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Alexander P. Wolfe

Alexander P. Wolfe

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Earth Science

D-Index
66
Citations
19332
World Ranking
1287
National Ranking
59

Overview

Alexander P. Wolfe is affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada. Their primary field of study is Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Biomaterials, Paleontology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The researcher's work encompasses a range of main topics, notably:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Diatoms and Algae Research
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention
  • Effects of Vibration on Health
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems

Alexander P. Wolfe has published in various scientific journals, including frequent contributions to the following venues:

  • Journal of Paleolimnology
  • Science Advances
  • Journal of Quaternary Science
  • Cretaceous Research
  • Geological Society of America Bulletin

Their recent scientific papers include:

  • "An assessment of chlorophyll preservation in lake sediments using multiple analytical techniques applied to the annually laminated lake sediments of Nylandssjön" (2020, Journal of Paleolimnology)
  • "Extinction of austral diatoms in response to large-scale climate dynamics in Antarctica" (2021, Science Advances)
  • "Last interglacial lake sediments preserved beneath Laurentide and Greenland Ice sheets provide insights into Arctic climate amplification and constrain 130 ka of ice-sheet history" (2022, Journal of Quaternary Science)
  • "A new, Late Cretaceous gonorynchiform fish in the genus †Notogoneus from drill core of crater-lake deposits in a kimberlite maar, Northwest Territories, Canada" (2022, Cretaceous Research)
  • "Tephra zircon U-Pb geochronology of kimberlite maar sedimentary fills in subarctic Canada: Implications for Eocene paleoclimate and Late Cretaceous paleogeography" (2024, Geological Society of America Bulletin)

Throughout their research career, Alexander P. Wolfe has frequently collaborated with colleagues such as Alberto V. Reyes, Serhiy D. Buryak, Peter A. Siver, Tongjian You, and Brad Manor. These coauthors have contributed to multiple joint publications with Wolfe.

Best Publications

  • The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene

    Colin N. Waters;Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin Summerhayes;Anthony D. Barnosky

  • Arctic Environmental Change of the Last Four Centuries

    J. Overpeck;K. Hughen;D. Hardy;R. Bradley

  • Climate-driven regime shifts in the biological communities of arctic lakes

    John P. Smol;Alexander P. Wolfe;H. John B. Birks;Marianne S. V. Douglas

  • When did the Anthropocene begin? A mid-twentieth century boundary level is stratigraphically optimal

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin N. Waters;Mark Williams;Anthony D. Barnosky

  • The geological cycle of plastics and their use as a stratigraphic indicator of the Anthropocene

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin N. Waters;Juliana A. Ivar do Sul;Patricia L. Corcoran

  • The Working Group on the Anthropocene: Summary of evidence and interim recommendations

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin N. Waters;Colin N. Waters;Colin P. Summerhayes;Alexander P. Wolfe

  • A Coherent Signature of Anthropogenic Nitrogen Deposition to Remote Watersheds of the Northern Hemisphere

    Gordon W. Holtgrieve;Daniel E. Schindler;William O. Hobbs;Peter R. Leavitt

  • Re-conceptualizing the Anthropocene: A call for collaboration

    Eduardo S. Brondizio;Karen O'Brien;Xuemei Bai;Frank Biermann

  • Mid-Miocene cooling and the extinction of tundra in continental Antarctica

    Adam R. Lewis;David R. Marchant;Allan C. Ashworth;Lars Hedenäs

  • Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition induces rapid ecological changes in alpine lakes of the Colorado Front Range (USA)

    Alexander P. Wolfe;Jill S. Baron;R. Jack Cornett

  • Temperature and precipitation history of the Arctic

    G. H. Miller;J. Brigham-Grette;R. B. Alley;L. Anderson

  • Scale and diversity of the physical technosphere: A geological perspective:

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Mark Williams;Colin N. Waters;Colin N. Waters;Anthony D. Barnosky

  • Stratigraphic and Earth System approaches to defining the Anthropocene

    Will Steffen;Will Steffen;Reinhold Leinfelder;Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin N. Waters

  • Holocene paleohydrology and glacial history of the central Andes using multiproxy lake sediment studies

    Mark B Abbott;Brent B Wolfe;Alexander P Wolfe;Geoffrey O Seltzer

  • Do spectrally inferred determinations of chlorophyll a reflect trends in lake trophic status

    Neal Michelutti;Jules M. Blais;Brian F. Cumming;Andrew M. Paterson

  • Global change revealed by palaeolimnological records from remote lakes : a review

    Jordi Catalan;Sergi Pla-Rabés;Alexander P. Wolfe;John P. Smol

  • Recent ecological and biogeochemical changes in alpine lakes of Rocky Mountain National Park (Colorado, USA): a response to anthropogenic nitrogen deposition

    Alexander P. Wolfe;Alexander P. Wolfe;Alison C. Van Gorp;Jill S. Baron

  • Recent primary production increases in arctic lakes

    Neal Michelutti;Alexander P. Wolfe;Rolf D. Vinebrooke;Benoit Rivard

  • Stratigraphic expressions of the Holocene-Anthropocene transition revealed in sediments from remote lakes

    Alexander P. Wolfe;William O. Hobbs;Hilary H. Birks;Jason P. Briner

  • A time-calibrated multi-gene phylogeny of the diatom genus Pinnularia.

    Caroline Souffreau;Heroen Verbruggen;Alexander P. Wolfe;Pieter Vanormelingen

  • Resource requirements of Asterionella formosa and Fragilaria crotonensis in oligotrophic alpine lakes : implications for recent phytoplankton community reorganizations

    Jasmine E Saros;Timothy J Michel;Sebastian J Interlandi;Alexander P Wolfe

Frequent Co-Authors

Gifford H. Miller
Gifford H. Miller University of Colorado Boulder
Will Steffen
Will Steffen Australian National University
Jason P. Briner
Jason P. Briner University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Mark B. Abbott
Mark B. Abbott University of Pittsburgh
Neal Michelutti
Neal Michelutti Queen's University
Colin N. Waters
Colin N. Waters University of Leicester
John P. Smol
John P. Smol Queen's University
Jan Zalasiewicz
Jan Zalasiewicz University of Leicester
Karlis Muehlenbachs
Karlis Muehlenbachs University of Alberta
Mark Williams
Mark Williams University of Leicester

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