Thomas A. Ager

United States Geological Survey — United States

Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Geology and Paleoclimatology Research(53), Climate change and permafrost(23), Geological Studies and Exploration(19), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology(11), Isotope Analysis in Ecology(9)

Publications70 total

Late Quaternary pollen record from southwest Seward Peninsula, western Alaska, and the vegetation history of central Beringia
Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research·2025Open Access
Sea-level driven isolation of glacial plant refugia revealed by submerged lake sediment from the Bering Land Bridge and St. Matthew Island
Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Sea-level driven isolation of glacial plant refugia revealed by submerged lake sediment from the Bering Land Bridge and St. Matthew Island, Alaska
Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America·2025
Late Quaternary Vegetation Development Following Deglaciation of Northwestern Alexander Archipelago, Alaska
Frontiers in Earth Science·2019· 25 citedOpen Access
Holocene Vegetational History of Alaska
University of Minnesota Press eBooks·2018· 46 cited
Holocene evolution of diatom and silicoflagellate paleoceanography in Slocum Arm, a fjord in southeastern Alaska
Marine Micropaleontology·2016· 10 cited
<i>Summary of the Snowmastodon Project Special Volume</i>A high-elevation, multi-proxy biotic and environmental record of MIS 6–4 from the Ziegler Reservoir fossil site, Snowmass Village, Colorado, USA
Quaternary Research·2014· 17 cited
High-elevation paleoenvironmental change during MIS 6–4 in the central Rockies of Colorado as determined from pollen analysis
Quaternary Research·2014· 26 cited
Correspondence regarding “The problem of conifer species migration lag in the Pacific Northwest region since the last glaciation” by Elias, S.A., (2013), Quaternary Science Reviews 77, 55–69
Quaternary Science Reviews·2014· 3 cited
Airborne electromagnetic imaging of discontinuous permafrost
Geophysical Research Letters·2011· 209 citedOpen Access
A Lacustrine Record of Late Holocene Climate Change from South-Central Alaska
Geophysical monograph·2011· 22 cited
Identification of last interglacial deposits in eastern Beringia: a cautionary note from the Palisades, interior Alaska
Journal of Quaternary Science·2011· 16 cited
Ecosystem development in the Girdwood area, south-central Alaska, following late Wisconsin glaciation
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences·2010· 14 cited
Postglacial vegetation history of Mitkof Island, Alexander Archipelago, southeastern Alaska
Quaternary Research·2010· 30 cited
A late–Middle Pleistocene (Marine Isotope Stage 6) vegetated surface buried by Old Crow tephra at the Palisades, interior Alaska
Quaternary Science Reviews·2009· 47 cited
Marine tephrochronology of the Mt. Edgecumbe Volcanic Field, Southeast Alaska, USA
Quaternary Research·2009· 31 cited
Pollen-based biome reconstructions for Latin America at 0, 6000 and 18 000 radiocarbon years ago
Climate of the past·2009· 125 citedOpen Access
Pollen-based biome reconstructions for Latin America at 0, 6000 and 18 000 radiocarbon years
2009· 24 citedOpen Access
Late Quaternary paleoclimate of western Alaska inferred from fossil chironomids and its relation to vegetation histories
Quaternary Science Reviews·2009· 102 cited
Late Glacial-Holocene Pollen-Based Vegetation History from Pass Lake, Prince of Wales Island, Southeastern Alaska
USGS professional paper·2009· 4 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Paul E. Carrara(5), Daniel R. Muhs(5), Les C. Cwynar(4), Mary E. Edwards(4), David F. Porinchu(4), Norman Frederiksen(4), Patricia M. Anderson(3), Linda B. Brubaker(3), Wendy R. Eisner(3), Glen M. MacDonald(3), Cary J. Mock(3), Sandy P. Harrison(3), Vera Markgraf(3), Darrell S. Kaufman(3), Duane Froese(3), J. R. Riehle(3), N. John Anderson(2), John T. Andrews(2), Patrick J. Bartlein(2), Larry Coats(2)