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UAF Alaska Quaternary Center

Dr. NANCY H. BIGELOW

ALASKA QUATERNARY CENTER

P.O. BOX 756960 UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS FAIRBANKS, AK 99775-6960

tel: 907-474-5433

e-mail: ffnhb@uaf.edu

DEGREES AWARDED:

Ph.D. University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Department of Anthropology (Archaeology) Aug. 1997
M.A. University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Department of Anthropology (Archaeology). Sept. 1991
B.A. University of Vermont, Department of History (Modern European History). June 1982

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND AREAL EXPERTISE:

Arctic paleoecology, palynology, vegetation change, and ecosystem reponses to climate change during the Quaternary period.

CURRENT RESEARCH:

Initiating a plant macrofossil study of mid-Pleistocene interglacial vegetation along the Yukon R. in eastern Alaska. Analyzing a transect of pollen cores from the Alaska Peninsula to the North Slope for evidence of a vegetation shift during the Little Ice Age. Studying plant macrofossils collected from Alaskan sections dated from the last interglacial (ca. 125,000 yr BP) to assess climatic differences between that period and the current interglacial. Recently analyzed plant macrofossils from a Holocene peat section on the North Slope, as well as pollen from a Holocene peat section from an island in Shelikov strait.

PUBLICATIONS:

In Prep. Bigelow, N.H., Zazula, G.D., Atkinson, D.E. Plant Macrofossils of Northern North America (working title). In Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, S.A. Elias, Ed. Elsevier.

In Prep. Bigelow, N.H. Pollen Records of Northern North America (working title). In Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, S.A. Elias, Ed. Elsevier.

2006. CAPE-Last Interglacial Project Members. Last Interglacial Arctic warmth confirms polar amplification of climate change. Quaternary Science Reviews 25, 1383-1400.

2003. Edwards M.E., Hamilton T.D., Elias S.A., Bigelow N.H., and A.P. Krumhardt. Interglacial Extension of the Boreal forest Limit in the noatak Valley, Northwest Alaska: Evidence from an Exhumed River-Cut Bluff and Debris Apron. Artic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 35, 460-468.

2003. Kaplan J.O., Bigelow N.H., Prentice I.C., Harrison S.P., and 14 others. Climate change and Arctic ecosystems 2. Modeling, paleodata-model comparisons, and future projections. Journal of Geophysical Research 108 12-1 to 12-17.

2003. Nancy H. Bigelow, Linda B. Brubaker, Mary E. Edwards, Sandy P. Harrison, and 23 others. Climate change and Arctic ecosystems I. Vegetation changes north of 55degN between the last glacial maximum, mid-Holocene and present. Journal of Geophysical Research 108 11-1 to 11-25.

2001. Nancy H. Bigelow and Wm. Roger Powers. Climate, vegetation, and archaeology 14,000-9000 cal yr B.P. in Central Alaska. Arctic Anthropology 38, 171-195.

Dwarf fireweed, Killik R. AK. Photo courtesy of NH Bigelow

Dwarf fireweed (Epilobium latifolium) on the Killik River, northern AK

Chester Bluff, AK. Photo courtesy of P. Matheus

Chester Bluff, Yukon River, AK

2001. Nancy H. Bigelow and Mary E. Edwards. A 14,000 yr paleoenvironmental record from Windmill Lake, Central Alaska: evidence for high-frequency climatic and vegetation fluctuations. Quaternary Science Reviews 20, 203-215.

2000. Mary E. Edwards, P. M. Anderson, L. B. Brubaker, T. A. Ager, A. A. Andreev, N. H. Bigelow, and 13 others. Pollen-based biomes for Beringia 18,000, 6000, and 0 14C yr B. P. Journal of Biogeography 27,521-554.

2000. Mary E. Edwards, Nancy H. Bigelow, and Bruce Finney. Single-core records as indicators of late-Quaternary Alaskan lake levels: a preliminary assessment. Journal of Paleolimnology 24, 55-68.

1996. John F. Hoffecker, W. Roger Powers, Nancy H. Bigelow. 343-352."Dry Creek" in American Beginnings. F. W. West, Ed.University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

1996. John F. Hoffecker, W. Roger Powers, Nancy H. Bigelow. "Walker Road" in American Beginnings. F. W. West, ed., pp. 356-362. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

1996. John F. Hoffecker, W. Roger Powers, Nancy H. Bigelow "Panguingue Creek" in American Beginnings. F. W. West, ed., pp. 366-370. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

1994. Nancy Bigelow, W. Roger Powers. New Radiocarbon Dates from the Dry Creek Paleoindian Site, Central Alaska. Current Research in the Pleistocene, 11, 114-116

1992. Ted Goebel and Nancy Bigelow. The Denali Complex at Panguingue Creek, central Alaska. Current Research in the Pleistocene, vol. 9.

1991. N.H. Bigelow and J.E. Beget. Holocene Loess and Paleosols in Central Alaska: A Proxy Record of Holocene Climate Change. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on the Role of the Polar Regions in Global Change, Fairbanks, AK.

1991. Goebel, F.E., W.R. Powers, and N.H. Bigelow. The Nenana Complex of Alaska and Clovis Origins. In: Clovis: Origins and Adaptations, edited by Robson Bonnichsen. Center for the Study of the First Americans, Orono, ME.

1990. Nancy H. Bigelow, James Beget, and Roger Powers. Increase in Latest Pleistocene Wind Intensity Recorded in Eolian Sediments from Central Alaska. Quaternary Research 34, 160-168.

1990. Powers, W.R., F.E. Goebel, and N.H. Bigelow. Late Pleistocene Occupation at Walker Road: New Data on the Central Alaskan Nenana Complex. Current Research in the Pleistocene 7,40-43.

Fall vegetation near Dawson, YT. Photo NH Bigelow

Fall Vegetation near Dawson, YT

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