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World Ranking
663
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Edward J. Brook is affiliated with Oregon State University in the United States and works primarily within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research extensively covers the subfields of Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, and Oceanography.

The scientist's work addresses topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Cryospheric studies and observations, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Climate change and permafrost, and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • Antarctic surface temperature and elevation during the Last Glacial Maximum, 2021, Science
  • Past abrupt changes, tipping points and cascading impacts in the Earth system, 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • Abrupt changes in the global carbon cycle during the last glacial period, 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • Global ocean heat content in the Last Interglacial, 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • Old carbon reservoirs were not important in the deglacial methane budget, 2020, Science

Frequent co-authors in their work include Jeffrey P. Severinghaus, Christo Buizert, J. H. M. M. Schmitt, Sarah Shackleton, and J. A. Menking.

Publication venues where Edward J. Brook has contributed multiple articles are:

  • Climate of the past
  • Nature Geoscience
  • Nature Communications
  • Science
  • Nature

Edward J. Brook was recognized with the following awards:

  • Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2014
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2011

Best Publications

  • Timing of Millennial-Scale Climate Change in Antarctica and Greenland During the Last Glacial Period

    Thomas Blunier;Edward J. Brook

  • Transient Simulation of Last Deglaciation with a New Mechanism for Bølling-Allerød Warming

    Z. Liu;B. L. Otto-Bliesner;F. He;E. C. Brady

  • Timing of abrupt climate change at the end of the Younger Dryas interval from thermally fractionated gases in polar ice

    Jeffrey P. Severinghaus;Todd Sowers;Edward J. Brook;Richard B. Alley

  • Abrupt Climate Change at the End of the Last Glacial Period Inferred from Trapped Air in Polar Ice

    Jeffrey P. Severinghaus;Edward J. Brook

  • Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core

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

  • Global climate evolution during the last deglaciation

    Peter U. Clark;Jeremy D. Shakun;Paul A. Baker;Patrick J. Bartlein

  • Centennial-scale changes in the global carbon cycle during the last deglaciation

    Shaun A. Marcott;Thomas K. Bauska;Christo Buizert;Eric J. Steig

  • Rapid Variations in Atmospheric Methane Concentration During the Past 110,000 Years

    Edward J. Brook;Todd Sowers;Joe Orchardo

  • Consistently dated records from the Greenland GRIP, GISP2 and NGRIP ice cores for the past 104 ka reveal regional millennial-scale δ18O gradients with possible Heinrich event imprint

    Inger K. Seierstad;Peter M. Abbott;Matthias Bigler;Matthias Bigler;Thomas Blunier

  • Examination of surface exposure ages of Antarctic moraines using in situ produced 10Be and 26Al

    Erik Thorson Brown;John M Edmond;Grant M Raisbeck;Françoise Yiou

  • Precise interpolar phasing of abrupt climate change during the last ice age

    Christo Buizert;Betty Adrian;Jinho Ahn;Mary Albert

  • Synchronous climate changes in Antarctica and the North Atlantic

    E. J. Steig;E. J. Brook;J. W. C. White;C. M. Sucher

  • Onset of deglacial warming in West Antarctica driven by local orbital forcing

    T.J. Fudge;Eric J. Steig;Bradley R. Markle;Spruce W. Schoenemann

  • On the origin and timing of rapid changes in atmospheric methane during the Last Glacial Period

    Edward J. Brook;Susan Harder;Jeff Severinghaus;Eric J. Steig

  • Greenland temperature response to climate forcing during the last deglaciation.

    Christo Buizert;Vasileios Gkinis;Vasileios Gkinis;Jeffrey P. Severinghaus;Feng He

  • Atmospheric CO2 and climate on millennial time scales during the last glacial period.

    Jinho Ahn;Edward J. Brook

  • Precise timing and characterization of abrupt climate change 8200 years ago from air trapped in polar ice

    Takuro Kobashi;Jeffrey P. Severinghaus;Edward J. Brook;Jean-Marc Barnola

  • The last deglaciation of the southeastern sector of the Scandinavian ice sheet.

    V. R. Rinterknecht;P. U. Clark;G. M. Raisbeck;F. Yiou

  • The WAIS Divide deep ice core WD2014 chronology – Part 1: Methane synchronization (68–31 ka BP) and the gas age–ice age difference

    C. Buizert;K. M. Cuffey;J. P. Severinghaus;D. Baggenstos

  • The WAIS Divide deep ice core WD2014 chronology - Part 2: Annual-layer counting (0-31 ka BP)

    Michael Sigl;Michael Sigl;Tyler J. Fudge;Mai Winstrup;Jihong Cole-Dai

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey P. Severinghaus
Jeffrey P. Severinghaus University of California, San Diego
Christo Buizert
Christo Buizert Oregon State University
Joseph R. McConnell
Joseph R. McConnell Desert Research Institute
Thomas Blunier
Thomas Blunier University of Copenhagen
Peter U. Clark
Peter U. Clark Oregon State University
Grant M. Raisbeck
Grant M. Raisbeck University of Paris-Saclay
Todd Sowers
Todd Sowers Pennsylvania State University
Eric J. Steig
Eric J. Steig University of Washington
Kendrick C. Taylor
Kendrick C. Taylor Desert Research Institute
Françoise Yiou
Françoise Yiou Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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