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Professor BRIGHAM-GRETTE, JULIE (Amherst)
Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences

Phone: (413) 545-4840
Email: brigham-grette@geo.umass.edu

**Disclaimer: Condensed CVs for the School of Marine Sciences. For a full CV, please contact the professor.**

Education:
1976 - B.A., Geology Magna cum laude, Albion College

1980 - M.Sc., Geology, University of Colorado - Boulder

1985 - PhD, Geology, University of Colorado - Boulder

Professional History:
Acting Department Head, Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, September, 2000 to present.

Associate Department Head, Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, September, 1998 to present.

Associate Professor of Glacial Geology, Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, September, 1993 to present.

University of Massachusetts Lilly Teaching Fellow, UMass Center for Teaching,1995 - 1996.

Visiting Professor, to the Alaska Quaternary Center, University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, Alaska. January - June, 1990.

Assistant Professor of Glacial Geology, Department of Geology and Geography, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, September, 1987 to 1993.

Post - doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Geology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, and Geological Survey of Canada, Marine Stratigraphy and Geochronology of the Yukon Shelf, Canadian Beaufort Sea, May 1985 - May 1987.

Post - doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Quaternary Geology, Geomorphology, and Marine Geology, University of Bergen, Norway, Geochronology of North Sea Quaternary Sediments, November 1983 - December 1984

Current Research Support:
2000 - 2001 - National Science Foundation Earth System History, Atmospheric Sciences, Grant 99 - 05813, Paleoclimate Record of El'gygytgyn Lake, $298,663.

2000 - 2002 - National Science Foundation Arctic Natural Sciences, Late Pleistocene Glacial and Sea Level History of Wrangel Island, Northeast Siberia, Co - PI with Pat Anderson, University of Washington, and post - doc Lyn Gualtieri. (funding all at Univ. Washington)

2002 - 2005 - National Science Foundation Arctic Natural Sciences, "Marine Climate and Relative Sea Level Across Central Beringia: Collaborative Research" with Lloyd Keigwin and Neal Driscoll, Woods Hole. WHOI: $655,177; UMASS: $201,516, Total: $865,633 (delayed funding due to availability of ice breaker scheduling)

Selected Publications:
Brigham - Grette, J., and Hopkins, D.M., Benson, S.L., Heiser, P., Ivanov, V.F., Basilyan, A., and Pushkar, V., Dec. 2000, Last Interglacial Sea level Record and Stage 5 Glaciation of Chukotka Peninsula and St. Lawrence Island, QuaternaryScience Reviews . V.20.

Brigham - Grette, J., and Hopkins, D.M., 1995, Emergent marine record and paleoclimate of the Last Interglaciation along the northwest Alaskan coast, Quaternary Research, .43, 159 - 173.

Brigham - Grette, J., 1996, Geochronology of Glacial Deposits, Chapter 14, in J. Menzies, Editor., Past Glacial Environments - - Sediments, Forms, and Techniques, Butterworth Heinemann: Oxford. p. 377 - 410.

Gualtieri, L. Glushkova, O. and Brigham - Grette,J., 2000, Field Evidence for restricted ice extend during the last glacial maximum in the Koryak Mountains of Chukotkta, Far Eastern Russia, Geological Society of America Bulletin. 112, 1106 - 1118

Elias, S.E. and Brigham - Grette, J. (Guest Editors), (in press, Dec 2000) Paleoenvironments of Beringia, Special Festschrift volume for David M.Hopkins, 34 papers QuaternaryScience Reviews

Brigham - Grette, Julie, in press, Dec. 2000, New perspectives on Beringian Quaternary Paleogeography, stratigraphy, and glacial history, Quaternary Science Reviews.