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Peer-Reviewed Articles

Axford, Y., Briner, J.P., Cooke, C.A., Francis, D.R., Michelutti, N., Miller, G.H., Smol, J.P., Thomas, E.K., Wilson, C.R., and Wolfe, A.P. 2009. Recent changes in a remote Arctic lake are unique within the past 200,000 years. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106, 18443-18446. pdf

Kaufman, D.S., Schneider, D.P., McKay, N.P., Ammann, C.M., Bradley, R.S., Briffa K.R., Miller, G.H., Otto-Bliesner, B.L., Overpeck, J.T., Vinther, B.M., Arctic Lakes 2k Project Members (Abbott, M., Axford, Y., Bird, B., Birks, H.J.B., Bjune, A.E., Briner, J., Cook, T., Chipman, M., Francus, P., Gajewski, K., Geirsdóttir, Á., Hu, F.S., Kutchko, B., Lamoureux, S., Loso, M., MacDonald, G., Peros, M., Porinchu, D., Schiff, C., Seppä, H., Thomas, E.). 2009. Recent warming reverses long-term Arctic cooling. Science 325, 1236-1239.

Geirsdóttir, Á., Miller, G.H., Axford, Y., and Olafsdottir, S. 2009. Holocene glacier and climate history of Iceland. Quaternary Science Reviews 28, 2107-2118.

Axford, Y., Briner, J.P., Miller, G.H., and Francis, D.R. 2009. Paleoecological evidence for abrupt cold reversals during peak Holocene warmth in Arctic Canada. Quaternary Research. DOI 10.1016/j.yqres.2008.09.006. pdf

Axford, Y., Geirsdóttir, Á., Miller, G.H., and Langdon, P.G. 2009. Climate of the Little Ice Age and the last 2000 years in northeastern Iceland inferred from chironomids and other lake sediment proxies. Journal of Paleolimnology. DOI 10.1007/s10933-008-9251-1. pdf

*Thomas, E.K., Axford, Y., and Briner, J.P. 2008. Rapid 20th-century environmental change on northeastern Baffin Island, Arctic Canada inferred from a multi-proxy lacustrine record. Journal of Paleolimnology. DOI 10.1007/s10933-007-9178-y. pdf
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Axford, Y., Miller, G.H., Geirsdóttir, Á., and Langdon, P.G. 2007. Holocene temperature history of northern Iceland inferred from subfossil midges. Quaternary Science Reviews 26, 3344-3358. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.09.003. pdf

Wooller, M.W., Wang, Y., and Axford, Y. 2007. A multiple stable isotope record of Late Quaternary limnological changes and chironomid paleoecology from northeastern Iceland. Journal of Paleolimnology. DOI 10.1007/s10933-007-9144-8. link to pdf

Briner, J.P., Axford, Y., Forman, S.L., Miller, G.H., and Wolfe, A.P. 2007. Multiple generations of interglacial lake sediment preserved beneath the Laurentide Ice Sheet. Geology 35, 887-890. pdf

Briner, J.P., Michelutti, N., Francis, D.R., Miller, G.H., Axford, Y., Wooller, M.J., and Wolfe, A.P. 2006. A multi-proxy lacustrine record of Holocene climate change on northeastern Baffin Island. Quaternary Research 65, 431-442. pdf

Reheis, M., Reynolds, R., Goldstein, H., Roberts, H., Yount, J., Axford, Y., Cummings, L.S., and Shearin, N. 2005. Late Quaternary eolian and alluvial response to paleoclimate, Canyonlands, southeast Utah. Geological Society of America Bulletin 7, 1051-1069. link to pdf

Axford, Y., and Kaufman, D.S. 2004. Late glacial and Holocene vegetation and glacier fluctuations at Little Swift Lake, southwestern Alaska. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 36, 139-146. pdf

Abstracts

Axford, Y., Briner, J.P., Cooke, C.A., Francis, D.R., Michelutti, N., Miller, G.H., Smol, J.P., Thomas, E.K., Wilson, C.R., and Wolfe, A.P. 2009. Arctic environmental change recorded in lake sediments from Baffin Island, Canada: the past century compared with the past 200,000 years. AGU Fall Meeting (San Francisco, California).

Ballantyne, A.P., Axford, Y., Csank, A.Z., Eberle, J.J., Greenwood, D., Miller, G.H., Otto-Bliesner, B.L., Rybczynski, N., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., and White, J.W.C. 2009. Warm Arctic surface temperatures during the Pliocene: potential feedback mechanisms. AGU Fall Meeting (San Francisco, California).

Geirsdóttir, Á., Miller, G.H., and Axford, Y. Non-linear response to Holocene insolation forcing recorded by high-resolution lake sediment records across Iceland. AGU Fall Meeting (San Francisco, California).

Young, N., Briner, J.P., and Axford, Y. 2009. Response of Jakobshavn Isbræ, west Greenland, to Holocene climate forcing. AGU Fall Meeting (San Francisco, California).

Axford, Y., Ballantyne, A.P., Miller, G.H., Otto-Bliesner, B., Rosenbloom, N., and White, J.W.C. 2009. Model investigations of Arctic feedbacks in the middle Pliocene. Workshop on Pliocene Climate (Bordeaux, France).

Briner, J.P., Stewart, H.A., Young, N., Csatho, B., and Axford, Y. 2009. Middle Holocene deglaciation and Little Ice Age advance of Jakobshavn Isbrae, Greenland. EGU General Assembly (Vienna, Austria).

Geirsdóttir, Á., Miller, G.H., Larson, D., Axford, Y., and Þórdarson, Þ. 2008. Differential response times of climate proxies during the last 2000 years reconstructed from Icelandic lake systems. AGU Fall Meeting (San Francisco, California).

Axford, Y., Geirsdóttir, Á., Miller, G.H., and Langdon, P.G. 2008. Climate events from the early Holocene to the Little Ice Age in North Iceland: Paleolimnological reconstructions from midges and other proxies. EGU General Assembly (Vienna, Austria).

Axford, Y., Geirsdóttir, Á., Miller, G.H., and Langdon, P.G. 2007. Climate in North Iceland over the past 2000 years: Inferences from midges and other lake-sediment proxies. AGU Fall Meeting (San Francisco, California).

Geirsdóttir, Á., Miller, G.H., Flowers, G.E., Olafsdottir, S., Olafsdottir, K.B., and Axford, Y. 2007. Warm times and cold times during the last 2000 years reconstructed from Icelandic lake and marine sediments. AGU Fall Meeting (San Francisco, California).

Thomas, E.K., Briner, J.P., and Axford, Y. 2007. Late Holocene climate change inferred from varved proglacial lake sediments on northeastern Baffin Island, Arctic Canada. AGU Fall Meeting (San Francisco, California).

Axford, Y., Miller, G.H., and Geirsdóttir, Á. 2007. 1300 years of climate and environmental change in northeast Iceland: Midges and other high-resolution lake sediment proxies from Stora Viðarvatn. 37th International Arctic Workshop (Skaftafell, Iceland).

Booth, A., Wooller, M., and Axford, Y. 2007. Stable isotope analyses of northern Icelandic lake sediments: implications for Holocene climatic shifts. 37th International Arctic Workshop (Skaftafell, Iceland).

Briner, J.P., Axford, Y., Forman, S., Miller, G.H., and Wolfe, A.P. 2007. Multiple generations of interglacial lake sediment preserved beneath the Laurentide Ice Sheet. 37th International Arctic Workshop (Skaftafell, Iceland).

Langdon, P.G., Axford, Y., Holmes, N., and Caseldine, C.J. 2007. Holocene development of the Icelandic chironomid fauna: Palaeolimnological evidence from lakes in northern Iceland. 37th International Arctic Workshop (Skaftafell, Iceland).

Thomas, E.K., Axford, Y., Briner, J.P., and Francis, D.R. 2007. A sub-centennial temperature record inferred from subfossil midges for the past two millennia on northeastern Baffin Island, Arctic Canada. 37th International Arctic Workshop (Skaftafell, Iceland).

Axford, Y., Briner, J.P., Miller, G.H., and Francis, D.R. 2006. Not just the 8.2 event: Dynamic early Holocene climate in arctic Canada. AGU Fall Meeting (San Francisco, California).

Axford, Y., Briner, J.P., Francis, D.R., and Miller, G.H. 2006. High-amplitude Holocene temperature changes on northeastern Baffin Island inferred from fossil midges. 36th International Arctic Workshop (Boulder, Colorado).

Francis, D.R., Axford, Y., Walker, I., Miller, G.H., Briner, J.P., and Wolfe, A.P. 2006. 130,000 years of chironomid remains: Climate change research at Arctic sites. 16th International Chironomid Symposium (Funchal, Madeira, Portugal).

McNie, E., Axford, Y., Rosner, H., and Haag, A. 2006. Exploring climate change issues in Iceland: The perils and promise of interdisciplinary research. 36th International Arctic Workshop (Boulder, Colorado).

Szymanski, J., Thomas, E.K., Briner, J.P., Axford, Y., and Miller, G.H. 2006. Preliminary paleoclimate proxy data from high-resolution surface sediment cores from two Baffin Island lakes: A context for the Anthropocene. 36th International Arctic Workshop (Boulder, Colorado).

Thomas, E.K., Briner, J.P., Axford, Y., and Miller, G.H. 2006. Comparing radiocarbon ages from aquatic moss macrofossils, humic acids and chironomid head capsules in arctic lake sediments. 36th International Arctic Workshop (Boulder, Colorado).

Briner, J.P., Miller, G.H., Axford, Y., Werner, A., Kaufman, D.S., Axford, T., and Cunningham, K. 2006. A compact percussion piston corer for surface sediments. 36th International Arctic Workshop (Boulder, Colorado).

Axford, Y., Briner, J.P., Francis, D.R., Baker, G., and Miller, G.H. 2005. Midge-inferred temperatures from three interglacial periods in the Eastern Canadian Arctic. AGU Fall Meeting (San Francisco, California).

Axford, Y., Miller, G.H., Wooller, M.J., Francis, D., Geirsdóttir, Á., Wang, Y., and Sauer, P.E. 2004. Chironomid d18O and dD as paleoclimate proxies: Progress and puzzles. AGU Fall Meeting (San Francisco, California).

Briner, J.P., Francis, D.R., Michelutti, N., Miller, G.H., Axford, Y., Wooller, M., and Wolfe, A. 2004. Multi-proxy lacustrine records of Holocene environmental change in Arctic Canada. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program v. 36 (Denver, Colorado).

Francis, D. R., Walker, I.R., Wolfe, A.P., Miller, G.H., Briner, J., and Axford, Y. 2004. Distribution of midge remains (Diptera: Chironomidae) in Baffin Island lakes and their use in paleolimnological reconstructions. North American Benthological Society Meeting (Vancouver, British Columbia).

Wooller, M.J., Francis, D., Axford, Y., Fogel, M.L., Miller, G.H., Walker, I.R., and Wolfe, A.P. 2004. Stable oxygen isotope analyses of chironomid head capsules preserved in arctic lake sediments – paleoenvironmental implications. 4th International Conference on Applications of Stable Isotope Techniques to Ecological Studies (Wellington, New Zealand).

Briner, J.P., Miller, G.H., Francis, D.R., and Axford, Y.L. 2004. The Holocene thermal maximum on northeastern Baffin Island. 34th International Arctic Workshop (Boulder, Colorado).

Axford, Y., Wooller, M.J., Francis, D., Miller, G.H., and Geirsdóttir, Á. 2003. Testing a new isotopic paleothermometer in a multi-proxy context: Chironomid d18O as a proxy for Holocene temperature change in Iceland. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program v. 34 (Seattle, Washington).

Geirsdóttir, Á., Miller, G.H., and Axford, Y. 2003. Holocene climate variability in NW Iceland derived from fjord and lacustrine sediment cores. XVI INQUA Congress Program with Abstracts (Reno, Nevada).

Reynolds, R.L., Reheis, M.C., Neff, J., Goldstein, H.., Yount, J., Axford, Y., Roberts, H., Miller, M., Sanford, R., and Belnap, J. 2003. Geologic, ecologic, climatic, and land-use interactions in the high desert of the central Colorado Plateau (USA)—the past 40,000 years. XVI INQUA Congress Program with Abstracts (Reno, Nevada).

Briner, J.P., Hu, F.S., Kaufman, D.S., Manley, W.F., Axford, Y.L., Werner, A., and Caffee, M. 2002. Multi-proxy evidence for rapid and pronounced Late Glacial climate change in the Ahklun Mountains, southwestern Alaska. ARCSS All-Hands Workshop (Seattle, Washington).

Reheis, M., Reynolds, R., Yount, J., Roberts, H., Goldstein, H., Axford, Y., and Shearin, N. 2002. Late Quaternary eolian history of the Needles Area of Canyonlands National Park, Utah: Dunes and dust. ICAR5/GCTE-SEN Joint Conference (Lubbock, Texas).

Axford, Y., Kaufman, D.S., and Gregory-Eaves, I. 2001. Late glacial climatic reversal at Little Swift Lake, Ahklun Mountains, southwestern Alaska. 31st International Arctic Workshop (Amherst, Massachusetts).

Marquis, M., Conway, D., Troisi, V., Armstrong, R., Stroeve, J., Maslanik, J., Axford, Y., and Wolfe, J. 2001. Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) from NASA's Aqua mission. AGU Fall Meeting (San Francisco, California).

Axford, Y., Kaufman, D.S., and Gregory-Eaves, I. 2000. Lacustrine record of deglaciation in the Ahklun Mountains, SW Alaska; ice retreat during the Younger Dryas. 30th International Arctic Workshop (Boulder, Colorado).

Briner, J.P., Kaufman, D.S., Axford, Y., Hu, F.S., and Lee, B.Y. 2000. A 12,000 year lacustrine record from Nimgun Lake and correlations with Little Swift Lake, Ahklun Mountains, SW Alaska. 30th International Arctic Workshop (Boulder, Colorado), p. 26-28.

Carey, K.R., Axford, Y., and Kaufman, D.S. 2000. Major-element geochemistry and sediment provenance in a glacially influenced lake, northwestern Ahklun Mountains, SW Alaska. 30th International Arctic Workshop (Boulder, Colorado).

Axford, Y., Kaufman, D.S., and Briner, J.P. 1999. Glacier fluctuations and paleoenvironmental change, northwestern Ahklun Mountains, southwestern Alaska--Preliminary results. 29th International Arctic Workshop (Seattle, Washington), p.21.

Briner, J.P., Axford, Y.L., Swanson, T.W., Caffee, M., and Kaufman, D.S. 1999. Surface exposure ages from the northern Ahklun Mountains, Alaska. 29th International Arctic Workshop (Seattle, Washington), p. 22.

Axford, Y.L., Kaufman, D.S., Manley, W.M., and Briner, J.P. 1998. Overview of the Ahklun Mountains Project: Quaternary glacial, sea-level, and paleoclimatic history, southwestern Alaska. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program v. 30 (Toronto, Ontario).

Axford, Y.L., and Werner, A. 1997. A lacustrine record of late-glacial/ Holocene environmental change, Pork Chop Pond, Denali National Park, AK. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program v. 29 (Salt Lake City, Utah).

Theses

Axford, Y. 2007. Interglacial Temperature Variability in the High-Latitude North Atlantic Region inferred from Subfossil Midges, Baffin Island (Arctic Canada) and Iceland. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado. 273 pp. pdf of abstract

Axford, Y. 2000. Late Quaternary Glacier Fluctuations and Vegetation Change in the Northwestern Ahklun Mountains, Southwestern Alaska. M.S. Thesis, Utah State University, Logan, Utah. 193 pp. pdf of abstract

Axford, Y. 1997. A Late-glacial/Holocene Record of Environmental Change, Denali National Park, Alaska. Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts. 112 pp.

For General Readership

Axford, Y. 2002. Scientists and reporters: Tips for scientists who talk with the media. Geotimes, November 2002. p. 38-39. link

Axford, Y. 2002. Space-based Ice Sight. In NASA Distributed Active Archive Center Alliance: Supporting Earth Observing Science. p. 6-8. Also online at NASA's Earth Observatory. link