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Overview

Paul R. Bierman is affiliated with the University of Vermont in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with particular emphasis on atmospheric science, earth-surface processes, and geophysics. The subfields in which they have published include management, monitoring, policy and law, as well as ecology.

The scientist's work covers several main research topics, such as:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Cryospheric Studies and Observations
  • Geological Formations and Processes
  • Landslides and Related Hazards
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Polar Research and Ecology
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies

Paul R. Bierman has contributed extensively to the scientific literature, with a total of over a hundred publications. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Geochronology
  • Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Science
  • Quaternary Geochronology

Among their recent papers are:

  • "A multimillion-year-old record of Greenland vegetation and glacial history preserved in sediment beneath 1.4 km of ice at Camp Century" (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Deglaciation of northwestern Greenland during Marine Isotope Stage 11" (2023), published in Science
  • "Late Cenozoic climate change paces landscape adjustments to Yukon River capture" (2020), published in Nature Geoscience
  • "First Authorship Gender Gap in the Geosciences" (2020), published in Earth and Space Science
  • "Landslides, hurricanes, and sediment sourcing impact basin-scale erosion estimates in Luquillo, Puerto Rico" (2021), published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Collaborations are an important part of their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Lee B. Corbett
  • Marc W. Caffee
  • Alan J. Hidy
  • Tammy M. Rittenour
  • Christopher T. Halsted

Best Publications

  • Understanding Earth’s eroding surface with 10Be

    Eric W. Portenga;Paul R. Bierman

  • ESTIMATING RATES OF DENUDATION USING COSMOGENIC ISOTOPE ABUNDANCES IN SEDIMENT

    Paul Bierman;Eric J. Steig

  • Using in situ produced cosmogenic isotopes to estimate rates of landscape evolution: A review from the geomorphic perspective

    Paul R. Bierman

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

    Paul R. Bierman;Marc Caffee

  • 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

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

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

  • Mineral weathering and elemental transport during hillslope evolution at the Susquehanna/Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory

    Lixin Jin;Ramesh Ravella;Blake Ketchum;Paul R. Bierman

  • Millennial-scale storminess variability in the northeastern United States during the Holocene epoch

    Anders J. Noren;Paul R. Bierman;Eric J. Steig;Andrea Lini

  • Advances in ungauged streamflow prediction using artificial neural networks

    Lance E. Besaw;Donna M. Rizzo;Paul R. Bierman;William R. Hackett

  • A review of methods for analysing spatial and temporal patterns in coastal water quality

    Paul Bierman;Megan Lewis;Bertram Ostendorf;Jason Tanner

  • Temporally and spatially uniform rates of erosion in the southern Appalachian Great Smoky Mountains

    A. Matmon;P.R. Bierman;J. Larsen;S. Southworth

  • An approach for optimizing in SITU cosmogenic 10BE sample preparation

    Lee B. Corbett;Paul R. Bierman;Dylan H. Rood;Dylan H. Rood

  • Cosmogenic exposure and erosion history of Australian bedrock landforms

    Paul R. Bierman;Marc Caffee

  • ROCK TO SEDIMENT—SLOPE TO SEA WITH 10BE—RATES OF LANDSCAPE CHANGE

    Paul Robert Bierman;Kyle Keedy Nichols

  • Neogene rejuvenation of central Appalachian topography: Evidence for differential rock uplift from stream profiles and erosion rates

    Scott R. Miller;Peter B. Sak;Eric Kirby;Eric Kirby;Paul R. Bierman

  • Erosion of an Ancient Mountain Range, The Great Smoky Mountains, North Carolina and Tennessee

    A. Matmon;P. R. Bierman;J. Larsen;S. Southworth

  • Improving in Situ Cosmogenic Chronometers

    Douglas H. Clark;Paul R. Bierman;Patrick Larsen

  • Last Glacial Maximum ice sheet dynamics in Arctic Canada inferred from young erratics perched on ancient tors

    J.P. Briner;G.H. Miller;P.T. Davis;P.R. Bierman

  • Sediment yield exceeds sediment production in arid region drainage basins

    Erik M. Clapp;Paul R. Bierman;Asher P. Schick;Judith Lekach

  • 10 000 yr record of extreme hydrologic events

    Sarah L. Brown;Paul R. Bierman;Andrea Lini;John Southon

Frequent Co-Authors

Dylan H. Rood
Dylan H. Rood Imperial College London
Marc W. Caffee
Marc W. Caffee Purdue University West Lafayette
Robert C. Finkel
Robert C. Finkel Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Milan J. Pavich
Milan J. Pavich United States Geological Survey
Eric Kirby
Eric Kirby Oregon State University
Alan R. Gillespie
Alan R. Gillespie University of Washington
Thomas A. Neumann
Thomas A. Neumann Goddard Space Flight Center
Tammy M. Rittenour
Tammy M. Rittenour Utah State University
Ari Matmon
Ari Matmon Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Greg Balco
Greg Balco Berkeley Geochronology Center

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