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Alberto Reyes

Associate Professor, Faculty of Science - Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
Contact Overview Publications

Contact

Associate Professor, Faculty of Science - Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
Email
alberto.reyes@ualberta.ca
Phone
(780) 492-8171
Address
2-275 Centennial Ctr For Interdisciplinary SCS II
11335 Saskatchewan Drive NW
EdmontonAB
T6G 2H5

Overview

About

ABOUT ME: I'm a Quaternary geologist who uses stratigraphic, paleoenvironmental, and geochemical approaches to address research questions related to landscape and climate change in the north. Timescales of interest range from the early Cenozoic to the late Holocene. I have ongoing interests in developing records of landscape and environmental change in unglaciated northwest North America, permafrost and ice-sheet response to sustained climate warming during Pleistocene interglacials, and Cenozoic analogues for contemporary warming. I'm also interested in studying modern glacier and permafrost change.


EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:


  • Postdoc, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Department of Geoscience)
  • Ph.D., University of Alberta (Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences)
  • M.Sc., Simon Fraser University (Department of Earth Sciences)
  • B.Sc., University of Victoria (Department of Geography)

Research

I am interested in developing stratigraphic, geomorphic, and geochemical records of northern climate change and associated earth system impacts. My work and research interests span timescales ranging from millions of years to the last several centuries, with a particular focus on periods when climate was similar to or warmer than today, such as Pleistocene "super-interglacials" and Cenozoic greenhouse intervals.


Publications

Increasing Pleistocene permafrost persistence and carbon cycle conundrums inferred from Canadian speleothems

Author(s): Biller-Celander, N., Shakun, J.D., McGee, D., Wong, C.I., Reyes, A.V., Hardt, B., Tal, I., Ford, D.C., Lauriol, B.
Publication Date: 4/28/2021
Publication: Science Advances
Volume: 7
Page Numbers: eabe5799
External Link: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/18/eabe5799

Quantifying meltwater sources and contaminant fluxes from the Athabasca Glacier, Canada

Author(s): Staniszewska, K.S., Cooke, C.A., Reyes, A.V.
Publication Date: 12/15/2020
Publication: ACS Earth and Space Chemistry
Volume: 5
Page Numbers: 23-32
External Link: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.0c00256

Middle Eocene CO2 and climate reconstructed from the sediment fill of a subarctic kimberlite maar

Author(s): Wolfe, A.P., Reyes, A.V., Royer, D.L., Greenwood, D.R., Doria, G., Gagen, M.H., Siver, P.A., Westgate, J.A.
Publication Date: 7/1/2017
Publication: Geology
Volume: 45
Page Numbers: 619-622
External Link: http://geology.geoscienceworld.org/content/45/7/619

New fossil and genomic evidence constrains the timing of bison arrival in North America

Author(s): Froese, D.G., Stiller, M., Heintzman, P.D., Reyes, A.V., Zazula, G.D., Soares, A.E.R., Meyer, M., Hall, E., Jensen, B.J.L., Arnold, L.J., MacPhee, R.D.E., Shapiro, B.
Publication Date: 3/28/2017
Publication: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA
Volume: 114
Page Numbers: 3457-3462
External Link: http://www.pnas.org/content/114/13/3457.abstract

Interglacial responses of the southern Greenland ice sheet over the last 430,000 years determined using particle-size specific magnetic and isotopic tracers

Author(s): Hatfield, R.G., Reyes, A.V., Stoner, J.S., Carlson, A.E., Beard, B.L., Winsor, K., Welke, B.
Publication Date: 9/30/2016
Publication: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Volume: 454
Page Numbers: 225-236
External Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X16304940

American mastodon extirpation in the Arctic and Subarctic predates human colonization and terminal Pleistocene climate change

Author(s): Zazula, G.D., MacPhee, R.D.E., Metcalfe, J.Z., Reyes, A.V., Brock, F., Drukenmiller, P.S., Groves, P., Harington, C.R., Hodgins, G.W.L., Longstaffe, F.J., Mann, D.H., McDonald, H.G., Nalawade-Chavan, S., Southon, J.
Publication Date: 12/1/2014
Publication: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA
Volume: 111
Page Numbers: 18,460-18,465
External Link: https://www.pnas.org/content/111/52/18460

South Greenland ice sheet collapse during Marine Isotope Stage 11

Author(s): Reyes, A.V., Carlson, A.E., Beard, B.L., Hatfield, R.G., Stoner, J.S., Winsor, K., Welke, B., Ullman, D.J.
Publication Date: 6/25/2014
Publication: Nature
Volume: 510
Page Numbers: 525-528
External Link: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v510/n7506/abs/nature13456.html

Permafrost response to last interglacial warming: field evidence from non-glaciated Yukon and Alaska

Author(s): Reyes, A.V., Froese, D.G., Jensen, B.J.L.
Publication Date: 8/7/2010
Publication: Quaternary Science Reviews
Volume: 29
Page Numbers: 3256-3274
External Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379110002647