Patricia Anderson
  Emeritus Professor
  Office: JHN-061
     ESS Mailing Address
  Phone: 206-685-7682
  Fax: 206-543-0489 (shared)
  Email: anderson @ ess.washington.edu
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  Research Groups: Climate and Paleoclimate, Quaternary Research

Areas of Interest:
Quaternary palynology; Arctic and Subarctic paleoecology and paleoclimatology; fire history of northern high latitudes; circumpolar archaeology

Education:
Ph.D., Brown University, 1982

Current Research Interests:
Pat Anderson is a principal researcher for PARCS - the Palaeoenvironmental ARCtic Science program,which includes the Palaeoenvironmental Atlas of Beringia.

Selected Publications:

Melles M., Brigham-Grette J., Minyuk P. S., Nowaczyk N. R., Wennrich V., DeConto R. M., Anderson P. M., Andreev A. A., Coletti A., Cook T. L., Haltia-Hovi E., Kukkonen M., Lozhkin A. V., Rosén P., Tarasov P., Vogel H., and Wagner B.  2.8 Million Years of Arctic Climate Change from Lake El’gygytgyn, NE Russia. Science, V. 337, P. 315-320, 2012. ISSN 1095-9203.

Lozhkin, A.V. and Anderson, P.M. (2013). Late Pleistocene pollen records from northern Asia. Encyclopedia of Quaternary Sciences Vol. 4, 2623-2632. Second edition. Elsevier.  

Lozhkin, A.V. and Anderson, P.M. (2011). Forest or No Forest: Implications for Climatic Stability in Western Beringia during Oxygen Isotope Stage 3. Quaternary Science Reviews 30, 2160-2181.

Anderson P.M., Lozhkin A.V., Solomatkina T.B., and Brown T.A. (2010) Paleoclimatic implications of glacial and postglacial refugia for Pinus pumila in western Beringia. Quaternary Research, 73, 269-276

Brubaker, L.B., Higuera, P.E., Rupp, T.S., Olson, M.A., Anderson, P.M. Hu, and F.S. (2009). Linking sediment-charcoal records and ecological modeling to understand causes of fire-regime changes in boreal forest. Ecology 90, 1788-1801.