{"id":14,"date":"2017-03-19T13:30:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T17:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/thompsonlab\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2018-05-02T21:14:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T01:14:48","slug":"diane-thompson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/thompsonlab\/diane-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"Diane Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diane received her PhD from University of Arizona in 2013, and was awarded a 2-year Advanced Study Program Postdoctoral Fellowship at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. \u00a0She started as an Assistant Professor at Boston University in January 2016.<\/p>\n<p><span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/thompsonlab\/files\/2017\/03\/DSC06936-3-636x570.jpg\" alt=\"DSC06936 (3)\" width=\"581\" height=\"521\" class=\" wp-image-16 alignright\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/thompsonlab\/files\/2017\/03\/DSC06936-3-636x570.jpg 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/thompsonlab\/files\/2017\/03\/DSC06936-3-768x688.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/thompsonlab\/files\/2017\/03\/DSC06936-3-1024x918.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/thompsonlab\/files\/2017\/03\/DSC06936-3.jpg 1457w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/>Diane&#8217;s research bridges the fields of ecology, paleoecology, and paleoclimatology to investigate climates and reef systems of the past.<\/span><span>\u00a0 Her\u00a0work spans a range of scales from local (e.g., reef-scale circulation) to global (e.g., climate variability and change) and capitalizes on a blend of field and laboratory, observational and modeling, and experimental and theoretical approaches. \u00a0<\/span><span>She aims to improve our understanding of tropical-climate variability through investigations of topical-climate archives, including coral, speleothem, and marine and lake sediment records.<\/span><span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span>She also aims to further investigate the stability of the coral-reef ecosystem through past climate changes.<\/span><span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span>Determining whether the changes occurring on today\u2019s reefs are unprecedented through geological time will improve our predictions of coral-reef resilience under future global climate change.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/thompsonlab\/files\/2017\/03\/CV_Apr2018.pdf\">Diane Thompson CV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diane received her PhD from University of Arizona in 2013, and was awarded a 2-year Advanced Study Program Postdoctoral Fellowship at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. \u00a0She started as an Assistant Professor at Boston University in January 2016. Diane&#8217;s research bridges the fields of ecology, paleoecology, and paleoclimatology to investigate climates and reef systems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13172,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/thompsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/thompsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/thompsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/thompsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/thompsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/thompsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/thompsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/thompsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}