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  • 1994 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy

Overview

Alexander R. Simms is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant concentration in Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, and Environmental Chemistry. Additional subfields include Ecology and Anthropology.

Their main topics of work span geology and paleoclimatology research, geological formations and processes, methane hydrates and related phenomena, coastal and marine dynamics, cryospheric studies and observations, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, and Pleistocene-era hominins and archaeology.

Alexander R. Simms has published numerous papers, including the following recent ones:

  • "Evidence for a 'Little Ice Age' glacial advance within the Antarctic Peninsula - Examples from glacially-overrun raised beaches" (2021, Quaternary Science Reviews)
  • "The World Atlas of Last Interglacial Shorelines (version 1.0)" (2023, Earth system science data)
  • "Last interglacial sea levels within the Gulf of Mexico and northwestern Caribbean Sea" (2021, Earth system science data)
  • "Correcting MIS5e and 5a sea-level estimates for tectonic uplift, an example from southern California" (2020, Quaternary Science Reviews)
  • "Last interglacial sea-level proxies in the Korean Peninsula" (2022, Earth system science data)

Frequent co-authors associated with their research include:

  • Regina DeWitt
  • Davin J. Wallace
  • Julie Zurbuchen
  • Louise Best
  • Sarah Bradley

They often publish in venues such as:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Earth system science data
  • Sedimentology

Among their book publications, a notable work is "Holocene Evolution of the Western Louisiana-Texas Coast, USA: Response to Sea-Level Rise and Climate Change," published by the Geological Society of America in 2022.

Alexander R. Simms received the award of Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 1994.

Best Publications

  • A community-based geological reconstruction of Antarctic Ice Sheet deglaciation since the Last Glacial Maximum

    Michael J Bentley;Colm Ó Cofaigh;John B Anderson;Howard Conway

  • Reconstruction of ice-sheet changes in the Antarctic Peninsula since the Last Glacial Maximum

    Colm Ó Cofaigh;Bethan J. Davies;Stephen J. Livingstone;James A. Smith

  • Progressive Cenozoic cooling and the demise of Antarctica’s last refugium

    John B. Anderson;Sophie Warny;Rosemary A. Askin;Julia S. Wellner

  • Variable response of coastal environments of the northwestern Gulf of Mexico to sea-level rise and climate change: Implications for future change

    John B. Anderson;Davin J. Wallace;Alexander R. Simms;Antonio B. Rodriguez

  • Recycling sediments between source and sink during a eustatic cycle: Systems of late Quaternary northwestern Gulf of Mexico Basin

    John B. Anderson;Davin J. Wallace;Alexander R. Simms;Antonio B. Rodriguez

  • Terrace Inundation as an Autocyclic Mechanism for Parasequence Formation: Galveston Estuary, Texas, U.S.A.

    Antonio B. Rodriguez;John B. Anderson;Alexander R. Simms

  • Balancing the last glacial maximum (LGM) sea-level budget

    Alexander R. Simms;Lorraine Lisiecki;Geoffrey Gebbie;Pippa L. Whitehouse

  • Sea-level history of the Gulf of Mexico since the Last Glacial Maximum with implications for the melting history of the Laurentide Ice Sheet

    Alexander R. Simms;Kurt Lambeck;Anthony Purcell;John B. Anderson

  • Timing of the most recent Neoglacial advance and retreat in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctic Peninsula: insights from raised beaches and Holocene uplift rates

    Alexander R. Simms;Erik R. Ivins;Regina DeWitt;Peter Kouremenos

  • Barrier-island aggradation via inlet migration: Mustang Island, Texas

    Alexander R. Simms;John B. Anderson;Michael Blum

  • The marine record of deglaciation of the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica since the Last Glacial Maximum

    Alexander R. Simms;Kristy T. Milliken;John B. Anderson;Julia S. Wellner

  • Overfilled Versus Underfilled Incised Valleys: Examples From the Quaternary Gulf of Mexico

    Alexander R. Simms;John B. Anderson;Z. Patrick Taha;Antonio B. Rodriguez

  • A new approach to reconstructing sea levels in Antarctica using optically stimulated luminescence of cobble surfaces

    Alexander R. Simms;Regina DeWitt;Peter Kouremenos;Ann Marie Drewry

  • Bay-head deltas across the northern Gulf of Mexico back step in response to the 8.2 ka cooling event

    Antonio B. Rodriguez;Alexander R. Simms;John B. Anderson

  • MIS 5e relative sea-level changes in the Mediterranean Sea : Contribution of isostatic disequilibrium

    Paolo Stocchi;Matteo Vacchi;Thomas Lorscheid;Bas de Boer

  • Relative sea-level history of Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula derived from optically stimulated luminescence-dated beach cobbles

    Lauren M. Simkins;Alexander R. Simms;Regina DeWitt

  • Coastal Impact Underestimated From Rapid Sea Level Rise

    John Anderson;Kristy Milliken;Davin Wallace;Antonio Rodriguez

  • Marine terraces and rates of vertical tectonic motion: The importance of glacio-isostatic adjustment along the Pacific coast of central North America

    Alexander R. Simms;Hélène Rouby;Hélène Rouby;Hélène Rouby;Kurt Lambeck;Kurt Lambeck

  • The incised valley of Baffin Bay, Texas: a tale of two climates

    Alexander R. Simms;Niranjan Aryal;Lauren Miller;Yusuke Yokoyama;Yusuke Yokoyama

  • Highstand shelf fans: The role of buoyancy reversal in the deposition of a new type of shelf sand body

    Elisabeth Steel;Alexander R. Simms;Jonathan Warrick;Yusuke Yokoyama;Yusuke Yokoyama

Frequent Co-Authors

John B. Anderson
John B. Anderson Rice University
Antonio B. Rodriguez
Antonio B. Rodriguez University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Yusuke Yokoyama
Yusuke Yokoyama University of Tokyo
Thomas K. Rockwell
Thomas K. Rockwell San Diego State University
Kurt Lambeck
Kurt Lambeck Australian National University
Jonathan A. Warrick
Jonathan A. Warrick United States Geological Survey
Michael J. Bentley
Michael J. Bentley Durham University
Werner Ehrmann
Werner Ehrmann Leipzig University
Michael D. Blum
Michael D. Blum University of Kansas
David Mohrig
David Mohrig The University of Texas at Austin

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