Alberto Reyes
Associate Professor, Faculty of Science - Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Admin
Contact
Associate Professor, Faculty of Science - Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Admin
- areyes@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 492-8171
- Address
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2-275 Centennial Ctr For Interdisciplinary SCS II
11335 Saskatchewan Drive NWEdmonton ABT6G 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
Detrital glass in a Bering Sea sediment core yields a ~160 ka Marine Isotope Stage 6 age for Old Crow tephra
Author(s): Reyes, A.V., Jensen, B.J.L., Woudstra, S., *Bolton, M.S.M., *Buryak, S.D., Cook, M.S., Harvey, J., Westgate, J.A.
Publication Date:
1/3/2023
Publication: Geology
Volume: 51
Page Numbers: 106-110
External Link: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/51/1/106/619171/Detrital-glass-in-a-Bering-Sea-sediment-core
Laser-ablation ICP-MS zircon U-Pb ages for key Pliocene-Pleistocene tephra beds in unglaciated Yukon and Alaska
Author(s): *Buryak, S.D., Reyes, A.V., Jensen, B.J.L., Davies, J.H.F.L., Westgate, J.A., DuFrane, S.A., Luo, Y., Froese, D.G., Pearson, D.G., Benowitz, J.A.
Publication Date:
11/1/2022
Publication: Quaternary Geochronology
Volume: 73
Page Numbers: 101398
Permafrost, geomorphic, and hydroclimatic controls on mercury and lead concentrations and exports in Old Crow River, arctic western Canada
Author(s): *Staniszewska, K.S., Reyes, A.V., Cooke, C.A., Miller, B.S., Woywitka, R.J.
Publication Date:
5/5/2022
Publication: Chemical Geology
Volume: 596
Page Numbers: 120810
Evaluating the age distribution of exposed crust in the Acasta Gneiss Complex using detrital zircons in Pleistocene eskers
Author(s): *Bilak, G.S., *Niemetz, K., Reimink, J.R., Reyes, A.V., Chacko, T., Dufrane, S.A., Belosevic, M., Ketchum, J.W.F.
Publication Date:
4/29/2022
Publication: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
Volume: 23
Page Numbers: e2022GC010380
The age of the opening of the ice-free corridor and implications for the peopling of the Americas
Author(s): Clark, J., Carlson, A.E., Reyes, A.V., Carlson, E.C.B., Guillaume, L., Milne, G.A., Tarasov, L., Caffee, M.W., Wilcken, K., Rood, D.H.
Publication Date:
3/21/2022
Publication: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA
Volume: 119
Page Numbers: 2118558119
External Link: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2118558119
Revised chronology of northwest Laurentide ice-sheet deglaciation from 10Be exposure ages on boulder erratics
Author(s): Reyes, A.V., Carlson, A.E., Milne, G.A., Tarasov, L., Reimink, J.R., Caffee, M.W.
Publication Date:
2/1/2022
Publication: Quaternary Science Reviews
Volume: 277
Page Numbers: 107369
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
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
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