Herb Wright
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Herb Wright's Degrees
- PhD Geology University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Geology University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Geology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Herbert Edgar Wright Jr. was an American Quaternary scientist. He contributed to the understanding of landscape history and environmental changes over the past 100,000 years in many parts of the world. He studied arid-region geomorphology and landscape evolution, as well as glacial geology and climate history. His study of these topics led him to the study of vegetation development and environmental history and allowed him to define the timing and mechanisms of climate-driven vegetational shifts in North America during the last 18,000 years and to recognize the role of natural fire in the dynamics of northern coniferous forests. He applied these insights to wilderness conservation and landscape management. He covered many other aspects of paleoecology including lake development and paleolimnology, and the history and development of the vast patterned peatlands of Minnesota and elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere. Although his work was concentrated in Minnesota, he was also involved in a major synthesis of global paleoclimatology. Beyond Minnesota and the Great Lakes region, Wright studied a wide range of research questions elsewhere in North America, and in the Near East, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Antarctica. He advised over 75 graduate students and mentored many more students, visitors, and colleagues worldwide.
Herb Wright's Published Works
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- Global Climates since the Last Glacial Maximum (1994) (1103)
- Global Climates: since the Last Glacial Maximum (1994) (1039)
- Chemical stratigraphy of lake sediments as a record of environmental change (1984) (484)
- The Quaternary of the United States (1966) (463)
- Piston corers for peat and lake sediments (1984) (451)
- Late Quaternary environments of the Soviet Union (1985) (441)
- North America and Adjacent Oceans During the Last Deglaciation (1987) (372)
- Palaeoecological Events During the Last 15,000 Years: Regional Synthesis of Palaeoecological Studies of Lakes and Mires in Europe. (1996) (315)
- Simulation of the climate of 18,000 years BP: Results for the North American/North Atlantic/European sector and comparison with the geologic record of North America (1985) (286)
- The Potassium-Argon Dating of Late Cenozoic Rocks in East Africa and Italy [and Comments and Reply] (1965) (279)
- The patterned mires of the Red Lake Peatland, northern Minnesota: vegetation, water chemistry, and landforms (1981) (276)
- Holocene Changes In the Vegetation of the Midwest (1983) (232)
- Tunnel Valleys, Glacial Surges, and Subglacial Hydrology of the Superior Lobe, Minnesota (1973) (186)
- The late pleistocene (1983) (153)
- Timing of Atmospheric Precipitation in the Zagros Mountains Inferred from a Multi-Proxy Record from Lake Mirabad, Iran (2006) (145)
- Landscape Development, Forest Fires, and Wilderness Management (1974) (143)
- A Possible Younger Dryas Record in Southeastern Alaska (1990) (141)
- The use of surface samples in quaternary pollen analysis (1967) (137)
- Two Pollen Diagrams from Southeastern Minnesota: Problems in the Regional Late-Glacial and Postglacial Vegetational History (1963) (135)
- An updated radiocarbon-based ice margin chronology for the last deglaciation of the North American Ice Sheet Complex (2020) (135)
- Abrupt changes in North American climate during early Holocene times (1999) (131)
- Pollen studies in the Junín area, central Peruvian Andes (1984) (126)
- Environmental Determinism in Near Eastern Prehistory (1993) (120)
- Bog development and landform dynamics in central Sweden and south-eastern Labrador, Canada (1988) (117)
- The Dynamic Nature of Holocene Vegetation A Problem in Paleoclimatology, Biogeography, and Stratigraphic Nomenclature (1976) (114)
- Preliminary Pollen Studies at Lake Zeribar, Zagros Mountains, Southwestern Iran (1963) (113)
- Sensitivity and response time of natural systems to climatic change in the late quaternary (1984) (112)
- The amphi-atlantic distribution of the younger dryas paleoclimatic oscillation (1989) (110)
- Late Glacial and Holocene vegetational changes on the Ulagan high-mountain plateau, Altai Mountains, southern Siberia (2004) (108)
- Modern Pollen Rain in Western Iran, and Its Relation to Plant Geography and Quaternary Vegetational History (1967) (107)
- Response of interior North America to abrupt climate oscillations in the North Atlantic region during the last deglaciation (2001) (105)
- The Ecological Role of Fire in Natural Conifer Forests of Western and Northern North America—Introduction (1973) (104)
- Late Glacial and Holocene vegetational history of the Altai Mountains (southwestern Tuva Republic, Siberia) (2007) (101)
- Pleistocene glaciation in Kurdistan (1962) (93)
- Role of Ecosystem Development and Climate Change in Bog Formation in Central Sweden (1990) (90)
- Late Quaternary vegetational change in the central Peruvian Andes (1994) (90)
- Late Quaternary Vegetational Changes on the East Side of Yellowstone Park, Wyoming (1974) (85)
- Late‐Wisconsin Pollen and Seed Analysis from the Nebraska Sandhills (1966) (82)
- Diatom Evidence for the Persistence of Stagnant Glacial Ice in Minnesota (1969) (80)
- Present and Past Vegetation of the Chuska Mountains, Northwestern New Mexico (1973) (79)
- Coring tips (1991) (77)
- Patterns of Holocene Climatic Change in the Midwestern United States (1992) (74)
- Hand‐Operated Piston Corers for Lake Sediments (1965) (73)
- SP-11 Glacial and Vegetational History of Northeastern Minnesota (1969) (69)
- The Patterned peatlands of Minnesota (1992) (67)
- The Last 10,000 Years: A Fossil Pollen Record of the American Southwest. (1964) (66)
- TERTIARY AND QUATERNARY GEOLOGY OF THE LOWER RIO PUERCO AREA, NEW MEXICO (1946) (62)
- Late-Pleistocene Glaciation and Climate Around the Junín Plain, Central Peruvian Highlands (1983) (61)
- The Roles of Pine and Spruce in the Forest History of Minnesota and Adjacent Areas (1968) (57)
- Quaternary Vegetation History-Some Comparisons Between Europe and America (1977) (57)
- Structure soils, solifluction, and frost climates of the earth (1958) (56)
- POLLEN ANALYSES OF SURFACE MATERIALS AND LAKE SEDIMENTS FROM THE CHUSKA MOUNTAINS, NEW MEXICO (1963) (55)
- A chronological framework for the Holocene vegetational history of central Minnesota: the Steel Lake pollen record (2004) (55)
- Glacial drainage towards the Mediterranean during the Middle and Late Pleistocene (2008) (54)
- Retreat of the Laurentide Ice Sheet from 14,000 to 9000 Years Ago (1971) (54)
- The environmental setting for plant domestication in the near East. (1976) (54)
- Vegetation East of the Rocky Mountains 18,000 Years Ago (1981) (53)
- Modern pollen rain across the Wyoming basins and the northern Great Plains (U.S.A.) (1969) (53)
- Late Glacial and Late Holocene Moraines in the Cerros Cuchpanga, Central Peru (1984) (52)
- Cores of soft lake sediments (2008) (50)
- Pollen Diagram from the Nebraska Sandhills and the Age of the Dunes (1985) (49)
- ASPECTS OF THE EARLY POSTGLACIAL FOREST SUCCESSION IN THE GREAT LAKES REGION (1964) (49)
- Diatom-based conductivity reconstruction and palaeoclimatic interpretation of a 40-ka record from Lake Zeribar, Iran (2001) (48)
- Forest Changes in Minnesota at the End of the Pleistocene (1979) (48)
- The Saidmarreh Landslide, Iran (1969) (46)
- Natural Environment of Early Food Production North of Mesopotamia (1968) (45)
- Surge Moraines of the Klutlan Glacier, Yukon Territory, Canada: Origin, Wastage, Vegetation Succession, Lake Development, and Application to the Late-Glacial of Minnesota (1980) (45)
- Climatic effects of glacial Lake Agassiz in the midwestern United States during the last deglaciation (1997) (43)
- ORIGIN OF THE CHUSKA SANDSTONE, ARIZONA-NEW MEXICO: A STRUCTURAL AND PETROGRAPHIC STUDY OF A TERTIARY EOLIAN SEDIMENT (1956) (42)
- The role of pingos in the development of the Dzhangyskol lake–pingo complex, central Altai Mountains, southern Siberia (2008) (42)
- The Quaternary of the United States: a review volume for the VII Congress of the International Association for Quaternary Research (1967) (42)
- Diatom Paleolimnological Record of Holocene Climatic and Environmental Change in the Altai Mountains, Siberia (2006) (41)
- Stone Orientation in Wadena Drumlin Field, Minnesota (1957) (40)
- Environmental Change and the Origin of Agriculture in the Old and New Worlds (1977) (38)
- Plant and Insect Fossils at Norwood in South-Central Minnesota: A Record of Late-Glacial Succession (1981) (37)
- Role of the Wadena Lobe in the Wisconsin Glaciation of Minnesota (1962) (37)
- Groundwater-supported evapotranspiration within glaciated watersheds under conditions of climate change (2006) (36)
- Synthesis; The land south of the ice sheets (1987) (34)
- The Kråkenes late-glacial palaeoenvironmental project (1996) (34)
- Superior and Des Moines Lobes (1973) (34)
- Late-Pleistocene Glaciation and Climate around the Junín Plain, Central Peruvian Highlands@@@Late-Pleistocene Glaciation and Climate around the Junin Plain, Central Peruvian Highlands (1983) (33)
- Towards a postglacial history of the northern Great Plains: A review of the paleoecologic problems. (1987) (32)
- Introduction to the reconstruction of the late-glacial and early-Holocene aquatic ecosystems at Kråkenes Lake, Norway (2000) (32)
- Responses to rapid warming at Termination 1a at Gerzensee (Central Europe): Primary succession, albedo, soils, lake development, and ecological interactions (2013) (31)
- Late Pleistocene Climate of Europe: A Review (1961) (30)
- The potential of stomata analysis in conifers to estimate presence of conifer trees: examples from the Alps (2014) (30)
- Sources of Sediment in Lake Pepin on the Upper Mississippi River in Response to Holocene Climatic Changes (2006) (27)
- Chronological framework for the Lateglacial pollen and macrofossil sequence in the Pirin Mountains, Bulgaria: Lake Besbog and Lake Kremensko-5 (2006) (26)
- Quaternary geology and climate (1970) (26)
- Formation and early history of Lakes Pepin and St. Croix of the upper Mississippi River (2009) (25)
- VOLCANIC STRUCTURES IN THE CHUSKA MOUNTAINS, NAVAJO RESERVATION, ARIZONA–NEW MEXICO (1957) (25)
- Settlement Archaeology in the Jauja Region of Peru: Evidence from the Early Intermediate Period; A Report on the 1986 Field Season (1989) (24)
- Oxygen‐isotope record of Late‐Glacial climatic change in western Ireland (2008) (21)
- Landslides on the east flank of the Chuska Mountains, northwestern New Mexico (1963) (20)
- Climatic Change in Mycenaean Greece (1968) (20)
- Interglacial and Postglacial Climates: The Pollen Record (1972) (19)
- Holocene stable-isotope stratigraphy at Lough Gur, County Limerick, Western Ireland (2001) (17)
- Radiocarbon Dates of Mankato Drift in Minnesota. (1957) (16)
- Paleohydrologic phenomena recorded by lake sediments (1977) (14)
- Pollen studies at Lake St Croix, a river lake on the Minnesota/Wisconsin border, USA (1991) (13)
- The Classification of the Wisconsin Glacial Stage (1964) (13)
- Great basin calcite vein and the pleistocene time scale. (1989) (13)
- History of the landscape in the Itasca region (1993) (12)
- A late-Wisconsin buried soil near Aitkin, Minnesota, and its paleobotanical setting (1964) (12)
- A late Wisconsin buried peat at North Branch, Minnesota (1961) (11)
- Petrography of some Minnesota tills (1959) (10)
- Valders Drift in Minnesota (1955) (10)
- The end of the Pleistocene: a general critique of chronostratigraphic classification (2008) (10)
- Elevational gradients during the Late-Glacial/Holocene vegetational transition in southern Bulgaria (2006) (10)
- Hydrologic response of the Crow Wing Watershed, Minnesota, to mid-Holocene climate change (2007) (10)
- The role of peat decomposition in patterned mires: a case study from the central Swiss Alps (2013) (10)
- Vegetation Bands around Dead Man Lake, Chuska Mountain, New Mexico' (1968) (10)
- Plant trash in the basal sediments of glacial lakes (2004) (10)
- Radiocarbon Dates of Mankato Drift in Minnesota. (1957) (9)
- ORIGIN OF THE LAKES IN THE CHUSKA MOUNTAINS, NORTHWESTERN NEW MEXICO: REPLY (1964) (9)
- Climatic Change and Plant Domestication in the Zagros Mountains (1980) (9)
- Means of correlation of quaternary successions : volume 8 proceedings VII Congress International Association for Quaternary Research (1968) (9)
- The late-glacial chronology of Europe, a discussion (1957) (8)
- Environmental Changes and the Origin of Agriculture in the Near East (1970) (8)
- Geologic Map Series 3. Geology of the Cloquet Quadrangle Carlton County, Minnesota (1970) (8)
- Glacial surges and flood legends. (1976) (8)
- Pleistocene extinctions : the search for a cause : volume 6 of the proceedings of the VII congress of the International Association for Quaternary Research (1967) (8)
- Reflections on COHMAP (1993) (7)
- Postglacial peatlands of the Lake Agassiz plain, northern Minnesota. (1983) (6)
- International studies on the quaternary (1965) (6)
- High points in paleolimnological studies as viewed by a convert (2010) (6)
- Interbedded Cary Drifts near Minneapolis, Minnesota (1953) (6)
- The Quarternary of the United States: A Review Volume for the VII Congress of the International Association of Quarternary Research. (1966) (6)
- Climatic Change and Culture In Prehistoric Minnesota (1990) (6)
- Correlation of Jurassic Formations Along Defiance Monocline, Arizona-New Mexico: GEOLOGICAL NOTES (1951) (6)
- The modern pollen rain of North Dakota, USA (1987) (5)
- Contrasts in the Quaternary of mid‐North America and mid‐Eurasia: notes on Quaternary landscapes of western Siberia (2005) (5)
- Pleistocene Glaciation of Iraq (2004) (5)
- Cerro Colorado, an isolated non-basaltic volcano in central New Mexico (1943) (4)
- LATE PLEISTOCENE SOIL DEVELOPMENT, GLACIATION, AND CULTURAL CHANGE IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN REGION (1961) (4)
- Quaternary Science and Public Service (1973) (3)
- Mires of the World (1983) (3)
- Lake and Wetland Sediments As Records of Past Atmospheric Composition (1982) (3)
- Arctic and Alpine Environments (1968) (3)
- A glacial record spanning the Pleistocene in southern Minnesota (2011) (3)
- Global climatic changes since the last glacial maximum: evidence from paleolimnology and paleoclimate modeling (1996) (3)
- A Holocene hydrologic model of the Crow Wing Watershed, Minnesota (2000) (3)
- Faunal extinctions at the end of the Pleistocene (1986) (2)
- National environment of early food production north of Mesopotamia. Climatic change 11,000 years ago may have set the stage for primitive farming in the Zagros mountains. (1968) (2)
- Ecological and floristic studies of the Red Lake peatland: final report to Peat Program (1979) (2)
- Glacial and quaternary geology (1972) (2)
- Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions for Mountains in the Eurasian Mid-Continent (2001) (2)
- Corrigendum to “Responses to rapid warming at Termination 1a at Gerzensee (Central Europe): Primary succession, albedo, soils, lake development, and ecological interactions”[Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 391PB (2014) 111–131] (2014) (2)
- Sand Grains and Periglacial Climate: A Discussion (1946) (2)
- PREHISTORY. Water, Weather, and Prehistory. Robert Raikes (1969) (2)
- RI-49 Contributions to Quaternary Studies in Minnesota. (1998) (2)
- The Quaternary of the U.S. (2015) (2)
- Reinventing erosion in Yellowstone's northern range (1994) (1)
- Lakes as environmental archives: some case studies from the Minnesota area (1992) (1)
- Peat bogs. (1982) (1)
- Cenozoic climatic [i.e. climate] and environmental changes in Russia (2005) (1)
- Variation and Distribution of the Iguanid Lizard Sceloporus bulleri, and the Description of a Related New Species (1967) (1)
- Northern glacial chronology: quaternary glaciations in the northern hemisphere. (1987) (1)
- North american prehistory. (1978) (1)
- Quaternary paleoecology : volume 7 of the proceedings of the VII Congress of the International Association for Quaternary Research (1967) (1)
- Holocene Timberline Fluctuations and Climate Variability (2014) (0)
- Climatic Changes on a Yearly to Millennial Basis (1987) (0)
- Educational Series 7. Geologic History of Minnesota Rivers (1990) (0)
- Arctic and Alpine Environments. Vol. 10 Proceedings VII Congress International Association for Quaternary Research (1969) (0)
- An Index to U.S. Geological Survey Topographic Maps of Minnesota (1957) (0)
- The Relationship of Climate to Sedimentation Rates in Lakes and Ponds in Yellowstome National Park (1986) (0)
- The Chinese Quaternary: Quaternary Geology and Environment of China . Quaternary Research Association of China. China Ocean Press, Beijing, and Springer- Verlag, New York, I985. x, 301 pp., illus. $69.5O. From a symposium, Beijing, Feb. 1982. (1986) (0)
- Archaeology:Quaternary History of the Sangamon River Drainage System, Central Illinois. JAMES ANDREW MILLER (1975) (0)
- Holocene Climate History of North Central Minnesota, Interpreted From δ D and δ \ 18 O of Lake Sediments (2004) (0)
- Arctic and Alpine environments : volume 10, proceedings of the VII Congress, International Association for Quaternary Research, Boulder-Denver, Colorado, August 14-September 19, 1965 : sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council (1968) (0)
- Development of peatlands in northern Minnesota. Final report (1985) (0)
- Quaternary history of North America and adjacent oceans (1982) (0)
- Peat Bogs: Peat Stratigraphy and Climatic Change . A Palaeoecological Test of the Theory of Cyclic Peat Bog Regeneration. K. E. Barber. Balkema, Rotterdam, 1981 (U.S. distributor, Merrimack Book Service, Salem, N.H.). xii, 220 pp., illus., + plates. $29. (1982) (0)
- Deciphering Vegetation History: Quaternary Plant Ecology . Proceedings of a symposium, Cambridge, England, Mar. 1972. H. J. B. Birks and R. G. West, Eds. Halsted (Wiley), New York, 1974. x, 326 pp., illus. $44.50. (1974) (0)
- Paleocology of Plants (1990) (0)
- A Paleohydrology Project: Handbook of Holocene Palaeoecology and Palaeohydrology . B. E. Berglund, Ed. Wiley- Interscience, New York, 1986. xxiv, 869 pp., illus., + foldout chart. $114. International Geological Correlation Programme Project 158B. (1986) (0)
- An ancient lake: lake biwa. (1985) (0)
- U.S. Geological Survey Topographic Maps of Minnesota – How to Obtain and Use Them (1956) (0)
- Voulkaria 1966: the earliest palynological study of sediment from Lake Voulkaria, Northwestern Greece (2016) (0)
- Archaeology: Applied Geology and Archaeology: The Holocene History of Wyoming. Michael Wilson (1976) (0)
- Pollen Analysis: The Last 10,000 Years: A Fossil Pollen Record of the American Southwest . Paul S. Martin. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1963. viii + 87 pp. Illus. $4.50. (1964) (0)
- The Ice Age in Britain: Pleistocene Geology and Biology . With Especial Reference to the British Isles. R. G. West. Wiley, New York, 1968. xiv + 377 pp., illus. $9.50. (1969) (0)
- Geologic map of Cloquet quadrangle, Carlton County, Minnesota (1970) (0)
- The Recent Geologic Past in Western Europe: The Quaternary . Vol. 2. Kalervo Rankama, Ed. Interscience (Wiley), New York, 1967. viii + 477 pp., illus. $19.50. The Geologic Systems. (1968) (0)
- A Patchy Contribution to Palaeoclimatic Studies.@@@Late Quaternary Environments of the United States. Vol. 2. The Holocene. (1985) (0)
- The Climate of Europe: Past, Present and Future (1987) (0)
- Paleoecology of Early Man in Las Vegas Valley (1969) (0)
- The geochemical and biostratigraphic record of natural and pollutional eutrophication of Minnesota lakes. (1975) (0)
- A geologic puzzle. (1979) (0)
- Lake Gościąż, central Poland. M. Ralska-Jaseiwiczowa, T. Goslar, T. Medeyska, L. Starkel (2000) (0)
- Preface to the Special Issue on “Early rapid warming” (2013) (0)
- A Geologic Puzzle: Ice Ages . Solving the Mystery. John Imbrie and Katherine Palmer Imbrie. Enslow, Short Hills, N.J., 1979. 224 pp., illus. $12.95. (1979) (0)
- Recent earth history: Claudio Vita-Finzi. New York, John Wiley and Sons, 1973. $7.95 (1974) (0)
- Holocene book reviews: The ecology of recently-deglaciated terrain. A geoecological approach to glacier forelands and primary succession John A. Matthews, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, 386 pp., US $120, £60, hardback. ISBN 0-521-36109-5 (1993) (0)
- Estimating the Time of Establishment of the Cutthroat Trout (Oncorynchus clarki lewisi) Population in Avalanche Lake, Through Analysis of Fossil Zooplankton Assemblages in Profundal Sediments: Glacier National Park (1991) (0)
- Peat Bogs. (Book Reviews: Peat Stratigraphy and Climatic Change) (1982) (0)
- Great Basin Calcite Vein and the Pleistocene Time Scale (1989) (0)
- The chinese quaternary: quaternary geology and environment of china. (1986) (0)
- Ecological and floristic studies of the peatland vegetation of northwest Minnesota (1979) (0)
- Charcoal analysis of varved lake sediments (1994) (0)
- Index of Authors Cited (1965) (0)
- Changes in Atmospheric Composition Group Report (1982) (0)
- 1993 Fryxell Award for Interdisciplinary Research (1993) (0)
- Pollen Analysis. (Biological and Medical Sciences: The Last 10,000 Years: A Fossil Pollen Record of the American Southwest) (1964) (0)
- A paleohydrology project: handbook of holocene palaeoecology and palaeohydrology. (1986) (0)
- Pleistocene Extinctions; The Search for a Cause@@@Quarternary Paleoecology (1969) (0)
- The Quaternary of the United States: A Review Volume for the Congress of the Intern Assoc. for Quaternary Research (1966) (0)
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