Institute at Brown for Environment and Society

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Lina C. Pérez-Angel

Postdoctoral Affiliate, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Former Voss Postdoctoral Research Associate
lina_perez_angel@brown.edu
Curriculum vitae

Biography

Lina C. Pérez-Angel’s research in paleoclimatology has contemporary relevance. During the Pliocene, between 5 and 2.5 million years ago, Earth’s atmosphere had about 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide—pretty similar to what we have now. She uses bacterial lipids and other biomarkers on rocks to see how ancient rains, droughts, and temperatures affected the environment then and compares the results to recent data to see how these processes were different from what is happening now.

Selected publications

  • Pérez-Angel, L.C., Sepúlveda, J., Montes, C., Smith, J.J., Molnar, P., González-Arango, C., Snell, K., Dildar, N. (2022). Mixed Signals from the Stable Isotope composition of Precipitation and Plant Waxes in the Northern Tropical Andes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 127, e2022JG006932. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JG006932
  • Goldman, A. E., S. R. Emani, L. C. Pérez-Angel, J. A. Rodríguez-Ramos, and J. C. Stegen. (2021). Integrated, Coordinated, Open, and Networked (ICON) Science to Advance the Geosciences: Introduction and Synthesis of a Special Collection of Commentary Articles. Earth and Space Science. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EA002099
  • Molnar, P. & Pérez-Angel, L. C., (2021). Constraints on the paleo-elevation history of the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia from its palynological record. Geosphere, 17(4), pp.1333-1352. https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02328.1.
  • Pérez-Angel, L.C. (2020). Measuring past terrestrial temperatures with bacterial lipids. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-020-0098-y (invited)
  • Pérez‐Angel, L. C., Sepúlveda, J., Molnar, P., Montes, C., Rajagopalan, B., Snell, K., Gonzalez-Arango, C., Dildar, N., (2020). Soil and air temperature calibrations using branched GDGTs for the Tropical Andes of Colombia: Toward a pan‐tropical calibration. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 21, e2020GC008941. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC008941
  • Pérez‐Angel, L. C., & Molnar, P. (2017). Sea surface temperatures in the eastern equatorial Pacific and surface temperatures in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia during El Niño: Implications for Pliocene conditions. Paleoceanography, 32, 1309– 1314. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017PA003182
  • Montes, C. Cardona, A., Jaramillo, C. Pardo, A. Silva, J.C., Valencia, V., Ayala, C, Pérez-Angel, L.C., Rodriguez-Parra, L.A., Ramirez, V., Niño, H., 2015, Middle Miocene closure of the Central American Seaway, Science, v. 348, pp. 226-229. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaa2815

 

Recent News

University of Colorado Boulder

Some tropical land may experience stronger-than-expected warming under climate change

A new study led by former IBES Voss Postdoc Lina Pérez-Angel used lake sediments from the Colombian Andes to reveal that, when the planet warmed millions of years ago under carbon dioxide levels similar to today’s, tropical land heated up nearly twice as much as the ocean.
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Distillations Magazine

Proxies for Justice

"The climate history of tropical regions has been chronically understudied," former Voss Postdoc Researchers Jayson Maurice Porter and Lina C.
Lina C. Pérez-Angel write in this article. "Correcting the record will require new methods and new mindsets.
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Nature

How to win funding to talk about your science

Voss Postdoctoral Researcher Lina Pérez-Angel, who co-founded a bilingual science communication platform called GeoLchat, noted that "Science communication is as real and as hard as doing research."
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