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Lamont Research Professor
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Geochemistry
209 Comer
61 Route 9W - PO Box 1000
Palisades
NY
10964-8000
US
Phone:
(845) 365-8646
Fax:
(845) 365-8155

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Fields of interest:
How mountain glaciers, ice sheets, and associated landscapes changed in the past, cosmogenic surface exposure dating and geochronology, paleoclimate, and geomorphology
* How glaciers, climates, and landscapes changed in the past in southern South America, New Zealand, Antarctica, and eastern North America.
* Past climate changes around the globe at low and high frequency timescales.
Honors & Awards:
Fellow of the Geological Society of America (GSA)
Fulbright Scholar 2017
Lamont Projects:
Educational Activities:
Tectonophysics Seminar: Interactions Between Climate, Tectonics, and Erosion
Geomorfologia y Geocronologia Glacial (Chile)
Climate Change Past and Present (Chile)
Geomorfología Glacial y Paleoclimatología en la región de Magallanes (Chile)
Research Blogs:
Referenced in the Following News Items:
Selected Publications:
Holocene glacier behavior around the northern Antarctic Peninsula and possible causes
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
(2020)
Glacial geomorphology of the Strait of Magellan ice lobe, southernmost Patagonia, South America
Journal of Maps
(2020)
The evolution of the Patagonian Ice Sheet from 35 ka to the present day (PATICE)
Earth-Science Reviews
(2020)
New Zealand as a source of mineral dust to the atmosphere and ocean
Quaternary Science Reviews
(2020)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106659
Fluvial Channel Branching Enforces Threshold Relief
Geophysical Research Letters
(2020)
https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL091464
Holocene glacier fluctuations in Patagonia are modulated by summer insolation intensity and paced by Southern Annular Mode-like variability
Science Direct
(2019)
Formation and evolution of an extensive blue ice moraine in central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica
Journal of Glaciology
(2019)
https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2019.83
Trans-pacific glacial response to the Antarctic Cold Reversal in the southern mid-latitudes
Quaternary Science Reviews
(2018)
Warm-based basal sediment entrainment and far-field Pleistocene origin evidenced in central Transantarctic blue ice through stable origin evidenced in central Transantarctic blue ice through stable isotopes and internal structures
Journal of Glaciology
(2018)
Onset and Evolution of Southern Annular Mode-Like Changes at Centennial Timescale
Nature/Scientific Reports
(2018)
Polar desert chronologies through quantitative measurements of salt accumulation
Geology, AGU
(2018)
The interconnected global climate system – a review of tropical-polar teleconnections
Journal of Climate
(2018)
Mid-latitude trans-Pacific reconstructions 1 and comparisons of coupled glacial/interglacial climate cycles based on soil stratigraphy of cover-beds
Quaternary Science Reviews
(2018)
Factors controlling alpine glaciations in the Sierra Baguales Mountain Range of southern Patagonia (50º S), inferred from the morphometric analysis of glacial cirques
Andean Geology
(2018)
Late Pleistocene glacial fluctuations in Cordillera Oriental, subtropical Andes
Quaternary Science Reviews
(2017)
Recent climate warming and the Varas rock glacier activity, Cordillera Oriental, Central Andes of Argentina
GeoResJ
(2017)
Glacial/interglacial changes of Southern Hemisphere wind circulation from the geochemistry of South American dust
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
(2017)
High particulate iron(II) content in glacially sourced dusts enhances productivity of a model diatom
Science Advances
(2017)
Lake-level stratigraphy and geochronology revisited at Lago (Lake) Cardiel, Argentina, and changes in the Southern Hemispheric Westerlies over the last 25 ka
Quaternary Science Reviews
(2017)
Geomorfología Y Cronología Glaciar Del Cuaternario En El Noroeste Argentino
Muruaga, C.M. and Grosse, P. (Eds.), Ciencias de la Tierra y Recursos Naturales del NOA. Relatorio del XX Congreso Geológico Argentino, San Miguel de Tucumán: 825-846.
(2017)
East Antarctic ice sheet stability recorded in a high-elevation ice-cored moraine
Quaternary Science Reviews
(2017)
Middle to Late Pleistocene stability of the central East Antarctic Ice Sheet at the head of Law Glacier
Geology
Volume: 45
p.: 963-966.
(2017)
Patagonian and southern South Atlantic view of Holocene climate
Quaternary Science Reviews
2016
(2016)
Changing influence of Antarctic and Greenlandic temperature records on sea-level over the last glacial cycle
Quaternary Science Reviews
Volume: 29
Issue: 3-4
p.: 410-423
(2010)
10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.11.007
A beryllium-10 production-rate for the Southern Hemisphere middle latitudes
Journal of Quaternary Geochronology
(2010)
The chronology of the Last Glacial Maximum and Late-glacial events in central Argentine Patagonia
Journal of Quaternary Geochronology
(2010)
Surface exposure dating in the Holocene - Precise Be-10 technique for very young surfaces
Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta
Jun
Volume: 73
Issue: 13
p.: A377-A377
(2009)
Cosmogenic dating of 'old' glacial events in Patagonia,
Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta
Jun
Volume: 73
Issue: 13
p.: A513-A513
(2009)
Can glacial erosion limit the extent of glaciation?
Geomorphology
Jan 15
Volume: 103
Issue: 2
p.: 172-179
(2009)
DOI 10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.04.020
Renewed glacial activity during the Antarctic cold reversal and persistence of cold conditions until 11.5 ka in southwestern Patagonia
Geology
Apr
Volume: 37
Issue: 4
p.: 375-378
(2009)
Doi 10.1130/G25399a.1
High-Frequency Holocene Glacier Fluctuations in New Zealand Differ from the Northern Signature
Science
May 1
Volume: 324
Issue: 5927
p.: 622-625
(2009)
DOI 10.1126/science.1169312
Southern mid-latitude terminations of MIS-4, the Last Glacial Maximum and the Late Glacial period in the New Zealand moraine record
Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta
Jun
Volume: 73
Issue: 13
p.: A1167-A1167
(2009)
Middle Pleistocene glaciation in Patagonia dated by cosmogenic-nuclide 2 measurements on outwash gravels
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Volume: 286
p.: 184-197
(2009)
Renewed glacial activity during the Antarctic Cold Reversal and persistence of cold conditions until 115 ka in SW Patagonia
Geology
Volume: 37
p.: 375-378
(2009)
Southern Patagonian glacial chronology for the Last Glacial period and implications for Southern Ocean climate
Quaternary Science Reviews
Feb
Volume: 27
Issue: 3-4
p.: 284-294
(2008)
DOI 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.09.013
Glacial dynamics in southernmost South America during Marine Isotope Stage 5e to the Younger Dryas chron: a brief review with a focus on cosmogenic nuclide measurements
Journal of Quaternary Science
Sep-Oct
Volume: 23
Issue: 6-7
p.: 649-658
(2008)
Doi 10.1002/Jqs.1209
Climate science - A tale of two ice sheets
Nature Geoscience
Sep
Volume: 1
Issue: 9
p.: 570-571
(2008)
Doi 10.1038/Ngeo286
Cosmogenic nuclide measurements in southernmost South America and implications for landscape change
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
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
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
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
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
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
Geological Society of America Bulletin
Mar-Apr
Volume: 116
Issue: 3-4
p.: 308-321
(2004)
Doi 10.1130/B25178.1