Dr. Jason Briner

Office: 856 Natural Sciences Complex Phone: 716.645.6800 ext 3986 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

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., 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.

Michelutti, N., Wolfe, A.P., Vinebrooke, R.D., Rivard, B., and Briner, J.P. (2005). Recent primary production increases in arctic lakes. Geophysical Research Letters 32, L19715.

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 theglacial history of northeastern Baffin Island, Arctic Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 42, 67-84.

Kaufman, D.S., Hu, F.S., Briner, J.P., Werner, A., Finney, B.P., and Gregory-Eaves, I. (2003). A ~33,000 year record of environmental change from Arolik Lake, Ahklun Mountains, Alaska. Journal of Paleolimnology 30, 343-362.

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.