D a r r e l l S. K a u f m a n
Education
PhD, Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1991
MS, Geological Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, 1987
BS, Earth Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1982
BA, Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1982
Positions
Associate Chair, Department of Geology, 2007-present
Assistant Professor to Professor, Department of Geology, and Center for Environmental Science & Education, Northern Arizona University, 1998-present
Assistant to Associate Professor, Department of Geology, Utah State University, 1993-98
NATO-NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geology, Univ of Bergen, Norway, 1992
Research Associate, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Univ of Colorado, 1991
Consulting Geologist, US Department of Interior, Minerals Management Service, 1988-90
Geologist, US Geological Survey, Branch of Alaskan Geology, Alaska, 1982-85
Research Interests
Quaternary climate change; effect of climate change on the physical and biological properties of lake sediment; glacier, sea-level, and lake-level variations; paleoclimate of Great Basin and Alaska; amino acid racemization geochronology; tephrochronology
Professional Service
Project Leader, “A synthesis of 2000 years of climatic variability from Arctic lakes”
Co-editor, Quaternary Geochronology
Co-chair, NSF Paleoenvironmental Arctic Sciences (PARCS), 2002-05
Council Member, Geological Society of America, Quaternary Geology & Geomorphology, 2001-03
Associate Editor, Geology, 2000-02
Panel Member, proposal reviews, NSF Earth System History Program, 1999-01
Advisory Committee Member, NSF Arctic System Science Program, 1997-98
Editor, Quaternary Times newsletter and website manager, American Quaternary Association, 1993-00
Grants: Principal Investigator
Accessing climate- and lake-monitoring equipment, southern Alaska. 2008-09, NSF Small Grants for Exploratory Research; 2008-09: NSF Paleo-Perspectives on Climate Change
Acquisition of off-axis integrated-cavity output spectroscopy instruments for ecological research and training at Northern Arizona University, 2007-10, NSF Major Research Instrumentation, Biological Infrastructure, G Koch lead PI; 2007-10
Facilities Support: Amino Acid Geochronology Laboratory, 2006-2009, NSF Instrumentation & Facilities
Collaborative Research: Holocene shell accumulation from southeast Brazilian Bight: multi-centennial dynamics of oceanographic, environmental, and ecological changes, 2006-09; NSF Earth System History
Collaborative Research: A synthesis of the last 2000 years of climatic variability from Arctic lakes, 2005-2008, NSF Arctic System Science
Facilities Support: Amino Acid Geochronology Laboratory, 2004-06, NSF Instrumentation & Facilities
Geochronological and paleoenvironmental analyses in support of Quaternary research in the western United States by the USGS; 2004-07, CESU Cooperative Agreement
Racemization of aspartic and glutamic acids in single tests of Quaternary foraminifera, 2004-06, Petroleum Research Fund
Plio-Pleistocene aminostratigrapy, south and west coasts, Australia, 2004-05, Petroleum Research Fund
Collaborative Research: Holocene climatic variability in southern Alaska: Quantitative estimates of temperature and precipitation, warm intervals, and possible cyclicity, 2003-07, NSF Earth System History
Paleoenvironmental Arctic Sciences (PARCS) steering committee activities, 2002-05, NSF Arctic System Sciences
Re-evaluation of lava-dammed lake deposits in the Grand Canyon, 2000, NAU Organized Research Grant
Collaborative Research: Paleoglaciology of Alaska—Climate parameters during the last glacial maximum from GIS determination of equilibrium line altitudes, 1999-2001, NSF Arctic Natural Sciences
Climatic variations during the last glaciation in southwestern Alaska, 1998-2000, NSF Earth System History
Investigations into the variability of diagenetic racemization in fossil gastropods, 1998-2000, Petroleum Research Fund
Late Quaternary temperature history of the Great Basin based on amino acid paleothermometry, 1997-2000, NSF Earth System History
Pleistocene sea-level and glacial fluctuations, coastal Ahklun Mountains, southwest Alaska, 1996-99, NSF Arctic Natural Sciences
Development of an automated HPLC for separation of DL amino acids for enhanced geochronology and paleothermometry, 1996-98, NSF Instrumentation and Facilities
Amino acid racemization in the high-molecular-weight fraction of biogenic carbonate— Chronostratigraphic applications, 1994-96, Petroleum Research Fund
Feasibility study—Coring last interglacial deposits, Bristol Bay, Alaska, 1994-95, NSF Atmospheric Dynamics Program
Chronostratigraphy of Pleistocene high-sea-level and glacial deposits, northeastern Bristol Bay Alaska, 1992-95, NSF Office of Polar Programs
