INSTAAR: John Andrews

Fellow of INSTAAR; Professor Emeritus of Geological Sciences, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder; Fellow of Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

PhD and DSc, University of Nottingham, England, 1965, 1978.

andrewsj@spot.colorado.edu
(303) 492-5183; 492-5059; 492-8437

INSTAAR Directorate Members

Specialty: Glacial and marine sedimentology and chronologies, high-resolution marine studies.

Research Interests: Late Quaternary history of ice sheet/ocean interactions and abrupt climate change during the last 10,000 to 40,000 yrs. Identification of iceberg rafting events. Detailed study of the paleoceanography of the East Greenland and Iceland margins on Holocene time scales.

Outstanding Awards: University Medal, 1997; DSc in honoris causa, University of Nottingham, 1998; Career Award, American Quaternary Association, 1998.

Selected Publications:

Andrews, J. T., 2007: Holocene denudation of Iceland as determined from accumulation of sediments on the continental margin. Boreas, 36: 240-252.
Andrews, J. T. and Eberl, D. D., 2007: Quantitative mineralogy of surface sediments on the Iceland shelf, and application to down-core studies of Holocene ice-rafted sediments. Journal Sedimentary Research, 77: 469-479.
Andrews, J. T. and Barber, D. C., 2002: Dansgaard-Oeschger events: Is there a signal off the Hudson Strait Ice Stream? Quaternary Science Reviews, 21: 443-454.
Andrews, J. T., 2006: Glaciers, oceans, atmsophere and climate. In Knight, P. G. (ed.), Glacier Science and Environmental Change. London: Blackwell, 96-114.
Andrews, J. T., 2006: The Laurentide Ice Sheet: A review of history and processes. In Knight, P. G. (ed.), Glaciology and Earth's Changing Environment. London: Blackwell, 201-208.
Andrews, J. T., Eberl, D. D., and Kristjansdottir, G. B., 2006: An exploratory method to detect tephras from quantitative XRD scans: Examples from Iceland and East Greenland marine sediments. The Holocene, 16: 1035-1042.
Andrews, J. T. and Dunhill, G., 2004: Early to mid-Holocene Atlantic Water influx and deglacial meltwater events, Beaufort Sea Slope, Arctic Ocean. Quaternary Research, 61: 14-21.
Andrews, J. T. and Giraudeau, J., 2003: Multi-proxy records showing significant Holocene environmental variability: the inner N Iceland Shelf (Hunafloi). Quaternary Science Reviews, 22: 175-193.
Andrews, J. T., Hardardottir, J., Kristjansdottir, G. B., Gronvald, K., and Stoner, J., 2003: A high resolution Holocene sediment record from Húnflóaáll, N Iceland margin: Century to millenial-scale variability since the Vedde tephra. The Holocene, 13: 625-638.
Andrews, J. T., Hardardottir, J., Stoner, J. S., Mann, M. E., Kristjansdottir, G. B., and Koc, N., 2003: Decadal to millennial-scale periodicities in North Iceland shelf sediments over the last 12,000 cal yrs: long-term North Atlantic oceanographic variability and Solar forcing. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 210: 453-465.
Andrews, J. T. and MacLean, B., 2003: Hudson Strait ice streams: A review of stratigraphy, chronology, and links with North Atlantic Heinrich events. Boreas, 32: 4-17.
Andrews, J. T., Geirsdottir, A., Hardardottir, J., Principato, S., Gronvold, K., Krisjansdottir, G. B., Helgadottir, G., Drexler, J., and Sveinbjornsdottir, A., 2002: Distribution, sediment magnetism, and geochemistry of the Saksunarvatn (10.18 ± cal ka) tephra in marine, lake, and terrestrial sediments, NW Iceland. Journal of Quaternary Science, 17: 731-745.

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