Chercheurs

Sciences de la Terre / TAYLOR, FRED W.

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Position

Senior Research Scientist, The John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Institute for Geosciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A.

Thèmes de recherche

Taylor integrates research in geology, biology, and chemistry to address geologic and environmental problems. He has expertise in the study of corals, in which sea-surface temperatures are precisely recorded as chemical variations in the calcium carbonate that forms their annual density bands. He is currently involved in two paleoclimate programs to document the temperature history in the Western Pacific Warm Pool region, an area that is critical to the Earth’s climate and weather. One program involves analyzing cores drilled from living corals from New Caledonia, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, and Papua New Guinea to obtain a record of climate extending back several hundred years; the other involves analyzing cores of fossil corals from uplifted reefs to obtain climate records for times back through the last glacial maximum about 22,000 years ago. On another project, Taylor is investigating Quaternary and contemporary crustal motions in the Southwest Pacific using coral reefs as recorders of tectonic deformation. Taylor also uses the Global Positioning System (GPS) to measure the horizontal plate motions that drive earthquakes and crustal deformation at the edges of tectonic plates in the South America, Southwest Pacific, the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica, and, most recently, West Antarctica.

Recent Research Projects :

- A Rapid Response to the 1 April 2007 Ms ~8.0 Earthquake in the Solomon Islands to Conduct Crustal Motion Measurements Using GPS and Coral Geodesy (funded by JSG)

- Seismic Profiling of Rapidly Subsiding Reefs on Sabine Bank, Vanuatu: Preparing for a Future Opportunity to Drill Ancient Reefs Representing Off-Peak and Lowstand Sea Levels During MIS 2-5 (NSF plus additional JSG supplement)

- Collaborative Research: Holocene/Deglacial Abrupt Climate Change and Variability of the Western Pacific Warm Pool from Multidecadal to Century Scale Coral Climate Records (NSF plus additional JSG supplement to initiate speleothem studies)

Prix et récompenses

Memberships :
American Geophysical Union American Quaternary Association
Sigma Xi Geological Society of America International Society for Reef Studies

Publications

Taylor, F. W., M. G. Bevis, I. W. D. Dalziel, R. Smalley, C. Frohlich, E. Kendrick, J. Foster, D. Phillips, and K. Gudipati, Kinematics and segmentation of the South Shetland Islands-Bransfield basin system, northern Antarctic Peninsula, Geochem., Geophys., Geosyst., 9, Q04035, doi:10.1029/2007GC001873, 2008

Taylor, F. W., R. W. Briggs, C. Frohlich, A. Brown, M. Hornbach, A. K. Papabatu, A. J. Meltzner, and D. Billy, Rupture across arc segment and plate boundaries in the 1 April 2007 Solomons earthquake, Nature Geoscience, 1, 253-257, doi:10.1038/ngeo159, 2008

Shen, C.-C., K.-S. Li, K. Sieh, D.Natawidjaja, H. Cheng, X. Wang, R. L. Edwards, D. D. Lam, Y.-T. Hsieh, T.-Y. Fan, A. Melzner, F. W. Taylor, T. M. Quinn, H.-W. Chaiang, and K. H. Kilbourne, Variation of initial 230Th/232Th and limits of high precision U-Th dating of shallow-water corals, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, (in press), 2008

Holland, C. L., R. B. Scott, S.-I. An, and F. W. Taylor, Propagating decadal sea surface temperature signal identified in modern proxy records of the tropical Pacific, Climate Dynamics, 28, 163-179, DOI 10.1007/s00382-006-0174-0, 2007

Delong, K., T. M. Quinn, and F. W. Taylor, Reconstructing 20th century SST variability in the southwest Pacific: A replication study using multiple coral Sr/Ca records from New Caledonia, Paleooceaography, ??, doi:10.1029/2007PA001444, 2007

Smalley, R., I. W. D. Dalziel, M. G. Bevis, E. Kendrick, D. S. Stamps, E. C. King, F. W. Taylor, E. Lauria, A. Zakrajsek, and H. Parra, Scotia arc kinematics from GPS geodesy, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L21308, doi:10.1029/2007GL031699, 2007

Kilbourne K. H., T. M. Quinn, T. P. Guilderson, R. S. Webb, and F. W. Taylor, Decadal to interannual-scale source water variations in the Caribbean sea recorded by Puerto Rican coral radiocarbon, Climate Dynamics, 29,, 51-62, doi:10.1007/s00382-007-0224-2, 2007

Quinn, T. M., and F. W. Taylor, SST artifacts in coral proxy records produced by early marine diagenesis in a modern coral from Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, doi:10.1029/2005GL024972, 2006

Gallup, C. D., D. M. Olson, R. L. Edwards, L. M. Gruhn, A. Winter, and F. W. Taylor, Sr/Ca-sea surface temperature calibration in the branching Caribbean coral Acropora palmata, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L03606, doi:10.1029/2005GL024935, 2006

Quinn, T. M., F. W. Taylor, T. A. Crowley, Coral-based climate variability in the Western Pacific Warm Pool since 1867, J. Geophys. Res.,, 111, C11006, doi:10.1029/2005JC003243, 2006

Caccamise, D. J., M. A. Merrifield, M. A. Bevis, J. Foster, F. W. Taylor, M. S. Schenewerk, and Y. L. Firing, Sea level rise at Honolulu and Hilo, Hawaii: GPS estimates of differential land motion, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L03607, doi:10.1029/2004GL021380, 2005

Taylor, F. W., P. Mann, M. G. Bevis, R. L. Edwards, H. Cheng, K. B. Cutler, S. C. Gray, G. S. Burr, J. W. Beck, D. A. Phillips, G. Cabioch, and J. Recy, Rapid forearc uplift and subsidence caused by impinging bathymetric features: Examples from the New Hebrides and Solomon arcs, Tectonics, 24, TC6005, 10.1029/2004TC001650, 2005

Schmidt, A., G. S. Burr, F. W. Taylor, J. OMalley, and J. W. Beck, A semiannual radiocarbon record of a modern coral from the Solomon Islands, Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section B - Beam Interactions with Materials and Atomss, 223-224, 420-427, 2004

Kilbourne, H., T. E. Quinn, and F. W. Taylor, A fossil coral perspective on western tropical climate ~350 ka, Paleoceanography, 19, PA1019, doi:10.1029/2003PA000944, 2004

Cutler, K. B., S. C. Gray, G. S. Burr, R. L. Edwards, F. W. Taylor, G. Cabioch, J. W. Beck, H. Cheng, and J. Moore, Radiocarbon calibration to 50 ky BP with paired 14C and 230TH dating of corals from Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea, Radiocarbon, 46, 1127-1160, 2004

Burr, G. S., C. Galang, F. W. Taylor, C. Gallup, R. L. Edwards., K. Cutler, and B. Quirk, Radiocarbon results from a 13-KYR BP Coral from the Huon Peninsula, Papua, New Guinea, Radiocarbon, 46, 1211-1227, 2004

Kilbourne, H., T. E. Quinn, F. W. Taylor, T. Delcroix, T., and Y. Gouriou, El Niño Southern Oscillation related salinity variations recorded in the skeletal geochemistry of a Porites coral from Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu, Paleooceanography, 19, PA4002, doi:10.1029/2004PA001033, 2004

Stephans, C., T. L. Quinn, F. W. Taylor, and T. Correge, Assessing the reproducibility of coral-based climate records, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L18210, doi:10.1029/2004GL020343, 2004

Hughen, K. A., et al., and F. W. Taylor, Marine radiocarbon age calibration, 0-26 cal kyr BP, Radiocarbon, 46, 1059-1086, 2004

Reimer, P. J., et al., and F. W. Taylor, IntCal04 terrestrial radiocarbon age calibration, 0-26 cal kyr BP, Radiocarbon, 46, 1029-1058, 2004

Smalley, R., E. Kendrick, M. G. Bevis, I. W. D. Dalziel, F. Taylor, E. Lauría, R. Barriga, G. Casassa, E. Olivero, and E. Piana, Geodetic determination of relative plate motion and crustal deformation across the Scotia South America plate boundary in eastern Tierra del Fuego, Geochem. Geophys. Geosys., 4, art. no. 1070, 2003

Cabioch, G., K. Banks-Cutler, J. W. Beck, G. S. Burr, T. Correge, R. L. Edwards, and F. W. Taylor, Continuous reef growth during the last 23 kyr BP in a tectonically active zone (Vanuatu, southwest Pacific), Quaternary Sci. Rev., 22, 1771-1786, 2003

Cutler, K. B., R. L. Edwards, F. W. Taylor, H. Cheng, J. Adkins, C. D. Gallup, P. M. Cutler, G. S. Burr, J. Chappell, and A. L. Bloom, Rapid sea-level fall and deep-ocean temperature change since the last interglacial period, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 206, 253-271, 2003

Calmant, S., B. Pelletier, P. Lebellegard, M. Bevis, F. W. Taylor, and D. A. Phillips, New insights on the tectonics along the New Hebrides subduction zone based on GPS results, J. Geophys. Res.,, 108, 2319, doi:10.1029/2001JB000644, 2003