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Sciences de la Terre / TAYLOR, KENDRICK

Kendrick

Position

Research professor with the Water Resources Center of the Desert Research Institute,

Chief Scientist for the National Science Foundation's WAISCORE program, which is recovering the first of two deep Antartic ice cores.

Thèmes de recherche

His research topics deal with some aspect of hydrology and involve fieldwork.

Taylor is currently working on a set of projects that use ice cores from Antarctica to improve our understanding of why climate changes occur and how can climate change in the future. He is the Chief Scientist for the WAISCORES project which is studying paleoclimate and ice dynamics in West Antarctica. He also makes electrical measurements on ice cores to identify annual layers. By counting the annual layers we help determine when and why climate changed in the past. Knowing why climate changed in the past improves our ability to predict how climate will change in the future.

Prix et récompenses

1999 Alessandro Dandini Medal of Science

Publications

Taylor, K.C., J.W.C. White, J.P. Severinghaus, E.J. Brook, P.A. Mayewski, R.B. Alley, E.J. Steig, M.K. Spencer, E. Meyerson, D.A. Meese, G.W. Lamorey, A. Grachev, A.J. Gow and B.A. Barnett. Abrupt late glacial climate change in the Pacific sector of Antarctica. Quaternary Science Reviews. (23)7-15, 2004.

Taylor, K.C., R.B. Alley, D.A. Meese, M.K. Spencer, E.J. Brook, N.W. Dunbar, R. Finkel, A.J. Gow, A.V. Kurbatov, G.W. Lamorey, P.A. Mayewski, E. Meyerson, K. Nishiizumi and G.A. Zielinski. Dating the Siple Dome, Antarctica ice core by manual and computer interpretation of annual layering. Journal of Glaciology, in press.

Taylor, K.C. and R.B. Alley. Two-dimensional electrical stratigraphy of the Siple Dome, Antarctica ice core. Journal of Glaciology, in press.

Taylor K.C., J.W.C. White, E.J. Brook, J.P. Severinghaus, R.B. Alley, E. J. Steig, M.K. Spencer, E. Meyerson, D.A. Meese, P.A. Mayewski, G.W. Lamorey, A. Grachev, A.J. Gow, B. A. Barnett Abrupt Late Glacial Climate Change in the Pacific Sector of Antarctica (in review at Science).

Taylor, K.C.; Rapid Climate Change, 1999. American Scientist, July-August, 320-327.

Taylor, K.C., P.A. Mayewski, R.B. Alley, E.J. Brook, A.J. Gow, P.M. Grootes, D.A. Meese, E.S. Saltzman, J.P. Severinghaus, M.S. Twickler, J.W.C. White, S.
Whitlow, and G.A. Zielinski, 1997. The Holocene/Younger Dryas Transition Recorded at Summit, Greenland. Science, 278:825-827.

Smith, H.J., M. Wahlen, D. Mastroianni , K. Taylor, and P.M. Mayewski, 1998. The CO2 concentration of air trapped in GISP2 formed during periods of rapid climate change. Journal of Geophysical Research, 102:26,577-26,583.

Thorsteinsson, T., E.D. Waddington, K.C. Taylor, R.B. Alley, and D.D. Blankenship, 1999. Strain rate enhancement at Dye 3, Greenland. Journal of Glaciology, 45:150, 338.

Taylor, K.C., T.B. Minor, M.M. Chesley, and K. Matanawi, 1998. Cost effectiveness of well site selection methods in a fractured aquifer. Ground Water, 37:24,271-275.

Taylor, K.C., C.U. Hammer, R.B. Alley, H.B. Clausen, D. Dahl–Jensen, A.J. Gow, N.S. Gundestrup, J. Klipfstuhl, J.C. Moore, and E.D. Waddington, 1993.
Electrical conductivity measurements from the GISP2 and GRIP Greenland ice cores. Nature, 366:549-552.

Mayewski, P., L.D. Meeker, S. Whitlow, M.S. Twickler, M.C. Morrison, R.B. Alley, P. Bloomfield, and K. Taylor, 1993. The atmosphere during the Younger Dryas. Science, 261:195-197.

Taylor, K.C., G.W. Lamorey, G.A. Doyle, R.B. Alley, P.M. Grootes, P.A. Mayewski, J.W.C. White, and L.K. Barlow, 1993. The `flickering switch' of late
Pleistocene climate change. Nature, 361:432-436.

Alley, R.B., D.A. Meese, C.A. Shuman, A.J. Gow, K.C. Taylor, P.M. Grootes, J.W.C. White, M. Ram, E.D. Waddington, P.A. Mayewski, and G.A. Zielinski,
1993. Abrupt increase in Greenland snow accumulation at the end of the Younger Dryas event. Nature, 362:527-529.

Meese, D.A., A.J. Gow, P. Grootes, P.A. Mayewski, M. Ram, M. Stuiver, K.C. Taylor, E.D. Waddington, and G.A. Zielinski, 1994. The accumulation record
from the GISP2 core as an indicator of climate change throughout the Holocene. Science, 266:1680-1682.