In Memoriam: Herbert E Wright Jr 1917–2015
| Autor: | Ivanka Stefanova, H. John B. Birks, Brigitta Ammann |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
010506 paleontology
Archeology Global and Planetary Change 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Ecology Geoarchaeology Paleontology 01 natural sciences Archaeology Wright Graduate students Glacial period Environmental history Quaternary Research center Holocene Geology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Earth-Surface Processes |
| Zdroj: | The Holocene. 26:507-510 |
| ISSN: | 1477-0911 0959-6836 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0959683616634176 |
| Popis: | Herbert E Wright Jr was one of the foremost Quaternary scientists of the last century. He made wide ranging contributions to our understanding of the late-Quaternary of North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. This was based largely on reconstructing palaeoenvironments from lake sediments and included the important implications for glacial, vegetational, fire and climatic history, geoarchaeology and conservation. Many of his inter-disciplinary research projects involved fieldwork with his graduate students and co-workers from the University of Minnesota where he created and led the renowned Limnological Research Center. Perhaps his most outstanding contribution was as an instigator of the Co-operative Holocene Mapping Project (COHMAP). This triggered a paradigm shift in Holocene climatic research involving the comparison of climate-model simulations of past climates with palaeoclimatic data. |
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