About

Caroline A. Jones is an Allen Professor at MIT, affiliated with the School of Architecture + Planning. Her research focuses on urbanism, architecture, and planning, contributing to cross-disciplinary collaborations within the Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism. She is involved in fostering innovative research and education in urban development and design, emphasizing the integration of architecture and urban planning principles.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Political Science
• Environmental science
• Sociology
• Art history
• Literature
• Aesthetics
• Geography
• Mathematics
• Law
• Engineering
• Meteorology
• Art
• Computer vision

Selected publications

• Ensemble Sensitivity Analysis in the Operational Met Office in the UK Ensemble System

  2025-03-14

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  The Met Office in the UK is exploring the use of ensemble sensitivity analysis (ESA) as an operational tool to support its upcoming focus on its global ensemble system. Ensemble sensitivity analysis is a technique that identifies atmospheric flow features throughout a forecast period that are relevant to high-impact forecast aspects such as high winds, heavy precipitation, and extreme temperatures (known as response functions). ESA typically highlights the importance of the position or magnitude of features like upper-level troughs, ridges, and wind maxima/minima in the jet stream, as well as structure in low-level pressure and moisture fields, to the response function. Since ESA also identifies specifically how features are associated with differences in high-impact response functions (e.g., an eastward shift of a 300hPa geopotential height trough off the U.S. east coast might be associated with heavier precipitation two days later in the UK), it can add substantial value to the forecasting process through forecaster awareness. This value can be realized through both improved dynamical understanding of high-impact flows and ensemble subsetting, a method that weights ensemble members more if they are more skillful in sensitive areas. The Met Office in the UK has created a real-time ESA tool for initial evaluation to understand its value in the forecasting process. Wind, precipitation, temperature, and visibility response functions to seven-day forecast time over the UK, both coverage and maximum values, serve as the response functions. Sensitivities to geopotential height and wind speed aloft, surface pressure, and simulated water vapor imagery are produced every six hours from the response function backward to initial forecast time. This presentation involves what operational forecasters and research personnel have learned from day-to-day ensemble sensitivity fields, the use of ESA in the forecasting process, and the climatological nature of sensitivity. Future plans for the Met Office in the UK ESA tool will also be discussed.

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• Inbred rat heredity and sex affect oral oxycodone self-administration and augmented intake in long sessions: correlations with anxiety and novelty-seeking

  PLoS ONE · 2025-03-10 · 3 citations

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  Oxycodone abuse frequently begins with prescription oral oxycodone, yet vulnerability factors (e.g. sex, genetics) determining abuse are largely undefined. We evaluated genetic vulnerability in a rat model of oral oxycodone self-administration (SA): increasing oxycodone concentration/session (0.025-0.1mg/ml; 1-, 4-, and 16-h) followed by extinction and reinstatement. Active licks and oxycodone intake were greater in females than males during 4-h and 16-h sessions (p < 0.001). Both sexes increased intake between 4-h and 16-h sessions (p < 2e-16), but a subset of strains augmented intake at 16-h (p = 0.0005). Heritability (h2) of active licks during 4-h sessions at increasing oxycodone dose ranged from 0.30 to 0.53. Under a progressive ratio (PR) schedule, breakpoints were strain-dependent (p < 2e-16). Cued reinstatement was greater in females (p < 0.001). Naive rats were assessed using elevated plus maze (EPM), open field (OF), and novel object interaction (NOI) tests. We correlated these behaviors with 28 parameters of oxycodone SA. Anxiety-defining EPM traits were most associated with SA in both sexes, whereas OF and NOI traits were more associated with SA in males. Sex and heredity are major determinants of motivation to take and seek oxycodone; intake augments dramatically during extended access in specific strains; and anxiety correlates with multiple SA parameters across strains.

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• Resonance

  Sound Stage Screen · 2025-12-12

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  In speculating on how an infant human emerges into consciousness, William James deployed the active acoustic and haptic metaphor of a buzzing confusion, resonating in a sensing body. Resonance enters us as music, sound, acousma, timbre, and even subaural inputs. Per Veit Erlmann, resonance opens us to different ways of listening and being and thinking in a world of oscillating matter. As Erlmann chronicles, the body’s equipment (eye and ear, but also soul and viscera) have a history – most pointedly, the moment in which they were understood to be capable of sympathetic vibrations. Thus, by the time of James, the resonating subject is one posited by science as possessing strings and hairs, hammers and drums, rods and cones – all of which resonate with various energies coming from the world. Still, despite the fact that much of the physics of sound developed around water experiments, those studying how the human body captured those resonant properties ignored all the fluids in human bodies (notably, different fluid densities deployed by the basilar membrane in the inner ear). The Helmholtzian “piano key” approach dominated how music and sound were understood well up until the mid-20th century. To understand resonance viscerally, we would need Pauline Oliveros to compose music from the unpitched, uncoordinated, but moistly vocalizing co-resonating humans (Teach Yourself to Fly,1970). We would need Max Neuhaus to appeal to our fluid interfaces by resonating us under water (Water Whistle, 1971). And emergently, we might want Jana Winderen reminding us that creaturely resonances vibrate in frequencies and places we need our techno-prostheses to access (Aquaculture, 2010; Planktonium 2024).

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• Extracting untapped information from ensembles in support of advice, guidance and storylines

  2024-11-01 · 1 citations

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• Inbred rat heredity and sex affect oral oxycodone self-administration and augmented intake in long sessions: correlations with anxiety and novelty-seeking

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2023-11-27

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  Abstract Oxycodone abuse begins with prescription oral oxycodone, yet vulnerability factors determining abuse are largely undefined. We evaluated genetic vulnerability in a rat model of oral oxycodone self-administration (SA): increasing oxycodone concentration/session (0.025-0.1mg/ml; 1,4,16-h) followed by extinction and reinstatement. Active licks and oxycodone intake were greater in females than males during 4-h and 16-h sessions (p&lt; 0.001). Each sex increased intake during 16-h vs 4-h sessions (p&lt;2e-16), but a subset of strains dramatically augmented intake at 16-h (p=0.0005). Heritability ( h 2 ) of active licks/4-h at increasing oxycodone dose ranged from 0.30-0.53. Under a progressive ratio schedule, breakpoints were strain-dependent (p&lt;2e-16). Cued reinstatement was greater in females (p&lt;0.001). Naive rats were assessed by elevated plus maze (EPM), open field (OF) and novel object interaction (NOI). We correlated these behaviors with 28 parameters of oxycodone SA. Anxiety-defining EPM traits were most associated with SA in both sexes, whereas more OF and NOI traits were SA-associated in males. Sex and heredity are major determinants of motivation to take and seek oxycodone; intake augments dramatically during extended access in specific strains; and pleiotropic genes affect anxiety and multiple SA parameters.

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• Contamination | Purification

  Amsterdam University Press eBooks · 2021-01-01

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  Semantically, contamination is a process of defilement, while purity is a condition. This chapter takes up anthropology’s interest in process to inquire about purification itself as an historical production. It comments on the recent ‘material turn’ in art history and the humanities more generally. Linked to drives toward purity, grounded ‘material’ was asserted by the Fascists in contradistinction to ethereal abstraction, craft claimed over concept, and rooted contact with soil privileged over nomadic cosmopolitans. Likewise, linked to contamination, ‘base material’ was asserted against the modernist art world to contest fetishes of purity. While contemporary invocations of material have been a good way of disputing teleology, this chapter demonstrates they often are agnostic regarding narratives they might be made to serve.

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• Using probabilistic model data to generate area marine forecasts

  2021

  Senior authorCorresponding
  • Computer Science
  • Environmental science
  • Meteorology

  &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;The UK Inshore Waters Forecast predicts wind speeds, sea states, weather conditions and visibilities for marine areas within 12 nautical miles of the UK coast. In addition to the now-common web-based outlets of most public forecast products, this very high profile forecast product is also broadcast by the BBC on national radio and television. It is the enviable task of Operational Meteorologists, based at UK Met Office sites in Exeter and Aberdeen, to issue these forecasts every six hours for the vitally important purpose of protecting lives in the coastal waters surrounding the UK. Currently, the production process involves a marine forecaster comprehensively inspecting deterministic model fields, prior to manual text generation. However, direct utilisation of an ensemble model-based product has the potential to make this task considerably more efficient and possibly make the forecast more accurate.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Raw output from the Met Office Global and Regional Ensemble Prediction System (MOGREPS) is used routinely throughout the Met Office to assist forecasters. Furthermore, a recent project to develop and improve the techniques used to statistically post-process this data (IMPROVER) is now employed to further reduce identified errors within MOGREPS data.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;This session describes the latest work to exploit both raw MOGREPS and post-processed data for the generation of the wind component to the Inshore Waters Forecast. This component is verified against post-processed nowcast analysis fields to determine its accuracy and the results are compared against the equivalent performance currently achieved by Operational Maritime Meteorologists. The outcome of this assessment will help to determine whether either of these data-sources are suitable as a guide for the production of this high-profile forecast product.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;

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• Atmospheres and the Anthropogenic Image-Bind

  Routledge eBooks · 2021

  1st authorCorresponding
  • Computer Science
  • Environmental science
  • Computer Science

  Energy regimes drive modern art and its history, although none of us were educated to perceive that epistemic surround. Recently, contemporary artists and scholars have begun to argue that forcings in the atmosphere can be met by forcings in aesthetic theory and activist imagination. The assertion of an anthropogenic image-bind begins with a tautology: in modernity at least, it is the ever-more-finely sensing human to whom the human-made image is addressed, and whose sensitivities it aims to enlarge and expand. The chapter aims to trace contemporary attempts to confront the anthropogenic image bind, while being honest about the impact and potential of these attempts. Schmidt allows me to address the anthropogenic image as a regime we are immersed. The promising trends, as the anthropogenic image-bind is pried open at its seams, allowing alternative thought-forms and life-forms to begin the philosophical work of symbiontics.

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• The Impact of Environment on the Perception of Art

  2020-05-01

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  When we see a work of art, no matter the environmental setting, we have some sort of reaction to the piece. An analysis of some of the art housed in museums in New York City, Paris, and Rome, this thesis outlines some examples of different environmental factors affecting a viewer’s perception of that specific visual representation. The surrounding works, the accompanying wall texts and labels, as well as the structure of the building or specific room that houses the work, affects how a viewer might perceive it. Similar works offer different experiences when displayed in different places, such as Monet’s Water Lilies in MoMA and in the Musée de l’Orangerie. Other art pieces gain significance because of the harmony or contrast that they create with their surroundings--whether it be other paintings, as in the Frick Collection, or large machinery, as in the case of the Centrale Montemartini in Rome.

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• Early Language Inventory

  PsycTESTS Dataset · 2020-01-01 · 7 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Séverine Sofio

  6 shared

• Steven Nelson

  5 shared

• Pierre‐Michel Menger

  Collège de France

  3 shared

• Jean-Marie Guillouët

  Université de Bourgogne

  3 shared

• Giuliana Bruno

  2 shared

• T. J. Demos

  2 shared

• bill brown

  University of Chicago

  2 shared

• Eyal Weizman

  2 shared