Jo Muller Profile

• Ph.D. in Paleoclimatolgy, James Cook University

Teaching Interests: Geology, Earth Science, Paleoclimatology and Meteorology.
Research Interests: Hurricanes, El Nino Southern Oscillation, monsoon and ocean circulation.
Current research interests center on past climate change in tropical latitudes with special focus on the Southwest Florida region.

Selected Publications:

• Muller, J., Ercolani, C., Collins, J. and **Ellis, S. (2022) Multi-proxy Characterization of Storm Deposits in Sanibel Island, Florida: a Modern Analog for Paleotempestology, Geomorphology, 402.
• Javaruski, J., Adhikari, P., Muller, J., and Parsons, M., (2022) Preservation of Brevetoxins in Southwest Florida Coastal Sediments, Harmful Algae, 114.
• Martin, T and Muller, J. (2021), The geologic record of Hurricane Irma in a Southwest Florida back-barrier lagoon, Marine Geology, 441.
• Muller, J., Collins, J. Gibson, S., and Paxton, L. (2017) Recent Advances in the Emerging Field of Paleotempestology. In Hurricanes and Climate Change, Vol 3. Eds. Collins, J & Walsh, K. Springer Publishers
• Ercolani, C., Muller, J., Collins, J., Savarese, M. Squiccimara, L. (2015) Intense Southwest Florida hurricane landfalls over the past 1000 years, Quaternary Science Reviews, Vol. 126, pp.17-25.
• Muller, J., McManus, J.F., Oppo, D., Francois, R., Brown-Ledger, S. (2012) Strengthening of the North-East Monsoon over the Flores Sea, Indonesia, at the time of Heinrich Event 1. Geology, Vol 40, pp. 635-638.
• Muller, J., Kylander, M., Wust, R., Weiss, D. Martinez-Cortizas, A., LeGrande, A. Jennerjahn, T. Behling, H. Anderson, W. Jacobso, G., (2008) Possible evidence for wet Heinrich phases in tropical NE Australia: The Lynch’s Crater deposit, Quaternary Science Reviews, Vol 28, pp. 468-475.