Jane McManus

About

Jane McManus is an academic and author, known for her work in sports communication. Her book, The Fast Track: Inside the Surging Business of Women's Sports, was published in February 2025. She has also served as the Editor of The Year’s Best Sports Writing 2024. McManus spent nearly 10 years at ESPN, where she covered the NFL, worked as a columnist for espnW, hosted two radio shows including The Trifecta with Kate Fagan and Sarah Spain, and was a frequent analyst on programs such as SportsCenter, The Sports Reporters, and Outside the Lines. Before her tenure at ESPN, she covered a wide range of sports from high school competitions to the U.S. Open for The Journal News in Westchester, NY, and her work has appeared in outlets like Newsday, The New York Times, and USA Today. Additionally, she has led two academic centers focused on sports communication, first at Marist College and later at Seton Hall University.

Research topics

• Oceanography
• Computer Science
• Paleontology
• Geology
• Environmental resource management
• Climatology
• Environmental science
• Earth science
• Ecology

Selected publications

• Past abrupt changes, tipping points and cascading impacts in the Earth system

  Nature Geoscience · 2021 · 186 citations

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• ²³⁰Th Normalization: New Insights on an Essential Tool for Quantifying Sedimentary Fluxes in the Modern and Quaternary Ocean

  Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology · 2020 · 109 citations

  Abstract 230 Th normalization is a valuable paleoceanographic tool for reconstructing high‐resolution sediment fluxes during the late Pleistocene (last ~500,000 years). As its application has expanded to ever more diverse marine environments, the nuances of 230 Th systematics, with regard to particle type, particle size, lateral advective/diffusive redistribution, and other processes, have emerged. We synthesized over 1000 sedimentary records of 230 Th from across the global ocean at two time sl…

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• Millennial atmospheric CO2 changes linked to ocean ventilation modes over past 150,000 years

  Nature Geoscience · 2023-10-26 · 29 citations

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  Abstract Ice core measurements show diverse atmospheric CO 2 variations—increasing, decreasing or remaining stable—during millennial-scale North Atlantic cold periods called stadials. The reasons for these contrasting trends remain elusive. Ventilation of carbon-rich deep oceans can profoundly affect atmospheric CO 2 , but its millennial-scale history is poorly constrained. Here we present a well-dated high-resolution deep Atlantic acidity record over the past 150,000 years, which reveals five h…

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• Heinrich event ice discharge and the fate of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

  Science · 2024-05-30 · 19 citations

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  During Heinrich events, great armadas of icebergs episodically flooded the North Atlantic Ocean and weakened overturning circulation. The ice discharges of these episodes constrain the sensitivity of overturning circulation to iceberg melting. We reconstructed these ice discharges to be as high as 0.13 sverdrup (Sv) (1 Sv = 1 million cubic meters per second) during Heinrich event 4 and to average 0.029 Sv over all episodes. The present-day Greenland Ice Sheet calving of icebergs is comparable to…

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• Extensive evidence for a last interglacial Laurentide outburst (LILO) event

  Geology · 2022-05-06 · 16 citations

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  Abstract A catastrophic last interglacial Laurentide outburst (LILO) event approximately 125,000 years ago (125 ka) may have contributed to abrupt climate change during the last interglacial. It has been proposed that this event was an analog of the Holocene 8.2 ka event. We characterize in detail the (1) provenance, (2) timing, and (3) delivery mechanism of a layer of red sediments deposited across much of the northwestern Atlantic Ocean at 125 ka. Our observations provide strong support for th…

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Recent grants

• A depth transect of sedimentary 231Pa/230Th in the western Atlantic since the last ice age

  NSF · $399k · 2009–2013

• Collaborative Research: An Abyssal Circulation Type Section for the North Atlantic

  NSF · $520k · 2009–2013

• Collaborative Research: Th-230 as a Sediment Focusing Indicator: constraints from He-3 in Interplanetary Dust Particles

  NSF · $211k · 2006–2008

Frequent coauthors

• Delia W Oppo

  89 shared

• Allison W Jacobel

  85 shared

• Kassandra M Costa

  80 shared

• Gisela Winckler

  Columbia University

  75 shared

• Robert F. Anderson

  71 shared

• James L. Cullen

  70 shared

• Yuxin Zhou

  67 shared

• Laura F. Robinson

  University of Bristol

  64 shared

Education

• PhD, Earth and Environmental Sciences

  Columbia University

  1997

• MA, Earth and Environmental Sciences

  Columbia University

  1992

• BA, Earth and Environmental Sciences

  Columbia University

  1989

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• Joseph Sweeneyh-127
• Catherine Rogersh-105
• Jiajing Wangh-86