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Overview

W. Roland Gehrels is affiliated with the University of York in the United Kingdom and specializes in research within Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Oceanography, Ecology, and Archaeology.

The scientist's research prominently addresses topics such as:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics
  • Maritime and Coastal Archaeology

Recent publications by W. Roland Gehrels include:

  • "Unequal Anthropogenic Enrichment of Mercury in Earth's Northern and Southern Hemispheres" (2020), published in ACS Earth and Space Chemistry
  • "A Preindustrial Sea-Level Rise Hotspot Along the Atlantic Coast of North America" (2020), published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Late Holocene sea-level changes and vertical land movements in New Zealand" (2020), published in New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
  • "Nonlinear landscape and cultural response to sea-level rise" (2020), published in Science Advances
  • "The magnitude and source of meltwater forcing of the 8.2 ka climate event constrained by relative sea-level data from eastern Scotland" (2023), published in Quaternary Science Advances

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Gehrels include:

  • Ed Garrett
  • Rewi M. Newnham
  • Tim Daley
  • Sönke Dangendorf
  • Natasha Barlow

Gehrels has contributed multiple works to several publication venues, demonstrating a consistent presence in the scientific community. These venues include:

  • Marine Micropaleontology
  • Journal of Quaternary Science
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Marine Geology
  • The Journal of Foraminiferal Research

Best Publications

  • Identifying the causes of sea-level change

    Glenn A. Milne;W. Roland Gehrels;Chris W. Hughes;Mark E. Tamisiea

  • Temperature-driven global sea-level variability in the Common Era

    Robert Evans Kopp;Andrew C. Kemp;Klaus Bittermann;Benjamin Horton

  • Evidence for the accelerations of sea level on multi-decade and century timescales.

    P. L. Woodworth;N. J. White;N. J. White;S. Jevrejeva;S. J. Holgate

  • Determining relative sea-level change from salt-marsh foraminifera and plant zones on the coast of Maine, U.S.A.

    W. Roland Gehrels

  • Onset of recent rapid sea-level rise in the western Atlantic Ocean

    W. Roland Gehrels;Jason R. Kirby;Andreas Prokoph;Rewi M. Newnham

  • Foraminifera, testate amoebae and diatoms as sea-level indicators in UK saltmarshes: a quantitative multiproxy approach

    W. Roland Gehrels;Helen M. Roe;Dan J. Charman

  • Timing and magnitude of recent accelerated sea-level rise (North Carolina, United States)

    Andrew C. Kemp;Benjamin P. Horton;Stephen J. Culver;D. Reide Corbett

  • Using foraminiferal transfer functions to produce high-resolution sea-level records from salt-marsh deposits, Maine, USA

    W. Roland Gehrels

  • Middle and Late Holocene Sea-Level Changes in Eastern Maine Reconstructed from Foraminiferal Saltmarsh Stratigraphy and AMS 14C Dates on Basal Peat

    W.Roland Gehrels

  • Late Quaternary relative sea-level change in the western Gulf of Maine: Evidence for a migrating glacial forebulge

    Walter A. Barnhardt;W. Roland Gehrels;Joseph T. Kelley

  • Evidence for Century-Timescale Acceleration in Mean Sea Levels and for Recent Changes in Extreme Sea Levels

    Philip L. Woodworth;Melissa Menendez;W. Roland Gehrels

  • Rapid sea-level rise in the North Atlantic Ocean since the first half of the nineteenth century

    W. Roland Gehrels;William A. Marshall;Maria J. Gehrels;Gudrún Larsen

  • When did modern rates of sea-level rise start?

    W. Roland Gehrels;Philip L. Woodworth

  • Paleoenvironmental Records, Geophysical Modeling, and Reconstruction of Sea-Level Trends and Variability on Centennial and Longer Timescales

    Kurt Lambeck;Kurt Lambeck;Colin D. Woodroffe;Fabrizio Antonioli;Marco Anzidei

  • A 20th century acceleration of sea‐level rise in New Zealand

    W. Roland Gehrels;Bruce W. Hayward;Rewi M. Newnham;Katherine E. Southall

  • Salt marshes as late Holocene tide gauges.

    Natasha L.M. Barlow;Ian Shennan;Antony J. Long;W. Roland Gehrels

  • Integrated high-precision analyses of Holocene relative sea-level changes: Lessons from the coast of Maine

    W. Roland Gehrels;Daniel F. Belknap;Joseph T. Kelley

  • Sea-level rise impacts on transport infrastructure: The notorious case of the coastal railway line at Dawlish, England

    David Dawson;Jon Shaw;W. Roland Gehrels

  • The use of Jadammina macrescens (Brady) and Balticammina pseudomacrescens Brönnimann, Lutze and Whittaker (Protozoa: Foraminiferida) as sea-level indicators

    W.Roland Gehrels;Orson van de Plassche

  • Modeling the contribution of M2 tidal amplification to the Holocene rise of mean high water in the Gulf of Maine and the Bay of Fundy

    W.Roland Gehrels;Daniel F. Belknap;Bryan R. Pearce;Bin Gong

  • Rapid sea-level rise in the Gulf of Maine, USA, since AD 1800

    W. Roland Gehrels;Daniel F. Belknap;Stuart Black;Rewi M. Newnham

Frequent Co-Authors

Dan J. Charman
Dan J. Charman University of Exeter
Benjamin P. Horton
Benjamin P. Horton City University of Hong Kong
Daniel F. Belknap
Daniel F. Belknap University of Maine
Helen Roe
Helen Roe Queen's University Belfast
Rewi M. Newnham
Rewi M. Newnham Victoria University of Wellington
Ralph Fyfe
Ralph Fyfe Plymouth University
Antony J. Long
Antony J. Long Durham University
Mark D. Bateman
Mark D. Bateman University of Sheffield
Kurt Lambeck
Kurt Lambeck Australian National University
Glenn A. Milne
Glenn A. Milne University of Ottawa

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