Scott A. Elias

CP LUHNA Author: Paleoindian and Archaic Peoples of the Colorado Plateau

Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Campus Box 450
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
Telephone: Office - (303)-492-5158; FAX: (303)-492-6388

E-Mail: saelias@culter.colorado.edu

Current Academic Positions:

Fellow, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder

Adjunct Professor, University of Colorado Museum

Research Associate, University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks.

 

Education:

B. A., University of Colorado, 1976

Ph. D., University of Colorado, 1980.

 

Research Interests:

The paleoecological, paleoclimatic, zoogeographic and evolutionary implications of insect fossil assemblages from the Quaternary period.

 

Recent Grants and Awards:

1999-2005: Principal Investigator, Paleoecology Project in the NSF Long-Term Ecological Research Grant to the University of Colorado.

1999-2003: Principal Investigator, Interactive CD-ROM program development, Arctic Science for Secondary Education in Alaska, funded by NSF Instructional Materials Development Program.

1996-1999: Principal Investigator, Mutual Climatic Range Analysis of Late Pleistocene Insect Fossil Assemblages, Beringia, funded by NSF Paleoecology of Arctic Lakes and Estuaries program.

 

Publications:

81 refereed publications, including 7 books, 8 book chapters, and 66 journal articles.

 

Five Publications Pertinent to this Proposal:

Elias, S. A., 1999. Mutual Climatic Range reconstructions of seasonal temperatures based on late Pleistocene fossil beetle assemblages in Eastern Beringia. Quaternary Science Reviews, in press.

Elias, S. A., Andrews, J. T., and Anderson, K. H., 1999. New insights on the climatic constraints on the beetle fauna of coastal Alaska derived from the mutual climatic range method of paleoclimate reconstruction. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 31: 94-98.

Elias, S. A., Hamilton, T. D., Edwards, M. E., Beg‚t, J. E., Krumhardt, A. P., and Lavoie, C., Late Pleistocene environments of the western Noatak Basin, northwestern Alaska. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 111: 769-789.

Elias, S. A., Short, S. K., and Birks, H. H., 1997. Late Wisconsin environments of the Bering Land Bridge. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 136: 293-308

Elias, S. A., Short, S. K., Nelson, C. H., and Birks, H. H., 1996. The Life and Times of the Bering Land Bridge. Nature, 382: 60-63.

Five Other Publications:

Elias, S. A., 1998. The Mutual Climatic Range method of paleoclimate reconstruction based on insect fossils: new applications and interhemispheric comparisons. Quaternary Science Reviews, 16: 1217-1225.

Elias, S. A., 1996. Late Pinedale and Holocene seasonal temperatures reconstructed from fossil beetle assemblages in the Rocky Mountains. Quaternary Research, 46: 311-318.

Elias, S. A., 1994. Quaternary Insects and Their Environments. Smithsonian Institution Press, 256 pp

Elias, S. A., 1992. Late Quaternary beetle fauna of southwestern Alaska: evidence of a refugium for mesic and hygrophilous species. Arctic and Alpine Research 24: 133-144.

Elias, S. A., 1991. Insects and climate change: fossil evidence from the Rocky Mountains. Bioscience 41:552-559.

List of Collaborative Projects and Collaborators (last two years):

Late Quaternary Environments of the Noatak River Drainage, Alaska: Tom Hamilton, U. S. Geological Survey, Anchorage; Mary Edwards, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; Claude Lavoie, University of Laval, Quebec

Mutual Climatic Range Analysis of Late Pleistocene Insect Fossil Assemblages, Beringia: Kathy Anderson, University of Colorado, Boulder; John Andrews, University of Colorado, Boulder