Holly Olivarez

NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow

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Holly Olivarez is a NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow under Assistant Professor Cheryl Harrison in the Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences at Louisiana State University. Holly investigates the impacts of stratospheric aerosol injection (this involves injecting aerosols above Earth’s weather in order to form a reflective layer that would scatter and reflect sunlight back into space) and marine cloud brightening (this would aim to cool the climate by increasing the reflection of sunlight into space by way of either prescribing a cloud droplet number concentration or by cloud seeding) strategies on ocean carbon uptake, as well as sea surface temperature, sea-air CO2 flux, and surface ocean pH using Earth system model simulations. Recognizing the communities most affected by global change are also the communities least responsible for the emissions that destabilize the climate, we aim to open opportunities for Native American, Indigenous, and other researchers to co-produce experiments and climate communications.

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Olivarez, H. C., N. S. Lovenduski, E. Maroon., J. D. Müller, A. R. Fay, K. M. Krumhardt, M. N. Levy, K. L. Lindsay, G. A. McKinley, J. K. Rader (in prep) Interior climate variability modulates the storage of anthropogenic carbon in the ocean interior.

Olivarez, H. C., N. S. Lovenduski, Y. Eddebbar, A. R. Fay, G. A. McKinley, M. N. Levy, M. C. Long (2024) How does the Pinatubo eruption influence our understanding of long-term changes in ocean biogeochemistry? Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2023GL105431, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105431.

Fay, A. R., McKinley, G. A., Lovenduski, N. S., Eddebbar, Y., Levy, M. N., Long, M. C., Olivarez, H. C., Rustagi, R. R. (2023) Immediate and long-lasting impacts of the Mt. Pinatubo eruption on ocean oxygen and carbon inventories. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 37, e2022GB007513, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GB007513.

Olivarez, H. C., N. S. Lovenduski, R. X. Brady, A. R. Fay, M. Gehlen, L. Gregor, P. Landschützer, G. A. McKinley, K. A. McKinnon, and D. R. Munro (2022) Alternative Histories: Synthetic Large Ensembles of Sea-Air CO2 Flux. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 36, e2021GB007174, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GB007174.

Coupe, J., S. Stevenson, N. S. Lovenduski, T. Rohr, C. S. Harrison, A. Robock, H. Olivarez, C. G. Bardeen, and O.B. Toon (2021) Nuclear Niño response observed in simulations of nuclear war scenarios. Nature Communications Earth and Environment, 2(1), 18, doi:10.1038/s43247-020-00088-1.

Lovenduski, N. S., C. S. Harrison, H. Olivarez, C. G. Bardeen, O. B. Toon, J. Coupe, A. Robock, T. Rohr, and S. Stevenson (2020) The potential impact of nuclear conflict on ocean acidification. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2019GL086246, doi:10.1029/2019GL086246.

Publications and Presentations (1)
Title	Source	Date
The impact of volcanic eruptions on ocean pH	Unspecified	2018-08-01

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Education

Degree	School Name	Country	Field of Study
AS	Central New Mexico Community College	United States of America	Mathematics
PhD	University of Colorado at Boulder	United States of America	Environmental Science
BS	University of New Mexico-Main Campus	United States of America	Geology

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