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Glen M. MacDonald is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a notable focus on several specialized subfields.

The main subfields of their work include Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Earth-Surface Processes, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. The scientist's research topics cover Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Fire effects on ecosystems, Geological formations and processes, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, Cryospheric studies and observations, and Coastal and Marine Dynamics.

MacDonald has contributed to multiple scholarly articles published in various recognized scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, arXiv (Cornell University), Communications Earth & Environment, and Science.

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several co-authors over time. Frequent co-authors include Matthew E. Kirby, Jiwoo Han, Benjamin Nauman, Regan E. Dunn, and Aisling B. Farrell.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Glen M. MacDonald are:

  • "Drivers of California's changing wildfires: a state-of-the-knowledge synthesis," 2023, International Journal of Wildland Fire
  • "Pre-Younger Dryas megafaunal extirpation at Rancho La Brea linked to fire-driven state shift," 2023, Science
  • "Localized Scenarios and Latitudinal Patterns of Vertical and Lateral Resilience of Tidal Marshes to Sea-Level Rise in the Contiguous United States," 2021, Earth's Future
  • "The season for large fires in Southern California is projected to lengthen in a changing climate," 2022, Communications Earth & Environment
  • "Large stocks of peatland carbon and nitrogen are vulnerable to permafrost thaw," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • Arctic Environmental Change of the Last Four Centuries

    J. Overpeck;K. Hughen;D. Hardy;R. Bradley

  • Disappearing Arctic Lakes

    L. C. Smith;L. C. Smith;L. C. Smith;Y. Sheng;Y. Sheng;Y. Sheng;G. M. MacDonald;G. M. MacDonald;G. M. MacDonald;L. D. Hinzman;L. D. Hinzman;L. D. Hinzman

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

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

  • Variations in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation over the past millennium

    Glen M. MacDonald;Roslyn A. Case

  • Large stocks of peatland carbon and nitrogen are vulnerable to permafrost thaw.

    Gustaf Hugelius;Gustaf Hugelius;Julie Loisel;Sarah Chadburn;Robert B. Jackson

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

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

  • Siberian Peatlands a Net Carbon Sink and Global Methane Source Since the Early Holocene

    Laurence C Smith;G M MacDonald;A A Velichko;D W Beilman

  • Water, climate change, and sustainability in the southwest

    Glen M. MacDonald

  • Holocene treeline history and climate change across northern Eurasia

    Glen M. MacDonald;Andrei A. Velichko;Constantine V. Kremenetski;Olga K. Borisova

  • Rapid early development of circumarctic peatlands and atmospheric CH4 and CO2 variations

    Glen M. MacDonald;Glen M. MacDonald;David W. Beilman;David W. Beilman;Konstantine V. Kremenetski;Konstantine V. Kremenetski;Yongwei Sheng;Yongwei Sheng

  • A 1,200-year perspective of 21st century drought in southwestern North America

    Connie A. Woodhouse;David M. Meko;Glen M. MacDonald;Dave W. Stahle

  • Recent global decline in endorheic basin water storages.

    Jida Wang;Chunqiao Song;Chunqiao Song;John T. Reager;Fangfang Yao

  • Geographical Variation of Lodgepole Pine in Relation to Population History

    Les C. Cwynar;Glen M. MacDonald

  • Climate-related changes in peatland carbon accumulation during the last millennium

    D. J. Charman;D. W. Beilman;M. Blaauw;R. K. Booth

  • Rapid response of treeline vegetation and lakes to past climate warming

    Glen M. MacDonald;Tom W. D. Edwards;Katrina A. Moser;Katrina A. Moser;Reinhard Pienitz

  • The reconstruction of boreal forest fire history from lake sediments: A comparison of charcoal, pollen, sedimentological, and geochemical indices

    G.M. MacDonald;C.P.S. Larsen;J.M. Szeicz;K.A. Moser

  • Last interglacial Arctic warmth confirms polar amplification of climate change

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

  • Latitudinal limits to the predicted increase of the peatland carbon sink with warming

    Angela V. Gallego-Sala;Daniel J. Charman;Simon Brewer;Susan E. Page

  • Temperature and precipitation history of the Arctic

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

  • U.S. Pacific coastal wetland resilience and vulnerability to sea-level rise

    Karen Thorne;Glen MacDonald;Glenn Guntenspergen;Richard Ambrose

  • The distribution of late-Quaternary woody taxa in northern Eurasia: evidence from a new macrofossil database

    Heather A. Binney;Katherine J. Willis;Katherine J. Willis;Mary E. Edwards;Shonil A. Bhagwat

  • Climate change and the northern Russian treeline zone

    G.M MacDonald;K.V Kremenetski;D.W Beilman

  • Recent white spruce dynamics at the subarctic alpine treeline of north-western Canada.

    Julian M. Szeicz;Glen M. Macdonald

Frequent Co-Authors

John P. Smol
John P. Smol Queen's University
Laurence C. Smith
Laurence C. Smith Brown University
Richard F. Ambrose
Richard F. Ambrose University of California, Los Angeles
Les C. Cwynar
Les C. Cwynar University of New Brunswick
Thomas W. D. Edwards
Thomas W. D. Edwards University of Waterloo
Yongwei Sheng
Yongwei Sheng University of California, Los Angeles
Zicheng Yu
Zicheng Yu Lehigh University
Brent B. Wolfe
Brent B. Wolfe Wilfrid Laurier University
Gifford H. Miller
Gifford H. Miller University of Colorado Boulder
Thomas W. Gillespie
Thomas W. Gillespie University of California, Los Angeles

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