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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Penrose Medal, The Geological Society of America
  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2006 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

John T. Andrews is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their primary research focus lies within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions in Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, General Health Professions, Earth-Surface Processes, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The research topics covered by Andrews' work include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity
  • Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues
  • Health, Medicine and Society
  • Cryospheric studies and observations

Frequently publishing in several venues, Andrews has contributed extensively to:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Andrews include:

  • "Resolving the argument about volcanic bedrock under the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and implications for ice sheet stability and sea level change," 2021, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • "Holocene history of landscape instability in Iceland: Can we deconvolve the impacts of climate, volcanism and human activity?," 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Modern foraminiferal assemblages in northern Nares Strait, Petermann Fjord, and beneath Petermann ice tongue, NW Greenland," 2020, Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research
  • "Modern and early Holocene ice shelf sediment facies from Petermann Fjord and northern Nares Strait, northwest Greenland," 2022, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Wastewater Treatment - Revisiting the Ipcc 2019 Refinement Guidelines," 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal

Andrews has collaborated frequently with:

  • Anne Jennings
  • Gifford H. Miller
  • David J. W. Piper
  • Brendan T. Reilly
  • Robert Kelleher

Their contributions have been recognized through several awards, including:

  • Penrose Medal from The Geological Society of America, awarded in 2016
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), awarded in 2011
  • Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), awarded in 2006

Best Publications

  • Evidence for massive discharges of icebergs into the North Atlantic ocean during the last glacial period

    Gerard Bond;Hartmut Heinrich;Wallace Broecker;Laurent Labeyrie

  • Forcing of the cold event of 8,200 years ago by catastrophic drainage of Laurentide lakes

    Donald C. Barber;Arthur S. Dyke;Claude Hillaire-Marcel;Anne E. Jennings

  • 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

  • Formal definition and dating of the GSSP (Global Stratotype Section and Point) for the base of the Holocene using the Greenland NGRIP ice core, and selected auxiliary records

    Mike Walker;Sigfus Johnsen;Sune Olander Rasmussen;Trevor Popp;Trevor Popp

  • Glacial-Isostatic Adjustment—I. The Forward Problem

    W. R. Peltier;J. T. Andrews

  • History of sea ice in the Arctic

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

  • Geological history of the polar oceans : Arctic versus Antarctic

    J. T. Andrews;Ulrich Bleil;Jorn Thiede

  • Detrital carbonate-rich sediments, northwestern Labrador Sea: Implications for ice-sheet dynamics and iceberg rafting (Heinrich) events in the North Atlantic

    J. T. Andrews;K. Tedesco

  • Nonuniform response of the major surface currents in the Nordic Seas to insolation forcing: Implications for the Holocene climate variability

    Christine Andersen;Christine Andersen;N. Koç;A. Jennings;J. T. Andrews

  • The use of hypsometry to indicate long-term stability and response of valley glaciers to changes in mass transfer

    D.J Furbish;J.T. Andrews

  • Iceberg production, debris rafting, and the extent and thickness of Heinrich layers (H-1, H-2) in North Atlantic sediments

    J. A. Dowdeswell;M. A. Maslin;J. T. Andrews;I. N. McCave

  • A geomorphological study of post-glacial uplift,: With particular reference to Arctic Canada,

    John T. Andrews

  • History of the Greenland Ice Sheet: paleoclimatic insights

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

  • Radiocarbon Isochrones on the Disintegration of the Laurentide Ice Sheet

    Reid A. Bryson;Wayne M. Wendland;Jack D. Ives;John T. Andrews

  • A mid-Holocene shift in Arctic sea-ice variability on the East Greenland Shelf

    Anne E. Jennings;Karen Luise Knudsen;Morten Hald;Carsten Vigen Hansen

  • Chronology of late Wisconsin ice retreat from the western Ross Sea, Antarctica

    Kathy J. Licht;Anne E. Jennings;John T. Andrews;Kerstin M. Williams

  • Preboreal oscillation caused by a glacial Lake Agassiz flood

    Timothy G. Fisher;Derald G. Smith;John T. Andrews

  • MODERN FORAMINIFERAL FAUNAS OF THE SOUTHWESTERN TO NORTHERN ICELAND SHELF: OCEANOGRAPHIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS

    Anne E. Jennings;Nancy J. Weiner;Gudrun Helgadottir;John T. Andrews

  • Growth and decay of the Laurentide Ice Sheet and comparisons with Fenno-Scandinavia

    Jack D. Ives;John T. Andrews;Roger G. Barry

  • Abrupt changes (Heinrich events) in late Quaternary North Atlantic marine environments: a history and review of data and concepts

    John T. Andrews

  • Quaternary Environments: Eastern Canadian Arctic, Baffin Bay and Western Greenland

    Robert Gilbert;J. T. Andrews

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne E. Jennings
Anne E. Jennings University of Colorado Boulder
Gifford H. Miller
Gifford H. Miller University of Colorado Boulder
Matthias Moros
Matthias Moros Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Áslaug Geirsdóttir
Áslaug Geirsdóttir University of Iceland
Simon T. Belt
Simon T. Belt Plymouth University
Helmut Erlenkeuser
Helmut Erlenkeuser Kiel University
Roger G. Barry
Roger G. Barry University of Liverpool
Julian A. Dowdeswell
Julian A. Dowdeswell University of Cambridge
Dennis D. Eberl
Dennis D. Eberl United States Geological Survey
Dennis A. Darby
Dennis A. Darby Old Dominion University

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