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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Marc W. Caffee is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States and specializes in research within Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their scholarly output encompasses a significant focus on Atmospheric Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Ecology, Geophysics, and Earth-Surface Processes.

Their main research topics include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Astro and Planetary Science
  • Planetary Science and Exploration
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology

Frequent publication venues where Marc W. Caffee has contributed include:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Meteoritics and Planetary Science
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Geochronology
  • Climate of the past

Selected recent papers demonstrate a range of topics and publication outlets:

  • "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
  • "Noble gases and nitrogen in samples of asteroid Ryugu record its volatile sources and recent surface evolution," 2022, Science
  • "Deglaciation of northwestern Greenland during Marine Isotope Stage 11," 2023, Science
  • "The age of the opening of the Ice-Free Corridor and implications for the peopling of the Americas," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Late Cenozoic climate change paces landscape adjustments to Yukon River capture," 2020, Nature Geoscience

Coauthor collaborations frequently involve:

  • Paul R. Bierman
  • Lee B. Corbett
  • Alan J. Hidy
  • K. C. Welten
  • H. Busemann

Marc W. Caffee was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Absolute calibration of 10Be AMS standards

    Kunihiko Nishiizumi;Mineo Imamura;Marc W. Caffee;John R. Southon

  • Timing and climate forcing of volcanic eruptions for the past 2,500 years

    M. Sigl;M. Winstrup;J. R. McConnell;K. C. Welten

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

    Brian Borchers;Shasta Marrero;Greg Balco;Marc Caffee

  • Deglaciation of Fennoscandia

    Arjen P. Stroeven;Clas Hättestrand;Johan Kleman;Jakob Heyman

  • Too young or too old: Evaluating cosmogenic exposure dating based on an analysis of compiled boulder exposure ages

    Jakob Heyman;Arjen P. Stroeven;Jonathan M. Harbor;Marc W. Caffee

  • A note on the extent of glaciation throughout the Himalaya during the global Last Glacial Maximum

    Lewis A. Owen;Robert C. Finkel;Robert C. Finkel;Marc W. Caffee

  • Uniform postglacial slip-rate along the central 600 km of the Kunlun Fault (Tibet), from 26Al, 10Be, and 14C dating of riser offsets, and climatic origin of the regional morphology

    Jerome Van Der Woerd;Jerome Van Der Woerd;Paul Tapponnier;Frederick J. Ryerson;Anne-Sophie Meriaux;Anne-Sophie Meriaux

  • Holocene Deglaciation of Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica

    John O. Stone;Gregory A. Balco;David E. Sugden;Marc W. Caffee

  • Slow Rates of Rock Surface Erosion and Sediment Production across the Namib Desert and Escarpment, Southern Africa

    Paul R. Bierman;Marc Caffee

  • Holocene left-slip rate determined by cosmogenic surface dating on the Xidatan segment of the Kunlun fault (Qinghai, China)

    J. Van der Woerd;J. Van der Woerd;F. J. Ryerson;P. Tapponnier;Y. Gaudemer

  • Mid-Pleistocene cosmogenic minimum-age limits for pre-Wisconsinan glacial surfaces in southwestern Minnesota and southern Baffin Island: a multiple nuclide approach

    Paul R. Bierman;Kimberly A. Marsella;Carrie Patterson;P.Thompson Davis

  • Climatic and topographic controls on the style and timing of Late Quaternary glaciation throughout Tibet and the Himalaya defined by 10Be cosmogenic radionuclide surface exposure dating

    Lewis A. Owen;Robert C. Finkel;Patrick L. Barnard;Ma Haizhou

  • Erosion rates driven by channel network incision in the Bolivian Andes

    Elizabeth B. Safran;Paul R. Bierman;Rolf Aalto;Thomas Dunne

  • Lower Pliocene hominid remains from Sterkfontein

    T. C. Partridge;D. E. Granger;M. W. Caffee;R. J. Clarke

  • Quantification of soil production and downslope creep rates from cosmogenic 10Be accumulations on a hillslope profile

    James A. McKean;William E. Dietrich;Robert C. Finkel;John R. Southon

  • Nature and timing of large landslides in the Himalaya and Transhimalaya of northern India

    Jason M. Dortch;Lewis A. Owen;William C. Haneberg;Marc W. Caffee

  • Rapid slip along the central Altyn Tagh Fault: Morphochronologic evidence from Cherchen He and Sulamu Tagh

    A. S. Meriaux;A. S. Meriaux;F. J. Ryerson;Paul Tapponnier;J. van der Woerd;J. van der Woerd

  • Uniform slip-rate along the Kunlun Fault: Implications for seismic behaviour and large-scale tectonics

    J. van der Woerd;F. J. Ryerson;Paul Tapponnier;A. S. Meriaux

  • Beryllium-10 dating of Mount Everest moraines indicates a strong monsoon influence and glacial synchroneity throughout the Himalaya

    Robert C. Finkel;Lewis A. Owen;Patrick L. Barnard;Marc W. Caffee

  • Accelerator mass spectrometry in biomedical dosimetry: relationship between low-level exposure and covalent binding of heterocyclic amine carcinogens to DNA.

    Ken W Turteltaub;J. S. Felton;B. L. Gledhill;J. S. Vogel

  • The WAIS Divide deep ice core WD2014 chronology - Part 2: Annual-layer counting (0-31 ka BP)

    Michael Sigl;Michael Sigl;Tyler J. Fudge;Mai Winstrup;Jihong Cole-Dai

  • Late Holocene Deglaciation of Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica

    J. O. Stone;G. Balco;D. E. Sugden;M. Caffee

Frequent Co-Authors

Kunihiko Nishiizumi
Kunihiko Nishiizumi University of California, Berkeley
Paul R. Bierman
Paul R. Bierman University of Vermont
Arjen P. Stroeven
Arjen P. Stroeven Stockholm University
Lewis A. Owen
Lewis A. Owen North Carolina State University
Robert C. Finkel
Robert C. Finkel Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Jakob Heyman
Jakob Heyman University of Gothenburg
Clas Hättestrand
Clas Hättestrand Stockholm University
Jon Harbor
Jon Harbor Purdue University West Lafayette
Nathaniel A. Lifton
Nathaniel A. Lifton Purdue University West Lafayette
Rainer Wieler
Rainer Wieler ETH Zurich

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