Cole-Dai Research
Professor of Chemistry
Research Areas
Research in the Cole-Dai lab involves elements of environmental and analytical chemistry as well as paleoclimatology and climate change. Specific interests include:
- Environmental - atmospheric reactions and mechanisms, and human impact on the environment.
- Analytical - development of methods and measurement techniques for chemical impurities in polar snow and ice.
- Paleoclimatology and climate change - reconstruction of records of atmospheric and climatic environment and of records of explosive volcanic eruptions; volcanic impact on climate and role in climate change.
Research Approach
A unique and valuable tool for this research is ice cores. Snow flakes carry much information about the atmosphere. Continuous snow fall and accumulation in cold places such as Antarctica preserve a history of the changing atmospheric environment and of the dynamic climate. The history can be retrieved from polar ice cores.
The research program of the Cole-Dai research group, the Ice Core and Environmental Chemistry Lab (ICECL), focuses on measuring trace chemical impurities in ice cores in order to (1) assist with the reconstruction of the chronological records of global climate change; (2) investigate atmospheric chemical processes and (3) document the human impact on the atmospheric environment. In addition, ICECL engages in the development of analytical techniques and methods to measure trace chemical species in polar snow and ice.
Papers Published by Jihong Cole-Dai
2020
- Cole-Dai, Jihong, David G. Ferris, Joshua A. Kennedy, Michael Sigl, Joseph R. McConnell, T. J. Fudge, , Kendrick C. Taylor, Joseph M. Souney, Lei Geng, and Olivia J. Maselli (2020), Comprehensive Record of Volcanic Eruptions in the Holocene (11,000 years) from the WAIS Divide, Antarctica ice core, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, in poress, doi: 10.1029/2020JD032855.
- Jihong Cole-Dai, Zayta Thundercloud, Jiayue Huang, Becky Alexander, Lyatt Jaeglé, Joshua A. Kennedy, Carleigh Larrick, Emma C. Kahle, Eric J. Steig, Tyler R. Jones (2020), Seasonally-resolved Holocene sea ice variability inferred from South Pole Ice Core chemistry, Geophysical Research Letters, under review.
- Jiang, Su, Jihong Cole-Dai, Chunlei An, Guitao Shi, Jinhai Yu, Bo Sun (2020) Spatial variation of perchlorate in East Antarctic surface snow: Implications for atmospheric production, Atmospheric Environment, 238, 117743, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2020.117743.
2019
- Dominic A. Winski, Tyler J. Fudge, David G. Ferris, Erich C. Osterberg, John M. Fegyveresi, Jihong Cole-Dai, Zayta Thundercloud, Thomas S. Cox, Karl J. Kreutz, Nikolas Ortman, Christo Buizert, Jenna Epifanio, Edward J. Brook, Ross Beaudette, Jeff Severinghaus, Todd Sowers, Eric J. Steig, Emma C. Kahle, Tyler R. Jones, Valerie Morris, Murat Aydin, Melinda R. Nicewonger, Kimberly A. Casey, Richard B. Alley, Edwin D. Waddington, Nels A. Iverson, Ryan C. Bay, Joseph M. Souney, Michael Sigl, Joseph R. McConnell (2019), The SP19 chronology for the South Pole Ice Core – Part 1: Volcanic matching and annual layer counting, Climate of the Past, 15, 1793–1808, doi:10.5194/ cp-15-1793-2019.
- Jiang, Su, Guitao Shi, Jihong Cole-Dai, Lei Geng, Dave G. Ferris, Chunlei An, Yuansheng Li (2019), Nitrate preservation in snow at Dome A, East Antarctica from ice core concentration and isotope records, Atmospheric Environment, 213, 405–412, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2019.06.031.
2018
- Cole-Dai, Jihong, Kari M. Peterson, Joshua A. Kennedy, Thomas S. Cox and David G. Ferris (2018), Evidence of influence of human activities and volcanic eruptions on environmental perchlorate from a 300-year Greenland ice core record, Environmental Science and Technology, 52(15), 8373–8380, doi:10.1021/acs.est.8b01890.
2017
- Crawford, T. Zachary, Alexandria D. Kub, Kari M. Peterson, Thomas S. Cox, Jihong Cole-Dai (2017), Reduced perchlorate concentration in West Antarctica snow during the annual stratospheric ozone hole, Antarctic Science, 29, 292-296, doi:10.1017/S0954102016000705.
- Mayewski, P. A., A. Carleton, S. Birkel, D. Dixon, A. Kurbatov, E. Korotkikh, J. McConnell, M. Curran, J. Cole-Dai, S. Jiang, C. Plummer, T. Vance, K. Maasch, S. Sneed, M. Handley (2017), Ice core and climate reanalysis analogs to predict Antarctic and Southern Hemisphere climate changes, Quaternary Science Reviews, 155, 50-66, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.11.017.
