News
July
2026
Chris was named Director of the Francis E. Fowler IV Center for Ocean and Climate
June
2026
Chris was selected for a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
June
2026
Chris attended the 2026 AGU Chapman Conference on Updating Usable Projections of Future Sea Level in Montreal, Canada
May
2026
Chris ran the first Summer School in Sea-Level Science in Woods Hole. The two-week event was sponsored by WHOI and NASA
April
2026
Chris traveled to Connecticut College to speak at the Lear-Conant Environmental Symposium on Sea Level Rise: Measurement, Understanding, Adaptation
March
2026
Chris gave a talk at the American Museum of Natural History's SciCafe series entitled "Is the Gulf Stream weakening? Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Being Wrong"
February
2026
Chris attended the 2026 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Glasgow, Scotland
February
2026
Chris got tenure!
January
2026
Chris co-led the first meeting of an international team, supported by the International Space Science Institute in Bern, Switzerland, on the relationship between the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and coastal sea level
December
2025
Chris had a paper published in AGU Advances demonstrating that the rate of U.S. coastal sea-level rise doubled in the past century, which was reported on by The Washington Post and National Public Radio