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Overview

Dorothy M. Peteet is affiliated with the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in the United States. Their research spans several areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with particular focus on atmospheric science, ecology, earth-surface processes, anthropology, and paleontology.

Their research topics primarily cover geology and paleoclimatology, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, geological formations and processes, cryospheric studies and observations, isotope analysis in ecology, tree-ring climate responses, and climate change and permafrost.

Significant recent papers include:

  • A multimillion-year-old record of Greenland vegetation and glacial history preserved in sediment beneath 1.4 km of ice at Camp Century (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Deglaciation of northwestern Greenland during Marine Isotope Stage 11 (2023), Science
  • A new glacial varve chronology along the southern Laurentide Ice Sheet that spans the Younger Dryas-Holocene boundary (2020), Geology
  • Climate and anthropogenic controls on blue carbon sequestration in Hudson River tidal marsh, Piermont, New York (2020), Environmental Research Letters
  • Summer temperatures during the last glaciation (MIS 5c to MIS 3) inferred from a 50,000-year chironomid record from Füramoos, southern Germany (2021), Quaternary Science Reviews

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Dorothy M. Peteet include:

  • J. E. Nichols
  • Clara Chang
  • Paul R. Bierman
  • Lee B. Corbett
  • Eric J. Steig

Their publications have appeared most often in the following venues:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Science

Best Publications

  • Abrupt climate change

    RB Alley;Jochem Marotzke;WD Nordhaus;JT Overpeck

  • Does the ocean–atmosphere system have more than one stable mode of operation?

    Wallace S. Broecker;Dorothy M. Peteet;David Rind

  • A Database and Synthesis of Northern Peatland Soil Properties and Holocene Carbon and Nitrogen Accumulation

    Julie Loisel;Zicheng Yu;David W. Beilman;Philip Camill

  • Terrestrial Conditions at the Last Glacial Maximum and CLIMAP Sea-Surface Temperature Estimates: Are They Consistent?

    D. Rind;D. Peteet

  • The chronology of the last deglaciation: implications to the cause of the Younger Dryas event

    W. S. Broecker;M. Andree;W. Wolfli;H. Oeschger

  • Abrupt climate change: Inevitable surprises

    R.B. Alley;Jochem Marotzke;W. Nordhaus

  • The impact of cold North Atlantic sea surface temperatures on climate: implications for the Younger Dryas cooling (11–10 k)

    D Rind;D Peteet;W Broecker;A McIntyre

  • The influence of winter temperatures on the annual radial growth of six northern range margin tree species

    Neil Pederson;Edward R. Cook;Gordon C. Jacoby;Dorothy M. Peteet

  • Rapid expansion of northern peatlands and doubled estimate of carbon storage

    Jonathan E. Nichols;Dorothy M. Peteet;Dorothy M. Peteet

  • Global Younger Dryas

    D. Peteet;D. Peteet

  • On the reconstruction of palaeo-ice sheets: Recent advances and future challenges

    Chris R. Stokes;Lev Tarasov;Robin Blomdin;Robin Blomdin;Thomas M. Cronin

  • Late-Quaternary climatic change on the American North Pacific Coast

    C. J. Heusser;L. E. Heusser;D. M. Peteet

  • Can Milankovitch orbital variations initiate the growth of ice sheets in a general circulation model

    D. Rind;D. Peteet;G. Kukla

  • Climatic changes in areas adjacent to the North Atlantic during the last glacial-interglacial transition (14-9 ka BP): a contribution to IGCP-253

    J. John Lowe;B. Ammann;H. H. Birks;S. Björck

  • Extent and Timing of the Last Glacial Maximum in Southwestern Alaska

    Daniel H. Mann;Dorothy M. Peteet

  • Medieval Warming, Little Ice Age, and European impact on the environment during the last millennium in the lower Hudson Valley, New York, USA

    Dee Cabaniss Pederson;Dorothy M. Peteet;Dorothy M. Peteet;Dorothy Kurdyla;Tom Guilderson

  • Sensitivity and rapidity of vegetational response to abrupt climate change

    Dorothy Peteet

  • Responses of an arctic landscape to Lateglacial and early Holocene climatic changes: the importance of moisture

    Daniel H Mann;Dorothy M Peteet;Richard E Reanier;Michael L Kunz

  • Younger dryas climatic reversal in northeastern USA? AMS ages for an old problem

    D. M. Peteet;J. S. Vogel;D. E. Nelson;J. R. Southon

  • Widespread global peatland establishment and persistence over the last 130,000 y

    Claire C. Treat;Claire C. Treat;Thomas Kleinen;Nils Broothaerts;April S. Dalton

  • Late-glacial pollen, macrofossils and fish remains in northeastern U.S.A. — The Younger Dryas oscillation: A contribution to the ‘North Atlantic seaboard programme’ of IGCP-253, ‘Termination of the Pleistocene’

    D.M. Peteet;D.M. Peteet;R.A. Daniels;L.E. Heusser;J.S. Vogel

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel H. Mann
Daniel H. Mann University of Alaska Fairbanks
Miriam C. Jones
Miriam C. Jones United States Geological Survey
Zicheng Yu
Zicheng Yu Lehigh University
James Hansen
James Hansen Columbia University
Wallace S. Broecker
Wallace S. Broecker Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Guido Grosse
Guido Grosse Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Charles Tarnocai
Charles Tarnocai Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
Claire C. Treat
Claire C. Treat Aarhus University
Georges Bonani
Georges Bonani ETH Zurich
Victor Brovkin
Victor Brovkin Max Planck Society

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