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Nathaniel A. Lifton is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences with a significant body of work contributing to Environmental Science. Within these fields, key subfields include Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Anthropology, and Paleontology.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics, particularly in Geology and Paleoclimatology Research and Cryospheric studies and observations. Additional research interests include Landslides and related hazards, Polar Research and Ecology, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Climate change and permafrost, and Isotope Analysis in Ecology.

Lifton has published extensively in various academic venues. Some of the most frequent publication venues include:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Geochronology
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • The Cryosphere

Their recent scholarly articles cover diverse topics relevant to ice dynamics, paleo-ice sheet reconstructions, and Antarctic ice streams. Selected recent papers include:

  • "Nunataks as barriers to ice flow: implications for palaeo ice sheet reconstructions" (2021) published in The Cryosphere
  • "Regional sea-level highstand triggered Holocene ice sheet thinning across coastal Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica" (2022) published in Communications Earth & Environment
  • "Ice surface changes during recent glacial cycles along the Jutulstraumen and Penck Trough ice streams in western Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica" (2020) published in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Non-Steady-State 14C-10Be and Transient Hillslope Dynamics in Steep High Mountain Catchments" (2022) published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • "A thicker Antarctic ice stream during the mid-Pliocene warm period" (2023) published in Communications Earth & Environment

The scientist frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Jane Lund Andersen
  • Arjen P. Stroeven
  • Jennifer C. H. Newall
  • Irina Rogozhina
  • Yûsuke Suganuma

Best Publications

  • A complete and easily accessible means of calculating surface exposure ages or erosion rates from 10Be and 26Al measurements

    Greg Balco;John O. Stone;Nathaniel A. Lifton;Tibor J. Dunai

  • Scaling in situ cosmogenic nuclide production rates using analytical approximations to atmospheric cosmic-ray fluxes

    Nathaniel Lifton;Tatsuhiko Sato;Tibor J. Dunai

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

    Brian Borchers;Shasta Marrero;Greg Balco;Marc Caffee

  • Cosmogenic nuclide systematics and the CRONUScalc program

    Shasta M. Marrero;Fred M. Phillips;Brian Borchers;Nathaniel Lifton

  • Addressing solar modulation and long-term uncertainties in scaling secondary cosmic rays for in situ cosmogenic nuclide applications

    Nathaniel A. Lifton;John W. Bieber;John M. Clem;Marc L. Duldig

  • Tectonic, climatic and lithologic influences on landscape fractal dimension and hypsometry : implications for landscape evolution in the San Gabriel Mountains, California

    Nathaniel A. Lifton;Clement G. Chase

  • The CREp program and the ICE-D production rate calibration database: A fully parameterizable and updated online tool to compute cosmic-ray exposure ages

    L.C.P. Martin;P.-H. Blard;G. Balco;J. Lavé

  • The CRONUS-Earth Project: A synthesis

    Fred M. Phillips;David C. Argento;Greg Balco;Marc W. Caffee

  • A cosmic trip: 25 years of cosmogenic nuclides in geology

    Darryl E. Granger;Nathaniel A. Lifton;Jane K. Willenbring

  • Scaling time-integrated in situ cosmogenic nuclide production rates using a continuous geomagnetic model

    Nathaniel Lifton;D.F. Smart;M.A. Shea

  • Geomagnetic effects on time-integrated cosmogenic nuclide production with emphasis on in situ 14C and 10Be

    Jeffrey S. Pigati;Nathaniel A. Lifton

  • A new extraction technique and production rate estimate for in situ cosmogenic 14C in quartz

    Nathaniel A. Lifton;A.J.Timothy Jull;Jay Quade

  • Development of low-background vacuum extraction and graphitization systems for 14C dating of old (40–60 ka) samples

    Jeffrey S. Pigati;Jay Quade;Jim Wilson;A.J. Timothy Jull

  • The Rhone Glacier was smaller than today for most of the Holocene

    Brent M. Goehring;Brent M. Goehring;Joerg M. Schaefer;Christian Schluechter;Nathaniel A. Lifton;Nathaniel A. Lifton

  • A reevaluation of in situ cosmogenic 3He production rates

    Brent M. Goehring;Mark D. Kurz;Greg Balco;Joerg M. Schaefer

  • Regional and global forcing of glacier retreat during the last deglaciation

    Jeremy D. Shakun;Peter U. Clark;Feng He;Feng He;Nathaniel A. Lifton

  • In situ cosmogenic nuclide production rate calibration for the CRONUS-Earth project from lake Bonneville, Utah, shoreline features

    Nathaniel Lifton;Marc Caffee;Robert C Finkel;Shasta Marrero

  • Implications of two Holocene time-dependent geomagnetic models for cosmogenic nuclide production rate scaling

    Nathaniel Lifton

  • Limited ice-sheet erosion and complex exposure histories derived from in situ cosmogenic 10Be, 26Al, and 14C on Baffin Island, Arctic Canada

    Gifford H. Miller;Jason P. Briner;Nathaniel A. Lifton;Robert C. Finkel

  • A millennial perspective on Arctic warming from 14C in quartz and plants emerging from beneath ice caps

    Rebecca K. Anderson;Gifford H. Miller;Jason P. Briner;Nathaniel A. Lifton

  • Evaluating the timing of former glacier expansions in the Tian Shan : A key step towards robust spatial correlations

    Robin Blomdin;Robin Blomdin;Arjen P. Stroeven;Jonathan M. Harbor;Jonathan M. Harbor;Nathaniel A. Lifton

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc W. Caffee
Marc W. Caffee Purdue University West Lafayette
Arjen P. Stroeven
Arjen P. Stroeven Stockholm University
Clas Hättestrand
Clas Hättestrand Stockholm University
Jakob Heyman
Jakob Heyman University of Gothenburg
Gifford H. Miller
Gifford H. Miller University of Colorado Boulder
Jason P. Briner
Jason P. Briner University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Jon Harbor
Jon Harbor Purdue University West Lafayette
Krister N. Jansson
Krister N. Jansson Stockholm University
Robert C. Finkel
Robert C. Finkel Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Joerg M. Schaefer
Joerg M. Schaefer Columbia University

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