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Joseph A. Mason is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with particular contributions in the subfields of Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Soil Science, and Anthropology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, emphasizing:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Joseph A. Mason include:

  • Critical transitions in Chinese dunes during the past 12,000 years, 2020, Science Advances
  • Latest Pleistocene to Holocene loess in the central Great Plains: Optically stimulated luminescence dating and multi-proxy analysis of the enders loess section (Nebraska, USA), 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Tibetan Dust Accumulation Linked to Ecological and Landscape Response to Global Climate Change, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • OSL-dating of the Pleistocene-Holocene climatic transition in loess from China, Europe and North America, and evidence for accretionary pedogenesis, 2021, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Biogeomorphology of nebkhas in the Mu Us dune field, north-central China: Chronological and morphological results, 2021, Geomorphology

Frequent collaborators include:

  • E. Marín-Spiotta
  • Zhiwei Xu
  • Hezi Yizhaq
  • Daniel Vereş
  • Slobodan B. Marković

Joseph A. Mason has contributed regularly to various publication venues, including:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Best Publications

  • Variation of East Asian monsoon precipitation during the past 21 k.y. and potential CO2 forcing

    Huayu Lu;Huayu Lu;Shuangwen Yi;Zhengyu Liu;Joseph A. Mason

  • Equations for Predicting Soil Organic Carbon Using Loss-on-Ignition for North Central U.S. Soils

    Michael E. Konen;Peter M. Jacobs;C. Lee Burras;Brandi J. Talaga

  • A 10,000 year record of dune activity, dust storms, and severe drought in the central Great Plains

    Xiaodong Miao;Joseph A. Mason;James B. Swinehart;David B. Loope

  • Late Quaternary aeolian activity in the Mu Us and Otindag dune fields (north China) and lagged response to insolation forcing

    Huayu Lu;Huayu Lu;Xiaodong Miao;Yali Zhou;Yali Zhou;Joseph Mason

  • Dune mobility and aridity at the desert margin of northern China at a time of peak monsoon strength

    J.A. Mason;H. Lu;Y. Zhou;X. Miao

  • Holocene climatic changes revealed by aeolian deposits from the Qinghai Lake area (northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau) and possible forcing mechanisms

    Huayu Lu;Cunfa Zhao;Joseph Mason;Shuangwen Yi

  • Late-Holocene dune activity linked to hydrological drought, Nebraska Sand Hills, USA

    Joseph A. Mason;James B. Swinehart;Ronald J. Goble;David B. Loope

  • Chinese deserts and sand fields in Last Glacial Maximum and Holocene Optimum

    HuaYu Lu;ShuangWen Yi;ZhiWei Xu;YaLi Zhou

  • Twelve thousand years of dust: the Holocene global dust cycle constrained by natural archives

    S. Albani;S. Albani;N. M. Mahowald;G. Winckler;R. F. Anderson

  • Transport Direction of Peoria Loess in Nebraska and Implications for Loess Sources on the Central Great Plains

    Joseph A. Mason

  • Optical and radiocarbon ages of stacked paleosols and dune sands in the Nebraska Sand Hills, USA

    R.J. Goble;Joseph A. Mason;David B. Loope;James B. Swinehart

  • A new model of topographic effects on the distribution of loess

    Joseph A Mason;Edward A Nater;C.William Zanner;James C Bell

  • Large Wind Shift on the Great Plains during the Medieval Warm Period

    Venkataramana Sridhar;David B. Loope;James B. Swinehart;Joseph A. Mason

  • Long-term stabilization of deep soil carbon by fire and burial during early Holocene climate change

    Erika Marin-Spiotta;Nina T. Chaopricha;Alain F. Plante;Aaron F. Diefendorf

  • Approaches and challenges to the study of loess - Introduction to the LoessFest Special Issue

    Randall J. Schaetzl;E. Arthur Bettis;Onn Crouvi;Kathryn E. Fitzsimmons

  • Sources and paleoclimatic significance of Holocene Bignell Loess, central Great Plains, USA

    Joseph A. Mason;Peter M. Jacobs;Paul R. Hanson;Xiaodong Miao

  • Response of surface processes to climatic change in the dunefields and Loess Plateau of North China during the late Quaternary

    Huayu Lu;Huayu Lu;Joseph A. Mason;Thomas Stevens;Yali Zhou

  • Chemical and particle-size evidence for addition of fine dust to soils of the midwestern United States

    Joseph A. Mason;Peter M. Jacobs

  • Late Pleistocene dune activity in the central Great Plains, USA

    Joseph A. Mason;James B. Swinehart;Paul R. Hanson;David Loope

  • High-resolution proxy record of Holocene climate from a loess section in Southwestern Nebraska, USA

    Xiaodong Miao;Joseph A. Mason;William C. Johnson;Hong Wang

  • Soils: Genesis and Geomorphology

    Joseph A. Mason

Frequent Co-Authors

Huayu Lu
Huayu Lu Nanjing University
David B. Loope
David B. Loope University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Erika Marin-Spiotta
Erika Marin-Spiotta University of Wisconsin–Madison
Thomas Stevens
Thomas Stevens Uppsala University
Daniel Veres
Daniel Veres Romanian Academy
Jef Vandenberghe
Jef Vandenberghe Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe University of California, Merced
Slobodan B. Marković
Slobodan B. Marković University of Novi Sad
Carsten W. Mueller
Carsten W. Mueller University of Copenhagen
Edward A. Nater
Edward A. Nater University of Minnesota

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