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Citations
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2009 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Gifford H. Miller is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with particular expertise in Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Earth-Surface Processes, Environmental Chemistry, and Paleontology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Climate change and permafrost, Cryospheric studies and observations, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Geological formations and processes, and Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies.

Recent publications by Gifford H. Miller include:

  • Revised fractional abundances and warm-season temperatures substantially improve brGDGT calibrations in lake sediments, 2021, Biogeosciences
  • Near-universal trends in brGDGT lipid distributions in nature, 2022, Science Advances
  • Ancient plant DNA reveals High Arctic greening during the Last Interglacial, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Lipid Biomarkers Quantify Holocene Summer Temperature and Ice Cap Sensitivity in Icelandic Lakes, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Holocene history of landscape instability in Iceland: Can we deconvolve the impacts of climate, volcanism and human activity?, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Miller has co-authored numerous papers with Jonathan H. Raberg, Áslaug Geirsdóttir, Julio Sepúlveda, David J. Harning, and Sarah E. Crump.

Their research has been published in venues such as:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Quaternary Science

Gifford H. Miller was awarded Fellowship of the American Geophysical Union in 2009.

Best Publications

  • The Last Great Ice Sheets

    Jack D. Ives;George H. Denton;Terence J. Hughes

  • Simulating Arctic climate warmth and icefield retreat in the last interglaciation.

    Bette L. Otto-Bliesner;Shawn J. Marshall;Jonathan T. Overpeck;Gifford H. Miller

  • The Laurentide and Innuitian ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum

    A.S. Dyke;J.T. Andrews;P.U. Clark;J.H. England

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

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

  • Recent Warming Reverses Long-Term Arctic Cooling

    Darrell S. Kaufman;David P. Schneider;Nicholas P. McKay;Caspar M. Ammann

  • Abrupt onset of the Little Ice Age triggered by volcanism and sustained by sea‐ice/ocean feedbacks

    Gifford H. Miller;Gifford H. Miller;Áslaug Geirsdóttir;Yafang Zhong;Darren J. Larsen;Darren J. Larsen

  • Paleoclimatic Evidence for Future Ice-Sheet Instability and Rapid Sea-Level Rise

    Jonathan T. Overpeck;Bette L. Otto-Bliesner;Gifford H. Miller;Daniel R. Muhs

  • History of sea ice in the Arctic

    Leonid Polyak;Richard B. Alley;John T. Andrews;Julie Brigham-Grette

  • Ecosystem collapse in pleistocene australia and a human role in megafaunal extinction

    Gifford H. Miller;Marilyn L. Fogel;John W. Magee;Michael K. Gagan

  • Pleistocene Extinction of Genyornis newtoni: Human Impact on Australian Megafauna

    Gifford H. Miller;John W. Magee;Beverly J. Johnson;Marilyn L. Fogel

  • Early Human Occupation at Devil's Lair, Southwestern Australia 50,000 Years Ago

    Chris S. M. Turney;Michael I. Bird;L. Keith Fifield;Richard G. Roberts

  • Arctic amplification: Can the past constrain the future?

    Gifford H. Miller;Richard B. Alley;Julie Brigham-Grette;Joan J. Fitzpatrick

  • Last interglacial Arctic warmth confirms polar amplification of climate change

    P. Anderson;O. Bennike;N. Bigelow;J. Brigham-Grette

  • Continuous 150 k.y. monsoon record from Lake Eyre, Australia: Insolation-forcing implications and unexpected Holocene failure

    John W. Magee;Gifford H. Miller;Nigel A. Spooner;Daniele Questiaux

  • Temperature and precipitation history of the Arctic

    G. H. Miller;J. Brigham-Grette;R. B. Alley;L. Anderson

  • Aminostratigraphy of Quaternary shorelines in the Mediterranean basin

    Paul J. Hearty;Gifford H. Miller;Charles E. Stearns;Barney J. Szabo

  • Holocene climate change in Arctic Canada and Greenland.

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

  • Land-sea correlations in the Pleistocene based on isoleucine epimerization in non-marine molluscs

    D. Q. Bowen;S. Hughes;G. A. Sykes;G. H. Miller

  • History of the Greenland Ice Sheet: paleoclimatic insights

    Richard B. Alley;John T. Andrews;J. Brigham-Grette;G.K.C. Clarke

  • Glacier fluctuations during the past 2000 years

    Olga N. Solomina;Raymond S. Bradley;Vincent Jomelli;Aslaug Geirsdottir

  • Little Ice Age recorded in summer temperature reconstruction from vared sediments of Donard Lake, Baffin Island, Canada

    J.J. Moore;K.A. Hughen;G.H. Miller;J.T. Overpeck

Frequent Co-Authors

Áslaug Geirsdóttir
Áslaug Geirsdóttir University of Iceland
Jason P. Briner
Jason P. Briner University at Buffalo, State University of New York
John T. Andrews
John T. Andrews University of Colorado Boulder
Alexander P. Wolfe
Alexander P. Wolfe University of Alberta
Steven L. Forman
Steven L. Forman Baylor University
Marilyn L. Fogel
Marilyn L. Fogel University of California, Riverside
Yarrow Axford
Yarrow Axford Northwestern University
Darrell S. Kaufman
Darrell S. Kaufman Northern Arizona University
Nathaniel A. Lifton
Nathaniel A. Lifton Purdue University West Lafayette
Leonid Polyak
Leonid Polyak The Ohio State University

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