Publications and Presentations

Potomac

Explaining the impact of GIA on the Potomac's erosion history at the AGU Great Falls Field Trip, 2018

 

Publications

T. Pico, D. McGee, J.X. Mitrovica, J. Russell, "Recent constraints on MIS 3 sea level support role of shelf exposure as a control on Indo-Pacific hydroclimate" (in review, AGU Paleoceanography)

T. Pico, J.X. Mitrovica, A.C. Mix, "Sea-level fingerprinting of the Bering Strait flooding history detects the source of the Younger Dryas climate event", Science Advances, 2020.

Pico, T., Robel, A., Powell, E., Mix, A., Mitrovica, J., Leveraging the rapid retreat of Amundsen Gulf Ice Stream 13,000 yrs ago to reveal insight into North American deglaciation, Geophysical Research Letters, 2019.

T. Pico, "Towards an assessment of the impact of sediment loading on Last Interglacial sea-level markers", Geophysical Journal International, 2019.

S. Coulson, T. Pico, J. Austermann, R. Moucha, J.X. Mitrovica, "The Role of Isostatic Adjustment and Gravitational Effects on the Dynamics of the Messinian Salinity Crisis'", Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 2019.

T. Pico, J.X. Mitrovica, J.T. Perron, K.L. Ferrier, J. Braun, "Influence of glacial isostatic adjustment on river evolution along the U.S. mid-Atlantic coast", Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 2019.

Dalton, A. S., Finkelstein, S. A., Forman, S. L., Barnett, P. J., Pico, T. and Mitrovica, J. X. (2019) ‘Was the Laurentide Ice Sheet significantly reduced during Marine Isotope Stage 3 ?’, Geology, 47(2), pp. 111–114.

A. Carlson, L. Tarasov, T. Pico, "Rapid Laurentide ice-sheet advance towards southern last glacial maximum limit during marine isotope stage 3", Quaternary Science Reviews, 2018.

T. Pico, L. Birch, J. Weisenberg, J.X. Mitrovica, "Refining the evolution of the Laurentide Ice Sheet from MIS 3 to the Last Glacial Maximum: A data-based approach combining glacio-isostatic simulations with a simplified dynamic ice model", Quaternary Science Reviews, 2018.

T. Pico, J.X. Mitrovica, J. Braun, K.L. Ferrier, "Glacial isostatic adjustment deflects path of the ancestral Hudson River", Geology, 2018 (highlighted in Harvard Gazette)

K.L. Ferrier, Q. Li, T. Pico, J. Austermann. "The influence of water storage in marine sediment on sea-level change", Geophysical Research Letters, 2018.

K.L. Ferrier, J. Austermann, J.X. Mitrovica, T. Pico,"Incorporating sediment compaction into a gravitationally self-consistent model for ice age sea-level change", Geophysical Journal International, 2017.

T. Pico, J.R. Creveling, J.X. Mitrovica, "Sea level records from the U.S. mid-Atlantic constrain Laurentide Ice Sheet Extent during Marine Isotope Stage 3", Nature Communications, 2017.

J.R. Creveling, J.X. Mitrovica, P. Clark, C. Waelbroeck, T. Pico, "Globally Distributed Geological Records Bound MIS 5a and MIS 5c Peak Global Mean Sea Level", Quaternary Science Reviews, 2017.

T. Pico, J. Mitrovica, K. Ferrier, J. Braun, “Global ice volume during MIS 3 inferred from a sea-level analysis of sedimentary core records in the Yellow River Delta”, Quaternary Science Reviews, 2016.

(Patent) H.A. Stone, J. Nunes, E. Um, T. Pico: “Novel Droplet-Embedded Microfibers, and Methods and Devices for Preparing and Using Same U.S. Patent Application No. 14/680,710, filed 2015.

E. Um , J. Nunes , T. Pico, and H. A. Stone, “Multicompartment microfibers: fabrication and selective dissolution of composite droplet-in-fiber structures,” J. Mater. Chem. B 2 (45), 7866-7871, 2014.

 

Social Issues in Geoscience

T. Pico, "The Darker Side of John Wesley Powell", Scientific American, 2019

T. Pico, P. Bierman, K. Doyle, S. Richardson, "First authorship gender gap in the geosciences", (in review, AGU Advances) Preprint available on ESSOAr!

 

Seminars

Lehigh University, Departmental Series, April 2020

Northwestern University, February 2020

Cornell University, January 2020

Scripps, IGPP Seminar, January 2020

Middlebury College, November 2019

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Ice and Ocean Seminar, November 2019

UC Santa Barbara, October 2019

Brown University, Lunchtime Seminar, August 2019

Caltech, Special Seminar, April 2019

UT Austin, DeFord Lecture Series, March 2019

MIT, COG3 Seminar, February 2019

University of Chicago, Geophysical Sciences Seminar, January 2019

UMass Amherst, Quaternary Seminar, November 2018

Lamont-Doherty Columbia University, BPE Seminar, October 2018

Princeton University, Brown Bag Solid Earth Seminar, April 2018

University of Vermont, Geology Seminar, April 2018

UC Santa Cruz, Whole Earth Special Seminar, March 2018

GFZ Deutsches GeoForschungZentrum, Earth System Modeling Seminar, May 2017

ETH Zurich, Earth Surface Dynamics Seminar, May 2017

Rutgers University, Special Seminar, March 2017

Oregon State University, Paleoclimate Seminar, September 2016

Conference Presentations and Talks

T. Pico, A. Robel, E. Powell, A. Mix, J. Mitrovica, "Leveraging the rapid retreat of the Amundsen Ice Stream 13,000 yrs ago to constrain large-scale North American deglaciation", AGU Fall Meeting 2019, Talk.

T. Pico, J. Mitrovica, D. McGee, J. Russell, "An ice-age lever for hydroclimate? Recent constraints on MIS 3 sea level support shelf exposure as major control on Indo-Pacific Warm Pool over the last ice age", AGU Fall Meeting 2019, Talk.

T. Pico, Body metaphors in field geology: implications for gender- or sex- based harassment, AGU Fall Meeting 2019, Poster.

T. Pico, "150 Years Later: Revisiting the legacy of John Wesley Powell and his Expedition to the Grand Canyon", GSA Fall Meeting 2019, Poster.

T. Pico, L. Birch, J.X.. Mitrovica: "A small Laurentide Ice Sheet until mid-MIS 3: Insights from glacial isostatic adjustment modeling, non-glacial deposits, and sea-level histories", INQUA 2019. Talk.

T. Pico, J.X. Mitrovica, A.C. Mix: "Two-phase flooding of the Bering Strait reflects the sea-level fingerprint of an expanding ice-free corridor", AGU Fall Meeting 2018, Talk.

T. Pico, J.X. Mitrovica, J.T. Perron, K.L. Ferrier, J. Braun: "Ancient landscapes along the U.S. mid-Atlantic coast record glacial isostatic adjustment '', AGU Fall Meeting 2018, Talk (Invited).

T. Pico, S. Richardson, P. Bierman, "The first-authorship geoscience gender gap: Underrepresentation of women first authors in leading geoscience journals, 2013-2018", AGU Fall Meeting 2018, Poster.

T. Pico, P. Bierman, J.X. Mitrovica, J.T. Perron, K.L. Ferrier, J. Braun: "The response of U.S. east coast rivers to glacial isostatic adjustment'', GSA Fall Meeting 2018. Talk.

T. Pico, J.X. Mitrovica, A.C. Mix: "Linking the timing of the Cordilleran-Laurentide ice saddle retreat to the inundation history of the Bering Strait", AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting 2018, Talk.

T. Pico, J.X. Mitrovica, J.T. Perron, K.L. Ferrier, J. Braun: "Using ancient landscapes along the U.S. mid-Atlantic to assess the influence of glacial isostatic adjustment on river evolution: the case for the Hudson, Delaware, Susquehanna, and Potomac'', AGU Fall Meeting 2017, Talk.

J. Weisenberg*, T. Pico, L. Birch, J.X. Mitrovica: "Modeling the evolution of the Laurentide Ice Sheet from MIS 3 to the Last Glacial Maximum: an approach using sea level modeling and ice flow dynamics". AGU Fall Meeting 2017. Poster.

T. Pico, J.X. Mitrovica, A.C. Mix: "Reconciling Observations of the Bering Strait Resubmergence with North American Ice Sheet Melt Histories", PALSEA2 2017, Talk.

T. Pico, J.X. Mitrovica, J. Braun, K.L. Ferrier: "Coupling landscapes to solid-Earth deformation over the ice-age'', AGU Fall Meeting 2016, Talk.

T. Pico, J.X. Mitrovica, J.R. Creveling: "Inferring global ice volumes during Marine Isotope Stage 3", PALSEA2 2016, Poster presentation.

T. Pico, J. Mitrovica, K. Ferrier, J. Braun: “Using GIA and sediments to reconstruct past sea level and investigate landscape evolution”, CIFAR Meeting 2016, Talk.

T. Pico, J. Mitrovica, K. Ferrier, J. Braun: “Sediments, Sea level, and Global Ice Volumes during Marine Isotope Stage 3 at the Yellow River Delta, China”, PLIOMAX Workshop 2016, Talk.

T. Pico, J. Mitrovica, K. Ferrier, J. Braun: “Exploiting sedimentation datasets to model the impact of sediment loading on sea level at the Yellow River Delta”, AGU Fall Meeting 2015, Poster presentation.

T. Pico, J. Mitrovica, K. Ferrier: “Sediment Loading at the Yellow River Delta: Modeling depositional dynamics and impact on regional sea level”, GSA Fall Meeting 2015, Talk.

E. Um, J. Nunes, T. Pico, H.A. Stone: “Droplet necklace: Encapsulation of droplets in a microfiber with microfluidics, MRS Spring 2014.

* mentored student