Julie Buehler Email Address

Professor, Department Head

University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Research interests are on the stratigraphy, sedimentology, and chronology of geologic systems that record the climate evolution and sea level history of the Arctic since the mid-Pliocene. Her research program is largely aimed at documenting the global context of paleoenvironmental change across “Beringia”, i.e., the Bering Land Bridge, stretching across the western Arctic from Alaska and the Yukon into NE Russia and adjacent marginal seas. She was US Chief Scientist of the El’gygytgyn Lake Scientific Drilling project, a multinational program leading to the first unprecedented recovery of a 3.6 Myr record of paleoclimate in 2009. In collaboration with S. Petsch, Brigham-Grette has also studied sea ice proxies and paleoceanography across the Arctic-Pacific gateway. Since 2005, she has collaborated with colleagues at Bates, Mt Holyoke, and Hampshire colleges along side Northern Illinois University with a research program for undergraduate students on Svalbard tidewater glaciers. She is Chair of the Polar Research Board of the U.S. National Academy of Science. At home, Julie maintains an interest in the late Pleistocene paleoclimatic history and drainage record of Glacial Lake Hitchcock and the Holocene evolution of the Connecticut River.