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James Shulmeister is affiliated with the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Their academic work focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Within these fields, their research spans several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their research topics encompass a wide range of geological and environmental phenomena. These include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Shulmeister has contributed to numerous publications, with recent papers including:

  • "A review of modern treeline migration, the factors controlling it and the implications for carbon storage" (2021), published in Journal of Mountain Science
  • "Proglacial Lakes Control Glacier Geometry and Behavior During Recession" (2020), published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Effects of change in streamflow patterns on water quality" (2021), published in Journal of Environmental Management
  • "Revisiting growth and decline of late Quaternary mega-lakes across the south-central Tibetan Plateau" (2020), published in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "An 800 kyr record of dune emplacement in relationship to high sea level forcing, Cooloola Sand Mass, Queensland, Australia" (2020), published in Geomorphology

Their frequent coauthors include colleagues such as Nicholas R. Patton, Daniel Ellerton, Tammy M. Rittenour, Allen Gontz, and Rupesh Patil. This collaboration reflects a consistent network of research partnerships contributing to their fields of study.

Shulmeister's work is often published in venues that regularly feature research in geological and environmental sciences. These frequent publication venues include:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Quaternary Research
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Geomorphology
  • Journal of Environmental Management

Best Publications

  • Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago

    Chris Clarkson;Zenobia Jacobs;Zenobia Jacobs;Ben Marwick;Ben Marwick;Richard Fullagar

  • Pollen evidence from tropical Australia for the onset of an ENSO-dominated climate at c. 4000 BP

    James Shulmeister;Brian G. Lees

  • A field based classification scheme for gravel beaches

    Richard Jennings;James Shulmeister

  • The Southern Hemisphere westerlies in the Australasian sector over the last glacial cycle: a synthesis

    J. Shulmeister;I. Goodwin;J. Renwick;K. Harle

  • Effects of debris on ice-surface melting rates: an experimental study

    Natalya Reznichenko;Tim Davies;James Shulmeister;Mauri McSaveney

  • Glacial and deglacial climatic patterns in Australia and surrounding regions from 35 000 to 10 000 years ago reconstructed from terrestrial and near-shore proxy data

    Martin Williams;Ellyn Cook;Sander van der Kaars;Tim Barrows

  • Australasian evidence for mid-Holocene climate change implies precessional control of Walker Circulation in the Pacific

    James Shulmeister

  • The hydrological legacy of deforestation on global wetlands

    C. Woodward;J. Shulmeister;J. Larsen;G. E. Jacobsen

  • Evidence Against a Significant Younger Dryas Cooling Event in New Zealand

    Christiane Singer;James Shulmeister;Bill McLea

  • A review of modern treeline migration, the factors controlling it and the implications for carbon storage

    Amanda Hansson;Paul Dargusch;Jamie Shulmeister;Jamie Shulmeister

  • An early colonisation pathway into northwest Australia 70-60,000 years ago

    Kasih Norman;Kasih Norman;Josha Inglis;Christopher Clarkson;J Tyler Faith

  • River response to an active fold-and-thrust belt in a convergent margin setting, North Island, New Zealand

    Merri Lisa Formento-Trigilio;Douglas W Burbank;Andrew Nicol;James Shulmeister

  • El Niño suppresses Antarctic warming

    Nancy A.N. Bertler;Nancy A.N. Bertler;Peter J. Barrett;Paul Andrew Mayewski;Ryan L. Fogt

  • A Holocene Pollen record from Lowland Tropical Australia

    James Shulmeister

  • Catastrophic landslides, glacier behaviour and moraine formation : a view from an active plate margin.

    James Shulmeister;Tim R. Davies;David J. A. Evans;Olivia M. Hyatt

  • Holocene high-resolution quantitative summer temperature reconstruction based on subfossil chironomids from the southeast margin of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

    Enlou Zhang;Jie Chang;Jie Chang;Yanmin Cao;Weiwei Sun

  • Proglacial Lakes Control Glacier Geometry and Behavior During Recession

    J. L. Sutherland;J. L. Carrivick;N. Gandy;J. Shulmeister

  • A cosmogenic nuclide chronology of the last glacial transition in North-West Nelson, New Zealand—new insights in Southern Hemisphere climate forcing during the last deglaciation

    James Shulmeister;David Fink;Paul C. Augustinus

  • Evidence for a landslide origin of New Zealand’s Waiho Loop moraine

    D. Santamaria Tovar;J. Shulmeister;T. R. Davies

  • New Zealand chironomids as proxies for human-induced and natural environmental change: Transfer functions for temperature and lake production (chlorophyll a)

    Craig Woodward;J. Shulmeister

  • Determining the origin and age of the Westland beech (Nothofagus) gap, New Zealand, using fungus beetle genetics.

    Richard A. B. Leschen;Thomas R. Buckley;Helen M. Harman;James Shulmeister

  • The timing and cause of glacial advances in the southern mid-latitudes during the last glacial cycle based on a synthesis of exposure ages from Patagonia and New Zealand

    Christopher M. Darvill;Michael J. Bentley;Chris R. Stokes;James Shulmeister

  • An 80 kyr-long continuous speleothem record from Dim Cave, SW Turkey with paleoclimatic implications for the Eastern Mediterranean

    Ezgi Ünal-İmer;James Shulmeister;Jian-Xin Zhao;I. Tonguç Uysal;I. Tonguç Uysal

  • Towards a climate event stratigraphy for New Zealand over the past 30,000 years

    D.J. A. Barrell;B. V. Alloway;J. Shulmeister;R. M. Newnham

Frequent Co-Authors

David Fink
David Fink Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
Tammy M. Rittenour
Tammy M. Rittenour Utah State University
Enlou Zhang
Enlou Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tim Davies
Tim Davies University of Canterbury
Jian-xin Zhao
Jian-xin Zhao University of Queensland
Enfeng Liu
Enfeng Liu Shandong Normal University
David J.A. Evans
David J.A. Evans Durham University
Patrick Moss
Patrick Moss University of Queensland
Ji Shen
Ji Shen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Geraldine Jacobsen
Geraldine Jacobsen Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation

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