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Overview

Simon Brewer is affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in environmental science and social sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including global and planetary change, sociology and political science, ecology, transportation, and atmospheric science.

Brewer's recent publications include:

  • Large historical carbon emissions from cultivated northern peatlands (2021, Science Advances)
  • Advancing predictive modeling in archaeology: An evaluation of regression and machine learning methods on the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • Scaled biomass estimation in woodland ecosystems: Testing the individual and combined capacities of satellite multispectral and lidar data (2021, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • Exploring the relationship between ride-sourcing services and vehicle ownership, using both inferential and machine learning approaches (2020, Landscape and Urban Planning)
  • A strong mitigation scenario maintains climate neutrality of northern peatlands (2022, One Earth)

The primary topics of Brewer's research work include:

  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

Frequent coauthors in Brewer's publications include:

  • Richard Medina
  • Brian F. Codding
  • Kenneth B. Vernon
  • Jerry D. Spangler
  • Emily Nicolosi

Brewer frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Scientific Reports
  • Quaternary International
  • Cities
  • Environmental Archaeology

This body of work reflects a multidisciplinary approach to research, combining methods and data from environmental science, social sciences, and technological advances such as machine learning and remote sensing. The combination of these fields supports investigations into climate impact, urban studies, archaeology, and transportation systems.

Best Publications

  • Glacial Refugia: Hotspots But Not Melting Pots of Genetic Diversity

    Rémy J. Petit;Itziar Aguinagalde;Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu;Christiane Bittkau

  • Large wildfire trends in the western United States, 1984-2011

    Philip E. Dennison;Simon C. Brewer;James D. Arnold;Max A. Moritz

  • The temperature of Europe during the Holocene reconstructed from pollen data

    B.A.S. Davis;S. Brewer;A.C. Stevenson;J. Guiot

  • Identification of refugia and post-glacial colonisation routes of European white oaks based on chloroplast DNA and fossil pollen evidence

    Rémy J Petit;Simon Brewer;Sándor Bordács;Kornel Burg

  • Pollen-based continental climate reconstructions at 6 and 21 ka: A global synthesis

    Patrick J Bartlein;S P Harrison;S P Harrison;S Brewer;Simon Connor

  • Global climate evolution during the last deglaciation

    Peter U. Clark;Jeremy D. Shakun;Paul A. Baker;Patrick J. Bartlein

  • Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change

    Connor Nolan;Jonathan T. Overpeck;Jonathan T. Overpeck;Judy R.M. Allen;Patricia M. Anderson

  • The spread of deciduous Quercus throughout Europe since the last glacial period

    S. Brewer;R. Cheddadi;J.L. de Beaulieu;M. Reille

  • Reconciling divergent trends and millennial variations in Holocene temperatures

    Jeremiah Marsicek;Bryan N. Shuman;Patrick J. Bartlein;Sarah L. Shafer

  • Climate-related changes in peatland carbon accumulation during the last millennium

    D. J. Charman;D. W. Beilman;M. Blaauw;R. K. Booth

  • Latitudinal limits to the predicted increase of the peatland carbon sink with warming

    Angela V. Gallego-Sala;Daniel J. Charman;Simon Brewer;Susan E. Page

  • Climatic changes in Eurasia and Africa at the last glacial maximum and mid-Holocene: reconstruction from pollen data using inverse vegetation modelling

    Haibin Wu;Haibin Wu;Joël Guiot;Simon Brewer;Zhengtang Guo

  • A late Pleistocene long pollen record from Lake Urmia, NW Iran☆

    Morteza Djamali;Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu;Madjid Shah-hosseini;Valérie Andrieu-Ponel

  • Murine gut microbiota is defined by host genetics and modulates variation of metabolic traits.

    Autumn M. McKnite;Maria Elisa Perez-Munoz;Lu Lu;Evan Graehl Williams

  • Climate model benchmarking with glacial and mid-Holocene climates

    S. P. Harrison;S. P. Harrison;P. J. Bartlein;S. Brewer;I. C. Prentice;I. C. Prentice

  • Reconstructions of biomass burning from sediment-charcoal records to improve data–model comparisons

    Jennifer R. Marlon;Ryan Kelly;Anne-Laure Daniau;Boris Vannière

  • Application of the Global Bioclimatic Classification to Iran: implications for understanding the modern vegetation and biogeography

    Morteza Djamali;Hossein Akhani;Roxana Khoshravesh;Valérie Andrieu-Ponel

  • Patterns and dynamics of European vegetation change over the last 15,000 years

    Thomas Giesecke;Simon Brewer;Walter Finsinger;Michelle Leydet

  • Mediterranean drought fluctuation during the last 500 years based on tree-ring data

    A. Nicault;S. Alleaume;S. Brewer;M. Carrer

  • Orbital forcing and role of the latitudinal insolation/temperature gradient

    Basil A. S. Davis;Basil A. S. Davis;Simon Brewer

  • Last Glacial Maximum climate of the former Soviet Union and Mongolia reconstructed from pollen and plant macrofossil data

    P. E. Tarasov;O. Peyron;J. Guiot;S. Brewer

Frequent Co-Authors

Joël Guiot
Joël Guiot Aix-Marseille University
Walter Finsinger
Walter Finsinger University of Montpellier
Richard H. W. Bradshaw
Richard H. W. Bradshaw University of Liverpool
Stephen T. Jackson
Stephen T. Jackson United States Geological Survey
Rachid Cheddadi
Rachid Cheddadi University of Montpellier
Odile Peyron
Odile Peyron University of Montpellier
Ralph Fyfe
Ralph Fyfe Plymouth University
Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu
Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu Aix-Marseille University
Pavel E. Tarasov
Pavel E. Tarasov Freie Universität Berlin
Maarten Blaauw
Maarten Blaauw Queen's University Belfast

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