In Memoriam: Herbert E Wright Jr 1917-2015

Birks, H. J. B.; Ammann, Brigitta; Stefanova, I. (2016). In Memoriam: Herbert E Wright Jr 1917-2015. Holocene, 26(4), pp. 507-510. Sage 10.1177/0959683616634176

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Herbert E Wright Jr was one of the foremost Quaternary scientists of the last century. He made wide ranging contributions to our understanding of the late-Quaternary of North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. This was based largely on reconstructing palaeoenvironments from lake sediments and included the important implications for glacial, vegetational, fire and climatic history, geoarchaeology and conservation. Many of his inter-disciplinary research projects involved fieldwork with his graduate students and co-workers from the University of Minnesota where he created and led the renowned Limnological Research Center. Perhaps his most outstanding contribution was as an instigator of the Co-operative Holocene Mapping Project (COHMAP). This triggered a paradigm shift in Holocene climatic research involving the comparison of climate-model simulations of past climates with palaeoclimatic data.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

08 Faculty of Science > Department of Biology > Institute of Plant Sciences (IPS)
10 Strategic Research Centers > Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR)
08 Faculty of Science > Department of Biology > Institute of Plant Sciences (IPS) > Library Plant Sciences

UniBE Contributor:

Ammann, Brigitta

Subjects:

500 Science > 580 Plants (Botany)
500 Science > 550 Earth sciences & geology

ISSN:

0959-6836

Publisher:

Sage

Language:

English

Submitter:

Peter Alfred von Ballmoos-Haas

Date Deposited:

19 May 2016 16:38

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 14:55

Publisher DOI:

10.1177/0959683616634176

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Co-operative Holocene Mapping Project, environmental history, Holocene research, inter-disciplinary studies, lake sediments, Minnesota

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.81512

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/81512

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