Dr. Walker’s research focuses on climate and sea-level change on short-term instrumental to long-term geological timescales to improve understanding of past sea level in order to better predict sea-level rise into the future. She specializes in reconstructions of sea-level through time using biological and geological indicators, which when combined with statistical modeling techniques, are used to quantify rates of sea-level change and examine spatial and temporal variability of driving processes.
Publications:
1. Walker, J.S., Li, T., Shaw, T.A., Cahill, N., Barber, D.C., Brain, M., Kopp, R.E., Switzer, A.D., Horton, B.P. (2022). A 5000-year record of relative sea-level change in New Jersey, USA. The Holocene, 09596836221131696.
2. Walker, J.S., Kopp, R.E., Little, C.M., Horton, B.P. (2022). Timing of emergence of modern rates of sea-level rise by 1863. Nature Communications, 13, 966.
3. Walker, J.S., Kopp, R.E., Shaw, T.A., Cahill, N., Khan, N.S., Barber, D., Ashe, E., Brain, M., Clear, J., Corbett, D.R., Horton, B.P. (2021). Common Era sea-level budgets along the U.S. Atlantic coast. Nature Communications, 12(1), 1-10.
