Search Results - "Streeter, Richard"
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Cultural adaptation, compounding vulnerabilities and conjunctures in Norse Greenland
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (06-03-2012)“…Norse Greenland has been seen as a classic case of maladaptation by an inflexible temperate zone society extending into the arctic and collapse driven by…”
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Climate challenges, vulnerabilities, and food security
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (12-01-2016)“…This paper identifies rare climate challenges in the long-term history of seven areas, three in the subpolar North Atlantic Islands and four in the…”
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Assessing spatial patterns of soil erosion in a high‐latitude rangeland
Published in Land degradation & development (01-09-2020)“…High‐latitude areas are experiencing rapid change: we therefore need a better understanding of the processes controlling soil erosion in these environments. We…”
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The influence of vegetation cover on the grain-size distributions and thicknesses of two Icelandic tephra layers
Published in Volcanica (01-01-2022)“…Grain-size distributions and thicknesses of tephra layers are used to reconstruct characteristics, dynamics, and hazards of explosive volcanic eruptions, but…”
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Plague and landscape resilience in premodern Iceland
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (06-03-2012)“…In debates on societal collapse, Iceland occupies a position of precarious survival, defined by not becoming extinct, like Norse Greenland, but having endured,…”
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Anticipating land surface change
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (09-04-2013)“…The interplay of human actions and natural processes over varied spatial and temporal scales can result in abrupt transitions between contrasting land surface…”
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The interpretative value of transformed tephra sequences
Published in Journal of quaternary science (01-01-2020)“…ABSTRACT We explore developments in tephra science that consider more than chronology, using case studies of morphological transformations of tephra deposits…”
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Impact of small-scale vegetation structure on tephra layer preservation
Published in Scientific reports (15-11-2016)“…The factors that influence tephra layer taphonomy are poorly understood, but vegetation cover is likely to play a role in the preservation of terrestrial…”
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Impacts of ocean acidification on intertidal benthic foraminiferal growth and calcification
Published in PloS one (21-08-2019)“…Foraminifera are expected to be particularly susceptible to future changes in ocean carbonate chemistry as a function of increased atmospheric CO2. Studies in…”
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Projections of Temperature-Attributable Premature Deaths in 209 U.S. Cities Using a Cluster-Based Poisson Approach
Published in Environmental health (04-11-2015)“…Background: A warming climate will affect future temperature-attributable premature deaths. This analysis is the first to project these deaths at a near…”
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Vegetation structure influences the retention of airfall tephra in a sub-Arctic landscape
Published in Progress in physical geography (01-10-2016)“…Vegetation cover mediates a number of important geomorphological processes. However, the effect of different vegetation types on the retention of fine aeolian…”
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Reconstructing late-Holocene environmental change in Iceland using high-resolution tephrochronology
Published in Holocene (Sevenoaks) (01-02-2013)“…High resolution records of sediment accumulation are necessary to evaluate subtle temporal and spatial variations in sediment flux, especially in the context…”
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A Lockpick's Guide to dataARC: Designing Infrastructures and Building Communities to Enable Transdisciplinary Research
Published in Internet archaeology (01-10-2021)“…The North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO) community initiated dataARC to develop digital research infrastructures to support their work on long-term…”
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Variable preservation of the 1991 Hudson tephra in small lakes and on land
Published in Frontiers in earth science (Lausanne) (03-10-2024)“…Volcanic ash (tephra) preserved in terrestrial environments and lake sediments contains information about volcanic processes and can be used to infer eruptive…”
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Late-Holocene land surface change in a coupled social–ecological system, southern Iceland: a cross-scale tephrochronology approach
Published in Quaternary science reviews (15-02-2014)“…The chronological challenge of cross-scale analysis within coupled socio-ecological systems can be met with tephrochronology based on numerous well-dated…”
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Arctic tundra shrubification can obscure increasing levels of soil erosion in NDVI assessments of land cover derived from satellite imagery
Published in Remote sensing of environment (01-02-2024)“…Monitoring soil erosion in the Arctic tundra is complicated by the highly fragmentated nature of the landscape and the limited spatial resolution of even…”
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The role of vegetation cover and slope angle in tephra layer preservation and implications for Quaternary tephrostratigraphy
Published in Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology (01-01-2018)“…Our aim is to understand the significance of slope position, slope angle and the interplay between slopes and vegetation in influencing the ways in which…”
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Climate change risks to US infrastructure: impacts on roads, bridges, coastal development, and urban drainage
Published in Climatic change (01-07-2015)“…Changes in temperature, precipitation, sea level, and coastal storms will likely increase the vulnerability of infrastructure across the United States. Using…”
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The influence of burial rate on variability in tephra thickness and grain size distribution in Iceland
Published in Catena (Giessen) (15-05-2023)“…•Burial rate does not influence variability in tephra layer thicknesses.•Variation in grain size distribution is positively correlated with burial rate.•Rapid…”
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Archaeological sites as Distributed Long-term Observing Networks of the Past (DONOP)
Published in Quaternary international (30-05-2020)“…Archaeological records provide a unique source of direct data on long-term human-environment interactions and samples of ecosystems affected by differing…”
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