Laura Larocca
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Mail code: 7904Campus: Tempe
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Laura Larocca is an Assistant Professor in the School of Ocean Futures and a Senior Global Futures Scientist in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory.
Her research investigates past and contemporary climate change, with a focus on understanding how Arctic systems (e.g., the cryosphere) evolve under sustained warming. Her work employs a variety of approaches including the use of lake sediment and other geologic archives; historical and remotely sensed observational records; and geospatial tools and modeling.
- PhD Northwestern University
- MSc City College of the City University of New York
- BFA New York University
Contemporary and Holocene climate change; the cryosphere (glaciers and ice sheets); paleoclimatology; paleolimnology; geospatial analysis and remote sensing; Arctic environmental change
Larocca, L.J., Lea, J.M., Erb, M.P, McKay, N.P., *Phillips, M., Lamantia, K., and Kaufman, D.S. 2024. Arctic glacier snowline altitudes rise 150 meters over the last 4 decades. The Cryosphere, 18, 3591–3611.
Larocca, L.J., Twinning-Ward, M., Axford, Y., Schweinsberg, A., Larsen, S.H., Westergaard-Nielsen, A., Luetzenburg, G., Briner, J.P., Kjeldssen, K.K., & Bjørk, A.A. 2023. Greenland-wide accelerated retreat of peripheral glaciers in the twenty-first century. Nature Climate Change, 13(12), pp 1324-1328.
Brooks, J.P., Larocca, L.J., & Axford, Y. 2022. Little Ice Age climate in South Greenland inferred from quantitative geospatial analysis of alpine glacier reconstructions. Quaternary Science Reviews, 293, p.107701.
Larocca, L.J. & Axford, Y. 2022. Arctic glaciers and ice caps through the Holocene: a circumpolar synthesis of lake-based reconstructions. Climate of the Past, 18, p.579-606.
Larocca, L.J., Axford, Y., Bjørk, A., Lasher, G.E., & Brooks, J.P. 2020. Local glaciers record delayed peak Holocene warmth in South Greenland. Quaternary Science Reviews, 241, p.106421.
Larocca, L.J., Axford, Y., Woodroffe, S.A., Lasher, G.E, & Gawin, B. 2020. Holocene glacier and ice cap fluctuations in southwest Greenland inferred from two lake records. Quaternary Science Reviews, 246, p. 106529.
Lasher, G. E., Axford, Y., Masterson, A.L., Berman, K.S., & Larocca, L.J. 2020. Holocene temperature and landscape history of southwest Greenland inferred from oxygen isotopes and geochemical lake sediment proxies. Quaternary Science Reviews, 239, p.106358.
Courses
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| SEA 598 | Special Topics |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| SEA 310 | Paleoclimate Cntmp Climate Chg |