Climate Change Institute
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Marcus Vandergoes
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Climate Change Institute
Contact Information
Phone:
1-207-581-2190
Email/web:
M.Vandergoes@gns.cri.nz
Address:
119 Sawyer Research Center
University of Maine
Orono, ME
04469
Research interests
My research interests are in Quaternary climate change and paleoecology (particularly in the Southern Hemisphere), geomorphology and Antarctic glaciology.
The main theme of my current research is to investigate the timing, structure and synchroneity of climate change in the Southern Hemisphere and between Hemispheres through the use of detailed paleoecological data including pollen and sub-fossil insect remains (chironomids: non-biting midges). Associated with this is the development of micropalaeontological techniques-particularly the methods and application of AMS dating microfossils from late Quaternary deposits. My current research position is a 3-year Comer Foundation post-doctoral research fellowship to develop the technique of using the environmental tolerances of New Zealand chironomids to quantify paleotemperature and ecological change from Quaternary lake and peat deposits.
Graduate and post-doctoral research includes the investigation of peat and lake sediments from southern New Zealand to develop detailed records of vegetation and climate change during the last Glacial-Interglacial cycle, and the investigation of ice marginal depositional and erosion processes and glacial morphology of cold based alpine glaciers, Dry Valleys, Antarctica.
Publications
- Vandergoes M. J., & Prior C.A., 2003. AMS dating of pollen concentrates-a methodological study of late Quaternary sediments from south Westland, New Zealand. Radiocarbon 45;(3) (in press).
- Vandergoes M. J., & Fitzsimons S. J., 2003. The Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition (LGIT) in south Westland. New Zealand: paleoecological insight into mid-latitude Southern Hemisphere climate change. Quaternary Science Reviews 22; 1461-1476.
- Fitzsimons S. J., Lorrain R. D., Vandergoes M. J., 2000. Behaviour of subglacial sediments and basal ice in a cold glacier. Deformation of glacial materials. Geological Society of London, Special publication 176, 181-190.
- Lorrain R. D., Fitzsimons S. J., Vandergoes M. J., Stievenard M., 1999. Ice composition evidence for the formation of basal ice from lake water beneath a cold-based Antarctic glacier. Annals of Glaciology 28; 277-281.
- Vandergoes M. J., Fitzsimons S. J., Newnham R. M., 1997. Late glacial to Holocene vegetation and climate change in eastern Takitimu Mountains, Western Southland, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 27; 53-66.
Education
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News &Events
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April 25, 2013
CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE DAY
Announcing the 6th Annual Climate Change Science Day at the University of Maine on May 2, 2013. This open house will include tours and demonstrations aimed at high school students and will feature... | Read more... -
April 24, 2013
Mayewski - Honorary Member of American Polar Society
Dr. Paul Mayewski was made Honorary Member of the American Polar Society after delivering the keynote address at the American Polar Society 75th Anniversary Celebration at Woods Hole, Mass. ... | Read more... -
April 24, 2013
Denton Among Winners of Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science
Professor George Denton of the Climate Change Institute, and co-authors Philip Conkling, Richard Alley and Wallace Broecker are recipients of the Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science for “The... | Read more...
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April 8, 2013
Penobscot Bay Pilot Reports on UMaine Climate Change Researchers Alaska Trip - Karl Kreutz
The Penobscot Bay Pilot wrote an article about the upcoming trip to Alaska by University of Maine climate change researchers to collect an ice core record of Arctic climate change over the past... | Read more... -
March 29, 2013
Island life - Studying prehistoric fish and animal bones to help understand their roles in a food chain altered by climate change - Catherine West
Catherine West was a junior history major at Bryn Mawr when she jumped at the chance to be a field school student during a 1998 dig at a prehistoric Aleut site on Unalaska Island. As part of that... | Read more... -
March 28, 2013
Variations in snow and firn chemistry along US ITASE traverses and the effect of surface glazing. The Cryosphere, 7, 2, 515-535. doi:10.5194/tc-7-515-2013. - Dixon/Mayewski et al.
This study provides a baseline from which changes in the chemistry of the atmosphere over Antarctica can be monitored under expected warming scenarios and continued intensification of industrial... | Read more...
