Past Speakers
2017 and later
2011-2013 |
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Dr. Glen MacDonald Department of Geography, UCLA |
It's a Dry Heat - Climate Warming, the Pacific Ocean and Drought in Western North America | |||||||||||||
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Dr. Vance Holliday Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona |
The Earliest Colonizers of the New World: An Abrupt Cultural and Environmental End? | |||||||||||||
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Dr. James McCalpin 2013 Jahns Distinguished Lecturer in Engineering Geology |
The Mountains are Falling Apart; A Spectrum of Mass Failures from Landslides through Deep-Seated Gravitational Spreading (Sackung), to "Unfolding" of Folds | |||||||||||||
2010-2011 |
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Jon Erlandson Museum of Natural and Cultural History, University of Oregon |
Peopling of the Americas: A Pacific Rim Perspective Vikings in Iceland: Sagas, Settlements, and Science in Mosfell Valley |
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Lutz Schirrmeister Alfred Wegener Institute, Potsdam, Germany |
Permafrost in Northeastern Siberia, 200,000-Year Archive of Climate Change The Yedoma Suite of Northeast Siberia |
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James Baichtal Forest Geologist, Tongass National Forest |
Paleogeography, Glacially Induced Crustal Movements & Late Quaternary Coastlines in Southeastern Alaska | |
2009-2010 |
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John England Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta |
A tale of two Arctic ice shelves: lessons learned from ancient and modern examples Ongoing revision of the NW Laurentide ice Sheet: implications for paleoclimate, the northeast extremity of Beringia, and Arctic Ocean sedimentation |
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Julie Brigham-Grette Geosciences, University of Massachusetts |
Arctic Immersion with Undergraduates in Kongsfjord, Svalbard Successful recovery of 3.6 million years of Arctic history from Lake El'gygytgyn, Chukotka Marine sea level and paleoceanography (including sea ice) of Bering Strait in context of Arctic regions |
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John Jaeger Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of Florida |
Gulf of Alaska glacier melting events and the connection to oceanic and atmospheric circulation The Quaternary Marine Record of Bering Glacier Dynamics: Ice streams, Surges, and Outburst Floods |
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2008-2009 |
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Dr. David Montgomery Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington |
King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon. Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations. |
Dave Montgomery was a 2009 recipient of a MacArthur "genius grant" and is a Professor of Geology. |
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Dr. Thomas H. McGovern Dept. of Anthropology |
Extinction, Survival, and Sustainability- thresholds and conjunctures in the Viking North Atlantic Human Ecodynamics in the North Atlantic- recent IPY results |
Tom McGovern is a Professor of Anthropology whose research focuses on the North Atlantic. Link to abstracts and . |
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Dr. Mary Edwards Geography School |
Climate change and wildfire: a long-term perspective Describing Pleistocene Arctic plant communities using a new DNA barcoding technique |
Mary Edwards is a Professor in Physical Geography whose research focuses on vegetation-climate-landscape interactions in the North. |
2007-2008 |
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| Speaker and Affiliation | Presentation | Links |
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| Dr. Susan Kaplan Peary-Macmillan Arctic Museum Bowdoin College, Maine |
The Boilers Went to Pieces, the Ship was on Fire: Untold Stories of Robert E. Peary's North Pole Expeditions From Forested Bays to Tundra-Covered Passes: Inuit and Transformation of the Labrador Landscape |
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| Dr. Joanne Bourgeois Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington |
Ten summers of paleoseismology in the Russian Far East -- earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis and adventure on Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands Does Kamchatcka belong to North America? This and other neotectonic questions addressed by tsunami and terrace studies |
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| Dr. Leonid Polyak Byrd Polar Research Center Ohio State University |
Paleoclimatic perspectives of the changing Arctic Ocean Quaternary paleoceanography and glacial history of the Arctic Ocean |
2006-2007 |
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| Dr. Richard Reger Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, retired |
A unifying model for last major glaciation in upper Cook Inlet region Last major glaciation in western Kenai Peninsula lowland |
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Dr. Charles Schweger Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta |
Where have all the Vikings gone? Abandonment of the Western Settlement, Greenland Lost civilizations Based on the Fermentation of Cabbage or Perhaps my Unfinished Research will Inspire a Student or Two |
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| Dr. Charlie Paull Senior Scientist at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA |
Pingo-Like Features on the Beaufort Sea Shelf and Decomposing Methane Gas Recent Sediment Transport Events in the Monterey Canyon and Fan Channel |
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| Gregory Hare Archaeologist, Yukon Heritage Resources Unit | Yukon Alpine Ice Patches: Update on Recent Investigations 2004-2006 | |
| Dr. Grant Zazula Yukon Palaeontology Program |
Arctic Ground Squirrels of the Mammoth-Steppe |
2005-2006 |
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Dr. Jerold Lowenstein |
Ancient Bones and Bloodstains Yield Molecular Secrets Identification of Species from Fossil and Forensic Tissues |
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Dr. Darrell Kaufman |
Glacial History of the Ahklun Mountains, SW Alaska: Timing is Everything Lake Core Research in Southern Alaska: New Records of Holocene Climate and Tephra |
| Dr. Fredrick Prahl |
Alke-'Knowns' and 'Unknowns' The Gulf of California and the Anatomy of its Euphotic Zone in Summer |
2004-2005 |
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| Speaker and Affiliation | Presentations |
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| Dr. Jack Ives | "The Apachean Departure from the Subarctic: Linguistic, Human Biological, and Archaeological Evidence" |
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Dr. Gifford Miller |
"Ecosystem Collapse in Pleistocene Australia: Implications for a Human Role in Megafauna Extinction and Climate Change" |
| Dr. Feng Sheng Hu | "History of Alaskan Boreal Forests: From DNA Input to Solar Output" |
Previous years |
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| Speaker and Affiliation | Presentations |
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Arthur Dyke |
Postglacial climate threshold events in the Canadian Arctic |
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Duane Froese |
Ice Age gold, a mega-flood and reversal of Yukon River drainage in central Yukon and Alaska |
| Gary Haynes | "Extinctions and human dispersals in North America's Late Glacial landscapes (south of Alaska)" |
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Dr. David Meltzer |
"The Archaeology of the First Americans" |
| Dr. Dennis Darby | "Opportunities In Arctic Paleoceanography, New Initiatives" |
| Thijs van Kolfschoten | Out of Africa into Europe: Dating the Earliest Human Occupation of Europe |