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Larry C. Peterson |
Professor of Marine Geology and Geophysics (Joint Appointment with Department of Geological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences) |
Biography |
Ph.D. Geological Sciences, Brown University, 1984. |
Research Interests |
Reconstruction of past oceans and climates from marine sediments; abrupt climate change; deep sea sedimentation processes; stable isotope geochemistry of foraminifera. |
Courses Taught |
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Representative Publications |
In
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Peterson, L.C., and G.H. Haug. Variability
in the Mean Latitude of the Atlantic ITCZ as Recorded by Riverine
Input of Sediments to the Gill, R.B., Mayewski, P.A., Nyberg, J., Haug, G., and L.C. Peterson, Drought and the Maya Collapse, Latin American Antiquities. 2004 Black,
D.E., Thunell, R.C., Kaplan, A., Peterson, L.C.,
and E.J. Tappa. A 2000-year record of 2003 Haug, G.H., Günther, D., Peterson, L.C., Sigman, D.M., Hughen, K.A., and B. Aeschliman. Climate and the collapse of Maya civilization. Science, 299: 1731-1735. Lea, D.W., Pak, D.K., Peterson, L.C., and K.A. Hughen. Synchroneity of tropical and high-latitude Atlantic temperatures over the last glacial termination. Science, 301: 1361-1364. Zeigler, K., Schwartz, J.P., Droxler, A.W., Shearer, M.C., and L.C. Peterson. 2002 Kennett, J.P., and L.C. Peterson. Rapid climate change: Ocean responses to Earth System instability in the late Quaternary. In: Achievements and Opportunities of Scientific Ocean Drilling, Special Issue of the JOIDES Journal, 28(1): 5-9. 2001 Haug, G.H., Hughen, K.A., Sigman, D.M., Peterson, L.C., and U. Rohl. Southward migration of the intertropical convergence zone through the Holocene. Science, 293: 1304-1308. Peterson,
L.C., Deep-sea sediment: Calcium carbonates. In: Steele J. H., Thorpe S. A. and Turekian
K.K. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Ocean
Sciences, vol. 1, Academic Press, Peterson,
L.C., Climate reconstruction. In: Goudie, A. (Ed.), Encyclopedia
of Global Change: Environmental Change and Human Society, 2000 Peterson,
L.C., Haug, G.H., Hughen,
K.A., and U. Rohl. Rapid changes in the hydrologic cycle
of the tropical Yarincik, K.M., Peterson,
L.C., Haug, G.H., Yarincik, K.M., Werne, J.P., Hollander, D.J., 1999 Black, D.B., Peterson, L.C., Overpeck, J.T., Kaplan, A., Evans, M.N., and M. Kashgarian. Eight centuries of North Atlantic ocean-atmosphere variability. Science, 286: 1709-1713. Dean,
W.E., Piper, D.Z., and L.C. Peterson. Molybdenum accumulation in Clayton,
T., Pearce, R.B., and L.C. Peterson. Indirect climate control of the clay
mineral composition of Quaternary sediments from the 1998 Hughen, K.A., Overpeck, J.T., Lehman, S.J., Kashgarian, M., Southon, J., Peterson, L.C., Alley, R., and D.M. Sigman. Deglacial changes in ocean circulation from an extended radiocarbon calibration. Nature, 391: 65-68. Haug, G.H., Pedersen, T.F., Sigman,
D.M., Calvert, S.E., Nielsen, B., and L.C. Peterson. Glacial/interglacial
variations in production and nitrogen fixation in the Hughen, K.A., Overpeck, J.T., Lehman, S.J., Kashgarian, M., Southon, J., and L.C. Peterson. A new 14C calibration data set for the last deglaciation. Radiocarbon, 40: 483-494. 1997 Lin,
H.-L., Peterson, L.C., Overpeck, J.T., Trumbore, S.E., and D.W. Murray. Late Quaternary climate
change from 18O
records of multiple species of planktonic foraminifera:
high-resolution records from the anoxic
1996 Hughen, K., Overpeck, J.T.,
Peterson, L.C., and S.E. Trumbore. Rapid climate
changes in the tropical Hughen, K., Overpeck, J.T., Peterson, L.C., and R.F. Anderson. The nature of varved sedimentation in the Cariaco Basin, Venezuela, and its palaeoclimatic significance, In: A.E.S. Kemp (ed.), Palaeoclimatology and Palaeoceanography from Laminated Sediments, Geological Society, Special Publication, No. 116, London: 171-183. Russell, A.D., Emerson, S.R., Mix, A., and L.C. Peterson. The use of foraminiferal uranium/calcium ratios as an indicator of changes in seawater uranium content. Paleoceanography, v.11(6): 649-663. 1995 Peterson,
L.C., Abbott, M.R., 1994 Lin,
H.-L., and L.C. Peterson. A 28,000 year record of hydrography
in the anoxic 1993 Imbrie, J., Berger, A., Boyle, E., Clemens, S., Duffy, A., Howard, W., Kukla, G., Kutzbach, J., Martinson, D., McIntyre, A., Mix, A., Molfino, B., Morley, J., Peterson, L., Pisias, N., Prell, W., Raymo, M., Shackleton, N., and J. Togweiller. On the structure and origin of major glaciation cycles, 2. The 100,000 year cycle. Paleoceanography, 8(6): 699-735. 1992 Peterson,
L.C., Imbrie, J., Boyle, E., Clemens, S., Duffy, A., Howard, W., Kukla, G., Kutzbach, J., Martinson, D., McIntyre, A., Mix, A., Molfino, B., Morley, J., Peterson, L., Pisias, N., Prell, W., Raymo, M., Shackleton, N., and J. Togweiller. On the structure and origin of major glaciation cycles, 1. Linear responses to Milankovitch forcing. Paleoceanography, 7(6): 701-738. 1991 Peterson,
L.C., Overpeck, J.T., Kipp,
N.G., and J. Imbrie. A high-resolution late
Quaternary upwelling record from the anoxic 1990 Peterson,
L.C., and J. Backman. Late Cenozoic carbonate
accumulation and the history of the carbonate compensation depth in the
western equatorial 1989 Overpeck, J.T., Peterson, L.C., Kipp, N.G., Imbrie, J., and D. Rind. Climate change in the Circum-North Atlantic Region during the last deglaciation. Nature, 338: 553-557. 1985 Peterson,
L.C. and W.L. Prell. Carbonate dissolution in recent
sediments of the eastern equatorial Peterson, L.C. and W.L. Prell. Carbonate preservation and rates of climate
change: An 800 kyr record from the 1984 Peterson,
L.C., Recent abyssal benthonic foraminiferal biofacies of the eastern equatorial 1982 Peterson,
L.C. and G.P. Lohmann. Major change in |
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