Darrell Kaufman
Regents' Professor
Education
Ph.D. in Geological Sciences, University of
Colorado, Boulder, 1991
M.S. in Geological Sciences, University of
Washington, Seattle, 1987
B.S. in Earth Sciences, University of
California, Santa Cruz, 1982
B.A. in Environmental Studies, University of
California, Santa Cruz, 1982
Contact
Research interests
Darrell Kaufman studies geologic records of environmental and climatic changes that took
place during the recent past. Darrell studies lake and glacial deposits that provide an
archive of long-term climate variability. Because dating of geological
materials is pivotal to understanding the timing, rates, and regional extent of
paleoclimatic changes, Darrell is particularly interested in geochronology,
especially amino acid geochronology and tephrochronology. And, because accurate
dating of geologic deposits is predicated on understanding the geologic context
of the dated materials, Darrell has a strong emphasis in field geology. Darrell has been
involved in a variety of field-oriented projects, principally in the Arctic
where past environmental changes have been most pronounced and where current climatic
changes are strongest.
Publications
Scarponi, D., Kaufman, D.,
Amorosi, A., Kowalewski, M., 2012. A quantitative test of the sequence
stratigraphic model. Geology, in press.
Badding, M.E., Briner, J.P.,
Kaufman, D.S., 10Be ages of late Pleistocene deglaciation
and Neoglaciation in the north-central Brooks Range, Arctic Alaska. Journal of
Quaternary Sciences, in press.
Kaufman, D.S., Cooper, K.,
Behl, R., Billups, K., Bright, J., Gardner, K., Hearty, P., Jokobbson, M.,
Mendes, I., O’Leary, M., Polyak, L., Rasmussen, T., Rosa, F., Schmidt, M.,
2012, Amino acid racemization in mono-specific foraminifera from Quaternary
deep-sea sediments. Quaternary Geochronology, in press.
Kosnik, M.A., Kaufman, D.S.,
Hua, Q., 2012. Radiocarbon-dated multiple amino acid geochronology of Holocene
molluscs from Bramble and Rib Reefs (Great Barrier Reef, Australia). Quaternary
Geochronology, DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2012.04.024.
Clark, P.U. and 30 others,
2012, Global climate evaluation during the last deglaciation. Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences 109, E1134-E1142.
Kaufman, D.S., 2012, Introduction
to the JoPL Special Issue, “Holocene paleoenvironmental records from Arctic
lake sediment”. Journal of Paleolimnology 41, 1-8.
Kaufman, D.S., Axford, Y.,
Anderson, R.S., Lamoureux, S.F., Schindler, D.E., Walker, I.R., Werner, A.,
2012, A multi-proxy record of the Last
Glacial Maximum and last 14,500 years of paleoenvironmental change at Lone
Spruce Pond, southwestern Alaska. Journal of Paleolimnology 41, 9-26.
Huntley, J.W., Kaufman,
D.S., Kowalewski, M., Romanek, C.S., Neves, R.J., 2012, Sub-centennial
resolution amino acid geochronology for the freshwater mussel Lampsilis for the last 2000 years.
Quaternary Geochronology 9, 75-85.
For a complete list of publications and additional information, please download Darrell Kaufman's CV.