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2025

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Earth Science

D-Index
91
Citations
37022
World Ranking
241
National Ranking
130

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2013 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Alan C. Mix is affiliated with Oregon State University in the United States. Their research is principally situated within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a wide scope of subfields including Atmospheric Science, Ocean Engineering, Environmental Chemistry, Geophysics, and Ecology.

The scientist's main topics of research encompass:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Drilling and Well Engineering
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Cryospheric studies and observations

Alan C. Mix's recent papers indicate involvement in climate variability, ocean circulation, and sea level studies, among others. Notable publications include:

  • "Ryder Glacier in northwest Greenland is shielded from warm Atlantic water by a bathymetric sill," 2020, Communications Earth & Environment
  • "The role of Northeast Pacific meltwater events in deglacial climate change," 2020, Science Advances
  • "Evolution of the Global Overturning Circulation since the Last Glacial Maximum based on marine authigenic neodymium isotopes," 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Phasing of millennial-scale climate variability in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans," 2020, Science
  • "Sea level fingerprinting of the Bering Strait flooding history detects the source of the Younger Dryas climate event," 2020, Science Advances

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University), Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research), and Quaternary Science Reviews.

Collaborations feature several recurrent co-authors, including:

  • Joseph S. Stoner
  • Christina Ravelo
  • Nicklas G. Pisias
  • Larry A. Mayer
  • Christian März

Alan C. Mix has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2016 and of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) since 2013.

Best Publications

  • The orbital theory of Pleistocene climate: support from a revised chronology of the marine d18O record

    John Imbrie;James D. Hays;Douglas G. Martinson;Andrew McIntyre

  • A Reconstruction of Regional and Global Temperature for the Past 11,300 Years

    Shaun A. Marcott;Jeremy D. Shakun;Peter U. Clark;Alan C. Mix

  • On the Structure and Origin of Major Glaciation Cycles 1. Linear Responses to Milankovitch Forcing

    J. Imbrie;E. A. Boyle;S. C. Clemens;A. Duffy

  • On the Structure and Origin of Major Glaciation Cycles .2. the 100,000-year Cycle

    J. Imbrie;A. Berger;E. A. Boyle;S. C. Clemens

  • Global warming preceded by increasing carbon dioxide concentrations during the last deglaciation

    Jeremy D. Shakun;Peter U. Clark;Feng He;Shaun A. Marcott

  • The middle Pleistocene transition: characteristics, mechanisms, and implications for long-term changes in atmospheric pCO2

    Peter U. Clark;David E. Archer;David Pollard;Joel D Blum

  • Environmental processes of the ice age: land, oceans, glaciers (EPILOG)

    Alan C. Mix;Edouard Bard;Ralph Schneider

  • Impacts of 1.5°C Global Warming on Natural and Human Systems

    O. Hoegh-Guldberg;D. Jacob;M. Bindi;S. Brown

  • Ice sheets and sea level of the Last Glacial Maximum

    Peter U. Clark;Alan C. Mix

  • Global climate evolution during the last deglaciation

    Peter U. Clark;Jeremy D. Shakun;Paul A. Baker;Patrick J. Bartlein

  • Consequences of twenty-first-century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea-level change

    Peter U. Clark;Jeremy D. Shakun;Shaun A. Marcott;Alan C. Mix

  • Constraints on the magnitude and patterns of ocean cooling at the Last Glacial Maximum

    C. Waelbroeck;A. Paul;M. Kucera;A. Rosell-Melé

  • Benthic foraminifer stable isotope record from Site 849 (0 - 5 Ma) : local and global climate changes

    Alan C. Mix;Nicklas G. Pisias;W. Rugh;J. Wilson

  • Reconstruction of sea-surface temperatures from assemblages of planktonic foraminifera: multi-technique approach based on geographically constrained calibration data sets and its application to glacial Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

    Michal Kucera;Mara Weinelt;Thorsten Kiefer;Uwe Pflaumann

  • ENSO-like forcing on oceanic primary production during the Late Pleistocene.

    Luc Beaufort;Thibault de Garidel-Thoron;Alan C. Mix;Nicklas G. Pisias

  • Rapid Rise of Sea Level 19,000 Years Ago and Its Global Implications

    Peter U. Clark;A. Marshall McCabe;Alan C. Mix;Andrew J. Weaver

  • The last interglacial ocean

    William F. Ruddiman;Rose Marie L. Cline;James D. Hays

  • Collapse of the California Current During Glacial Maxima Linked to Climate Change on Land

    T. D. Herbert;J. D. Schuffert;D. Andreasen;L. Heusser

  • Surface water response of the equatorial Atlantic Ocean to orbital forcing

    Andrew McIntyre;William F. Ruddiman;Karen Karlin;Alan C. Mix

  • Paleoceanography of the eastern equatorial Pacific during the Neogene: Synthesis of Leg 138 drilling results

    Nicklas G. Pisias;Larry A. Mayer;Alan C. Mix

  • Ice sheets and sea level of the Last Glacial Maximum

    Peter U. Clark;Alan C. Mix;Edouard Bard

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph S. Stoner
Joseph S. Stoner Oregon State University
Nicklas G Pisias
Nicklas G Pisias Oregon State University
Brian A. Haley
Brian A. Haley Oregon State University
Sean P.S. Gulick
Sean P.S. Gulick The University of Texas at Austin
Peter U. Clark
Peter U. Clark Oregon State University
Zanna Chase
Zanna Chase University of Tasmania
James McManus
James McManus Bigelow Laboratory For Ocean Sciences
Larry A. Mayer
Larry A. Mayer University of New Hampshire
Gary P. Klinkhammer
Gary P. Klinkhammer Oregon State University
Martin Jakobsson
Martin Jakobsson Stockholm University

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