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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - James B. Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2003 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2002 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Kurt M. Cuffey is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular emphasis on Atmospheric Science as well as related subfields such as Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Anthropology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Geophysics.

The main topics covered in their work include cryospheric studies and observations, geology and paleoclimatology research, landslides and related hazards, Pleistocene-Era hominins and archaeology, winter sports injuries and performance, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, and tree root and stability studies.

Recent papers authored by Kurt M. Cuffey include the following:

  1. Controls on the size distributions of shallow landslides, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  2. Seasonal temperatures in West Antarctica during the Holocene, 2023, Nature
  3. Iceberg Calving: Regimes and Transitions, 2023, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
  4. Detrital Thermochronometry Reveals That the Topography Along the Antarctic Peninsula is Not a Pleistocene Landscape, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  5. Antarctic Peninsula glaciation patterns set by landscape evolution and dynamic topography, 2023, Nature Geoscience

Frequent co-authors working with Kurt M. Cuffey include:

  • David L. Shuster
  • Tyler R. Jones
  • William H. G. Roberts
  • Abigail G. Hughes
  • Bo Vinther

Publications by Kurt M. Cuffey often appear in several venues, such as:

  • Nature
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • UNC Libraries
  • Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Kurt M. Cuffey has been recognized with a number of awards, including the James B. Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2003, the status of Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2003, and the Hellman Fellow award in 2002.

Best Publications

  • Validity of the temperature reconstruction from water isotopes in ice cores

    J. Jouzel;R. B. Alley;K. M. Cuffey;W. Dansgaard

  • Large Arctic Temperature Change at the Wisconsin-Holocene Glacial Transition

    Kurt M. Cuffey;Gary D. Clow;Richard B. Alley;Minze Stuiver

  • Temperature, accumulation, and ice sheet elevation in central Greenland through the last deglacial transition

    Kurt M. Cuffey;Gary D. Clow

  • Centennial-scale changes in the global carbon cycle during the last deglaciation

    Shaun A. Marcott;Thomas K. Bauska;Christo Buizert;Eric J. Steig

  • How glaciers entrain and transport basal sediment: Physical constraints

    R.B. Alley;K.M. Cuffey;E.B. Evenson;J.C. Strasser

  • Precise interpolar phasing of abrupt climate change during the last ice age

    Christo Buizert;Betty Adrian;Jinho Ahn;Mary Albert

  • Onset of deglacial warming in West Antarctica driven by local orbital forcing

    T.J. Fudge;Eric J. Steig;Bradley R. Markle;Spruce W. Schoenemann

  • Substantial contribution to sea-level rise during the last interglacial from the Greenland ice sheet

    Kurt M. Cuffey;Shawn J. Marshall;Shawn J. Marshall

  • The WAIS Divide deep ice core WD2014 chronology – Part 1: Methane synchronization (68–31 ka BP) and the gas age–ice age difference

    C. Buizert;K. M. Cuffey;J. P. Severinghaus;D. Baggenstos

  • The functional role of native freshwater mussels in the fluvial benthic environment

    Jeanette K. Howard;Kurt M. Cuffey

  • Visual‐stratigraphic dating of the GISP2 ice core: Basis, reproducibility, and application

    R. B. Alley;C. A. Shuman;D. A. Meese;A. J. Gow

  • Diffusion of stable isotopes in polar firn and ice : the isotope effect in firn diffusion

    Sigfús J. Johnsen;Henrik B. Clausen;Kurt M. Cuffey;Georg Hoffmann

  • History of the Greenland Ice Sheet: paleoclimatic insights

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

  • Entrainment at cold glacier beds

    Kurt Cuffey;Howard Conway;A Gades;Bernard Hallet

  • What controls the isotopic composition of Greenland surface snow

    H.C. Steen-Larsen;H.C. Steen-Larsen;H.C. Steen-Larsen;Valérie Masson-Delmotte;M. Hirabayashi;R. Winkler

  • New insights into Southern Hemisphere temperature changes from Vostok ice cores using deuterium excess correction

    Françoise Vimeux;Kurt M. Cuffey;Jean Jouzel

  • Deglacial temperature history of West Antarctica

    Kurt M. Cuffey;Gary D. Clow;Eric J. Steig;Christo Buizert

  • Calibration of the δ18O isotopic paleothermometer for central Greenland, using borehole temperatures

    Kurt M. Cuffey;Richard B. Alley;Pieter M. Grootes;John M. Bolzan

  • Covariation of carbon dioxide and temperature from the Vostok ice core after deuterium-excess correction

    Kurt M. Cuffey;Françoise Vimeux

  • Freshwater mussels in a California North Coast Range river: occurrence, distribution, and controls

    Jeanette K. Howard;Kurt M. Cuffey

  • Glacial erosion: status and outlook

    R. B. Alley;K. M. Cuffey;L. K. Zoet

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric J. Steig
Eric J. Steig University of Washington
Richard B. Alley
Richard B. Alley Pennsylvania State University
James W. C. White
James W. C. White University of Colorado Boulder
Christo Buizert
Christo Buizert Oregon State University
Joseph R. McConnell
Joseph R. McConnell Desert Research Institute
Kendrick C. Taylor
Kendrick C. Taylor Desert Research Institute
Howard Conway
Howard Conway University of Washington
Gary D. Clow
Gary D. Clow Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Edward J. Brook
Edward J. Brook Oregon State University
Jeffrey P. Severinghaus
Jeffrey P. Severinghaus University of California, San Diego

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