Jonathan Lambert

Jonathan is joining Barnard for the 2024-2025 academic year to teach in the Environmental Science Senior Seminar. He studies and works within the realms of paleoclimate (past climate) and modern climate solutions (specifically geochemical carbon dioxide removal). Jonathan is originally from New Orleans, Louisiana and was inspired to become an earth scientist by the numerous hurricanes that struck near his hometown in the early 2000s - including Hurricane Katrina. He received his bachelor's degree from Louisiana State University in 2014 where he reconstructed hurricane landfalls over the last 500 years in a field known as "paleotempestology." Jonathan has been in New York for 10 years now though - receiving an M.A. in Climate and Society from Columbia in 2015 and eventually a Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Science from Columbia in 2022.

At Columbia, Jonathan reconstructed the last 1.5 Million years of ocean conditions in the warmest part of the global ocean - the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool - using both sediments and fossil plankton (foraminifera) and a combination of proxies for temperature, salinity, and nutrients. Jonathan has also held positions and done research in the fields of climate smart agriculture, marine conservation, and geochemical carbon dioxide removal (CDR). Currently, he splits his time between consulting for nonprofits in the emerging geochemical CDR space and teaching at liberal arts colleges around NYC. Last year, he taught "Ocean Based Climate Solutions" at Vassar College, and alongside Barnard he is Visiting Faculty in the Bard College Citizen Science Program.

Education

• Ph.D., Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University
• M.A., Climate and Society, Columbia University
• B.S., Coastal Environmental Science, Louisiana State University

Academic Focus

• paleoclimatology
• oceanography
• geochemistry
• climate change solutions

Courses

• EESC BC3800/3801: Senior Thesis Seminar

Selected Publications

• Lambert, J.E. The allure of climate tech as a career path and climate change solution. (under review at Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists).
• Lawson, V.J., Rosenthal, Y., Bova, S.C., Lambert, J.E., Linsley, B.K., Bu. K., Elmore, A. Meyers, S., Bu. K. (2024). Controls on Sr/Ca, S/Ca and Mg/Ca in benthic foraminifera: Implications for the carbonate chemistry of the Pacific Ocean over the last 350 ky. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. doi:10.1029/2024GC011508
• Lambert, J.E., Gibson, K.A., Linsley, B.K., Bova, S.C., Rosenthal, Y., and Surprenant, M. (2022). Equatorial Pacific bulk 𝛿15N supports a post-MPT secular increase in Southern Ocean nitrate utilization. Quaternary Science Reviews. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107348
• Lambert, J.E., Nagothu, U.S., Chatrchyan A.M. and DeGaetano, A.T. (2019). Climate-Based Agricultural Decision Tools: A Comparative Perspective on These Climate Services. In A. Sarkar et al. (Ed.), Sustainable Solutions for Food Security: Combating Climate Change by Adaptation (ch. 22). Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-77878-5_22