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David A. Fisher

David A. Fisher

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Earth Science

D-Index
57
Citations
12938
World Ranking
2250
National Ranking
107

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1970 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

David A. Fisher is affiliated with the University of Ottawa in Canada. Their research primarily lies within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a notable focus on Atmospheric Science among other subfields such as Ecology, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Environmental Chemistry, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Polar Research and Ecology
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry

Frequent collaborators in Fisher's research include:

  • Denis Lacelle
  • Wayne H. Pollard
  • Marjolaine Verret
  • Benoit Faucher
  • Kethra Campbell-Heaton

Key publication venues for Fisher's research output are:

  • Antarctic Science
  • Quaternary Research
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
  • Quaternary Science Reviews

Significant papers authored or co-authored by Fisher feature a diverse range of studies related to permafrost, isotopes, and polar environments, including:

  • Improved prediction of the vertical distribution of ground ice in Arctic-Antarctic permafrost sediments, 2022, Communications Earth & Environment
  • A model for stable isotopes of residual liquid water and ground ice in permafrost soils using arbitrary water chemistries and soil-specific empirical residual water functions, 2020, Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
  • Ice wedges as winter temperature proxy: Principles, limitations and noise in the δ18O records (an example from high Arctic Canada), 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Cryostratigraphy of mid-Miocene permafrost at Friis Hills, McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, 2020, Antarctic Science
  • Modeling δD-δ18O Steady-State of Well-Sealed Perennially Ice-Covered Lakes and Their Recharge Source: Examples From Lake Untersee and Lake Vostok, Antarctica, 2020, Frontiers in Earth Science

Fisher has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an award received in 1970.

Best Publications

  • Formal subdivision of the Holocene Series/Epoch: a Discussion Paper by a Working Group of INTIMATE (Integration of ice‐core, marine and terrestrial records) and the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (International Commission on Stratigraphy)

    Mike Walker;M. Berkelhammer;Svante Bjorck;Les C. Cwynar

  • Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core

    D. Dahl-Jensen;M. R. Albert;A. Aldahan;N. Azuma

  • H2O at the Phoenix landing site.

    P. H. Smith;L. K. Tamppari;R. E. Arvidson;D. Bass

  • The δ18O record along the Greenland Ice Core Project deep ice core and the problem of possible Eemian climatic instability

    Sigfus I. Johnsen;Henrik B. Clausen;Willi Dansgaard;Niels S. Gundestrup

  • Holocene thinning of the Greenland ice sheet

    B. M. Vinther;S. L. Buchardt;H. B. Clausen;D. Dahl-Jensen

  • Formal ratification of the subdivision of the Holocene Series/Epoch (Quaternary System/Period) : two new Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points (GSSPs) and three new stages/subseries.

    Mike Walker;Mike Walker;Martin J. Head;Max Berkelhammer;Svante Björck

  • Reconstructed changes in Arctic sea ice over the past 1,450 years

    Christophe Kinnard;Christian M. Zdanowicz;David A. Fisher;Elisabeth Isaksson

  • A record of Holocene summer climate from a Canadian high-Arctic ice core

    R. M. Koerner;D. A. Fisher

  • Mars Water-Ice Clouds and Precipitation

    J. A. Whiteway;L. Komguem;C. Dickinson;C. Cook

  • Holocene climate change in Arctic Canada and Greenland.

    Jason P. Briner;Nicholas P. McKay;Yarrow Axford;Ole Bennike

  • Holocene climatic records from Agassiz Ice Cap, Ellesmere Island, NWT, Canada:

    David A. Fisher;Roy M. Koerner;Niels Reeh

  • Stratigraphic Noise in Time Series Derived from Ice Cores

    David A. Fisher;Niels Reeh;H.B. Clausen

  • Possible physical and thermodynamical evidence for liquid water at the Phoenix landing site

    Nilton O. Rennó;Brent J. Bos;David Catling;Benton C. Clark

  • Subdividing the Holocene Series/Epoch: formalization of stages/ages and subseries/subepochs, and designation of GSSPs and auxiliary stratotypes

    Mike Walker;Mike Walker;Martin J. Head;John Lowe;Max Berkelhammer

  • An oxygen-isotope climatic record from the Devon Island ice cap, arctic Canada

    W. S. B. Paterson;R. M. Koerner;D. Fisher;S. J. Johnsen

  • Effect of wind scouring on climatic records from ice-core oxygen-isotope profiles

    D. A. Fisher;R. M. Koerner;W. S. B. Paterson;W. Dansgaard

  • Objective Reconstructions of the Late Wisconsinan Laurentide Ice Sheet and the Significance of Deformable Beds

    D. A. Fisher;Niels Reeh;K. Langley

  • Increasing atmospheric antimony contamination in the northern hemisphere: snow and ice evidence from Devon Island, Arctic Canada

    Michael Krachler;James Zheng;James Zheng;Roy Koerner;Christian Zdanowicz

  • The climate signal in the stable isotopes of snow from Summit, Greenland: Results of comparisons with modern climate observations

    J. W. C. White;L. K. Barlow;D. Fisher;P. Grootes

  • High Arctic Holocene temperature record from the Agassiz ice cap and Greenland ice sheet evolution.

    Benoit S. Lecavalier;David A. Fisher;Glenn A. Milne;Bo M. Vinther

  • Recent melt rates of Canadian arctic ice caps are the highest in four millennia

    David Fisher;James Zheng;David Burgess;Christian Zdanowicz

  • Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core (SCI)

    D Dahl-Jensen;M R Albert;A Aldahan;N Azuma

Frequent Co-Authors

Roy M. Koerner
Roy M. Koerner Geological Survey of Canada
Denis Lacelle
Denis Lacelle University of Ottawa
William Shotyk
William Shotyk University of Alberta
Michael Krachler
Michael Krachler Joint Research Center
Cameron P. Wake
Cameron P. Wake University of New Hampshire
Sigfus J Johnsen
Sigfus J Johnsen University of Copenhagen
Christopher P. McKay
Christopher P. McKay Ames Research Center
Nilton O. Renno
Nilton O. Renno University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
James A. Whiteway
James A. Whiteway York University
Peter A. Taylor
Peter A. Taylor York University

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