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Overview

Joerg M. Schaefer is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a total of 113 publications in this area. Their research spans multiple subfields including Atmospheric Science, Anthropology, Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientist's primary research interests involve Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Climate Change and Permafrost, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Polar Research and Ecology, and Landslides and Related Hazards.

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Schaefer are:

  • Rate of mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet will exceed Holocene values this century (2020, Nature)
  • The Zealandia Switch: Ice age climate shifts viewed from Southern Hemisphere moraines (2021, Quaternary Science Reviews)
  • Seismic observations, numerical modeling, and geomorphic analysis of a glacier lake outburst flood in the Himalayas (2020, Science Advances)
  • A multimillion-year-old record of Greenland vegetation and glacial history preserved in sediment beneath 1.4 km of ice at Camp Century (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Cosmogenic nuclide techniques (2022, Nature Reviews Methods Primers)

The scientist frequently publishes in specific venues, which include:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews (15 publications)
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America (8 publications)
  • Climate of the past (6 publications)
  • The Cryosphere (4 publications)
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters (3 publications)

Joerg M. Schaefer has collaborated regularly with several coauthors in their field. Notable frequent coauthors are:

  • Roseanne Schwartz (17 joint publications)
  • Nicolás E. Young (14 joint publications)
  • Jason P. Briner (12 joint publications)
  • Michael R. Kaplan (10 joint publications)
  • Esteban A. Sagredo (9 joint publications)

Best Publications

  • The last glacial termination.

    G. H. Denton;R. F. Anderson;R. F. Anderson;J. R. Toggweiler;R. L. Edwards

  • Geological calibration of spallation production rates in the CRONUS-Earth project

    Brian Borchers;Shasta Marrero;Greg Balco;Marc Caffee

  • Acceleration of ice loss across the Himalayas over the past 40 years

    J. M. Maurer;J. M. Maurer;J. M. Schaefer;J. M. Schaefer;S. Rupper;A. Corley

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

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

  • High-Frequency Holocene Glacier Fluctuations in New Zealand Differ from the Northern Signature

    Joerg M. Schaefer;George H. Denton;Michael Kaplan;Aaron Putnam

  • Near-Synchronous Interhemispheric Termination of the Last Glacial Maximum in Mid-Latitudes

    Joerg M. Schaefer;George H. Denton;David J. A. Barrell;Susan Ivy-Ochs

  • In situ cosmogenic 10Be production-rate calibration from the Southern Alps, New Zealand

    A.E. Putnam;J.M. Schaefer;D.J.A. Barrell;M. Vandergoes

  • Glacier advance in southern middle-latitudes during the Antarctic Cold Reversal

    Aaron E. Putnam;George H. Denton;Joerg M. Schaefer;Joerg M. Schaefer;David J. A. Barrell

  • 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

  • The CRONUS-Earth Project: A synthesis

    Fred M. Phillips;David C. Argento;Greg Balco;Marc W. Caffee

  • In-situ cosmogenic 10Be production rate at Lago Argentino, Patagonia: Implications for late-glacial climate chronology

    Michael R. Kaplan;Jorge A. Strelin;Joerg M. Schaefer;Joerg M. Schaefer;George H. Denton

  • Glacier retreat in New Zealand during the Younger Dryas stadial

    Michael R. Kaplan;Joerg M. Schaefer;Joerg M. Schaefer;George H. Denton;David J. A. Barrell

  • The Last Glacial Maximum at 44°S documented by a 10Be moraine chronology at Lake Ohau, Southern Alps of New Zealand

    Aaron E. Putnam;Aaron E. Putnam;Joerg M. Schaefer;Joerg M. Schaefer;George H. Denton;David J.A. Barrell

  • The timing of glacier advances in the northern European Alps based on surface exposure dating with cosmogenic 10Be, 26Al, 36Cl, and 21Ne

    Susan Ivy-Ochs;Hanns Kerschner;Anne Reuther;Max Maisch

  • 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

  • Testing the Lake Agassiz meltwater trigger for the Younger Dryas

    Thomas Lowell;Nicholas Waterson;Timothy Fisher;Henry Loope

  • A 10Be chronology of lateglacial and Holocene mountain glaciation in the Scoresby Sund region, east Greenland: implications for seasonality during lateglacial time

    Meredith A. Kelly;Thomas V. Lowell;Brenda L. Hall;Joerg M. Schaefer

  • A chronology of Holocene and Little Ice Age glacier culminations of the Steingletscher, Central Alps, Switzerland, based on high-sensitivity beryllium-10 moraine dating

    Irene Schimmelpfennig;Irene Schimmelpfennig;Joerg M. Schaefer;Naki Akçar;Tobias Koffman;Tobias Koffman

  • Cosmogenic beryllium-10 and neon-21 dating of late Pleistocene glaciations in Nyalam, monsoonal Himalayas

    Joerg M. Schaefer;Peter Oberholzer;Zhizhong Zhao;Susan Ivy-Ochs

  • Late glacial and holocene 10Be production rates for western Norway

    Brent M. Goehring;Øystein Strand Lohne;Jan Mangerud;Jan Mangerud;John Inge Svendsen;John Inge Svendsen

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Aaron E. Putnam
Aaron E. Putnam University of Maine
Michael R. Kaplan
Michael R. Kaplan Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
George H. Denton
George H. Denton University of Maine
Robert C. Finkel
Robert C. Finkel Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Gisela Winckler
Gisela Winckler Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Jason P. Briner
Jason P. Briner University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Bjørn G. Andersen
Bjørn G. Andersen University of Oslo
Christian Schlüchter
Christian Schlüchter University of Bern
Marc W. Caffee
Marc W. Caffee Purdue University West Lafayette
Greg Balco
Greg Balco Berkeley Geochronology Center

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