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Overview

Linda E. Heusser is affiliated with the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on several specialized subfields including Atmospheric Science, Anthropology, Ecology, Earth-Surface Processes, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior, and Systematics.

The main topics of their research cover areas such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Tree-ring climate responses, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Geological formations and processes, Plant Diversity and Evolution, and Evolution and Paleontology Studies.

Among their recent scientific contributions are the following publications:

  • West Coast vegetation shifts as a response to climate change over the past 130,000 years: geographic patterns and process from pollen data, 2021, Physical Geography
  • Late Glacial and Holocene environmental variability, Lago Trasimeno, Italy, 2021, Quaternary International
  • Fires & Floods & Droughts, Oh My! The expression of extreme weather events in sedimentary records of climate change., 2025, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

The venues where their work has been published frequently include Physical Geography, Quaternary International, and Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America.

Heusser has collaborated with various researchers, frequently co-authoring with Katherine Glover, Jessie George, Glen M. MacDonald, Luca Gasperini, and D. M. Peteet. These collaborations indicate an interdisciplinary approach involving experts in related fields.

Best Publications

  • Interhemispheric Correlation of Late Pleistocene Glacial Events

    T. V. Lowell;C. J. Heusser;B. G. Andersen;P. I. Moreno

  • Interhemispheric linkage of paleoclimate during the last glaciation

    G.H. Denton;C. J. Heusser;T.V. Lowel;P.I. Moreno

  • Collapse of the California Current During Glacial Maxima Linked to Climate Change on Land

    T. D. Herbert;J. D. Schuffert;D. Andreasen;L. Heusser

  • High-resolution climatic evolution of coastal northern California during the past 16,000 years

    John A. Barron;Linda Heusser;Timothy Herbert;Mitchell Lyle

  • History of vegetation and habitat change in the Austral-Asian region

    Geoffrey S Hope;Peter Kershaw A Peter Kershaw;Sander van der Kaars;Sun Xiangjun

  • Pollen distribution in the northeast Pacific Ocean

    Linda Heusser;William L. Balsam

  • Geomorphology, Stratigraphy, and Radiocarbon Chronology of LlanquihueDrift in the Area of the Southern Lake District, Seno Reloncaví, and Isla Grande de Chiloé, Chile

    G.H. Denton;T.V. Lowell;C.J. Heusser;Christian Schlüchter

  • Late-Quaternary climatic change on the American North Pacific Coast

    C. J. Heusser;L. E. Heusser;D. M. Peteet

  • Paleoecology of The Southern Chilean Lake District‐Isla Grande de Chiloé During Middle–late Llanquihue Glaciation and Deglaciation

    Calvin J. Heusser;Linda E. Heusser;Thomas V. Lowell

  • Pollen distribution in marine sediments on the continental margin off northern California

    Linda E. Heusser

  • Direct correlation of millennial-scale changes in western North American vegetation and climate with changes in the California Current System over the past ∼60 kyr

    Linda Heusser

  • Out of the Tropics: The Pacific, Great Basin Lakes, and Late Pleistocene Water Cycle in the Western United States

    Mitchell Lyle;Linda Heusser;Christina Ravelo;Masanobu Yamamoto

  • Preparation techniques for concentrating pollen from marine sediments and other sediments with low pollen density

    Linda E. Heusser;Carrie E. Stock

  • A 12 000 year palynological record of temperature and precipitation trends in southwestern British Columbia

    Rolf W. Mathewes;Linda E. Heusser

  • Younger dryas climatic reversal in northeastern USA? AMS ages for an old problem

    D. M. Peteet;J. S. Vogel;D. E. Nelson;J. R. Southon

  • Evidence for a Younger Dryas-like cooling event on the British Columbia coast

    Rolf W. Mathewes;Linda E. Heusser;R. Timothy Patterson

  • Pollen in Santa Barbara Basin, California: A 12,000-yr record

    Linda Heusser

  • Millennial scale climate variability of the northeast Pacific Ocean and northwest North America based on radiolaria and pollen

    N.G Pisias;A.C Mix;L Heusser

  • Wisconsin—Holocene paleoenvironment of the Bering Sea: Evidence from diatoms, pollen, oxygen isotopes and clay minerals

    Constance Sancetta;Linda Heusser;Laurent Labeyrie;A.Sathy Naidu

  • Direct Marine-Continental Correlation: 150,000-Year Oxygen Isotope—Pollen Record from the North Pacific

    Linda E. Heusser;Nicholas J. Shackleton

Frequent Co-Authors

John A. Barron
John A. Barron United States Geological Survey
Stéphanie Desprat
Stéphanie Desprat University of Bordeaux
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi University of Bordeaux
Mitchell W Lyle
Mitchell W Lyle Oregon State University
Masanobu Yamamoto
Masanobu Yamamoto Hokkaido University
Cathy Whitlock
Cathy Whitlock Montana State University
Debra A. Willard
Debra A. Willard United States Geological Survey
R. Scott Anderson
R. Scott Anderson Northern Arizona University
Eric C. Grimm
Eric C. Grimm University of Minnesota
Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno
Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno University of Granada

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