Chijun Sun | Assistant Professor
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin (2021)
3131 Earth and Physical Sciences Building | 530-752-9779
cjsun@ucdavis.edu
Chijun Sun | Assistant Professor in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department.
Dr. Chijun Sun is a paleoclimatologist. His research explores how and why our climate system has changed in the past, with the goal of gaining insights into future climate change. He utilizes a group of organic compounds called "biomarkers" to reconstruct various facets of changes in the atmosphere, land, and ocean in the past. He also uses state-of-the-art climate models to simulate these past climate changes. His research provides a way to assess the models' performance in simulating climatic responses to perturbations, as well as offers insights into the physical processes driving climate change. Current research themes include orbital-to-millennial scale climate variability, large-scale ocean-atmosphere dynamics, paleo extreme weather and climates, and paleoclimate proxy development.
Website | https://chijunsun.weebly.com/