Amy Leventer
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Amy Leventer's Degrees
- PhD Geology Stanford University
- Masters Geology Stanford University
- Bachelors Geology University of California, Santa Cruz
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Amy Leventer is an American Antarctic researcher specialising in micropaleontology, with specific research interests in marine geology, marine biology, and climate change. Leventer has made over a dozen journeys to the Antarctic, which began at the age of 24 and led to the pursuit of her PhD.
Amy Leventer's Published Works
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Published Works
- Stability of the Larsen B ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula during the Holocene epoch (2005) (323)
- Rapid and early export of Phaeocystis antarctica blooms in the Ross Sea, Antarctica (2000) (317)
- Marine Ecosystem Sensitivity to Climate Change (1999) (300)
- Productivity cycles of 200–300 years in the Antarctic Peninsula region: Understanding linkages among the sun, atmosphere, oceans, sea ice, and biota (1996) (262)
- A community-based geological reconstruction of Antarctic Ice Sheet deglaciation since the Last Glacial Maximum (2014) (247)
- Chronology of the Palmer Deep site, Antarctic Peninsula: a Holocene palaeoenvironmental reference for the circum-Antarctic (2001) (243)
- Retreat of the East Antarctic ice sheet during the last glacial termination (2011) (191)
- Mechanisms of Holocene palaeoenvironmental change in the Antarctic Peninsula region (2009) (173)
- Dynamics of the Laurentide ice sheet during the last deglaciation: evidence from the Gulf of Mexico (1982) (165)
- Antarctic Peninsula climate variability : historical and paleoenvironmental perspectives (2003) (158)
- Retreat history of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum (2014) (158)
- Problems and Possible Solutions Concerning Radiocarbon Dating of Surface Marine Sediments, Ross Sea, Antarctica (1999) (154)
- Temporal and spatial patterns in the Ross Sea: Phytoplankton biomass, elemental composition, productivity and growth rates (1996) (154)
- Sediment trap diatom assemblages from the northern Antarctic Peninsula region (1991) (143)
- Marine sediment record from the East Antarctic margin reveals dynamics of ice sheet recession (2006) (142)
- Holocene history of the Larsen-A Ice Shelf constrained by geomagnetic paleointensity dating (2003) (134)
- Water column sediment fluxes in the Ross Sea, Antarctica: Atmospheric and sea ice forcing (1998) (133)
- Factors influencing the distribution of diatoms and other algae in the Ross Sea (1996) (130)
- Laminations from the Palmer Deep: A diatom‐based interpretation (2002) (123)
- Diatom Evidence for Late Holocene Climatic Events in Granite Harbor, Antarctica (1993) (115)
- CYCLING AND ACCUMULATION OF BIOGENIC SILICA AND ORGANIC MATTER IN HIGH-LATITUDE ENVIRONMENTS: THE ROSS SEA (1992) (109)
- Biogenic sedimentation in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica (1989) (108)
- Diatom assemblages in surface sediments of the Ross Sea: relationship to present oceanographic conditions (1998) (107)
- Late Pleistocene-Holocene marine conditions in the Ross Sea, Antarctica: evidence from the diatom record (1999) (105)
- Modern distribution of diatoms in sediments from the George V Coast, Antarctica (1992) (97)
- Holocene climate variations in the western Antarctic Peninsula: evidence for sea ice extent predominantly controlled by changes in insolation and ENSO variability (2013) (91)
- Diatom flux in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica (1987) (84)
- Initiation and long-term instability of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (2017) (83)
- Deglacial ocean and climate seasonality in laminated diatom sediments, Mac.Robertson Shelf, Antarctica (2005) (78)
- Glacial morphology and post-glacial contourites in northern Prince Gustav Channel (NW Weddell Sea, Antarctica) (2001) (74)
- Recent diatom record of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica: Implications for history of sea ice extent (1988) (73)
- A chemotrophic ecosystem found beneath Antarctic Ice Shelf (2005) (72)
- Physical control of chlorophyll a, POC, and TPN distributions in the pack ice of the Ross Sea, Antarctica (2003) (65)
- Diatom assemblages in surface sediments of the northwestern Weddell Sea, Antarctic Peninsula (2007) (62)
- Glacial morphology and sediment formation in the Mertz Trough, East Antarctica (2006) (61)
- Relationships between anoxia, glacial meltwater and microfossil preservation in the Orca Basin, Gulf of Mexico (1983) (55)
- Comparison of contemporary and fossil diatom assemblages from the western Antarctic Peninsula shelf (2008) (53)
- Submillennial variations in ocean conditions during deglaciation based on diatom assemblages from the southwest Atlantic (2005) (53)
- Post-glacial seasonal diatom record of the Mertz Glacier Polynya, East Antarctica (2006) (51)
- The Fate of Antarctic “Sea Ice Diatoms” and Their Use as Paleoenvironmental Indicators (2013) (51)
- Boundary condition of grounding lines prior to collapse, Larsen-B Ice Shelf, Antarctica (2014) (48)
- Deglacial seasonal and sub‐seasonal diatom record from Palmer Deep, Antarctica (2005) (47)
- Palaeo sea ice distribution and reconstruction derived from the geological record (2010) (44)
- Late Holocene glacial advance and ice shelf growth in Barilari Bay, Graham Land, west Antarctic Peninsula (2014) (39)
- Particulate Flux from Sea Ice in Polar Waters (2008) (38)
- Cruise reveals history of Holocene Larsen Ice Shelf (2001) (37)
- Distributions of highly branched isoprenoid alkenes and other algal lipids in surface waters from East Antarctica: Further insights for biomarker-based paleo sea-ice reconstruction (2016) (35)
- Andvord drift: A new type of inner shelf, glacial marine deposystem from the Antarctic Peninsula (1999) (34)
- A Cooperative Study of Upper-Ocean Particulate Fluxes in the Weddell Sea (1988) (30)
- Marine Sedimentary Record of Natural Environmental Variability and Recent Warming in the Antarctic Peninsula (2013) (29)
- Environmental responses of the Northeast Antarctic Peninsula to the Holocene climate variability (2016) (27)
- Environmental drivers of benthic communities and habitat heterogeneity on an East Antarctic shelf (2016) (26)
- Circumpolar Deep Water Impacts Glacial Meltwater Export and Coastal Biogeochemical Cycling Along the West Antarctic Peninsula (2019) (24)
- Antarctic ecosystem responses following ice‐shelf collapse and iceberg calving: Science review and future research (2020) (24)
- Light Is the Primary Driver of Early Season Phytoplankton Production Along the Western Antarctic Peninsula (2019) (23)
- Late Quaternary palaeoenvironments in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica: interpretations from marine diatoms (2003) (22)
- Detailed Stable Isotope and Carbonate Records from the Upper Maestrichtian-Lower Paleocene Section of Hole 516F (Leg 72) Including the Cretaceous/Tertiary Boundary (1983) (22)
- Environmental Setting of the Antarctic Peninsula (2013) (22)
- Non‐Redfield Production and Export of Marine Organic Matter: a Recurrent Part Of the Annual Cycle in The Ross Sea, Antarctica (2013) (22)
- Scientific access into Mercer Subglacial Lake: scientific objectives, drilling operations and initial observations (2021) (20)
- Mid‐Holocene Grounding Line Retreat and Readvance at Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica (2020) (20)
- Palaeo Sea Ice Distribution ‐ Reconstruction and Palaeoclimatic Significance (2008) (20)
- Past ice stream and ice sheet changes on the continental shelf off the Sabrina Coast, East Antarctica (2018) (19)
- Holocene climate variations in the western Antarctic Peninsula: evidence for sea ice extent predominantly controlled by insolation and ENSO variability changes (2013) (17)
- Sub‐ice shelf sediment geochronology utilizing novel radiocarbon methodology for highly detrital sediments (2017) (17)
- Solar forcing and El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) influences on productivity cycles interpreted from a late-Holocene high-resolution marine sediment record, Adélie Drift, East Antarctic Margin (2007) (16)
- Advances in palaeo sea ice estimation (2016) (15)
- Algal Pigment Ratios in the Ross Sea: Implications for Chemtax Analysis of Southern Ocean Data (2013) (15)
- Historical observations and paleoecological records reveal ecological transitions in the Antarctic Peninsula region (2006) (12)
- Continental slope and rise geomorphology seaward of the Totten Glacier, East Antarctica (112°E-122°E) (2020) (12)
- Abiotic degradation of highly branched isoprenoid alkenes and other lipids in the water column off East Antarctica (2019) (12)
- Iceberg Alley, East Antarctic Margin: Continuously laminated diatomaceous sediments from the late Holocene (2018) (11)
- Submarine glacial landforms on the cold East Antarctic margin (2016) (11)
- Quantitative comparison of taxa and taxon concepts in the diatom genus Fragilariopsis: a case study on using slide scanning, multiexpert image annotation, and image analysis in taxonomy1 (2018) (9)
- Seismic stratigraphy and glacial cycles in the inland passages of the Magallanes Region of Chile, southernmost South America (2017) (9)
- Holocene oceanographic and climatic variability of the Vega Drift deduced through foraminiferal interpretation (2007) (8)
- Marine Ecosystem Sensitivity to Climate Change Historical observations and paleoecological records reveal ecological transitions in the Antarctic Peninsula region (2007) (8)
- A Glimpse at Late Mesozoic to Early Tertiary Offshore Stratigraphy from Wilkes Land, East Antarctica: Results of Strategic Dredging of the Mertz-Ninnis Trough (2004) (8)
- Holocene marine diatom records of environmental change (2010) (8)
- The Southern Ocean RADiolarian (SO-RAD) dataset: a new compilation of modern radiolarian census data (2021) (8)
- First observations of living sea-ice diatom agglomeration to tintinnid loricae in East Antarctica (2017) (8)
- Late Holocene oceanographic and climatic variability recorded by the Perseverance Drift, northwestern Weddell Sea, based on benthic foraminifera and diatoms (2018) (7)
- Productivity events of the marine diatom Thalassiosira tumida (Janisch) Hasle recorded in deglacial varves from the East Antarctic Margin (2006) (7)
- Seismic stratigraphy of the Sabrina Coast shelf, East Antarctica: Early history of dynamic meltwater-rich glaciations (2020) (7)
- Spatial and temporal distribution of ikaite crystals in Antarctic glacial marine sediments (2007) (7)
- New Marine Sediment Core Data Support Holocene Stability of the Larsen B Ice Shelf (2007) (6)
- Sediment Lithofacies From Beneath the Larsen B Ice Shelf: can we Detect ice Shelf Fluctuation ? (2002) (6)
- Interactions of the Totten Glacier with the Southern Ocean through multiple glacial cycles (IN2017-V01): Post-survey report (2018) (6)
- The Larsen Ice Shelf System, Antarctica (LARISSA): Polar Systems Bound Together, Changing Fast (2019) (6)
- Controls Since the mid‐Pleistocene Transition on Sedimentation and Primary Productivity Downslope of Totten Glacier, East Antarctica (2020) (6)
- Synthetic Seismograms Linking ODP Sites to Seismic Profiles, Continental Rise and Shelf of Prydz Bay, Antarctica (2004) (5)
- New approaches and progress in the use of polar marine diatoms in reconstructing sea ice distribution (2007) (5)
- Grounding-zone wedges and mega-scale glacial lineations in the Mertz Trough, East Antarctica (2016) (5)
- Sea ice changes in the southwest Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean during the last 140 000 years (2022) (4)
- Geophysical survey of the thick, expanded sedimentary fill of the new-born Crane fjord (former Larsen B Ice Shelf, Antarctica) (2007) (4)
- New Species from the Sabrina Flora: An Early Paleogene Pollen and Spore Assemblage from the Sabrina Coast, East Antarctica (2018) (4)
- Recent biogenic sedimentation on the Antarctic continental margin (1988) (3)
- Antarctic sea ice over the past 130 000 years – Part 1: a review of what proxy records tell us (2022) (3)
- Ocean/Ice-Shelf Interactions Around Collapsing Antarctic Peninsula Ice Shelves (2006) (3)
- Dropstones on a glaciated continental shelf as key habitat, Sabrina Shelf, East Antarctica (2020) (3)
- Sabrina Coast Marine Record of Cryosphere – Ocean Dynamics (2015) (2)
- A bathymetric compilation of the Cape Darnley region, East Antarctica (2021) (2)
- Sea Ice Changes in the Southwest Pacific Sector of the Southern Ocean During the Last 140,000 Years (2021) (2)
- Biogeochemical and historical drivers of microbial community composition and structure in sediments from Mercer Subglacial Lake, West Antarctica (2023) (2)
- Preliminary Report on Cruise NBP01-01, East Antarctic Margin (2001) (2)
- The life and death of a subglacial lake in West Antarctica (2023) (2)
- The ODP Leg 178 Scientific Party (2001) (2)
- Calving Bay Reentrants During the Late Pleistocene to Holocene Retreat of the Antarctic Ice Sheet: Sedimentologic and Geomorphologic Evidence (2003) (2)
- Late Quaternary high-resolution seismic stratigraphy and core-based paleoenvironmental reconstructions in Ona Basin, southwestern Scotia Sea (Antarctica) (2021) (2)
- Snapshots of pre-glacial paleoenvironmental conditions along the Sabrina Coast, East Antarctica: new palynological and biomarker evidence (2021) (2)
- Chemotrophic Ecosystem Beneath the Larsen Ice Shelf, Antarctica (2005) (2)
- Ice retreat in the eastern Antarctic Peninsula region: the application of diatoms for understanding climate change (2020) (2)
- Students, seals and science (2008) (1)
- SALSA: An Integrated Program Focusing on Carbon Transformations in Mercer Subglacial Lake located 1100 m beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (2019) (1)
- On the Revealing Firsthand Probing of Ocean-Ice-Atmosphere Interactions off Sabrina Coast During NBP1402 (2014) (1)
- Physical and chemical characterization of sediments from Mercer Subglacial Lake, West Antarctica (2019) (1)
- A method for successful collection of multicores and gravity cores from Antarctic subglacial lakes (2023) (1)
- What Lay Beneath the Larsen B Ice Shelf: Results of the First Survey of a Large Modern Sub Ice Shelf Deposystem (2005) (1)
- Marine geological investigation of Edward VIII Gulf, Kemp Coast, East Antarctica (2020) (1)
- Stable isotopic and foraminiferal evidence of Larsen-B Ice Shelf stability throughout the Holocene (2007) (1)
- Mid Holocene Warmth in the Antarctic Peninsula: evidence from the Vega Drift (2005) (1)
- Holocene Sedimentary Record of Unusual Primary Productivity, Dalton Polynya, Sabrina Coast, East Antarctica (2014) (1)
- Diatom assemblages, HBIs and TEXL86 in sediment core NBP99-03_10 (2013) (0)
- Holocene glacial advance and ice shelf growth in Barilari Bay , Graham Land , west Antarctic Peninsula (2014) (0)
- Proceedings of the Fourth Polar Diatom Colloquium (1993) (0)
- ANTARCTIC PENINSULA FJORD GLACIAL MARGINS DURING THE MIDDLE HOLOCENE, AND CIRCUM-ANTARCTIC CONNECTIONS (2014) (0)
- Development of source specific diatom lipids biomarkers as Antarctic Sea Ice proxies (2016) (0)
- Leanne Armand's obituary (2022) (0)
- The 23rd Annual Arctic Workshop (1993) (0)
- History of Anvers-Hugo Trough, western Antarctic Peninsula shelf, since the Last Glacial Maximum. Part I: Deglacial history based on new sedimentological and chronological data (2022) (0)
- Seismic Stratigraphy of Ice Sheet Advance-Retreat Cycles on the Sabrina Coast Continental Shelf, East Antarctica (2014) (0)
- Data for: Late Holocene oceanographic and climatic variability in the Perseverance Drift, northwestern Weddell Sea based on benthic foraminifera and diatoms (2018) (0)
- A complex deglacial retreat history of the Anvers Island Trough paleo-ice stream (2015) (0)
- 3rd Polar Marine Diatom Taxonomy and Ecology Workshop (2012) (0)
- A Benthic Foraminiferal Assessment of Holocene Oceanographic Change: Northern Antarctic Peninsula Margin (2003) (0)
- Deglacial and Holocene sea ice and climate dynamics at the 1 Western Antarctic Peninsula 2 (2022) (0)
- Dating the undatable: novel techniques for 14 C dating of sub-ice shelf Antarctic sediments near the Larsen C ice shelf (2016) (0)
- 3rd Polar Marine Diatom Taxonomy and Ecology Workshop Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 4-8 July 2011 (2011) (0)
- Highly branched isoprenoids in core JPC38 (2016) (0)
- List of contributors (2020) (0)
- Applications and innovations in polar marine diatom analysis (2020) (0)
- Evidence of the evolution of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet on the continental slope and rise sedimentary record: Insights from the Sabrina Coast, East Antarctica (2023) (0)
- New Results and Future IPY Investigations in Hektoria Trough, Inner Larsen-B Embayment, Antarctic Peninsula (2007) (0)
- The arctic seas: Climatology, oceanography, geology and biology: edited by Yvonne Herman. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1989, xi + 888p., US $92.95 (ISBN 0-442-23171-7) (1991) (0)
- Constraints on the Timing and Extent of Deglacial Grounding Line Retreat in West Antarctica (2023) (0)
- NBP14-02: The Sabrina Coast Marine Record of Ocean-Cryosphere Dynamics (2014) (0)
- Vegetation Prior to and During Onset of East Antarctic Glaciation: High Resolution Palynological Insights from Sabrina Coast, East Antarctica (2019) (0)
- P-wave velocities and applied bed thickness and velocity changes for synthetic seismograms, ODP Leg 188 and Leg 119 sites (2004) (0)
- Abiotic degradation of highly branched isoprenoid alkenes (2019) (0)
- History of Anvers-Hugo Trough, western Antarctic Peninsula shelf, since the Last Glacial Maximum. Part II: Palaeo-productivity and palaeoceanographic changes during the Last Glacial Transition (2022) (0)
- THE FORAMINIFERAL RECORD OF LARSEN C ICE SHELF EDGE IN NORTHWESTERN WEDDELL SEA, ANTARCTIC PENINSULA (2018) (0)
- collected from a depth of 3760 m in 1995 during cruise JR 04 of the RRS (2005) (0)
- Foraminifer- and diatom-based paleoceanographic study of Holocene sediments from the Sabrina Coast, East Antarctica (2015) (0)
- Diatom distributions delineated by lipid, genomic and microscopic observations: the imprint of past summer sea ice extent (2017) (0)
- Antarctic sea ice over the past 130,000 years, Part 1: A review of what 1 proxy records tell us 2 (2022) (0)
- Diatom and hydrocarbon analysis of sediment core NBP00-03-JPC38 (2016) (0)
- RECENT PALEOCLIMATE RECORD FROM THE PALMER DEEP, WESTERN ANTARCTIC PENINSULA (2016) (0)
- Seismic Stratigraphy Of The Sabrina Coast Shelf, East Antarctica: History Of Late Paleogene To Early Neogene Glacial Evolution (2015) (0)
- Marine sedimentary record of the Greenpeace Trough, Larsen A embayment, Antarctic Peninsula (2010) (0)
- Geochemical and rock-magnetic analyses of kasten cores from the Joinville-d'Urville Trough, Northeastern Antarctic Peninsula: Results and correlation with the Western Antarctic Peninsula (2005) (0)
- ANTARCTIC WEDDELL SEA ODP SITE 696 PLEISTOCENE-PLIOCENE DIATOMS (2018) (0)
- (Table T2) Bed thickness changes applied to ODP Sites 188-1166 and 119-742 impedance logs to match synthetic seismograms to seismic profiles (2004) (0)
- INTERPRETING THE FORAMINIFERAL AND DIATOM RECORD FROM PERSEVERANCE DRIFT, NORTHWESTERN WEDDELL SEA, ANTARCTIC PENINSULA (2017) (0)
- Earth from space (1995) (0)
- Environmental Magnetism Survey of a Late Holocene Sedimentary Record from Barilari Bay, Western Antarctic Peninsula (2010) (0)
- NEW STRATIGRAPHIC SECTIONS AND CORES OF LATE QUATERNARY AGE FROM THE ONEIDA BASIN, NEW YORK (2016) (0)
- Pre-glacial, Early Glacial, and Ice Sheet Stratigraphy Cored During NBP1402, Sabrina Coast, East Antarctic Margin (2014) (0)
- Sub-Ice Shelf Stratigraphy as Documented From Beneath the Larsen B Ice Shelf, Antarctica (2003) (0)
- Regional correlation of improved radiocarbon dates from the laminated facies of Antarctic margin sediment from Anvers Trough, Antarctic Peninsula (2016) (0)
- Environmental and ice volume changes based on seismic stratigraphy in Sabrina Coast, East Antarctica: Preliminary results from NBP1402 (2014) (0)
- A Dynamic Holocene Grounding Line: In situ sedimentary evidence from Whillans and Mercer ice streams, West Antarctica (2019) (0)
- High-resolution Deglacial to Holocene paleoceanographic records from the Sabrina Coast, East Antarctica: Preliminary foraminifer-based results from NBP14-02 (2014) (0)
- SIDEBAR. Diatoms as Sea Ice Proxies (2020) (0)
- From the Surface Ocean to the Seafloor: Linking Modern and Paleo‐Genetics at the Sabrina Coast, East Antarctica (IN2017_V01) (2023) (0)
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