Jessica Tierney

Jessica E. Tierney (born 1982) is an American paleoclimatologist who has worked with geochemical proxies such as marine sediments, mud, and TEX₈₆, to study past climate in East Africa. Her papers have been cited more than 2,500 times; her most cited work is ''Northern Hemisphere Controls on Tropical Southeast African Climate During the Past 60,000 Years''. Tierney is currently a professor of geosciences and the Thomas R. Brown Distinguished Chair in Integrative Science at the University of Arizona and faculty affiliate in the University of Arizona School of Geography, Development and Environment Tierney is the first climatologist to win NSF's Alan T Waterman Award (2022) since its inception in 1975. Provided by Wikipedia