T.A. Ager, N.J. Anderson, P.M. Anderson, J.T. Andrews, P.J. Bartlein, L.B. Brubaker, L.L. Coats, L.C. Cwynar, M.L. Duvall, A.S. Dyke, M.E. Edwards, K. Gajewski, A. Geirsdóttir, F.S. Hu, A.E. Jennings, M.R. Kaplan, M.W. Kerwin. A.V. Lozhkin, G.M. MacDonald, G.H. Miller, _____, W.W. Oswald, B.L. Otto-Bliesner, K. Rühland, J.P. Smol, E.J. Steig, and B.B. Wolfe. 2004. "Holocene Thermal Maximum in the Western Arctic." Quaternary Science Reviews 23: 529-560.

_____, D.O. Mayes, J. Mojzisek, M. McWaters, and M. Chenoweth. 2004. "Reconstructing South Carolina Tropical Cyclones back to the Mid Eighteenth Century." In: Preprints, Twenty Sixth Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Miami Beach, FL. American Meteorological Society, Boston MA, pp. 671-672. http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/75813.pdf.

_____. 2002. "Regional Climates of Russia", in Late Quaternary Vegetation and Climate of Siberia and the Russian Far East, P.M. Anderson and A. Lozhkin (Eds.), Northeast Science Center, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan: Russia.

Birkeland, K.W., and _____. 2001. "The Major Snow Avalanche Cycle Of February 1986 In The Western United States", Natural Hazards, 24: 75-95.

Birkeland, K.W., _____, and J.J. Shinker. 2001. "Extreme Avalanche Hazard Events and Atmospheric Circulation Patterns", Annals of Glaciology, 32: 135-140.

_____, Edwards, M.E., Finney, B.P., Barber, V., and P.J. Bartlein. 2001. "Potential Analogues For Paleoclimatic Variations In Eastern Interior Alaska For The Past 14,000 Years: Atmospheric-Circulation Controls Of Regional Temperature And Moisture Responses", Quaternary Science Reviews, 20: 189-202.

_____, and M.P. Lawson. 2001. "Meteorological Experiences, Climatic Variability, and Overland Trail Emigrants", Journal of the West, 40: 10-17, 2001.

Edwards, M.E., P.M. Anderson, L.B. Brubaker, T. Ager, A.A. Andreev, N.H. Bigelow, L.C. Cwynar, W.R. Eisner, S.P. Harrison, F.S. Hu, D. Jolly, A.V. Lozhkin, G.M. MacDonald, _____, J.C. Ritchie, A.V. Sher, R.W. Spear, J. Williams, and G. Yu. 2000. "Pollen-based Biomes for Beringia at 18,000, 6,000, and 0 14C yr B.P." Journal of Biogeography 27: 521-544.

_____. 2000. "Rainfall in the Garden of the U.S. Great Plains, 1870-1889." Climatic change 44: 173-195.

_____, and K.W. Birkeland. 2000. "Snow Avalanche Climatology of the Western United States Mountain Ranges." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 81: 2367-2392.

_____ and A. Brunelle-Daines. 1999. "A Modern Analogue of Western United States Summer Paleoclimate at 6000 Years Before Present." The Holocene 9: 541-545.

Teaching
Introduction to Physical Geography
Quantitative Methods in Geography
Long Term Environmental Change
Synoptic Meteorology
Climatic and Society

Graduate Students
Matt Rodgers, Master's candidate
Stephanie Dodds, Doctoral candidate
David Glenn, Doctoral candidate

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