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Office: 856 Natural Sciences Complex
Phone: 716.645.4326
Email: jbriner@buffalo.edu
Website: Home Page
Title: Assistant Professor
Degree: PhD, Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, 2003
Specialty: Quaternary and glacial geology, paleoclimatology, arctic environmental change
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Courses Offered
GLY 101 Global Environmental Science
GLY 445/545 Glacial Geology
GLY 453/553 Quaternary Dating and Paleoclimate
GLY 478/578 Advanced Field Methods: Alaska's Changing Glacial Landscapes
Research Interests
My interests lie in the broad field of Quaternary geology and global climate change. I study glacial settings to better understand ice sheet processes, glacial landscape evolution and past glacier fluctuations. I also study paleoenvironments recorded in Holocene and Pleistocene lake sediments to better understand paleoclimate, which provides a template for modern global change.
Recent Publications
Briner, J.P., Davis, P.T., and Miller,
G. H. (2009). Latest Pleistocene and Holocene glaciation of Baffin Island: Key
patterns and chronologies. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 28, p. 2075-2087.
Briner, J.P., Bini, A.C., and Anderson, R.S. (2009). Rapid early Holocene retreat
of a Laurentide outlet glacier through an Arctic fjord. Nature Geoscience, v.
2, p. 496-499.
Hess, D., Briner, J.P. (2009). Geospatial analysis of controls on subglacial
bedform morphometry in the New York Drumlin Field. Earth Surface Processes and
Landforms, v. 34, p. 1126-1135.
Kaufman, D.S., Schneider, D.P., McKay, N.P., Ammann, C.M., Bradley, R.S., Briffa
K.R., Miller, G.H., Otto-Bliesner, B.L., Overpeck, J.T., Vinther, B.M., Arctic
Lakes 2k Project Members (Abbott, M., Axford, Y., Bird, B., Birks, H.J.B., Bjune,
A.E., Briner, J., Cook, T., Chipman, M., Francus, P., Gajewski, K., Geirsdóttir,
Á., Hu, F.S., Kutchko, B., Lamoureux, S., Loso, M., MacDonald, G., Peros,
M., Porinchu, D., Schiff, C., Seppä, H., Thomas, E.), 2009, Recent warming
reverses long-term Arctic cooling. Science, v. 325, p. 1236-1239.
Briner, J.P. (2009). Moraine pebbles and boulders yield indistinguishable 10Be
ages: A case study from Colorado, USA. Quaternary Geochronology, v. 4, p. 299-305.
Axford, Y., Briner, J.P., Miller, G.H., and Francis, D.R. (2009). Paleoecological
evidence for abrupt cold reversals during peak Holocene warmth on Baffin Island,
Arctic Canada. Quaternary Research, v. 71, p. 142-149.
Balco, G., Briner, J.P., Finkel, R.C., Rayburn, J., Ridge, J.C., and Schaefer,
J.M. (2009). Regional beryllium-10 production rate calibration for late-glacial
northeastern North America. Quaternary Geochronology, v. 4, p. 93-107.
Thomas, E.K. and Briner, J.P. (2009). Climate of the past millennium inferred
from varved proglacial lake sediments on northeast Baffin Island, Arctic Canada.
Journal of Paleolimnology. DOI 10.1007/s10933-008-9258-7.
Briner, J.P., and Kaufman, D.S. (2008). Late Pleistocene mountain glaciation
in Alaska: Key chronologies. Journal of Quaternary Science, v. 23, p. 659-670.
(REVIEW PAPER)
Thomas, E.K., Axford, Y., and Briner, J.P. (2008). Rapid 20th century environmental
change on northeastern Baffin Island, Arctic Canada inferred from a multi-proxy
lacustrine record. Journal of Paleolimnology, v. 40, p. 507-517.
Kessler, M.A., Anderson, R.S., and Briner, J.P. (2008). Fjord insertion into
continental margins driven by topographic steering of ice. Nature Geoscience,
v. 1, p. 365-369.
Briner, J.P., Miller, G.H., Finkel, R., and Hess, D.P. (2008). Glacial erosion
at the fjord onset zone and implications for the organization of ice flow on
Baffin Island. Geomorphology, v. 97, p. 126-134. Anderson, R.K., Miller, G.H.,
Briner, J.P., Lifton, N.A. and DeVogel, S.B. (2008). A millennial perspective
on Arctic warming from 14C in quartz and plants emerging beneath ice caps. Geophysical
Research Letters, v. 35, L01502.
Selected Others
Briner, J.P., Axford, Y., Forman, S.L., Miller, G.H., and Wolfe, A.P. (2007).
Multiple generations of interglacial lake sediment preserved beneath the Laurentide
Ice Sheet. Geology, v. 35, p. 887-890.
Michelutti, N., Wolfe, A.P., Briner, J.P., and Miller, G.H. (2007). Climate
shapes the chemical and biological development of arctic lakes. Journal of Geophysical
Research, v. 112, G03002, doi: 10.1029/2006JG000396.
Briner, J.P. (2007). Supporting evidence from the New York drumlin field that
elongate subglacial bedforms indicate fast ice flow. Boreas 36, 143-147.
Briner, J.P., Michelutti, N., Francis, D.R., Miller, G.H., Axford, Y., Wooller,
M.J., and Wolfe, A.P. (2006). A multi-proxy lacustrine record of Holocene climate
change on northeastern Baffin Island. Quaternary Research 65, 431-442.
Briner, J.P., Miller, G.H., Davis, P.T., and Finkel, R.C. (2006). Cosmogenic
radionuclides from fiord landscapes support differential erosion by overriding
ice sheets. Geological Society of America Bulletin 118, 406-420.
Davis, P.T., Briner, J.P., Coulthard, R.D., Finkel, R.C., and Miller, G.H. (2006).
Preservation of arctic landscapes overridden by cold-based ice sheets. Quaternary
Research 65, 156-163.
Briner, J.P., Kaufman, D.S., Manley, W.F., Finkel, R.C., and Caffee, M.W. (2005).
Cosmogenic exposure dating of late Pleistocene moraine stabilization in Alaska.
Geological Society of America Bulletin 117, 1108-1120.
Briner, J.P., Miller, G.H., Davis, P.T., and Finkel, R. (2005). Cosmogenic exposure
dating in arctic glacial landscapes: Implications for the glacial history of
northeastern Baffin Island, Arctic Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
42, 67-84.
Briner, J.P., Miller, G.H., Davis, P.T., Bierman, P.R., and Caffee, M. (2003).
Last Glacial Maximum ice sheet dynamics in Arctic Canada inferred from young
erratics perched on ancient tors, Quaternary Science Reviews 22, 437-444.
Briner, J.P., Kaufman, D S., Werner, A., Caffee, M., Levy, L., Manley, W.F.,
Kaplan,M.R., and Finkel, R. (2002). Glacier readvance during the late glacial
(Younger Dryas?) in the Ahklun Mountains, southwestern Alaska, Geology 30, 679-682.
Briner, J.P., and Swanson, T.W. (1998). Using inherited cosmogenic 36Cl to constrain
glacial erosion rates of the Cordilleran ice sheet, Geology 26, 3-6.
