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Matthew S. Lachniet is affiliated with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with particular attention to subfields including Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Global and Planetary Change, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Paleontology.

The main topics of their work cover:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Karst Systems and Hydrogeology
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Lachniet has contributed to a range of recent publications. Selected papers include:

  • "Great Basin Paleoclimate and Aridity Linked to Arctic Warming and Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures," 2020, published in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • "Initiation of a stable convective hydroclimatic regime in Central America circa 9000 years BP," 2020, in Nature Communications
  • "A framework for triple oxygen isotopes in speleothem paleoclimatology," 2021, in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • "A multiproxy database of western North American Holocene paleoclimate records," 2021, in Earth System Science Data
  • "Interhemispheric antiphasing of neotropical precipitation during the past millennium," 2022, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Yemane Asmerom
  • Victor J. Polyak
  • Amos Winter
  • Davide Zanchettin
  • Giuseppe Lucia

Lachniet has published extensively in venues such as:

  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Nature Communications
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their publication record reflects a wide engagement in research related to climate systems, paleoclimate reconstructions, and environmental geochemistry. The work spans multiple interdisciplinary areas that integrate atmospheric science with geological and paleontological methods.

Best Publications

  • Climatic and environmental controls on speleothem oxygen-isotope values

    Matthew S. Lachniet

  • Late Pleistocene and Holocene environmental history of the Iguala Valley, Central Balsas Watershed of Mexico.

    Dolores R. Piperno;Jorge Enrique Moreno;Jose Iriarte;Irene Holst

  • Oxygen isotope values of precipitation and surface waters in northern Central America (Belize and Guatemala) are dominated by temperature and amount effects

    Matthew S. Lachniet;William P. Patterson

  • A 1500‐year El Niño/Southern Oscillation and rainfall history for the Isthmus of Panama from speleothem calcite

    Matthew S. Lachniet;Stephen J. Burns;Dolores R. Piperno;Yemane Asmerom

  • A 2400 yr Mesoamerican rainfall reconstruction links climate and cultural change

    Matthew S. Lachniet;Juan Pablo Bernal;Yemane Asmerom;Victor Polyak

  • Holocene warming in western continental Eurasia driven by glacial retreat and greenhouse forcing

    Jonathan L. Baker;Matthew S. Lachniet;Olga Chervyatsova;Yemane Asmerom

  • Tropical response to the 8200 yr B.P. cold event? Speleothem isotopes indicate a weakened early Holocene monsoon in Costa Rica

    Matthew S. Lachniet;Yemane Asmerom;Stephen J. Burns;William P. Patterson

  • Orbital control of western North America atmospheric circulation and climate over two glacial cycles

    Matthew S. Lachniet;Rhawn F. Denniston;Yemane Asmerom;Victor J. Polyak

  • Stable isotope values of Costa Rican surface waters

    Matthew S Lachniet;William P Patterson

  • The SISAL database: a global resource to document oxygen and carbon isotope records from speleothems

    Kamolphat Atsawawaranunt;Laia Comas-Bru;Sahar Amirnezhad Mozhdehi;Michael Deininger;Michael Deininger

  • A speleothem record of Holocene climate variability from southwestern Mexico

    Juan Pablo Bernal;Matthew Lachniet;Malcolm McCulloch;Graham Mortimer

  • Use of correlation and stepwise regression to evaluate physical controls on the stable isotope values of Panamanian rain and surface waters

    Matthew S. Lachniet;William P. Patterson

  • Last Glacial Maximum equilibrium line altitudes in the circum-Caribbean (Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Colombia, and Venezuela)

    Matthew S. Lachniet;Lorenzo Vazquez-Selem

  • Expansion and Contraction of the Indo-Pacific Tropical Rain Belt over the Last Three Millennia.

    Rhawn F. Denniston;Caroline C. Ummenhofer;Alan D. Wanamaker;Matthew S. Lachniet

  • Late Quaternary glaciation of Costa Rica

    Matthew S. Lachniet;Geoffrey O. Seltzer

  • Extreme rainfall activity in the Australian tropics reflects changes in the El Niño/Southern Oscillation over the last two millennia

    Rhawn F. Denniston;Gabriele Villarini;Angelique N. Gonzales;Karl-Heinz Wyrwoll

  • Orbital pacing and ocean circulation-induced collapses of the Mesoamerican monsoon over the past 22,000 y

    Matthew S. Lachniet;Yemane Asmerom;Juan Pablo Bernal;Victor J. Polyak

  • Climatic backdrop to the terminal Pleistocene extinction of North American mammals

    Victor J. Polyak;Yemane Asmerom;Stephen J. Burns;Matthew S. Lachniet

  • Uranium loss and aragonite–calcite age discordance in a calcitized aragonite stalagmite

    Matthew S. Lachniet;Juan Pablo Bernal;Yemane Asmerom;Victor Polyak

  • Microstructures of sediment flow deposits and subglacial sediments: a comparison

    Matthew S. Lachniet;Grahame J. Larson;Daniel E. Lawson;Edward B. Evenson

Frequent Co-Authors

Yemane Asmerom
Yemane Asmerom University of New Mexico
Victor J. Polyak
Victor J. Polyak University of New Mexico
Stephen J. Burns
Stephen J. Burns University of Massachusetts Amherst
William P. Patterson
William P. Patterson University of Saskatchewan
William F. Humphreys
William F. Humphreys Australian Museum
Dolores R. Piperno
Dolores R. Piperno National Museum of Natural History
Alan D. Wanamaker
Alan D. Wanamaker Iowa State University
Caroline C. Ummenhofer
Caroline C. Ummenhofer Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Geoffrey O. Seltzer
Geoffrey O. Seltzer Syracuse University
Gabriele Villarini
Gabriele Villarini Princeton University

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