Julie Brigham-Grette was first inspired by Larry Taylor to study glacial geology and
paleoclimates during an undergraduate Pleistocene course at Albion College back in the
mid-1970s. Field trips to bluff exposures of interstratified tills and lacustrine
deposits along Lake Michigan secured her fate as a Quaternary stratigrapher. Her graduate
work was completed in the Dept of Geosciences, University of Colorado back in what seems
like the late Holocene. After post-doctoral work at the University of Bergen, Norway and
the University of Alberta, Canada, Brigham-Grette joined the faculty at the University of
Massachusetts in the Fall of 1987 

As a member of the Climate System Research Center, Julie’s research is concerned with
late Cenozoic marine and non-marine stratigraphic problems in Arctic regions and in
regional correlations and paleoclimate reconstructions, especially across Arctic North
America and eastern Russia. Long-range research interests are in the paleogeography and
sea level history of the Bering Strait region and seas, the circum- Arctic coast, Arctic
climate evolution since the Miocene. She is also involved with research on the deglacial
history of New England.

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Last Glacial Maximum to Holocene sea surface conditions at Umnak Plateau, Bering Sea, as inferred from diatom, alkenone, and stable isotope records (with Beth E. Cassie, Kira T. Lawrence, Timothy D. Herbert, and Mea S. Cook), Paleoceanography (2010)

The Bering Sea gateway between the Pacific and Arctic oceans impacts global climate when glacial-interglacial...

 

Executive Summary (with Richard B. Alley, Gifford H. Miller, Leonid Polyak, and James WC Whte), Past Climate Variability and Change in the Arctic and at High Latitudes - Final Report Synthesis and Assessment Product 1.2 (2009)

Paleoclimate records play a key role in our understanding of Earth’s past and present climate...

 

History of Arctic Sea Ice (with Leonid Polyak, John Andrews, and Dennis Darby), Past Climate Variability and Change in the Arctic and at High Latitudes - Final Report Synthesis and Assessment Product 1.2 (2009)

The volume and areal extent of Arctic sea ice is rapidly declining, and to put...

 

Key Findings and Recommendations (with Richard B. Alley, Gifford H. Miller, Leonid Polyak, and James WC White), Past Climate Variability and Change in the Arctic and at High Latitudes - Final Report Synthesis and Assessment Product 1.2 (2009)

Paleoclimatic data provide a highly informative if incomplete history of Arctic climate. Temperature history is...

 

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Lake El’gygytgyn’s emerging IPY record of Pliocene to recent Arctic change (with Martin Melles, Pavel Minyuk, and Christian Koberl), PAGES News (2009)

Lacustrine sediments representing the last 3 glacial cycles from NE Russia chronicle the magnitude and...

 

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