mkaplan | Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Dr. Michael Kaplan

Doherty Associate Research Scientist

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Geochemistry

407 Comer

61 Route 9W - PO Box 1000

Palisades

10964-8000

Phone:

(845) 365-8646

Fax:

(845) 365-8155

mkaplan@ldeo.columbia.edu

Fields of interest:

Quaternary and glacial geology, geomorphology, geochronology, paleoclimatology, ice sheet dynamics, limnogeology, cosmogenic surface exposure dating

* Glacial and climate history of southern South America. Whether climate changes are in phase with the rest of the globe at low and high frequency timescales * Quantifying rates of landscape change in southern South America using cosmogenic nuclide measurements and understanding these changes in relation to development of the Andes

Education

List of degrees from highest to lowest:

B.A. summa cum laude

SUNY Buffalo

1992

M.S.

University of Maine-Orono

1994

Ph.D.

University of Colorado-Boulder

1999

Lamont Projects:

Cosmogenic Dating Group

Selected Publications:

Southern Patagonian glacial chronology for the Last Glacial period and implications for Southern Ocean climate, Kaplan, M. R.; Fogwill, C. J.; Sugden, D. E.; Hulton, N.; Kubik, P. W.; Freeman, S. P. H. T. , Quaternary Science Reviews, Feb, Volume 27, Issue 3-4, p.284-294, (2008), DOI 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.09.013

Cosmogenic nuclide measurements in southernmost South America and implications for landscape change, Kaplan, M. R.; Coronato, A.; Hulton, N. R. J.; Rabassa, J. O.; Kubik, P. W.; Freeman, S. P. H. T. , Geomorphology, Jul 1, Volume 87, Issue 4, p.284-301, (2007), DOI 10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.10.005

Major ice sheet response in eastern New England to a cold North Atlantic region, ca. 16-15 cal ka BP, Kaplan, M. R. , Quaternary Research, Sep, Volume 68, Issue 2, p.280-283, (2007), DOI 10.1016/j.yqres.2007.06.003

Cosmogenic nuclide surface exposure dating of boulders on last-glacial and late-glacial moraines, Lago Buenos Aires, Argentina: Interpretive strategies and paleoclimate implications, Douglass, D. C.; Singer, B. S.; Kaplan, M. R.; Mickelson, D. M.; Caffee, M. W. , Quaternary Geochronology, Feb, Volume 1, Issue 1, p.43-58, (2006), DOI 10.1016/j.quageo.2006.06.001

Comment on: Cosmogenic nuclide chronology of pre-last glacial maximum moraines at Lago Buenos Aires, 46 degrees S, Argentina (Quaternary Research 63/3, 2005, 301-315) - Reply, Kaplan, M. R.; Singer, B. S.; Douglass, D. C.; Ackert, R. P.; Caffee, M. W. , Quaternary Research, Sep, Volume 66, Issue 2, p.367-369, (2006), DOI 10.1016/j.yqres.2006.06.002

Spatial and temporal variability of Holocene temperature in the North Atlantic region, Kaplan, M. R.; Wolfe, A. P. , Quaternary Research, Mar, Volume 65, Issue 2, p.223-231, (2006), DOI 10.1016/j.yqres.2005.08.020

Cosmogenic nuclide chronology of pre-last glacial maximum moraines at Lago Buenos Aires, 46 degrees S, Argentina, Kaplan, M. R.; Douglass, D. C.; Singer, B. S.; Caffee, M. W. , Quaternary Research, May, Volume 63, Issue 3, p.301-315, (2005), DOI 10.1016/j.yqres.2004.12.003

Cosmogenic nuclide chronology of millennial-scale glacial advances during O-isotope stage 2 in Patagonia, Kaplan, M. R.; Ackert, R. P.; Singer, B. S.; Douglass, D. C.; Kurz, M. D. , Geological Society of America Bulletin, Mar-Apr, Volume 116, Issue 3-4, p.308-321, (2004), Doi 10.1130/B25178.1