Tom Crowley, Ph.D., is Nicholas Professor of Earth Systems Science at Duke University, Durham, N.C.

Crowley's research interests include the history and modeling of past climates; effects of climate change on the biosphere; past carbon-cycle variations; use of paleoclimate data to validate climate models and project future climate change; Pleistocene oceanography; and paleo-climate modeling. His research also addresses decadal-centennial scale climate variability; climate projections for nuclear waste disposal; climate change in Texas and the Gulf Coast; and effects of sea level rise on coastal processes.

Crowley has been at Duke since August 2001. He earlier had worked in the Department of Oceanography at Texas A&M University, at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, at the National Science Foundation, at Brown University, and with several corporate entities.

Crowley received his B.A. in Geology from Marietta College, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in geological sciences from Brown University. Among his professional activities, he is a member of the Geological Society of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Meteorological Society. He was a reviewer of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chapter on paleoclimatology in April 2005, and he is a member of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Community Climate Model Advisory Board. His work has earned him numerous honors and awards from professional and academic interests.