Tim White | Institute of Energy and the Environment

2217 Earth & Engr Sciences
West Campus
University Park, PA 16802

Elsevier Pure Profile

IEE Research Themes

Climate and Ecosystem Change

Water and Biogeochemical Cycles

Affiliate Researcher

Associate Research Professor, Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS)

Associate Research Professor, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute

Research Summary

Research interests include field-based sedimentary geology, paleoclimatology, paleopedology, chemostratigraphy, organic petrology and hydrogeology.

In the News

President Bendapudi addresses climate action | Penn State University

February 6, 2023

President Bendapudi addresses climate action

$1.5 million grant awarded to team studying impacts of land abandonment | Penn State University

November 2, 2022

$1.5 million grant awarded to team studying impacts of land abandonment

Scientist sees Penn State as a 'living lab' for climate action | Penn State University

November 2, 2022

Scientist sees Penn State as a 'living lab' for climate action

Penn State mathematics doctoral student Raymond Friend

November 1, 2022

Graduate student connects math with green advocacy

Computer games may be a key to ecological learning, study says | Penn State University

October 11, 2022

Computer games may be a key to ecological learning, study says

Penn State Aims For 100% Reduction In Greenhouse Emissions By 2035

April 28, 2022

Penn State aims for 100% reduction in greenhouse emissions by 2035

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Paleosolic Soil Types

Ocean Drilling Program

Sedimentary Structure

Projects

tree against blue sky with roots into the dirt

Visualizing and Experiencing Changes to the Critical Zone

Recent Publications

Promoting systems thinking and pro-environmental policy support through serious games

Sajjadi, P., Bagher, M. M., Myrick, J., Guerriero, J. G., White, T. S., Klippel, A. & Swim, J. K., Oct 2022, In: Frontiers in Environmental Science.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Synergies Among Environmental Science Research and Monitoring Networks: A Research Agenda

Jones, J. A., Groffman, P. M., Blair, J., Davis, F. W., Dugan, H., Euskirchen, E. E., Frey, S. D., Harms, T. K., Hinckley, E., Kosmala, M., Loberg, S., Malone, S., Novick, K., Record, S., Rocha, A. V., Ruddell, B. L., Stanley, E. H., Sturtevant, C., Thorpe, A., White, T., & 3 othersWieder, W. R., Zhai, L. & Zhu, K., Mar 2021, In: Earth's Future. 9, 3, e2020EF001631.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

The Mercer Clay in Pennsylvania as a Polymetallic Mineral Resource: Review and Update

Rozelle, P. L., Feineman, M. D., White, T. S., Crescenzo, N. A., Kump, L. R., Larson, A. R. & Pisupati, S. V., 2021, In: Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Spatial pattern of super-greenhouse warmth controlled by elevated specific humidity

van Dijk, J., Fernandez, A., Bernasconi, S. M., Caves Rugenstein, J. K., Passey, S. R. & White, T., Nov 1 2020, In: Nature Geoscience. 13, 11, p. 739-744 6 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Data rescue in manuscripts: a hydrological modelling study example

Yu, X., Lamačová, A., Shu, L., Duffy, C., Krám, P., Hruška, J., White, T. & Lin, K., Apr 3 2020, In: Hydrological Sciences Journal. 65, 5, p. 763-769 7 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Research questions to facilitate the future development of European long-term ecosystem research infrastructures: A horizon scanning exercise

Musche, M., Adamescu, M., Angelstam, P., Bacher, S., Bäck, J., Buss, H. L., Duffy, C., Flaim, G., Gaillardet, J., Giannakis, G. V., Haase, P., Halada, L., Kissling, W. D., Lundin, L., Matteucci, G., Meesenburg, H., Monteith, D., Nikolaidis, N. P., Pipan, T., Pyšek, P., & 8 othersRowe, E. C., Roy, D. B., Sier, A., Tappeiner, U., Vilà, M., White, T., Zobel, M. & Klotz, S., Nov 15 2019, In: Journal of Environmental Management. 250, 109479.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

Experimental calibration of clumped isotopes in siderite between 8.5 and 62 °C and its application as paleo-thermometer in paleosols

van Dijk, J., Fernandez, A., Storck, J. C., White, T. S., Lever, M., Müller, I. A., Bishop, S., Seifert, R. F., Driese, S. G., Krylov, A., Ludvigson, G. A., Turchyn, A. V., Lin, C. Y., Wittkop, C. & Bernasconi, S. M., Jun 1 2019, In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 254, p. 1-20 20 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Steering operational synergies in terrestrial observation networks: Opportunity for advancing Earth system dynamics modelling

Baatz, R., Sullivan, P. L., Li, L., Weintraub, S. R., Loescher, H. W., Mirtl, M., Groffman, P. M., Wall, DI. H., Young, M., White, T., Wen, H., Zacharias, S., Kühn, I., Tang, J., Gaillardet, J., Braud, I., Flores, A. N., Kumar, P., Lin, H., Ghezzehei, T., & 4 othersJones, J., Gholz, H. L., Vereecken, H. & Van Looy, K., May 23 2018, In: Earth System Dynamics. 9, 2, p. 593-609 17 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Toward better understanding of terrestrial processes through long-term hydrological observatories

Bogena, H. R., White, T., Bour, O., Li, X. & Jensen, K. H., 2018, In: Vadose Zone Journal. 17, 1, 180194.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Susquehanna shale hills critical zone observatory: Shale hills in the context of shaver’s creek watershed

Brantley, S. L., White, T., West, N., Williams, J. Z., Forsythe, B., Shapich, D., Kaye, J., Lin, H., Shi, Y., Kaye, M., Herndon, E., Davis, K. J., He, Y., Eissenstat, D., Weitzman, J., Dibiase, R., Li, L., Reed, W., Brubaker, K. & Gu, X., 2018, In: Vadose Zone Journal. 17, 1, 180092.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Evidence of cyclic climatic changes recorded in clay mineral assemblages from a continental Paleocene-Eocene sequence, northwestern Argentina

Do Campo, M., Bauluz, B., del Papa, C., White, T., Yuste, A. & Mayayo, M. J., Jun 2018, In: Sedimentary Geology. 368, p. 44-57 14 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Anomalously low δ¹⁸O values of high-latitude Permo-Triassic paleosol siderite

Richard, Z. D., Pollard, D., Kump, L. R. & White, T. S., Mar 1 2018, In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 492, p. 26-40 15 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Ideas and perspectives: Strengthening the biogeosciences in environmental research networks

Richter, D. D., Billings, S. A., Groffman, P. M., Kelly, E. F., Lohse, K. A., McDowell, W. H., White, T. S., Anderson, S., Baldocchi, D. D., Banwart, S., Brantley, S., Braun, J. J., Brecheisen, Z. S., Cook, C. S., Hartnett, H. E., Hobbie, S. E., Gaillardet, J., Jobbagy, E., Jungkunst, H. F., Kazanski, C. E., & 10 othersKrishnaswamy, J., Markewitz, D., O'Neill, K., Riebe, C. S., Schroeder, P., Siebe, C., Silver, W. L., Thompson, A., Verhoef, A. & Zhang, G., Aug 15 2018, In: Biogeosciences. 15, 15, p. 4815-4832 18 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Late Cretaceous paleosols as paleoclimate proxies of high-latitude Southern Hemisphere: Mata Amarilla Formation, Patagonia, Argentina

Varela, A. N., Raigemborn, M. S., Richiano, S., White, T., Poiré, D. G. & Lizzoli, S., Jan 2018, In: Sedimentary Geology. 363, p. 83-95 13 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Chronostratigraphy of Paleogene strata, Salta Basin, northwestern Argentina: A reply to Hyland and Sheldon's comment

White, T., del Papa, C. & Andrews, E., Dec 15 2018, In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 511, p. 643-645 3 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review