GAGE promotes fundamental research in the development and application of analytical methods that reveal past and present changes in Earth's climate, its land surface, and major biogeochemical cycles.
Center members have expertise in marine and isotope geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and geochronology, which are combined with geomorphology, Quaternary stratigraphy and ecosystem ecology to address scientific questions of recognized importance.
GAGE faculty capitalize on the rapidly advancing tools in geochemistry to more accurately characterize changes in Earth’s environments.
Faculty
Research foci
Key topics include:
- Isotopic and molecular approaches to understanding the modern carbon cycle
- Quantitative reconstruction of past environmental changes to reveal links between components of the global climate system
- Documenting the processes in the geomorphic system that result in large-scale landscape evolution and the rates at which those processes act.
Student participation
The active participation of graduate and undergraduate students is encouraged and ensured through formal course offerings, the development of the Carbon, Climate and Society Initiative IGERT program for graduate education, and access to specialized research facilities and employment opportunities.
Publications
Publications for GAGE faculty are included below
High-frequency climate variability in the Holocene from a coastal-dome ice core in east-central Greenland
Hughes AG; Jones TR; Vinther BM; Gkinis V; Stevens CM; Morris V; Vaughn BH; Holme C; Markle BR; White JWC...
- Hughes AG
- Jones TR
- Vinther BM
- Gkinis V
- Stevens CM
- Morris V
- Vaughn BH
- Holme C
- Markle BR
- White JWC
Publication Date: 2020-07-31
Type: Journal Article
Strong sensitivity of the isotopic composition of methane to the plausible range of tropospheric chlorine
Publication Date: 2020-07-17
Type: Journal Article
Reply to Carlson (2020) comment on "Deglaciation of the Greenland and Laurentide ice sheets interrupted by glacier advance during abrupt coolings"
Young NE; Briner JP; Schaefer JM; Miller GH; Lesnek AJ; Crump SE; Thomas EK; Pendleton SL; Cuzzone J; Lamp J...
- Young NE
- Briner JP
- Schaefer JM
- Miller GH
- Lesnek AJ
- Crump SE
- Thomas EK
- Pendleton SL
- Cuzzone J
- Lamp J
Publication Date: 2020-07-15
Type: Journal Article
Reconstruction of temperature, accumulation rate, and layer thinning from an ice core at South Pole using a statistical inverse method
Kahle EC; Steig EJ; Jones TR; Fudge TJ; Koutnik MR; Morris V; Vaughn B; Schauer A; Stevens CM; Conway H...
- Kahle EC
- Steig EJ
- Jones TR
- Fudge TJ
- Koutnik MR
- Morris V
- Vaughn B
- Schauer A
- Stevens CM
- Conway H
Type: Journal Article
Estimating US fossil fuel CO2 emissions from measurements of C-14 in atmospheric CO2
Publication Date: 2020-06-16
Type: Journal Article
Identifying Metasomatized Continental Lithospheric Mantle Involvement in Cenozoic Magmatism From Ta/Th Values, Southwestern North America
Publication Date: 2020-05-01
Type: Journal Article
Orographic Controls on Subdaily Rainfall Statistics and Flood Frequency in the Colorado Front Range, USA
Publication Date: 2020-02-28
Type: Journal Article
Lipid Biomarkers Quantify Holocene Summer Temperature and Ice Cap Sensitivity in Icelandic Lakes
Publication Date: 2020-02-16
Type: Journal Article
Investigating ENSO-Related Temperature Variability in Equatorial Pacific Core-Tops Using Mg/Ca in Individual Planktic Foraminifera
Publication Date: 2020-02-01
Type: Journal Article
Deglaciation of the Greenland and Laurentide ice sheets interrupted by glacier advance during abrupt coolings
Young NE; Briner JP; Miller GH; Lesnek AJ; Crump SE; Thomas EK; Pendleton SL; Cuzzone J; Lamp J; Zimmerman S...
- Young NE
- Briner JP
- Miller GH
- Lesnek AJ
- Crump SE
- Thomas EK
- Pendleton SL
- Cuzzone J
- Lamp J
- Zimmerman S
Publication Date: 2020-02-01
Type: Journal Article
Multiproxy Reduced-Dimension Reconstruction of Pliocene Equatorial Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures
Publication Date: 2020-01-01
Type: Journal Article
Foraminifera Trace Anthropogenic CO2in the NW Atlantic by 1950
Publication Date: 2019-12-28
Type: Journal Article
The influence of anoxia on downcore brGDGT paleotemperature reconstructions – evidence over the Holocene from Baffin Island lake sediment records
Type: Conference Proceeding
Vegetation response to climate warming across multiple interglacials inferred from High Arctic lake sediment
Crump S; Fréchette B; Miller G; Power M; De Wet G; Thomas E; Sepulveda Arellano J; Briner J; Bounce M...
- Crump S
- Fréchette B
- Miller G
- Power M
- De Wet G
- Thomas E
- Sepulveda Arellano J
- Briner J
- Bounce M
Type: Conference Proceeding
Assessing Change in Summer Arctic Moisture Source and Aridity over the Past 7,000 Years Using Leaf Wax δ2H in Baffin Island Lake Sediment
Type: Conference Proceeding
Distinguishing the Sources of brGDGTs at Lake Qaupat, Baffin Island Using Intact Polar Lipids
Type: Conference Proceeding
The Dating of a Middle Paleolithic Blade Industry in Southern Russia and Its Relationship to the Initial Upper Paleolithic
Hoffecker JF; Holliday VT; Nehoroshev P; Vishnyatsky L; Otcherednoy A; Salnaya N; Goldberg P; Southon J; Lehman SJ; Capp...
- Hoffecker JF
- Holliday VT
- Nehoroshev P
- Vishnyatsky L
- Otcherednoy A
- Salnaya N
- Goldberg P
- Southon J
- Lehman SJ
- Cappa PJ
Type: Journal Article
Hudson Bay was not deglaciated during MIS-3
Publication Date: 2019-12-01
Type: Journal Article
Water within, moving through, and shaping the Earth's surface: Introducing a special issue on water in the critical zone PREFACE
Publication Date: 2019-11-08
Type: Journal Article
The age of Wolfe Creek meteorite crater (; Kandimalal; ), Western Australia
Publication Date: 2019-11-01
Type: Journal Article
Micro Methods for Megafauna: Novel Approaches to Late Quaternary Extinctions and Their Contributions to Faunal Conservation in the Anthropocene
Swift JA; Bunce M; Dortch J; Douglass K; Faith JT; Fellows Yates JA; Field J; Haberle SG; Jacob E; Johnson CN...
- Swift JA
- Bunce M
- Dortch J
- Douglass K
- Faith JT
- Fellows Yates JA
- Field J
- Haberle SG
- Jacob E
- Johnson CN
Publication Date: 2019-11-01
Type: Journal Article
Arctic shrub colonization lagged peak postglacial warmth: Molecular evidence in lake sediment from Arctic Canada
Publication Date: 2019-10-11
Type: Journal Article
An information-theoretic approach to extracting climate signals from deep polar ice cores
Publication Date: 2019-10-01
Type: Journal Article
Intermediate water circulation changes in the Florida Straits from a 35 ka record of Mg/Li-derived temperature and Cd/Ca-derived seawater cadmium
Publication Date: 2019-10-01
Type: Journal Article
Consistently dated Atlantic sediment cores over the last 40 thousand years
Waelbroeck C; Lougheed BC; Riveiros NV; Missiaen L; Pedro J; Dokken T; Hajdas I; Wacker L; Abbott P; Dumoulin J-P...
- Waelbroeck C
- Lougheed BC
- Riveiros NV
- Missiaen L
- Pedro J
- Dokken T
- Hajdas I
- Wacker L
- Abbott P
- Dumoulin J-P
Publication Date: 2019-09-02
Type: Journal Article