CURRICULUM VITAE


Joerg M. Schaefer

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

The Earth Institute at Columbia University

Route 9W • Palisades, NY • 10964 • USA

PHONE: (845) 365-8756 • FAX: (845) 365-8155

EMAIL: schaefer@ldeo.columbia.edu


Personal



Born 1968 in Stuttgart, Germany

Citizenship: German

Languages: German, English, French


90 Morningside Drive • Apt. 2G

New York • NY • 10027


Education



Adjunct Professor

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences of Columbia University


Lamont Research Professor

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University


Doherty Associate Research Scientist (September 2003-November 2008)

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University


Postdoctoral Research Fellow (January 2001-August 2003)

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University


Postdoctoral Researcher (February 2000-October 2000)

Department of Earth Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich


Ph.D. (March 1996-June 2000)

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich.

Dissertation: Reconstruction of landscape evolution and continental paleoglaciations using in-situ cosmogenic nuclides. Jointly supervised by Profs. R. Wieler, C. Schlüchter, A.N. Halliday at the Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich


Masters Degree (“Diplom”) in Physics (1995)

Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Reconstruction of bio-geochemical trace substance cycles from an alpine ice- core. Supervisors: Dr. D. Wagenbach, Prof. U. Platt.


Exchange student • ERASMUS program (1991-92)

Department of Physics, University of Aix- Marseille III, France.


Bachelor of Physics (1989-91)

Department of Physics, University of Tübingen, Germany


Research Interests



Climate, Glaciers and Society; Ice Ages and Quaternary Geology; Earth Surface Processes on all time-scales and the relation to Climate, Tectonics and Natural Hazards; Low-level geochemistry and mass spectrometry; In particular: High precision cosmogenic nuclide techniques and the underlying noble gas and radionuclide geochemistry and analytics.


Experimental Techniques



Noble Gas Mass-Spectrometry, Accelerator Mass-Spectrometry, Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass-Spectrometry, Ion-Chromatography.


Grants funded



Kaplan., M. Schaefer, J.M. (2013); Collaborative Research: Testing the Orbital Theory of Ice Ages Using Glacial Deposits in Southern South America and Numerical Modeling; NSF-BCS; $216,000.


Schaefer, J.M., Gentine, P., Rupper, S.: Cross-Cutting Initiative, EI: ‘Glacier Change and Energy-Test case Rhone River Catchment’; $30,000.


Schaefer, J.M., Winckler, G. (2013); Collaborative Research: West Antarctic Ice Sheet stability, alpine glaciation, and climate variability: a terrestrial perspective from cosmogenic-nuclide dating in McMurdo Sound; NSF OPP; $349,997.


Schaefer, J.M., Cook, E., Rupper, S (Brigham Young Univeristy): (2013): Collaborative Research: Climate and Glacier change in Bhutan: the last millennia, present and future; $333,089; NSF Global Change.


Kaplan, M., Schaefer, J.M., Winckler, G., (2012), Terrestrial Geological Context for Glacier Change in the Northeast Antarctica Peninsula; NSF-OPP, $424,700.


Schaefer, J.M., Cook, E.: EAGER: Collaborative Research: Climate and Glacier change in Bhutan: the last millennia, present and future; $82,801; NSF-EAR.


Kaplan, M., Schaefer, J.M., Denton, G., (2011) Communicating Research to Public Audiences: Shrinking Glaciers: A Chronology of Climate Change; NSF-Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings; $109,440.


Schaefer, J.M., Winckler, G. (2011) Collaborative Research: Multi-nuclide approach to systematically evaluate the scatter in surface exposure ages in Antarctica and to develop consistent alpine glacier chronologies; NSF-OPP, $320,832.


Schaefer, J.M., Winckler, G. (2010), Collaborative Research: Timing and structure of the last glacial maximum and termination in southern Peru: Implications for the role of the tropics in climate change; NSF-EAR, $199,139.


Schaefer, J.M. (2010), (Lead PI: Charles Langmuir, Harvard University). Collaborative Research: Constraining Arc Processes through Comprehensive Geochemical Study of the Chilean Southern Volcanic Zone, NSF-EAR, $143,479.


Schaefer, J.M., (2009), 'Glacier-Climate-Water' Mini-Conference at Lamont, November 11-13, 2009; NSF-EAR, $17,950.


Schaefer, J.M. (2009), Quantifying subglacial erosion rates and exploring pro-glacial bedrock as climate archive by in-situ cosmogenic C-14 and Be-10 techniques; NSF-EAR, $187,029.


Kaplan, M., Schaefer, J.M., Denton, G.H., Collaborative Research: A Southern Hemispheric Perspective on Holocene Climate Variability Based on Mountain Glacial Chronologies; NSF-EAR, $260,834.


Schaefer, J.M., CRONUS-Supplement – PhD student Brent Goehring (2009), NSF-EAR, $86,500.

Schaefer, J.M., Kaplan, M., Denton, G.H., Finkel, R.C. (2008), Collaborative Research: The Pulse of Holocene Glaciations in New Zealand’s Southern Alps. NSF P2C2-EAR, $290,786.


Schaefer, J.M., (2008), SGER: Quantifying subglacial erosion rates and Timing of Holocene warm periods by in-situ 14C/10Be – A proof of concept. NSF GEOMORPHOLOGY AND LANDUSE DYNAMICS; $40,000.


Kaplan, M., Schaefer, J.M., Denton, G.H., (2008), Collaborative Research: A Southern Mid-Latitude Perspective on the Last Ice Age Based on Be-10 Moraine Chronologies. NSF GEOMORPHOLOGY AND LANDUSE DYNAMICS; $184,000.


Schlosser, P., Anderson, R. F., Broecker, W. S., Gordon, A., Kaplan, A., Schaefer, J., Seager, R., Ting, M., Cane, M., Cook, E., deMenocal, P., Denton, G., Fleisher, M., Goldstein, S., Hemming, S., Jacobs, S., Kushnir, Y., Martinson, D., Naik, N., Pahnke, K., Smerdon, J., Smethie, W., and Yuan, X., 2008, Abrupt Climate Change in a Warming World: Lessons from Holocene Paleo and Modern Instrumental Records and Model Simulations: NOAA-ARCHES grant # NA08OAR4320912, M$2,0 total, Schaefer and Denton share: $320,000.


Steckler M., Schaefer J. M., Stark C., Malinverno A., and Seeber L. (2006) Collaborative Research: Uplift and faulting at the transition from subduction to collision - a field and modeling study of the Calabrian Arc. NSF CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS, M$2.5.


Winckler G. and Schaefer J. M. (2005) Direct dating of old ice by extraterrestrial 3He and 10Be – a proof of concept. NSF ANTARCTIC GEOLOGY & GEOPHYSICS,  $74,500.


Schaefer J. M., Commins D., and Anders M. (2004) Quantification of Extensional Fault Processes and Landscape Response using Surface Exposure Dating. NSF TECTONICS,  $188,128.


Schaefer J. M. (2004) Collaborative Research: Age, Origin and Climatic Significance of Buried Ice in the Western Dry Valleys, Antarctica (lead PI. David Marchant, Boston University). NSF ANTARCTIC GEOLOGY & GEOPHYSICS,     $111,246.


Schaefer J. M. and Schlosser P. (2004) Collaborative Research: A Proposal for the Cosmic-Ray prOduced NUclide Systematics on Earth (CRONUS- Earth) Project (lead PI: Fred Phillips, New Mexico Tech). NSF EARTH SCIENCES,  $529,764.


Schaefer J. M. (2004) Retention grant to start-up a Surface Exposure Dating Laboratory at L-DEO. LAMONT-DOHERTY EARTH OBSERVATORY,  $190,000.


Schaefer J. M. (2004) Retention grant for a 2 year postdoctoral research position and a 1 year technical assistant position in the Surface Exposure Dating group at L-DEO. LAMONT-DOHERTY EARTH  OBSERVATORY,  approx. $150,000.


Schaefer J.M., (2006) Reconstructing paleoglaciations in New Zealand, Greenland and North America, THE COMER SCIENCE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION,  $299,800.


Schaefer J. M. and Schlosser P. (2004) The final implementation step of the L- DEO Surface Exposure Dating Laboratory. THE COMER SCIENCE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION,  $131,800.


Broecker W. S., Denton G. H., and Schaefer J. M. (2004) Greenland Younger Dryas Fellowship. THE COMER SCIENCE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION,  $50,550.


Broecker W. S. and Schaefer J. M. (2002) Tracing Ice Ages with cosmogenic nuclides. THE COMER SCIENCE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION, $300,000.


Goehring, B., Schaefer, J.M. (2006), Cosmogenic dating of late glacial and Holocene moraines in the Icicle Creek/Enchantment Lakes region, Washington. L-DEO CLIMATE CENTER, $6,000.


Schaefer, J. M., Schluechter, C., and Lifton, N. A. (2005). Reconstruction of Holocene warm periods by cosmogenic nuclide burial dating using 10Be and 14C. L-DEO CLIMATE CENTER,  $5,500.


Kelly, M. A., Barker, S., Schaefer, J. M., and Broecker, W. S. (2005). Equilbrium line altitudes of late-glacial and Holocene ice extents near the Cordillera Vilcanota and Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru. L-DEO CLIMATE CENTER, $4,000.


Commins D. C. and Schaefer J. M. (2004) How fast does climate drive erosion? - Constraining Rates of Colorado Plateau Erosion using Surface Exposure Dating. L-DEO CLIMATE CENTER,  $6000.


Rinterknecht V. R., Schaefer J. M., Seager R., and Greene A. M. (2004) Comparing climate changes in the tropics and mid/high latitudes  L-DEO CLIMATE CENTER,  $6000.


Schaefer J. M. (2003) Climate changes recorded in glacigenic surfaces on Long Islands, Manhattan, and Hudson Valley. L-DEO CLIMATE CENTER,  $5,500.


Schaefer J. M. and Hemming S. (2002) Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dating of Mono Lake Sediments - A complementary dating method to Surface Exposure Dating. L-DEO CLIMATE CENTER,  $6,000.


Schaefer J. M., Hemming S. R., and Winckler G. (2002) Heinrich Events recorded in Mono Lake moraines? Refining the glacial chronology by new Surface Exposure dates; Field trip to Mono Lake, California. L-DEO CLIMATE CENTER,  $6,000.


Schlosser P., Hemming S., Schaefer J. M., and Stute M. (2001) Surface Exposure Dating using cosmogenically produced 21Ne. L-DEO INVESTMENT FUND,  $70,000.


 

Publications (refereed full papers)




2. Rinterknecht, V. R., Gorokohvich, Y., Schaefer, J. M., and Caffee, M. W., 2008, Preliminary 10Be Chronology for the Last Deglaciation of the Western Margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet: Journal of Quaternary Science, DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1226.


3. Schaefer, J. M., Oberholzer, P., Zhizhong, Z., Ivy-Ochs, S., Wieler, R., Baur, H., Kubik, P. W., and Schlüchter, C., 2008, Cosmogenic beryllium- 10 and neon-21 dating of late Pleistocene glaciations in Nyalam, monsoonal Himalayas: Quaternary Science Reviews, 27, p. 295-311.


4. Kelly, M.A.,, Lowell, T. V., Hall, B. L., Schaefer, J. M., Goehring, B., Alley, R. B., and Denton, G. H., 2008, A 10Be chronology of late-glacial and Holocene mountain glaciation in the Scoresby Sund region, east Greenland: Implications for seasonality during late-glacial time: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 27, no. 25-26, p. 2273-2282.


5. Niedermann, S., Schaefer, J. M., Wieler, R., and Naumann, R., 2007, The production rate of cosmogenic 38Ar from calcium in terrestrial pyroxene. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 257, p. 596-608.


6. Schaefer, J.M., Denton, G.H., Ivy-Ochs, S., Kubik, P.W., Barrell, D.J., Phillips, F., Schluechter, C., Andersen, B.G., and Lowell, T.V., 2006, Near- Synchronous Interhemispheric Termination of the Last Glacial Maximum in Mid-Latitudes: Science, 312, p. 1510-1513.


7. Balco G. and Schaefer J. M., 2006, Cosmogenic-nuclide and varve chronologies for the deglaciation of southern New England. Quaternary Geochronology, 1, p. 15-28.


8. Schaefer, J. M., Faestermann, T., Herzog, G. F., Knie, K., Korschinek, G., Masarik, J., Meier, A., Poutivtsev, M., Rugel, G., Schlüchter, C., Serifiddin, F., and Winckler, G., 2006, Terrestrial 53Mn – A new monitor of Earth surface processes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 251, p. 334-345.


9. Ivy-Ochs, S., Kerschner, H., Reuther, A., Maisch, M., Sailer, R., Schaefer, J.M., Kubik, P.W., Synal, H.-A., and Schluechter, C., 2006, The timing of glacier advances in the northern European Alps based on surface exposure dating with cosmogenic Be-10, Al-26, Cl-36, and Ne-21: GSA Special Paper, 415, p. 43-60


10. Staiger J. W., Marchant D. R., Schaefer J. M., Oberholzer P., Johnson J. V., Lewis A. R., and Schwanger K. M., 2006, Plio-Pleistocene history of Ferrar Glacier, Antarctica: Implications for climate and ice sheet stability. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 243, p. 489-503.


11. Peteet D., Schaefer J. M., and Stute M., 2006, Enigmatic Eastern Laurentide Ice Sheet Deglaciation. EOS 87(15), 151.


12. Lowell, T. V., Fisher, T. G., Comer, G. C., Hajdas, I., Waterson, N., Glover, K., Loope, H. M., Schaefer, J. M., Rinterknecht, V., Broecker, W. S., Denton, G. H., and Teller, J. T., 2005. Testing the Lake Agassiz meltwater trigger for the Younger Dryas: EOS, 86, no. 40, p. 365-373.


13. Ivy-Ochs, S., Schaefer, J. M., Kubik, P. W., and Synal, A. H., 2004. Timing of deglaciation on the northern alpine foreland (Switzerland). Eclogae Helveticae 97, p. 47-55.


14. Oberholzer, P., Baroni, C., Schaefer, J. M., Orombelli, G., Ivy-Ochs, S., Kubik, P. W., and Wieler, R., 2003. Limited Pliocene/Pleistocene glaciation in Deep Freeze Range, northern Victoria Land, Antarctica, derived from in- situ cosmogenic nuclides. Antarctic Science 15, p. 493-502.


15. Tschudi, S., Schäfer, J. M., Schlüchter, C., Ivy-Ochs, S., Kubik, P. W., Borns, H., and Barrett, P. J., 2003. Surface Exposure Dating of Sirius Formation at Allan Hills nunatak, Antarctica: New evidence for long-term ice-sheet stability. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 96, p. 109-114.


16. Tschudi, S., Schäfer, J. M., Zhizhong, Z., Wu, X., Kubik, P. W., and Schluechter, C., 2003. Glacial advances in Tibet during Younger Dryas? Evidence from cosmogenic 10Be, 26Al, and 21Ne. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 22, p. 301-306.


17. Schäfer, J.M., S. Tschudi, Z. Zhao, X. Wu, S. Ivy-Ochs, R. Wieler, H. Baur, P.W. Kubik, and C. Schluchter, 2002. The limited influence of glaciations in Tibet on global climate over the past 170000 yr, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 194 (3-4), p. 287-297.


18. Schlüchter, C., Schaefer, J., Ivy-Ochs, S., Tschudi, S., Kubik, P. W., Oberholzer, P., and Wieler, R., 2001, Alter und Stabilitaet antarktischer Landschaften, in Polar Research as Monitor of Global Change, Winterthur, 39-50


19. Masarik, J., M. Frank, J.M. Schäfer, and R. Wieler, 2001. Correction of in situ cosmogenic nuclide production rates for geomagnetic field intensity variations during the past 800,000 years, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 65, (17), p. 2995-3003.


20. Schäfer J. M., Marchant D. R., Denton G. H., Wieler R., Ivy-Ochs S., and Schluechter C., 2000. The oldest ice on Earth in Beacon Valley, Antarctica: New evidence from surface exposure dating. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 179, (1), p. 91-99.


21. Schäfer J. M., Ivy-Ochs S., Wieler R., Leya I., Baur H., Denton G. H., and Schluechter C., 1999. Cosmogenic noble gas studies in the oldest landscape on earth: surface exposure ages of the Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 167, p. 215-226.


22. Welten K. C., Nishiizumi K., Caffee M. W., Schäfer J.M., and Wieler R., 1999. Terrestrial ages and exposure ages of Antarctic H-chondrites from Frontier Mountain, North Victoria Land. Antarctic Meteorite Research 12, p. 94-107.







Conference Abstracts



Schaefer, J.M., Balco, G., Kelly, M.A., Hanson, G., Finkel, R.C., McCabe, M., Steinberg, R., Boothroyd, J., and Schwartz, R., 2008, The last deglaciation of the Eastern Laurentide Ice Sheet: Goldschmidt Conference, v. Vancouver, July 13-18, 2008, p. A827.


Balco, G., Putkonen, J., Morgan, D., Schaefer, J.M., and Winckler, G., 2008, Bedrock erosion rates in the Antarctic Dry Valleys: Goldschmidt Conference, v. Vancouver, July 13-18, 2008, p. A47.


Finkel, R.C., Schaefer, J.M., and Schwartz, R., 2008, Exposure dating meets history: Precise Be-10 dating of very young surfaces: Goldschmidt Conference, v. Vancouver, July 13-18, 2008, p. A269.


Schaefer, J. M., Denton, G. H., Schluechter, C., Barrell, D., Finkel, R. C., Andersen, B., Putnam, A., Kaplan, M., and Schwartz, R. (2007). Be-10 dating of historical glaciations in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. Eos Trans. AGU 88, Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract  PP32A-05.


Goehring, B. M., Schaefer, J. M., and Kelly, M. A. (2007). Constraining Glacial Chronologies Using Beryllium-10 Depth Profiles. Eos Trans. AGU 88, Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract  PP33B-1273.


Kaplan, M., Schaefer, J. M., Putnam, A. E., Denton, G. H., Finkel, R. C., Doughty, A., Barrell, D. J., Andersen, B. G., and Schwartz, R. (2007a). Structure of the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition in New Zealand's Southern Alps. Eos Trans. AGU 88, Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract  PP32A- 06 INVITED.


Kaplan, M. R., Siddall, M., Schaefer, J. M., Putnam, A. E., and Doughty, A. (2007b). A Monte Carlo approach to understanding the relative importance of Greenlandic vs Antarctic forcings of global sea level during the last glacial cycle. Eos Trans. AGU 88, Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract  PP51B-0476.


Kelly, M. A., Lowell, T. V., and Schaefer, J. M. (2007). A Chronology of Late- Glacial and Holocene Advances of Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru, Based on Be-10 and Radiocarbon Dating. Eos Trans. AGU 88, Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract  PP33B-1277.


Licciardi, J. M., Schaefer, J. M., and Lund, D. C. (2007). Cosmogenic Be-10 Dating of Early and Latest Holocene Moraines on Nevado Salcantay in the Southern Peruvian Andes. Eos Trans. AGU 88, Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract  PP33B-1279.


Putnam, A., Schaefer, J. M., Doughty, A., Denton, G. H., Kaplan, M., Andersen, B., Barrell, D., Finkel, R. C., and Schwartz, R. (2007). Be-10 Surface-Exposure Chronology of Moraines Deposited During the Last Glacial Maximum in the New Zealand Southern Alps. Eos Trans. AGU 88, Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract  PP33B-1276.


Bromley, G. R. M., Hall, B., Schaefer, J. M., and Winckler, G., 2007, Late Quaternary Glacier Flucutuations and Climate Change at Nevado Coropuna, Southern Peru: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 39, no. 6, p. 583.


Schaefer, J. M., Denton, G. H., Korschinek, G., Knie, K., Schluechter, C., Andersen, B. G., Barrell, D. J., and Schwartz, R (2007). Novel cosmogenic isotope tools and progress in surface exposure dating towards historical time-scales. Goldschmidt Conference, Cologne, Invited Talk;


Schaefer, J. M., Denton, G. H., Kaplan, M., Putnam, A., Ivy-Ochs, S., Schluechter, C., Andersen, B. G., Barrell, D. J., and Schwartz, R. (2007). The pulse of Holocene glaciations in New Zealand's Southern Alps. Geophysical Research Abstracts 9.


Schaefer, J. M., Denton, G. H., Ivy-Ochs, S., Kubik, P. W., Barrell, D. J., Schluechter, C., Andersen, B. G., Kaplan, M., Putnam, A., and Schwartz, R., (2006), Holocene glaciations in New Zealand's Southern Alps dated by in-situ Be-10: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 38, no. 7, p. 379.


McCabe, M., Kelly, M. A., Schaefer, J. M., Schwartz, R., Hanson, G. N., and Benimoff, A. I., (2006), Dating glacial features in New York's Lower Hudson Valley - The last deglaciation of the Eastern Laurentide Ice Sheet: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 38, no. 7, p. 72.


Kelly, M. A., Lowell, T. V., Schaefer, J. M., Schwartz, R., Migro, P., Denton, G. H., and Alley, R. B., (2006), Be-10 dates of moraines in East Greenland suggest that the Little Ice Age mountain glacier advance was the most extensive glacial advance during the Holocene epoch: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 38, No. 7, p. 265.


Commins D. C., Schaefer J. M., Gupta S., and Phillips W. M. (2006) Styles and rates of knickpoint migration from cosmogenic Be-10 in a landscape of active normal faulting. EGU 2006 General Assembly Abstract EGU06-A- 09886.


Schaefer J. M., Denton G. H., Ivy-Ochs S., Kubik P. W., Barrell D. J., Phillips F., Schluechter C., Andersen B. G., and Lowell T. V. (2005) Interhemispheric correlation of glacial terminations using in-situ Be-10. Eos Trans. AGU 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract  U31A-01 INVITED TALK.


Steinberg R., Kelly M., Schaefer J. M., Rinterknecht V., Schwartz R., and Balco G. (2005) Measuring the Retreat Velocity of the Laurentide Ice Sheet by Cosmogenic Nuclides? Be-10 Dating of Glacial Features in Lower Hudson Valley. Eos Trans. AGU 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract  U33A-0007.


Commins D. C., Gupta S., Phillips W. M., and Schaefer J. M. (2005) Styles and rates of knickpoint migration from cosmogenic Be-10 in an extensional landscape. Eos Trans. AGU 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract  H31A- 1269.


Rinterknecht V., Gorokhovich J., Schaefer J. M., Comer G. C., and Broecker W. S. (2005) Preliminary 10Be Chronology for the Last Deglaciation of the Western Margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Eos Trans. AGU 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract  U33A-0011.


Schaefer, J. M., Herzog, G., Ivy-Ochs, S., Knie, K., Korschinek, G., Kubik, P. W., Marchant, D. R., Schluechter, C., Serefiddin, F., and Wieler, R. (2005). News from the oldest ice on Earth buried in Antarctica, and a new cosmogenic tool. Goldschmidt-Converence 2005, Moscow, Idaho, INVITED TALK.


Kelly M. A., Hall B. L., Lowell T. V., Schaefer J. M., Denton G. H., and Broecker W. S. (2005) A chronology of mountain glaciation and associated paleotemperature records from the Scorseby Sund Region, East Greenland; Paper No 15-8. GSA Annual Meeting Salt Lake City 37(7), 40.


Schaefer, J. M., Rinterknecht, V., Hanson, G., Ivy-Ochs, S., and Kubik, P. W. (2005). Dating New York – Reconstructing the Last Glacial Maximum of the Laurentide Ice Shield in the New York area. Annual Report of the Paul-Scherrer Instituts, Villigen, and the Institut of Particle Physics ETH Zuerich, Switzerland.


Schaefer, J. M., Denton, G. H., Lowell, T., Anderson, B. G., Rinterknecht, V., Schlosser, P., Ivy-Ochs, S., Kubik, P., Schluechter, C., Chinn, T., Barrell, D., Liftong, N., and Jull, A. J. T. (2004). The glacial record of New Zealand's Southern Alps. EOS Trans. AGU 85, Abstract 1441.


Edwards, A. R., Schaefer, J. M., Rinterknecht, V., Ivy-Ochs, S., Kubik, P., and Hanson, G. (2004). Dating New York-Tracking the retreat of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. EOS Transactions AGU 85, Abstract 10392.


Hall, M., Rinterknecht, V., Schaefer, J. M., Seager, R., and Greene, A. M. (2004). Deglacial History of the Ecuadorian Andes and Implications for Climate Variations: Preliminary Results. EOS Transactions AGU 85.


Rinterknecht, V., Schaefer, J. M., Lowell, T., Denton, G. H., Teller, J. T., Broecker, W. S., Fisher, T. G., and Kubik, P. (2004). Cosmogenic Dating Evidence for the Routing of Lake Agassiz Overflow during the Younger Dryas. EOS Transactions AGU 85.


Schaefer, J. M., Oberholzer, P., Zhizhong, Z., Ivy-Ochs, S., Schluechter, C., Wieler, R., and Kubik, P. W. (2003). Influence of the monsoon and North Atlantic climate on glaciations in Tibet. In "AGU-EGS-EUG Joint Assembly." Geophysical Research Abstracts, Nice.


Schäfer, J.M., S. Ivy-Ochs, G.H. Denton, C. Schluechter, R. Wieler, P.W. Kubik, and P. Schlosser (2002), Rise and Fall of the Last Glacial Maximum in southern mid-latitudes, Goldschmidt Conference, pp. A672, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 66, S1, Davos, Switzerland.


Schäfer, J.M., S. Ivy-Ochs, G.H.Denton, C.Schluechter, R. Wieler, P.W. Kubik, B.G. Anderson (2002), and P. Schlosser, Termination I in Southern mid- latitude moraines, AMS 9, Japan.


Schäfer, J.M., P. Oberholzer, Z. Zhao, S. Ivy-Ochs, C.Schluechter, R. Wieler, and P.W. Kubik (2002), Forcing mechanisms of paleoglaciations on the Tibetan Plateau, AMS 9, pp. 93, Japan.


Schäfer, J.M., S. Ivy-Ochs, U. Ninnemann, G.H. Denton, C. Schluechter, R. Wieler, P.W. Kubik, B.G. Andersen, and P. Schlosser (2001), Structure of the Last Glacial Maximum in New Zealand - Terrestrial and marine evidence from Southern mid latitudes, EOS Trans. AGU, 82 (47), 782.


Schäfer, J.M., S. Ivy-Ochs, U. Ninnemann, R. Wieler, P.W. Kubik, G.H. Denton, P. Schlosser, and C. Schluechter (2001), Structure of the Last Glacial Maximum in Southern mid-latitudes - Terrestrial and marine evidence from New Zealand, Annual Report of the Paul-Scherrer Instituts, Villigen, and the Institut of Particle Physics ETH Zuerich, Switzerland.


Schäfer, J.M., S. Tschudi, Z. Zhao, X. Wu, S. Ivy-Ochs, R. Wieler, H. Baur, P. Oberholzer, P. Schlosser, and C. Schluechter (2001), Reconstructing paleo-glaciations on the Tibetan Plateau by Surface Exposure Dating, in Annual report of Paul-Scherrer Institute, Villigen, und Institute of particle physics Zuerich, Switzerland, PSI Villigen, Zuerich.



Book Chapter ____________________________________________________________________________


Schaefer, J. M., and Lifton, N., 2006, Methods of Cosmogenic Nuclide Dating, in Elias, S. A., ed., Encyclopedia of Quaternary Sciences: St. Louis, Elsevier, p. 412-419.



Synergistic Activities



  1. •Member of the NOAA-ARCHES steering committee.


  1. •Member of the scientific program committee for the Goldschmidt Conference 2008, Vancouver, Canada.


  1. •Co-conveiner of AGU session PP32A: Terrestrial Records of Climate Change: New Contributions From in Situ Cosmogenic Nuclides; AGU Fall meeting 2007.


  1. •Organization of the Mini-Conference that initiated the CRONUS initiative (Cosmogenically Produced Nuclide Systematics on Earth; a large-scale US/EU initiative to improve the physical understanding underlying the production or cosmogenic nuclides in near-surface rocks).; March 17-19, 2002, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory;


  1. •Member of the CRONUS-Earth steering committee;


  1. •Co-Chair of the “Ice Age Terminations and other rapid climate changes” session, 12th Annual Goldschmidt Conference, Davos, Switzerland, 2002.


  1. •Member of the ‘Life on Campus’ Committee of L-DEO since February 2006.


  1. •Member of the ‘Storke-Doherty Lectureship’ selection Committee since March 2008.


  1. •Active member of the Joint Chinese/Swiss/US project investigating the paleoglaciations of the Tibetan Plateau including organization of bilateral science exchange, organization of the expedition 2001 to Nyalam County, South Tibet.



Personal Development and Developing Others

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• Establishment of the Cosmogenic Dating Laboratory at L-DEO. This facility consisting of several different labs to analyze cosmogenic radionuclides (10Be, 26Al, 36Cl, 53Mn, and 14C) and noble gases (3He in routine mode, 21Ne

in exploration mode) has impact on a variety of disciplines within L-DEO and the outside community for studies in paleoclimate and climate change research, quantitative geomorphology, tectonics, structural geology, volcanology, natural hazards etc.


• Lecturer at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, ‘INTRO-TERRESTRIAL PALEOCLIMATE’ (together with W. Broecker, D. Peteet, S. Hemming), key #20091EESC4330W001; 2009; • Co-organizer and lecturer of the summerschool within the NSF funded project “Uplift and faulting at the transition from subduction to collision - a field and modeling study of the Calabrian Arc”, Sept 2008.


• Lecturer within paleoclimate seminar series (graduate level) at the Department of Earth and Environmental Science of Columbia University.


• Invited lecturer within the Workshop on the Theory and Methods of Quaternary Geochronology, February 2-7, 2004 (UC Riverside). "Cosmogenic Noble Gases in Quaternary Geochronology - An Overview”.


• Sponsoring supervisor of various postdoctoral research scientist at L-DEO: (i) Vincent Rinterknecht (March 2001 – August 2003; now lecturer at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland); (ii) Deirdre Commins (August 2003 – June 2005; now at Shell); (iii) Meredith Kelly (July 2004 – now Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College); (iv) Michael Kaplan (January 2006 – today);


• Supervisor of PhD student Brent Goehring (September 2006 – today); Co-supervisor of PhD students Margaret Reitz (starts September 2007, Columbia University), Aaron Putnam (January 2006 – today, University of Maine), Naki Akcar (January 2002 – June 2006, University of Berne, Switzerland), Peter Oberholzer (January 2000 – July 2004, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland); and Masters students Alice Doughty and Sam Kelly (University of Maine).


• Supervision of female undergraduate students Claire Lackner, Ashley Edwards, Rebecca Steinberg, Mikah McCabe (all Columbia University); mentoring female postdoctoral research scientists Meredith Kelly, Deirdre Commins, and female L-DEO staff associate Roseanne Schwartz;


• Supervision of High School Students within the ‘Lamont-Doherty Secondary School Field Program’ between L-DEO and several New York City public high schools.



Evidence of Esteem, External Visibility and Professional Activities



  1. •Early Promotion to ‘Doherty Research Scientist’, November 2008;


  1. •Promotion to Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, November 2008;


  1. •Offer from University of Bergen, Norway, for the post of Associate Professor (tenured) in Quaternary Geology and Paleoclimatology, November 2007.


  1. •Offer from Imperial College, London, UK, for a senior lectureship position (‘Grantham lecturer’) at the Grantham Institute of Climate Change, Mai 2007.


  1. •Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Earth, Environmental, and Ocean Sciences of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory 2001-2003.


  1. •Member of the Emmy Noether-program of the German Science Foundation (DFG) 2001-2004


  1. •Medal of ETH Zürich awarding PhD thesis, 2002


  1. •Invited Talk, Union Session U31A, AGU Fall Meeting 2005, San Francisco


  1. •Invited Talk at Goldschmidt-Conferences 2005, Moscow, Idaho, and 2007, Cologne, Germany.


  1. •Referee for the following journals: Science, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Quaternary Science Reviews, Quaternary Geochronology, Terra Nova, G-cubed


  1. •Feature in the New York Times, September 14, 2005, covering our investigations of ice ages in New York City


  1. •Feature in the scientific docmentary “The good Earth” broadcasted in Japan, January 1, 2006


• Feature in the Emmy award-winning scientific documentary “How the Earth was made”, produced by Pioneer TV, broadcasted several times on History Channel from October 2007 to March 2008.


Field experience



  1. •Coordinator of the ‘Glacier, Climate, Water and Energy’ field campaign, Swiss Alps; July 1-July 25, 2013, including sampling expeditions at Rhone Glacier, Nufenen Pass, Julier Pass.


    1. •Excursion-Leader of INQUA post-congress excursion 'Post-03, "Last Glacial Maximum - Lateglacial - Neoglacial / Western Swiss Transect", July 28 - 31, 2011.


      •Coordinator of the chronology section of the Quaternary Geology field campaigns in New Zealand’s Southern Alps, annually since 2001.


    1. •Co-coordinator of the sedimentology/stratigraphy field expeditions to Calabria L-DEO/INGV (Rome, Italy), 2005, 2006.


    1. •Co-coordinator of the ETH Zürich/University of Berne expeditions to the Tibetan Plateau 1998 (Litang County, East Tibet), 1999 (Tanggula County, Central Tibet); coordinator of the L-DEO expedition 2001 (Nyalam County, Southern Tibet).


    1. •Coordinator of various sampling campaigns in the New York area.


    1. •Member of various field-campaigns in the European Alps, 2002, 2005, and since 2009 annually.


    1. •Coordinator of the 1995 ice core drilling campaign of the University of Heidelberg, Colle Gnifetti (4550 m), Monte Rosa, Swiss Alps.

 
 
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