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Jason P. Briner is affiliated with the University at Buffalo, State University of New York in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong focus on related subfields including Atmospheric Science, Anthropology, Environmental Chemistry, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Paleontology.

The scientist's publication record includes notable papers such as:

  • "Rate of mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet will exceed Holocene values this century" (2020, Nature)
  • "An updated radiocarbon-based ice margin chronology for the last deglaciation of the North American Ice Sheet Complex" (2020, Quaternary Science Reviews)
  • "The deglaciation of the Americas during the Last Glacial Termination" (2020, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • "Ice sheet influence on atmospheric circulation explains the patterns of Pleistocene alpine glacier records in North America" (2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters)
  • "Ancient plant DNA reveals High Arctic greening during the Last Interglacial" (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Their research covers various topics, including:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Jason P. Briner include Nicolás E. Young, Joseph P. Tulenko, Karlee K. Prince, Joerg M. Schaefer, and Alia J. Lesnek.

The scientist often publishes in venues such as:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • The Cryosphere
  • Climate of the past
  • Quaternary Research

Jason P. Briner's work is predominantly focused on interpreting and understanding the interactions between ice sheets, paleoclimate, and atmospheric dynamics, with applications to contemporary climate change phenomena. Their research contributions span detailed ice margin chronologies, mass balance of major ice sheets, and paleoenvironmental reconstructions through various proxies, reflecting a multidisciplinary engagement with Earth system science.

Best Publications

  • Regional beryllium-10 production rate calibration for late-glacial northeastern North America

    Greg Balco;Jason Briner;Robert C. Finkel;John A. Rayburn

  • An updated radiocarbon-based ice margin chronology for the last deglaciation of the North American Ice Sheet Complex

    April S. Dalton;April S. Dalton;Martin Margold;Chris R. Stokes;Lev Tarasov

  • Holocene climate change in Arctic Canada and Greenland.

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

  • A 10Be production-rate calibration for the Arctic

    NICOLÁs E. Young;NICOLÁs E. Young;Joerg M. Schaefer;Joerg M. Schaefer;Jason P. Briner;Brent M. Goehring

  • Recent primary production increases in arctic lakes

    Neal Michelutti;Alexander P. Wolfe;Rolf D. Vinebrooke;Benoit Rivard

  • Cosmogenic exposure dating of late Pleistocene moraine stabilization in Alaska

    Jason P. Briner;Darrell S. Kaufman;William F. Manley;Robert C. Finkel

  • Stratigraphic expressions of the Holocene-Anthropocene transition revealed in sediments from remote lakes

    Alexander P. Wolfe;William O. Hobbs;Hilary H. Birks;Jason P. Briner

  • Cosmogenic radionuclides from fiord landscapes support differential erosion by overriding ice sheets

    Jason P. Briner;Gifford H. Miller;P. Thompson Davis;Robert C. Finkel

  • Fjord insertion into continental margins driven by topographic steering of ice

    Mark A. Kessler;Robert S. Anderson;Robert S. Anderson;Jason P. Briner

  • Arctic Holocene proxy climate database – new approaches to assessing geochronological accuracy and encoding climate variables

    H. S. Sundqvist;D. S. Kaufman;N. P. McKay;N. L. Balascio

  • Deglaciation of the Pacific coastal corridor directly preceded the human colonization of the Americas

    Alia J. Lesnek;Jason P. Briner;Charlotte Lindqvist;Charlotte Lindqvist;James F. Baichtal

  • Using inherited cosmogenic 36Cl to constrain glacial erosion rates of the Cordilleran ice sheet

    Jason P. Briner;Terry W. Swanson

  • Greenland was nearly ice-free for extended periods during the Pleistocene

    Joerg M. Schaefer;Joerg M. Schaefer;Robert C. Finkel;Robert C. Finkel;Greg Balco;Richard B. Alley

  • Last Glacial Maximum ice sheet dynamics in Arctic Canada inferred from young erratics perched on ancient tors

    J.P. Briner;G.H. Miller;P.T. Davis;P.R. Bierman

  • Using proglacial-threshold lakes to constrain fluctuations of the Jakobshavn Isbræ ice margin, western Greenland, during the Holocene

    J.P. Briner;H.A.M. Stewart;N.E. Young;W. Philipps

  • Late Pleistocene mountain glaciation in Alaska: key chronologies†

    Jason P. Briner;Darrell S. Kaufman

  • Holocene glaciation and climate evolution of Baffin Island, Arctic Canada

    Gifford H. Miller;Alexander P. Wolfe;Jason P. Briner;Jason P. Briner;Peter E. Sauer

  • Rate of mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet will exceed Holocene values this century

    Jason P. Briner;Joshua K. Cuzzone;Joshua K. Cuzzone;Jessica A. Badgeley;Nicolás E. Young

  • Rapid early Holocene retreat of a Laurentide outlet glacier through an Arctic fjord

    Jason P. Briner;Aaron C. Bini;Robert S. Anderson

  • A multi-proxy lacustrine record of Holocene climate change on northeastern Baffin Island, Arctic Canada

    Jason P. Briner;Neal Michelutti;Donna R. Francis;Gifford H. Miller

  • Regional beryllium-10 production rate calibration for late-glacial northeastern

    Greg Balco;Jason Briner;Robert C. Finkel;John A. Rayburn

Frequent Co-Authors

Gifford H. Miller
Gifford H. Miller University of Colorado Boulder
Joerg M. Schaefer
Joerg M. Schaefer Columbia University
Robert C. Finkel
Robert C. Finkel Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Darrell S. Kaufman
Darrell S. Kaufman Northern Arizona University
Yarrow Axford
Yarrow Axford Northwestern University
Alexander P. Wolfe
Alexander P. Wolfe University of Alberta
Ole Bennike
Ole Bennike Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Nathaniel A. Lifton
Nathaniel A. Lifton Purdue University West Lafayette
Jan Mangerud
Jan Mangerud University of Bergen
Neal Michelutti
Neal Michelutti Queen's University

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