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Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

David M. Mickelson is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research encompasses a range of scientific fields including atmospheric science, agronomy and crop science, political science and international relations, sociology and political science, and management, monitoring, policy, and law.

The scientist's recent work includes publications in various venues such as Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Boreas, Flux International Relations Review, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, and Crop Science. Notable recent papers include:

  • CONTINUING HIGH LAKE LEVELS ARE LEADING TO SEVERE EROSION OF WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR'S CLAY BLUFFS IN WISCONSIN, 2020, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Factors that contribute to the elongation of drumlins beneath the Green Bay Lobe, Laurentide Ice Sheet, 2021, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • Establishment of alfalfa interseeded into corn in response to one cycle of selection and hybridization, 2023, Crop Science
  • Issue Information, 2022, Boreas
  • Issue Information, 2023, Boreas

Research topics associated with Mickelson's work cover:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Geology and paleoclimatology research
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Agronomic practices and intercropping systems
  • Crop yield and soil fertility
  • Genetics and plant breeding
  • International relations and foreign policy

Frequent co-authors have included J. Elmo Rawling, Jan A. Piotrowski, Nicolaj K. Larsen, Ole Bennike, and Michael Houmark-Nielsen.

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • The Late Wisconsin glacial record of the Laurentide ice sheet in the United States

    D.M. Mickelson;Lee Clayton;David S. Fullerton;H.W. Borns

  • Were deforming subglacial beds beneath past ice sheets really widespread

    Jan A. Piotrowski;David M. Mickelson;Slawek Tulaczyk;Dariusz Krzyszkowski

  • Geological and Physical Factors Affecting the Friction Angle of Compacted Sands

    Christopher A. Bareither;Tuncer B. Edil;Craig H. Benson;David M. Mickelson

  • Cosmogenic nuclide surface exposure dating of boulders on last-glacial and late-glacial moraines, Lago Buenos Aires, Argentina: Interpretive strategies and paleoclimate implications

    D.C. Douglass;B.S. Singer;M.R. Kaplan;M.R. Kaplan;D.M. Mickelson

  • Sedimentology and hydrogeology of two braided stream deposits

    M.P Anderson;J.S Aiken;E.K Webb;D.M Mickelson

  • Effects of late Pleistocene permafrost on the landscape of Wisconsin, USA

    Lee Clayton;John W. Attig;David M. Mickelson

  • Sedimentologic evidence for outburst floods from the Laurentide Ice Sheet margin in Wisconsin, USA: implications for tunnel-channel formation

    Paul M. Cutler;Patrick M. Colgan;David M. Mickelson

  • Late Wisconsin landform distribution and glacier-bed conditions in Wisconsin

    John W. Attig;David M. Mickelson;Lee Clayton

  • Evidence of early Holocene glacial advances in southern South America from cosmogenic surface-exposure dating

    D.C. Douglass;B.S. Singer;M.R. Kaplan;R.P. Ackert

  • A numerical investigation of ice-lobe-permafrost interaction around the southern Laurentide ice sheet

    Paul M. Cutler;Douglas R. MacAyeal;David M. Mickelson;Byron R. Parizek

  • Rates and Timing of Earth Surface Processes From In Situ-Produced Cosmogenic Be-10

    P.R. Bierman;M.W. Caffee;P.T. Davis;K. Marsella

  • The southern Laurentide Ice Sheet

    David M. Mickelson;Patrick M. Colgan

  • Glacial processes past and present

    David M. Mickelson;John W. Attig

  • Variation in glacial erosion near the southern margin of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, south-central Wisconsin, USA: Implications for cosmogenic dating of glacial terrains

    Patrick M. Colgan;Paul R. Bierman;David M. Mickelson;Marc Caffee

  • A reevaluation of the timing and causes of high lake phases in the Lake Michigan basin

    Ardith K. Hansel;David M. Mickelson

  • Tunnel channels formed in Wisconsin during the last glaciation

    Lee Clayton;John W. Attig;David M. Mickelson

  • Climate during the last glacial maximum in the Wasatch and southern Uinta Mountains inferred from glacier modeling

    Benjamin J.C. Laabs;Mitchell A. Plummer;David M. Mickelson

  • Patagonian Glacier Response During the Late Glacial–Holocene Transition

    Robert P. Ackert;Richard A. Becker;Brad S. Singer;Mark D. Kurz

  • Cosmogenic 10Be dating of Guxiang and Baiyu Glaciations

    Zhou ShangZhe;XU LiuBing;Patrick M. Colgan;David M. Mickelson

  • Evidence against pervasively deformed bed material beneath rapidly moving lobes of the southern Laurentide Ice Sheet

    Lee Clayton;D.M. Mickelson;John W. Attig

  • Latest Pleistocene advance of alpine glaciers in the southwestern Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA: Evidence for the influence of local moisture sources

    Jeffrey S. Munroe;Benjamin J.C. Laabs;Jeremy D. Shakun;Brad S. Singer

  • Glacier science and environmental change

    David M. Mickelson

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc W. Caffee
Marc W. Caffee Purdue University West Lafayette
Brad S. Singer
Brad S. Singer University of Wisconsin–Madison
Tuncer B. Edil
Tuncer B. Edil University of Wisconsin–Madison
Michael R. Kaplan
Michael R. Kaplan Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Andreas Bauder
Andreas Bauder ETH Zurich
Mary P. Anderson
Mary P. Anderson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Anders E. Carlson
Anders E. Carlson Oregon State University
Eiliv Larsen
Eiliv Larsen Geological Survey of Norway
Mark D. Kurz
Mark D. Kurz Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Jan A. Piotrowski
Jan A. Piotrowski Aarhus University

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