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PETER J. FAWCETT

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1994. (Assistant Professor) (505) 277-3867; fawcett@unm.edu

Research and Academic Interests:

Paleoclimatology and sedimentology with particular emphasis on (1) problems in the long-term evolution of the climate system and how interactions between geochemical cycles, plate tectonics, and atmospheric and oceanic dynamics affect patterns of past global change (2) problems in Quaternary paleoclimatology, especially the origins of large and rapid climate change events during glacial periods, and (3) climatic influences on the development of ancient and recent sedimentary facies and depositional sequences.

Listing of Recent Publications:

• "Ice-core evidence of late-Holocene reduction in North Atlantic ocean heat transport," (eds., R.S. Webb, P.U. Clark and L.D. Keigwin), Mechanisms of Millennial-Scale Global Climate Change, Geophysical Monograph, American Geophysical Union, Washington D.C., v. 112, p. 301-312, 1999, (R.B. Alley, A.M. Agustsdottir and P.J. Fawcett).
• "Global chemical erosion over the last 250 my: variations due to changes in paleogeography, paleoclimate, and paleogeology," American Journal of Science, v. 299, p. 611-651, 1999, (M.T. Gibbs, G.S. Bluth, P.J. Fawcett and L.R. Kump).
• "The Younger Dryas termination and North Atlantic deepwater formation: insights from climate model simulations and Greenland ice core data," Paleoceanography, v. 12, p. 23-28, 1997, (P.J. Fawcett, A.M. Agustsdottir, R.B. Alley and C.A. Shuman).
• "The role of geography and atmospheric CO2 in long term climate change: results from model simulations for the Late Permian to Present," Tectonic Boundary Conditions for Climate Reconstructions, Oxford Monographs on Geology and Geophysics, p. 21-36, 1998, (P.J. Fawcett and E.J. Barron).
• "Estuarine circulation in the Turonian western interior seaway of North America," Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 108, p. 941-952, 1996 (with R.L. Slingerland, L.R. Kump, M.A. Arthur, B.B. Sageman and E.J. Barron).
• "A simulation of mid-Cretaceous climate," Paleoceanography, v. 10, p. 953-962, 1995 (with E.J. Barron, W.H. Peterson, D. Pollard and S.L. Thompson).
• The climatic evolution of India and Australia from the Permian to Jurassic: A comparison of climate model results to the geologic record," in, Pangea: Paleoclimate, Tectonics and Sedimentation during Accretion, Zenith and Breakup of a Supercontinent: Geological Society of America Special Paper 288, p. 139-157, 1994 (with E.J. Barron, V.D. Robison and B.J. Katz).

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