Overview
Tatiana Bebchuk is a doctoral candidate in geography at the University of Cambridge who studies climate and environmental changes of the past. She uses relict, well-preserved trees, to develop high-resolution climate reconstructions and place recent warming in a long-term context of climate natural variability.
At Cornell, Bebchuk will focus on the “4.2ka event,” abrupt climate changes that occurred circa 4,200 years ago and are believed to have contributed to the decline of several ancient civilizations. She will reconstruct climate conditions for the North Atlantic and the Middle East, aiming to unveil the causes and better understand societal consequences of this highly-debated climate event.
Bebchuk’s faculty host is Sturt Manning, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in classics.