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