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Overview

Scott A. Elias is affiliated with Royal Holloway University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several fields within the Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Social Sciences. The scientist's extensive work includes 63 publications in Earth and Planetary Sciences, 31 in Environmental Science, and 19 in Social Sciences.

The prominent subfields of study in which they contribute include Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Paleontology, Anthropology, and Global and Planetary Change. Their research topics cover a range of subjects such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Arctic and Antarctic Ice Dynamics, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Climate Change and Permafrost, and Archaeology and Ancient Environmental Studies.

Selected recent publications highlight the diversity and depth of their work. Notable papers include:

  • Macrofossil evidence of alder (Alnus sp.) in Britain early in the Late Glacial Interstadial: implications for the northern cryptic refugia debate, 2020, Journal of Quaternary Science
  • Navigating Environmental Challenges in Jordan: A Comprehensive Study on Degradation, Remediation, and Future Imperatives, 2024, Advances in Environmental Studies

Scott A. Elias frequently collaborates with various researchers. Among their most frequent co-authors are Geoffrey Lemdahl, with whom they have coauthored three publications, as well as Julie Brigham-Grette, Daniel Young, C. P. Green, and Robert Batchelor.

Their research contributions have appeared primarily in the Journal of Quaternary Science and Advances in Environmental Studies, demonstrating a focus on environmental and earth science topics.

Best Publications

  • Biological and Physical Signs of Climate Change: Focus on Mosquito-borne Diseases

    Paul R. Epstein;Henry F. Diaz;Scott Elias;Georg Grabherr

  • Encyclopedia of quaternary science

    Scott A. Elias

  • Life and times of the Bering land bridge

    Scott A. Elias;Susan K. Short;C. Hans Nelson;Hilary H. Birks

  • Temperature and precipitation history of the Arctic

    G. H. Miller;J. Brigham-Grette;R. B. Alley;L. Anderson

  • Quaternary insects and their environments

    Scott A. Elias

  • The residues of feasting and public ritual at early Cahokia

    Timothy R. Pauketat;Lucretia S. Kelly;Gayle J. Fritz;Neal H. Lopinot

  • Atlas of paleoclimates and paleoenvironments of the northern hemisphere : Late Pleistocene - Holocene

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  • The Ice Age World

    Scott A. Elias;Bjorn Andersen;Harold W. Borns join(

  • Non-destructive sampling of ancient insect DNA.

    Philip Francis Thomsen;Scott Elias;M. Thomas P. Gilbert;James Haile

  • Late Wisconsin environments of the Bering Land Bridge

    Scott A. Elias;Susan K. Short;Hilary H. Birks

  • Beringia and the global dispersal of modern humans.

    John F. Hoffecker;Scott A. Elias;Dennis H. O'Rourke;G. Richard Scott

  • The Bering Land Bridge: a moisture barrier to the dispersal of steppe-tundra biota?

    Scott A. Elias;Barnaby Crocker

  • Mutual climatic range reconstructions of seasonal temperatures based on Late-Pleistocene fossil beetle assemblages in Eastern Beringia

    Scott A Elias

  • Human Ecology of Beringia

    John F. Hoffecker;Scott A. Elias

  • Late Pleistocene Climates of Beringia, Based on Analysis of Fossil Beetles

    Scott A. Elias

  • Arctic North American seasonal temperatures from the latest Miocene to the Early Pleistocene, based on mutual climatic range analysis of fossil beetle assemblages

    Scott A. Elias;John V. Matthews

  • Paleoecology of late-glacial peats from the bering land bridge, Chukchi Sea shelf region, northwestern Alaska

    Scott A. Elias;Susan K. Short;Susan K. Short;R. Lawrence Phillips

  • Arctic ground squirrels of the mammoth-steppe: paleoecology of Late Pleistocene middens (∼24000–29450 14C yr BP), Yukon Territory, Canada

    Grant D. Zazula;Duane G. Froese;Scott A. Elias;Svetlana Kuzmina

  • The Coleoptera of Greenland

    Scott A. Elias;Jens Bocher

  • Environmental selection during the last ice age on the mother-to-infant transmission of vitamin D and fatty acids through breast milk

    Leslea J. Hlusko;Joshua P. Carlson;George Chaplin;Scott A. Elias

  • Late Pleistocene and Holocene Seasonal Temperatures Reconstructed from Fossil Beetle Assemblages in the Rocky Mountains

    Scott A. Elias

  • Insects and Climate ChangeFossil evidence from the Rocky Mountains

    Scott A. Elias

Frequent Co-Authors

Mary E. Edwards
Mary E. Edwards University of Southampton
Julie Brigham-Grette
Julie Brigham-Grette University of Massachusetts Amherst
Gifford H. Miller
Gifford H. Miller University of Colorado Boulder
Bruce P. Finney
Bruce P. Finney Idaho State University
John T. Andrews
John T. Andrews University of Colorado Boulder
Robert F Spielhagen
Robert F Spielhagen GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Timothy D. Herbert
Timothy D. Herbert Brown University
Alexander P. Wolfe
Alexander P. Wolfe University of Alberta
Alan Robock
Alan Robock Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Mark C. Serreze
Mark C. Serreze University of Colorado Boulder

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