INSTAAR: Scott Lehman

Fellow and Research Professor of INSTAAR.

PhD, University of Colorado, 1989.

Scott.Lehman@colorado.edu
(303) 492-8980

INSTAAR Directorate Members

Specialty: Paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, radiocarbon research.

Research Interests: The role of the oceans in climate change, cycling of heat, fresh water, and carbon by the oceans, paleotemperature applications of marine biomarkers and amino acids, dynamics and consequences of abrupt climate change, radiocarbon calibration, bomb 14C as a tracer in the recent carbon cycle.

Director: INSTAAR Laboratory for AMS Radiocarbon Preparation and Research (http://www.Colorado.EDU/INSTAAR/RadiocarbonDatingLab/)

Awards : Postdoctoral Scholar Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1987; Appointed to National Academy of Sciences "Frontiers of Science" Steering Committee, 1994, 1995, 1996.

Selected Publications:

Marchitto, T. M., Lehman, S. J., Ortiz, J. D., Flückiger, J., and van Geen, A., 2007: Marine radiocarbon evidence for the mechanism of deglacial atmospheric CO2 Rise. Science, 316(5830): 1456-1459. doi: 10.1126/science.1138679
Turnbull, J. C., Lehman, S. J., Miller, J. B., Tans, P., Sparks, R. J., and Southon, J., 2007: A new high-precision 14CO2 time series for North American continental air. Journal of Geophysical Research, 112: D11310. doi: 10.1029/2006JD008184
Lehman, S.J., Sachs, J.P., Keigwin, L.D., Crotwell, A.M. and E.A. Boyle. (2002). Relation of subtropical Atlantic temperatures, high latitude ice rafting, deep water formation and European climate 135,000 – 60, 000 years ago. Quaternary Science Reviews 21: 1917-1924.
Sachs, J.P., Anderson, R.F. & S.J. Lehman (2001). Glacial surface temperatures of the Southeast Atlantic Ocean. Science 293: 2077-2079
Hughen, K.A., Southon, J.R., Lehman, S.J., and J.T. Overpeck (2000). Synchronous radiocarbon and climate shifts during deglaciation. Science 290: 1951-54.
Sachs, J.P. & S.J. Lehman (1999). Subtropical Atlantic Temperatures 60,000 to 30,000 years ago. Science 286: 756-759.
Oppo, D. and S.J. Lehman (1993). Mid-Depth Circulation of the Subpolar North Atlantic During the Last Glacial Maximum Science 259: 1148-1152.
Lehman, S. J. and L.D. Keigwin (1992). Sudden changes in the North Atlantic circulation during the last deglaciation. Nature 356: 757-762.
Lehman, S.J., Jones, G.A., Keigwin, L.D., Andersen, E., Butenko, G. and S.-R. Østmo (1991b). Initiation of Fennoscandian Ice Sheet retreat during the last deglaciation. Nature 349: 513-516.

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Scott J. Lehman