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Todd Sowers is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research predominantly focuses on Atmospheric Science, with additional work in Environmental Chemistry, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Molecular Biology, and Oceanography.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements

Todd Sowers has published in a variety of scientific venues, with frequent contributions in:

  • Climate of the Past
  • UNC Libraries
  • Science
  • Nature
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Recent publications include:

  • "Antarctic surface temperature and elevation during the Last Glacial Maximum" (2021) published in Science
  • "The SP19 chronology for the South Pole Ice Core - Part 2: gas chronology, Δage, and smoothing of atmospheric records" (2020) published in Climate of the Past
  • "Bipolar impact and phasing of Heinrich-type climate variability" (2023) published in Nature
  • "The Greenland spatial fingerprint of Dansgaard-Oeschger events in observations and models" (2024) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Millennial and orbital-scale variability in a 54,000-year record of total air content from the South Pole ice core" (2023) published in The Cryosphere

Collaborations have been an important aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Christo Buizert
  • Tyler R. Jones
  • Jon S. Edwards
  • Jeffrey P. Severinghaus
  • Edward J. Brook

Best Publications

  • Holocene climatic instability: A prominent, widespread event 8200 yr ago

    Richard B. Alley;Paul Andrew Mayewski;Todd Sowers;Minze Stuiver

  • Temperature dependence of metabolic rates for microbial growth, maintenance, and survival.

    P. Buford Price;Todd Sowers

  • A 25,000-Year Tropical Climate History from Bolivian Ice Cores

    L. G. Thompson;M. E. Davis;E. Mosley-Thompson;T. A. Sowers

  • Timing of abrupt climate change at the end of the Younger Dryas interval from thermally fractionated gases in polar ice

    Jeffrey P. Severinghaus;Todd Sowers;Edward J. Brook;Richard B. Alley

  • Extending the Vostok ice-core record of palaeoclimate to the penultimate glacial period

    Jean Jouzel;Jean Jouzel;N.I. Barkov;J.M. Barnola;M. Bender;M. Bender

  • Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core

    D. Dahl-Jensen;M. R. Albert;A. Aldahan;N. Azuma

  • Centennial-scale changes in the global carbon cycle during the last deglaciation

    Shaun A. Marcott;Thomas K. Bauska;Christo Buizert;Eric J. Steig

  • Climate correlations between Greenland and Antarctica during the past 100,000 years

    Michael Bender;Todd Sowers;Mary Lynn Dickson;Joseph Orchardo

  • Rapid Variations in Atmospheric Methane Concentration During the Past 110,000 Years

    Edward J. Brook;Todd Sowers;Joe Orchardo

  • Atmospheric gas concentrations over the past century measured in air from firn at the South Pole

    M. Battle;M. Bender;T. Sowers;P. P. Tans

  • Precise interpolar phasing of abrupt climate change during the last ice age

    Christo Buizert;Betty Adrian;Jinho Ahn;Mary Albert

  • Onset of deglacial warming in West Antarctica driven by local orbital forcing

    T.J. Fudge;Eric J. Steig;Bradley R. Markle;Spruce W. Schoenemann

  • The Dole Effect and its variations during the last 130,000 years as measured in the Vostok Ice Core

    Michael Bender;Todd Sowers;Laurent Labeyrie

  • Climate Records Covering the Last Deglaciation

    Todd Sowers;Michael Bender

  • Evaluating a groundwater supply contamination incident attributed to Marcellus Shale gas development

    Garth T. Llewellyn;Frank Dorman;J. L. Westland;D. Yoxtheimer

  • Gravitational separation of gases and isotopes in polar ice caps.

    H. Craig;Y. Horibe;T. Sowers

  • The WAIS Divide deep ice core WD2014 chronology – Part 1: Methane synchronization (68–31 ka BP) and the gas age–ice age difference

    C. Buizert;K. M. Cuffey;J. P. Severinghaus;D. Baggenstos

  • A 135,000-year Vostok-Specmap Common temporal framework

    Todd Anthony Sowers;Michael Bender;Laurent Labeyrie;Doug Martinson

  • Elemental and isotopic composition of occluded O2 and N2 in polar ice

    Todd Sowers;Michael Bender;Dominique Raynaud

  • The WAIS Divide deep ice core WD2014 chronology - Part 2: Annual-layer counting (0-31 ka BP)

    Michael Sigl;Michael Sigl;Tyler J. Fudge;Mai Winstrup;Jihong Cole-Dai

  • Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core (SCI)

    D Dahl-Jensen;M R Albert;A Aldahan;N Azuma

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward J. Brook
Edward J. Brook Oregon State University
Michael L. Bender
Michael L. Bender Princeton University
Christo Buizert
Christo Buizert Oregon State University
Joseph R. McConnell
Joseph R. McConnell Desert Research Institute
Thomas Blunier
Thomas Blunier University of Copenhagen
Eric J. Steig
Eric J. Steig University of Washington
Jeffrey P. Severinghaus
Jeffrey P. Severinghaus University of California, San Diego
James W. C. White
James W. C. White University of Colorado Boulder
Jochen Schmitt
Jochen Schmitt University of Bern
Thomas Röckmann
Thomas Röckmann Utrecht University

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