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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences School of Integrative Biology

Jessica Conroy

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Contact Information

3042 Natural History Building

Research Areas

Associate Professor

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

Awards and Honors

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)

Additional Campus Affiliations

Associate Professor, Earth Science and Environmental Change
Associate Professor, Plant Biology

Recent Publications

Bailey, A., Noone, D., Dee, S., Nusbaumer, J., Conroy, J., Stevenson, S., & Atwood, A. (2025). Toward a process-oriented understanding of water in the climate system: recent insights from stable isotopes. Environmental Research: Climate, 4(1), Article 012002. https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-5295/ada17b

Conroy, J. L., Karamperidou, C., & Grimley, D. A. (2025). Near-surface winds at the southern Laurentide ice margin through the last deglaciation. Quaternary Research (United States). Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2024.62

Murray, N. K., Conroy, J. L., Colin, P. L., Cobb, K. M., & Noone, D. C. (2025). Western Pacific Warm Pool δ18O Response to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(3), Article e2024GL113366. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL113366

Dendy, S. N., Guenthner, W. R., Grimley, D. A., & Conroy, J. L. (2024). Quantifying Pleistocene loess provenance in midcontinental North America using a mixing model: Implications for glacial lobe evolution along the southern Laurentide ice sheet. Geosphere, 20(6), 1655-1669. https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02770.1

Grimley, D. A., Loope, H. M., Jacobs, P. M., Nash, T. A., Dendy, S. N., Conroy, J. L., & Curry, B. B. (2024). Updated chronology for Peoria Silt (loess) accumulation in Illinois and western Indiana from radiocarbon dating of terrestrial gastropod shells. Quaternary Research (United States), 121, 40-58. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2024.15

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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences School of Integrative Biology

286 Morrill Hall

505 S. Goodwin Ave.

Urbana, IL 61801

217-333-3044

Email: sib@life.illinois.edu

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