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Brent B. Wolfe is affiliated with Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant work in related subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The scientist's work covers several main topics including climate change and permafrost, cryospheric studies and observations, hydrology and watershed management studies, geology and paleoclimatology research, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, heavy metals in the environment, and groundwater and isotope geochemistry.

Recent publications by Brent B. Wolfe demonstrate a range of environmental investigations. Selected papers include:

  • "Assessment of vanadium and nickel enrichment in Lower Athabasca River floodplain lake sediment within the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (Canada)," 2020, Environmental Pollution
  • "Past variation in Lower Peace River ice-jam flood frequency," 2020, Environmental Reviews
  • "Use of pre-industrial baselines to monitor anthropogenic enrichment of metals concentrations in recently deposited sediment of floodplain lakes in the Peace-Athabasca Delta (Alberta, Canada)," 2020, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
  • "Multi-year isoscapes of lake water balances across a dynamic northern freshwater delta," 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • "Evaluating spatiotemporal patterns of arsenic, antimony, and lead deposition from legacy gold mine emissions using lake sediment records," 2021, Applied Geochemistry

The scientist frequently collaborates with co-authors such as:

  • Roland I. Hall
  • Mitchell L. Kay
  • Johan A. Wiklund
  • Lauren A. MacDonald
  • Casey R. Remmer

Brent B. Wolfe's publications have appeared predominantly in several venues with multiple contributions across these outlets, including:

  • Environmental Pollution
  • Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies
  • Environmental Reviews
  • Journal of Paleolimnology
  • Arctic Science

The research conducted spans environmental monitoring of pollutants, the hydrological impacts of climate factors, and cryospheric dynamics, highlighting a multidisciplinary approach to understanding environmental changes in northern and Arctic regions.

Best Publications

  • Holocene thermal maximum in the western Arctic (0-180°W)

    D. S. Kaufman;T.A. Ager;N.J. Anderson;P.M. Anderson

  • Progress in isotope tracer hydrology in Canada

    J. J. Gibson;T. W. D. Edwards;S. J. Birks;N. A. St Amour

  • 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

  • Influence of Changing Atmospheric Circulation on Precipitation δ18O–Temperature Relations in Canada during the Holocene

    Thomas W.D. Edwards;Brent B. Wolfe;Glen M. Macdonald

  • ISOTOPES IN LAKE SEDIMENTS

    Melanie J. Leng;Angela L. Lamb;Timothy H.E. Heaton;James D. Marshall

  • Carbon and Oxygen Isotope Analysis of Lake Sediment Cellulose: Methods and Applications

    Brent B. Wolfe;Thomas W. D. Edwards;Richard J. Elgood;Kristina R. M. Beuning

  • Classification of hydrological regimes of northern floodplain basins (Peace–Athabasca Delta, Canada) from analysis of stable isotopes (δ18O, δ2H) and water chemistry

    Brent B. Wolfe;Brent B. Wolfe;Tammy L. Karst-Riddoch;Roland I. Hall;Thomas W. D. Edwards

  • A coupled isotope tracer method to characterize input water to lakes

    Yi Yi;Bronwyn E. Brock;Matthew D. Falcone;Brent B. Wolfe;Brent B. Wolfe

  • Characterizing the role of hydrological processes on lake water balances in the Old Crow Flats, Yukon Territory, Canada, using water isotope tracers.

    Kevin W. Turner;Brent B. Wolfe;Thomas W.D. Edwards

  • Reconstruction of multi-century flood histories from oxbow lake sediments, Peace-Athabasca Delta, Canada

    Brent B. Wolfe;Brent B. Wolfe;Roland I. Hall;Thomas W. D. Edwards

  • Science-policy processes for transboundary water governance.

    Derek Armitage;Rob C de Loe;Michelle Morris;Tom W D Edwards

  • Paleolimnology of thermokarst lakes: a window into permafrost landscape evolution

    Frédéric Bouchard;Lauren Ashley MacDonald;Kevin W. Turner;Joshua R. Thienpont

  • Vulnerability of shallow subarctic lakes to evaporate and desiccate when snowmelt runoff is low

    F. Bouchard;F. Bouchard;K. W. Turner;K. W. Turner;L. A. MacDonald;C. Deakin

  • Impacts of climate and river flooding on the hydro-ecology of a floodplain basin, Peace-Athabasca Delta, Canada since A.D. 1700

    Brent B. Wolfe;Brent B. Wolfe;Tammy L. Karst-Riddoch;Sheila R. Vardy;Matthew D. Falcone

  • Controls on water balance of shallow thermokarst lakes and their relations with catchment characteristics: a multi‐year, landscape‐scale assessment based on water isotope tracers and remote sensing in Old Crow Flats, Yukon (Canada)

    Kevin W. Turner;Kevin W. Turner;Brent B. Wolfe;Thomas W. D. Edwards;Trevor C. Lantz

  • Holocene hydrological reconstructions from stable isotopes and paleolimnology, Cordillera Real, Bolivia

    Mark B. Abbott;Brent B. Wolfe;Ramón Aravena;Alexander P. Wolfe

  • Progress in isotope paleohydrology using lake sediment cellulose

    Brent B. Wolfe;Brent B. Wolfe;Matthew D. Falcone;Ken P. Clogg-Wright;Cherie L. Mongeon

  • Use of water isotope tracers in high latitude hydrology and paleohydrology

    Thomas W. D. Edwards;Brent B. Wolfe;John J. Gibson;Dan Hammarlund

  • Has Alberta Oil Sands Development Altered Delivery of Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds to the Peace-Athabasca Delta?

    Roland I. Hall;Brent B. Wolfe;Johan A. Wiklund;Thomas W. D. Edwards

  • Palaeolimnological and sedimentary responses to Holocene forest retreat in the Scandes Mountains, west-central Sweden

    Dan Hammarlund;Gaute Velle;Brent B. Wolfe;Thomas W.D. Edwards

Frequent Co-Authors

Roland I. Hall
Roland I. Hall University of Waterloo
Thomas W. D. Edwards
Thomas W. D. Edwards University of Waterloo
Glen M. MacDonald
Glen M. MacDonald University of California, Los Angeles
Ramon Aravena
Ramon Aravena University of Waterloo
Reinhard Pienitz
Reinhard Pienitz Université Laval
Merrin L. Macrae
Merrin L. Macrae University of Waterloo
Suzanne McGowan
Suzanne McGowan University of Nottingham
Peter R. Leavitt
Peter R. Leavitt University of Regina
John P. Smol
John P. Smol Queen's University
Jules M. Blais
Jules M. Blais University of Ottawa

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