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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

William F. Ruddiman is affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Engineering, with a total of 10 and 6 publications respectively in these fields. The subfields covered include Atmospheric Science, Ocean Engineering, Paleontology, Mechanical Engineering, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's main research topics focus on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods, Drilling and Well Engineering, Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology.

Ruddiman has authored several papers, including the following recent publications:

  • The Anthropocene as an Event, not an Epoch (2022), Journal of Quaternary Science
  • A practical solution: the Anthropocene is a geological event, not a formal epoch (2021), Episodes
  • The early anthropogenic hypothesis: A review (2020), Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Response to Waters et al. (2022) The Anthropocene is complex. Defining it is not (2023), Earth-Science Reviews
  • The Anthropocene serves science better as an event, rather than an epoch (2022), Journal of Quaternary Science

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Ruddiman include Philip L. Gibbard, M. J. C. Walker, Andrew M. Bauer, Matt Edgeworth, and Lucy E. Edwards.

Regarding publication venues, Ruddiman has consistently contributed to the Journal of Quaternary Science and The Holocene, with additional publications in Episodes, Quaternary Science Reviews, and Earth-Science Reviews.

In recognition of their contributions, William F. Ruddiman was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2003.

Best Publications

  • Tectonic forcing of late Cenozoic climate

    M. E. Raymo;W. F. Ruddiman

  • Onset of Asian desertification by 22 Myr ago inferred from loess deposits in China

    Z. T. Guo;William F. Ruddiman;Q. Z. Hao;H. B. Wu

  • The Anthropogenic Greenhouse Era Began Thousands of Years Ago

    William F. Ruddiman

  • Global Climates since the Last Glacial Maximum

    John R. Mather;H. E. Wright;J. E. Kutzbach;T. Webb

  • Earth's climate : past and future

    W. F. Ruddiman

  • Influence of late Cenozoic mountain building on ocean geochemical cycles

    Maureen E. Raymo;William F. Ruddiman;Philip N. Froelich

  • Pleistocene evolution: Northern hemisphere ice sheets and North Atlantic Ocean

    W. F. Ruddiman;M. E. Raymo;D. G. Martinson;B. M. Clement

  • Forcing of late Cenozoic northern hemisphere climate by plateau uplift in southern Asia and the American west

    W. F. Ruddiman;J. E. Kutzbach

  • The North Atlantic Ocean during the last deglaciation

    William F. Ruddiman;Andrew McIntyre

  • Holocene carbon emissions as a result of anthropogenic land cover change

    Jed Oliver Kaplan;Kristen Krumhardt;Erle C. Ellis;William F. Ruddiman

  • Late Pliocene variation in northern hemisphere ice sheets and North Atlantic deep water circulation

    M. E. Raymo;W. F. Ruddiman;J. Backman;B. M. Clement

  • Shaping of the continental rise by deep geostrophic contour currents.

    Bruce C. Heezen;Charles D. Hollister;William F. Ruddiman

  • Plows, Plagues and Petroleum

    William F. Ruddiman

  • Sensitivity of climate to late Cenozoic uplift in southern Asia and the American west: Numerical experiments

    J. E. Kutzbach;P. J. Guetter;W. F. Ruddiman;W. L. Prell

  • Tectonic uplift and climate change

    William F. Ruddiman

  • Matuyama 41,000-year cycles: North Atlantic Ocean and northern hemisphere ice sheets

    W.F. Ruddiman;M. Raymo;A. McIntyre

  • Plows, plagues, and petroleum : how humans took control of climate

    William F. Ruddiman

  • Late Quaternary deposition of ice-rafted sand in the subpolar North Atlantic (lat 40° to 65°N)

    William F. Ruddiman

  • 13C Record of benthic foraminifera in the last interglacial ocean: Implications for the carbon cycle and the global deep water circulation

    Jean-Claude Duplessy;Nicholas J. Shackleton;Robley K. Matthews;Warren Prell

  • Evolution of Atlantic―Pacific δ13C gradients over the last 2.5 m.y.

    M.E. Raymo;W.F. Ruddiman;N.J. Shackleton;D.W. Oppo

  • North America and Adjacent Oceans During the Last Deglaciation

    W. F. Ruddiman;H. E. Wright

Frequent Co-Authors

Maureen E. Raymo
Maureen E. Raymo Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
John E. Kutzbach
John E. Kutzbach University of Wisconsin–Madison
Andrew McIntyre
Andrew McIntyre The Open University
Jan Backman
Jan Backman Stockholm University
Douglas G. Martinson
Douglas G. Martinson Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Feng He
Feng He University of Wisconsin–Madison
Warren L Prell
Warren L Prell Brown University
Jed O. Kaplan
Jed O. Kaplan University of Calgary
Erle C. Ellis
Erle C. Ellis University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Nicholas J Shackleton
Nicholas J Shackleton University of Cambridge

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