Thomas Cronin

Oct 30, 2024 | city-journal.org | Thomas Cronin

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps, provides extra cash for food to tens of millions of Americans. Like many government assistance programs, SNAP discourages work by reducing benefits as participants earn more. To compensate for this disincentive, the program requires adults without children and without disabilities to work about 20 hours each week to receive benefits.

Sep 9, 2024 | foreignpolicy.com | Thomas Cronin |Susan Peterson |Michael Tierney

Politics Elections United States As a new academic year gets underway in the United States, students and faculty have braced for pro-Palestinian protests like those that roiled U.S. campuses in the spring amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. On Sept. 3, classes, and protests, resumed at Columbia University, which was the epicenter of activism in April.

Feb 27, 2024 | pubs.usgs.gov | Kaustubh Thirumalai |Thomas Cronin |Laura Gemery |Maya Prabhakar

In this work, we utilize a transect of core top, mid- to late Holocene, sediments from the Eastern Siberian Sea to the central Arctic Ocean, spanning gradients in upper-ocean water column properties, to examine regional planktic foraminiferal species abundances and geochemistry. We present species- and morphotype-specific foraminiferal assemblages at these sites and stable isotope analyses of neogloboquadrinids.

Oct 31, 2023 | frontiersin.org | Atlantic Oceanographic |Toru Miyama |Thomas Cronin |Mathilde Jutras

1 IntroductionLabrador Sea Water (LSW) is the dominant water mass comprising upper North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW). It is formed in the Labrador Sea as a direct result of surface heat loss and a deepened mixed layer during the winter, and its properties are highly dependent on the environmental conditions present during the convective season (Yashayaev, 2007).

Aug 3, 2023 | nature.com | Gabriel West |Thomas Cronin |Flor Vermassen |Agatha de Boer |Frederik Schenk |Mohammad Razmjooei

AbstractThe extent and seasonality of Arctic sea ice during the Last Interglacial (129,000 to 115,000 years before present) is poorly known. Sediment-based reconstructions have suggested extensive ice cover in summer, while climate model outputs indicate year-round conditions in the Arctic Ocean ranging from ice free to fully ice covered. Here we use microfossil records from across the central Arctic Ocean to show that sea-ice extent was substantially reduced and summers were probably ice free.