Jerry X. Mitrovica

About

Jerry X. Mitrovica is the Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University and an affiliate in Environmental Science & Engineering. His primary teaching areas include Environmental Science & Engineering, with research focusing on climate change, climate dynamics, geophysics, ice dynamics, sea level, and planetary sciences. Based at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, he is involved in advancing understanding of Earth's physical processes related to climate and sea level changes.

Research topics

• Oceanography
• Geology
• Environmental science
• Paleontology
• Climatology
• Astronomy
• Geodesy
• Astrobiology
• Geography
• Physics

Selected publications

• Understanding of Contemporary Regional Sea‐Level Change and the Implications for the Future

  Reviews of Geophysics · 2020 · 171 citations

  Global sea level provides an important indicator of the state of the warming climate, but changes in regional sea level are most relevant for coastal communities around the world. With improvements to the sea-level observing system, the knowledge of regional sea-level change has advanced dramatically in recent years. Satellite measurements coupled with in situ observations have allowed for comprehensive study and improved understanding of the diverse set of drivers that lead to variations in sea…

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• Oceanic forcing of penultimate deglacial and last interglacial sea-level rise

  Nature · 2020 · 131 citations

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• Sea level fingerprinting of the Bering Strait flooding history detects the source of the Younger Dryas climate event

  Science Advances · 2020 · 59 citations

  During the Last Glacial Maximum, expansive continental ice sheets lowered globally averaged sea level ~130 m, exposing a land bridge at the Bering Strait. During the subsequent deglaciation, sea level rose rapidly and ultimately flooded the Bering Strait, linking the Arctic and Pacific Oceans. Observational records of the Bering Strait flooding have suggested two apparently contradictory scenarios for the timing of the reconnection. We reconcile these enigmatic datasets using gravitationally sel…

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• Long‐Term Earth‐Moon Evolution With High‐Level Orbit and Ocean Tide Models

  Journal of Geophysical Research Planets · 2021 · 58 citations

  , evolution of inclination and eccentricity is dominated by tidal and core-mantle boundary dissipation within the Moon, which yield high lunar orbit inclinations in the early Earth-Moon system. A drawback for our results is that the semi-major axis does not collapse to near-zero values at 4.5 Ga, as indicated by most lunar formation models. Additional processes, missing from our current efforts, are discussed as topics for future investigation.

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• Probabilistic reconstruction of sea-level changes and their causes since 1900

  Earth system science data · 2024-07-31 · 25 citations

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  Abstract. Coastal communities around the world are increasingly exposed to extreme events that have been exacerbated by rising sea levels. Sustainable adaptation strategies to cope with the associated threats require a comprehensive understanding of past and possible future changes. Yet, many coastlines lack accurate long-term sea-level observations. Here, we introduce a novel probabilistic near-global reconstruction of relative sea-level changes and their causes over the period from 1900 to 202…

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Recent grants

• Collaborative Research: P2C2 - Reconstructing rates and sources of sea-level change over the last ~150 thousand years from a new coral database

  NSF · $68k · 2017–2019

• Collaborative research: Sea-level responses to sediment erosion and deposition over the past 3 million years

  NSF · $89k · 2015–2018

• Collaborative Research: P2C2 -- Statistical estimation of past ice sheet volumes from paleo-sea level records

  NSF · $96k · 2012–2015

Frequent coauthors

• Konstantin Latychev

  233 shared

• Jacqueline Austermann

  183 shared

• Carling C. Hay

  Boston College

  121 shared

• Natalya Gomez

  114 shared

• Mark Hoggard

  Australian National University

  107 shared

• Evelyn Powell

  102 shared

• A. M. Forte

  University of Florida

  85 shared

• Tamara Pico

  83 shared

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