James M. Russell

James Michael Russell is an American paleoclimatologist and climatologist. He is a professor of Earth, environmental, and planetary sciences and is currently the senior associate dean of dean of faculty at Brown University. Russell researches the climate, paleoclimate, and limnology.

Education Russell received a B.A. in Earth and Environmental Science from Wesleyan University in 1998. Russell then worked as a Junior Scientist at the Limnological Research Center at the University of Minnesota for one year before beginning his Ph.D. in ecology at the University of Minnesota. Russell's dissertation in 2004 was titled The Holocene Paleolimnology and Paleoclimatology of Lake Edward, Uganda-Congo.

Career and research Russell is a paleoclimatologist and climatologist. After graduating from the University of Minnesota, Russell joined the Large Lakes Observatory at the University of Minnesota Duluth.

Russell's primary fields are paleoclimatology, paleolimnology, and paleoecology. He is particularly well known for his work reconstructing climates from Tropical lake sediments.

According to Scopus, he has published 113 research articles so far with 37366 citations and has an H-index of 32.

Editorial activities 2017–2020: Associate Editor for Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 2016–present: Editorial board member for Quaternary International.

Journal articles Climate-driven ecosystem succession in the Sahara: the past 6000 years. Northern hemisphere controls on tropical southeast African climate during the past 60,000 years. Classification of lacustrine sediments based on sedimentary components.