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Alan D. Wanamaker is affiliated with Iowa State University in the United States. The scientist's research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant work in several related subfields. Key areas of study include Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, and Geophysics.

Their work addresses diverse topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Climate variability and models, Tree-ring climate responses, Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies.

Alan D. Wanamaker has published extensively, including 44 papers in Earth and Planetary Sciences and 31 in Environmental Science. Publications appear frequently in venues such as Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Nature Geoscience, Quaternary Research, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, and Ecosystems.

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Nature Geoscience
  • Quaternary Research
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Ecosystems

Several recent papers exemplify their research scope and collaborative nature. These include:

  • Atlantic circulation change still uncertain, 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • Twentieth-century Azores High expansion unprecedented in the past 1,200 years, 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • Eutrophication Drives Extreme Seasonal CO2 Flux in Lake Ecosystems, 2020, Ecosystems
  • Hydroclimate variability from western Iberia (Portugal) during the Holocene: Insights from a composite stalagmite isotope record, 2020, The Holocene
  • Rapid 20th century warming reverses 900-year cooling in the Gulf of Maine, 2022, Communications Earth & Environment

Alan D. Wanamaker has collaborated frequently with other researchers, including Caroline C. Ummenhofer, Diana L. Thatcher, Yemane Asmerom, Victor J. Polyak, and David P. Gillikin. Multiple joint publications indicate sustained research partnerships.

  • Caroline C. Ummenhofer
  • Diana L. Thatcher
  • Yemane Asmerom
  • Victor J. Polyak
  • David P. Gillikin

Best Publications

  • Variability of marine climate on the North Icelandic Shelf in a 1357-year proxy archive based on growth increments in the bivalve Arctica islandica

    Paul G. Butler;Alan D. Jnr Wanamaker;James D. Scourse;Christopher A. Richardson

  • Carbonate clumped isotope compositions of modern marine mollusk and brachiopod shells

    Gregory A. Henkes;Benjamin H. Passey;Alan D. Wanamaker;Ethan L. Grossman

  • surface changes in the north Atlantic meridional overturning circulation during the last millennium

    Alan D. Wanamaker;Paul G. Butler;James D. Scourse;Jan Heinemeier

  • Very Long-Lived Mollusks Confirm 17th Century AD Tephra-Based Radiocarbon Reservoir Ages for North Icelandic Shelf Waters

    Alan D Wanamaker;Jan Heinemeier;James D Scourse;Christopher A Richardson

  • A Stalagmite record of Holocene Indonesian–Australian summer monsoon variability from the Australian tropics

    Rhawn F. Denniston;Karl-Heinz Wyrwoll;Victor J. Polyak;Josephine R. Brown

  • Marine climate in the Irish Sea: analysis of a 489-year marine master chronology derived from growth increments in the shell of the clam Arctica islandica

    Paul G. Butler;Christopher A. Richardson;James D. Scourse;Alan D. Wanamaker

  • Coupled North Atlantic slope water forcing on Gulf of Maine temperatures over the past millennium

    Alan D. Wanamaker;Alan D. Wanamaker;Karl J. Kreutz;Bernd R. Schöne;Neal Pettigrew

  • The influence of temperature and seawater carbonate saturation state on 13C–18O bond ordering in bivalve mollusks

    R A Eagle;R A Eagle;J M Eiler;Aradhna K Tripati;Justin B Ries

  • Continuous marine radiocarbon reservoir calibration and the 13C Suess effect in the Irish Sea: Results from the first multi-centennial shell-based marine master chronology

    Paul G. Butler;James D. Scourse;Christopher A. Richardson;Alan D. Wanamaker

  • Experimentally determined Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca ratios in juvenile bivalve calcite for Mytilus edulis: implications for paleotemperature reconstructions

    Alan D. Wanamaker;Alan D. Wanamaker;Karl J. Kreutz;Tiffany Wilson;Harold W. Borns

  • Experimental Determination of Salinity, Temperature, Growth, and Metabolic Effects on Shell Isotope Chemistry of Mytilus edulis Collected from Maine and Greenland

    Alan D. Wanamaker;Karl J. Kreutz;Harold W. Borns;Douglas S. Introne

  • Coralline red algae as high-resolution climate recorders

    J. Halfar;R. S. Steneck;M. Joachimski;A. Kronz

  • Annually resolved North Atlantic marine climate over the last millennium.

    David J. Reynolds;J.D. Scourse;P.R. Halloran;A. Nederbragt

  • Variability in the Northern North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans Across the Last Two Millennia: A Review

    Paola Moffa-Sánchez;Paola Moffa-Sánchez;E. Moreno-Chamarro;D. J. Reynolds;D. J. Reynolds;P. Ortega

  • The value of crossdating to retain high-frequency variability, climate signals, and extreme events in environmental proxies

    Bryan A. Black;Daniel Griffin;Peter van der Sleen;Alan D. Wanamaker

  • Gulf of Maine shells reveal changes in seawater temperature seasonality during the Medieval Climate Anomaly and the Little Ice Age

    Alan D. Wanamaker;Karl J. Kreutz;Bernd R. Schöne;Douglas S. Introne

  • Linking large‐scale climate variability with Arctica islandica shell growth and geochemistry in northern Norway

    Madelyn J. Mette;Alan D. Wanamaker;Michael L. Carroll;William G. Ambrose

  • Expansion and Contraction of the Indo-Pacific Tropical Rain Belt over the Last Three Millennia.

    Rhawn F. Denniston;Caroline C. Ummenhofer;Alan D. Wanamaker;Matthew S. Lachniet

  • Extreme rainfall activity in the Australian tropics reflects changes in the El Niño/Southern Oscillation over the last two millennia

    Rhawn F. Denniston;Gabriele Villarini;Angelique N. Gonzales;Karl-Heinz Wyrwoll

  • Twentieth-century Azores High expansion unprecedented in the past 1,200 years

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  • Experimental validation of environmental controls on the δ13C of Arctica islandica (ocean quahog) shell carbonate

    Erin C. Beirne;Alan D. Wanamaker;Scott C. Feindel

  • A late Holocene paleo-productivity record in the western Gulf of Maine, USA, inferred from growth histories of the long-lived ocean quahog (Arctica islandica)

    Alan D. Wanamaker;Karl J. Kreutz;Bernd R. Schöne;Kirk A. Maasch

Frequent Co-Authors

James D. Scourse
James D. Scourse University of Exeter
Christopher A. Richardson
Christopher A. Richardson Bangor University
David P. Gillikin
David P. Gillikin Union College
Bernd R. Schöne
Bernd R. Schöne Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Caroline C. Ummenhofer
Caroline C. Ummenhofer Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Victor J. Polyak
Victor J. Polyak University of New Mexico
Karl J. Kreutz
Karl J. Kreutz University of Maine
Yemane Asmerom
Yemane Asmerom University of New Mexico
Jón Eiríksson
Jón Eiríksson University of Iceland
William F. Humphreys
William F. Humphreys Australian Museum

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