Research interests 

• Stable isotope geochemistry
• Paleoclimatology
• Paleoecology
• Paleoenvironments
• Global change
• The use of isotopic and elemental tracers and chronometers to reconstruct past environmental conditions.

Awards

• DISCCRS (Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Climate Change Research) Award, American Geophysical Union, 2003

Publications

Dorale, J.A. and Liu, Z., 2009.  Limitations of Hendy test criteria in judging the paleoclimatic suitability of speleothems and the need for replication.  Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 71, 73-80.

Baker, R.G., Bettis, E.A. III, Mandel, R.D., Dorale, J.A., and Fredlund, G.G., 2009.  Mid-Wisconsinan  environments on the eastern Great Plains.  Quaternary Science Reviews 28, 873-889.

Denniston, R. F., DuPree, M., Dorale, J.A., Asmerom, Y., Polyak, V., and Carpenter, S.J., 2007.  Episodes of late Holocene aridity recorded by stalagmites from Devil’s Icebox Cave, central Missouri, USA.  Quaternary Research 68, 45-52.