Geography 820            Climate History: Physical and Human Dimensions

Syllabus:    

Presentations:

01/10:  Mark - Ice Ages Review

 

Hot Topic Papers

01/20: Box - Greenland Ice Core

            Alley et al. (1995) Nature: Comparison of Deep Ice Cores.

            Grip Members (1993) Nature: Climate Instability During the Last Interglacial Period Recorded in the GRIP ice core.

            Grootes et al. (1993) Nature:  Comparison of Oxygen Isotope Records from the GISP2 and GRIP Greenland ice cores.

01/20: Porinchu - Paleo-peopling of the Americas

            Roosevelt et al. (1996) Science: Paleoindian cave dwellers in the Amazon: the peopling of the Americas

            Kelly (2003)  Quaternary International: Maybe we do know when people first can to North America; and what

            does it mean if we do?

01/31: Natalie K. - Andean Civilization

            Thompson et al. (1988)  Nature: Pre-Incan agricultural activity recorded in dust layers in two tropical ice cores

            Binford et al. (1997) Quaternary Research: Climate variation and the rise and fall of an Andean civilization

01/31: Andrew E. - Arroyo formation and Climate Change

            Hereford (2002)  GSA Bulletin: Valley-fill alluviation during the LIA, Paria River Basin and southern Colorado Plateau

            Waters and Haynes (2001)  Geology: Late Quaternary arroyo formation and climate change in the American Southwest

 02/07: Kelly A.-Climate modeling

            Ganopolski et al. (1998) Nature: Simulation of modern and glacial climates with a coupled global model of intermediate complexity

            Hostetler et al. (2000) Nature: Simulated influence of Lake Agassiz on the climate of central North America 11,000 years ago

02/07: Andrew M.-Global warming

            Holdren (2003) Environmental Change and the Human Condition

            Sun and Hansen (2003) Journal of Climate: Climate simulations for 1951-2050 with a coupled atmosphere-ocean model

02/14: Lijia Wei-Volcanoes

            Robock (2000) AGU Revs of Geophysics: Volcanic eruptions and climate

            Cole-Dai et al. (2000) JGR: A 4100-year record of explosive volcanism from an East Antarctica ice core

02/14: Kyung In: Climate and health

            Pascual et al. (2000) Science: Cholera dynamics and El Nino-Southern Oscillation

            Lobitz et al. (2000) PNAS: Climate and infectious disease: Use of remote sensing for detection of Vibrio cholerae by indirect measurement

02/14 Jon F.: Milankovitch revisited

            Raymo and Nisancioglu (2003) Paleoceanography: The 41 k yr world: Milankovitch's other unsolved mystery

            Rial and Anaclerio (2000) Quat Sci Rev: Understanding non-linear responses of the climate system to orbital forcing

02/21 Dan S.: Great Lake level & climate

            Lichter (1995) Quat Res:Lake Michigan beach-ridge and dune development, lake level, and variability in regional water balance

            Delcourt et al. (1996) Quat Res: Late Holocene formation of Lake Michigan correlated with a 70-yr oscillation in global climate

02/21 Brianne: Tropical LGM climate: snowlines & models

            Hostetler and Clark (2000) Science: Tropical climate at the LGM inferred from glacier mass balance modeling

            Rind and Peteet (1985) Quat Res: Terrestrial conditions at the LGM and CLIMAP SST estimates: are they consistent?

02/21 Lei Y:  Polar ice sheet changes

            Huybrechts (2001): Changes of the polar ice sheets

            Zwally et al. (2002) Science: Acceleration of Greenland ice-sheet flow

Extra stuff:

       Guilderson et al. (2005) Boon and bane of radiocarbon dating--Science 307, 21 Jan 05