Professor

604 Geology-Physics Building
513-556-4165
thomas.lowell@uc.edu

Research Support

Collaborative Research: Glacial Lake Ojibway Chronology to test the 8,200 yr cold-Event Trigger, National Science Foundation. $186,442. Funded 2007

Laurentide Ice Sheet activity during the Mystery Interval, Comer Science And Education Foundation . $25,000. Funded 2007

Timing of the first meltwater drainage eastward into the Lake Superior basin, Comer Science And Education Foundation - Thunder Bay . $17,000. Funded 2007

Collaborative Research: Deglaciation Chronology of the Des Moines Lobe – , National Science Foundation. $29,974. Funded 2006

The Role of glacial Lake Agassiz in Abrupt Climate Change, Comer Science And Education Foundation. $130,000. Funded 2005

Quelccaya Ice Cap: Late Glacial and Holocene Extent and implications for Tropical Climate, Bucher Travel Award, Department of Geology, University of Cincinnati. $3,000. Funded 2005

Assessing a Possible Cause of Abrupt Climate Change: Timing of Glacial Lake Agassiz Drainage, Comer Science and Education Foundation. $130,040. Funded 2004

Testing of Abrupt Climate Change with Geological Data, Comer Science and Education Foundation. $50,000. Funded 2003

Surficial mapping of the New Moorfield and South Vienna Quadrangles, United States Geological Survey. $9,000. Funded 2000

Surficial mapping of the Bellefontaine and DeGraff Quadrangles, United States Geological Survey. $3,500. Funded 1999

Surficial and subsurface mapping Shandon and Harrison 7.5-minute quadrangles, Hamilton and Butler Counties, Ohio , United States Geological Survey. $6,500. Funded 1998

Surficial geologic maps of the Waynesville and New Burlington 7.5-minute quadrangles, southwestern Ohio, U.S. Geological Survey. $12,000. Funded 1997

Field studies on tidewater glaciers in Alaska, Bucher Travel Award, Department of Geology, University of Cincinnati. $1500. Funded 1997

Subglacial deformed sediments: A geological field test, National Geographic Society. $12,830. Funded 1995

Enhanced radiocarbon chronology from Ohio: A Northern Hemisphere glacial geologic test of alternate glacial climate hypothesis, NSF. $149,997, funded for 3 years. Funded 1992

Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, University of Cincinnati. $3,500. Funded 1989

Bucher Award for field studies in Iceland, Department of Geology, University of Cincinnati. $1500. Funded 1988

Establishment of a Quaternary data base for Southern Ohio, University Research Council, University of Cincinnati. $4,500. Funded 1987

A three-dimensional mapping technique to provide baseline data for landslide hazard assessment, University Program Advisory Committee, University of Cincinnati. $10,197. Funded 1987

Hydrological Investigations of the Akron Regional Landfill, CEC Co.. $6,000. Funded 2000

Hydrological investigations of the Clarko Landfill, Clark County, Danis Inc.. $95,000. Funded 1998

Hydrological Investigations of the Shaker Creek Aquifer, local governments in Warren County. $19,260. Funded 1998

Regional complination, northeastern Maine, Maine Geological Survey. Funded 1993

Detailed surficial field mapping, Newbery Cove area Maine, Maine Geological Survey. Funded 1992

Gravel Aquifer Mapping, Dover-Foxcroft area, Maine, Maine Geological Survey. Funded 1990

Geologic component of archaeological project: Topsham, Maine, Town of Topsham. Funded 1990

A Comparison of Outcrop vs. Core Stratigraphy at Doty's Highbank, Cooperative Drilling Program, Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Funded 1990

Geologic component of archaeological project: Topsham, Maine, Maine State Museum. Funded 1989

Detailed surficial field mapping: Seal Harbor area Maine, Maine Geological Survey. Funded 1989

Geologic component of archaeological project: Topsham, Maine, Maine State Museum. Funded 1988

Detailed surficial field mapping: Southwest Harbor and Bass Harbor areas Maine, Maine Geological Survey. Funded 1988

Detailed surficial field mapping: Southwest Harbor area Maine, Maine Geological Survey. Funded 1987

Geologic component of archaeological project: Milford Maine, Institute for Quaternary Studies. Funded 1986

Detailed surficial field mapping: Houlton-Bridgewater area northeastern Maine, Maine Geological Survey. Funded 1985

Reconnaissance surficial field mapping: Churchill Lake area, northern Maine, Maine Geological Survey. Funded 1984

Geologic component of archaeological project: Merrymeeting Bay, Maine, Maine Historic Preservation Commission. Funded 1984

Reconnaissance surficial field mapping: Seboomook Lake area, northwestern Maine, Maine Geological Survey. Funded 1983

Reconnaissance surficial field mapping: Clayton Lake area, northern Maine, Maine Geological Survey. Funded 1982

Reconnaissance surficial field mapping: St. John River area, northern Maine, Maine Geological Survey. Funded 1981

Gravel aquifer mapping; Lincoln, Maine area, Maine Geological Survey. Funded 1980

Reconnaissance surficial field mapping; mineral resource evaluation of the Dickey-Lincoln School Lakes project, New England Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Funded 1979

Detailed surficial mapping: Mount Desert Island, Maine, Maine Geological Survey. Funded 1978

Published Abstracts

Kelly, M.A., Lowell, T.V., Schaefer, J.M., Schwartz, R., Migro, P., Denton, G.H., and Alley, R.B. (2006). 10BE Dates Moraines in East Greenland Suggest that the Little Ice Age Mountain Glacier Advance was the Most Extensive Glacial Advance During the Holocene Epoch [Abstract]. GSA, 38(7), 265.

Milawski, J.E., Densramis, N.C., McFaddin, J., Michaels, J.A., Redder, M., Lowell, T.V., and Huff, W.D. (2006). Sedimentary Processes Associated with Deglaciation Near Sioux Pond Lookout, Northwest Ontario [Abstract]. GSA, 38(7), 70.

Smith, C.A., Lowell, T.V. (2006). Evidence of Chanes in Glacial Thermal Regime: a Test Case from Nevado Sajama, Bolivia [Abstract]. GSA, 38(7), 60.

Loope, H.M., Fisher, T.G., Lowell, T.V., and Hajdas. I. (2006). Glaciolacustrine Sedimentation and Chronology of the Western Thunder Bay Lowland, Northwest Ontario [Abstract]. GSA, 38(7), 73.

Fisher, T.G. and Lowell, T.V. (2006). Revisiting the Age of the Moorhead Phase of Glacial Lake Agassiz [Abstract]. GSA, 38(7), 72.

Breckenridge, A., Lowell, T.V., Fisher, T.G. (06/25/2006). A revised stratigraphy from Fenton Lake, Ontario: evidence for northern drainage of Lake Superior prior to 9,000 cal BP (8.1 14C ka) [Abstract]. 10th International Paleolimnology Symposium, Duluth, MN.

Zavar, E., Wiles, G.C., Taggart, D., Michaels, J.A., and Lowell, T.V. (2006). Alluvial Records of Environmental Change from Mid to Late Holocene, Northeast Ohio [Abstract]. GSA, 38(4), 65.

Johnson, P.E., Wiles, G.C., Lowell, T.V., Santos, J., Sobral da Cunha, L. J., and Rochette, A. (2006). Reconstructing Little Ice Age Glacial Histories for Cresent and Amherst Glaciers, College Fiord, Southern Alaska [Abstract]. GSA, 38(4), 25.

Lutz, B.D., Wiles, G., Lowell, T.V., and Michaels, J. (2006). The 8K Event in Northeast Ohio. [Abstract]. GSA, 38(4), 26.

Stewart, A.K. and Lowell, T.V. (2006). Testing the Effectiveness of Glacier Erosion by Channel Analyses: Northeastern Ohio, USA [Abstract]. GSA, 38(4), 69.

Derouin, S.A., Lowell, T.V., Hadjas, I. (2006). Bracketing the chronology of ice sheet advance/retreat using radiocarbon analysis of kettle lake cores, Upper Peninsula of Michigan [Abstract]. GSA, 38(4), 4.

Waterson, N. Lowell, T.V., Fisher, T.G., Hajdas, I. (2006). The minimum problem in dating deglaciation: A strategy from the Fort McMurray area Alberta [Abstract]. GSA, 38(4), 58.

Lowell, T.V. (2006). Two Glacial Signatures: In or Out [Abstract]. GSA, 38(4), 57.

Fisher, T.G., Lowell, T.V. (2006). When was the Moorhead low-water phase of glacial Lake Agassiz? [Abstract]. GSA, 38(4), 57.

Loope, H.M., Fisher, T.G., Lowell. T.V. Hajdas, I. (2006). Glaciological and chronological constraints of Laurentide ice sheet occupation of the superior basin during the Younger Dryas [Abstract]. GSA, 38(4), 57.

Lowell, T.V., Fisher, T.G., Hajdas, I. (12/05/2005). Revised Deglacial Chronology of the Laurentide Ice Sheet and Implications for Catastrophic Meltwater Discharge as Triggers for Abrupt Climate Change [Abstract]. Annual Meeting of American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA.

Fisher, T.G., Lowell, T.V. (10/19/2005). Testing the Agassiz meltwater trigger for the Younger Dryas cold period [Abstract]. Gary Comer Abrupt Climate Change Roundtable Conference, IBM Palisades, NY.

Waterson, N.J., Lowell, T.V., Fisher, T.G., Loope, H., Hadjas, I. (2005). The deglaciation chronology of the Fort McMurray area, Alberta: implications for meltwater drainage [Abstract]. GSA, 37(7), 542.

Pritchard, K.L. and Lowell, T.V. (2005). Relationships And Patterns Of Channel Formation During Deglaciation Of The Miami Lobe, Near Piqua, Ohio [Abstract]. GSA, 37(5), 8.

Goetz, S., J, T., Ham, N., Kinnicutt, P., Kincaire, K., Lowell, T,V., and Derouin, S. (2005). Late-Glacial And Post-Glacial Landscape Evolution Of Beaver Island, Michigan [Abstract]. GSA, 37(5), 82.

Fisher, T.G., Lowell, T.V., Glover, K., and Hajdas, I. (2005). A Later Deglacation Of Northwestern Ontario: Implications For Eastern Lake Agassiz Drainage [Abstract]. GSA, 37(5), 21.

Fisher, T.G., Lowell, T.V., Loope, H.M., Henry, T. (2005). Deglaciation in northwestern Ontario: implications for the beginning of the Moorhead Phase of glacial Lake Agassiz [Abstract]. GSA, 37(7), 542.

Kelly, M.A., Hall, B.L., Lowell, T.V., , Schaefer, J.M., Denton, G.H., and Broecker, W.S. (2005). A Chronology of Mountain Glaciation and Associated Paleotemperature Records from the Scoresby Sund Region, East Greenland [Abstract]. GSA, 37(7), 40.

Lowell, T.V., Fisher, T.G. (06/05/2005). What if we had looked from space first? Using SRTM DEM data to generate alternative hypothesis for deglaciation of the Laurentide Ice Sheet [Abstract]. Canadian Quaternary Association Biennial Meeting,Winnipeg, Manitoba, A52.

Fisher, T.G., Lowell, T.V., Glover, K. and Hajdas I. (06/05/2005). A new deglacial chronology for the area west of Thunder Bay, Ontario, and its implications for a Moorhead phase eastern outlet of glacial Lake Agassiz [Abstract]. Canadian Quaternary Association Biennial Meeting, Winnipeg, Manitoba, A27.

Waterson, N.J., Lowell, T.V., Fisher, T.G., Glover, K., Hajdas, I., ETH, Z. (2005). The Deglaciation And Holocene Development Of The Fort Mcmurray Area, Alberta [Abstract]. GSA, 37(5), 9.

Derouin, S.A., and Lowell, T.V. (2005). Chronology Of Glacial Retreat In The Upper Peninsula Of Michigan From Kettle Lake Cores [Abstract]. GSA, 37(5), 63.

Michaels, J.A., Zavar, E.M., Trenton, A.M., Wiles, G.C, and Lowell, T.V. (2004). Post Glacial Environmental History From Lakes, Bogs And Alluvial Fans, Northeast Ohio [Abstract]. GSA, 36(5), 70.

Licht, K.J., Sembach, J., Jordan, B., and Lowell, T.V. (2005). Preliminary Analysis Of Paleoenvironmental Records From Two Ne Indiana Wetlands Since The Lgm [Abstract]. GSA, 36(5), 531.

Glover, K.C., Lowell, T.V., Pair, D., and Wiles, G. (2005). Deglaciation And Post-Glacial Climate Change In A Regional Network Of Sites, Ohio And Eastern Indiana [Abstract]. GSA, 36(5), 249.

Fisher, T.G., Lowell, T.V., Glover, K.C., and Hajdas, I. (2005). Deglaciation West Of Thunder Bay, Ontario: A Conundrum For Eastern Lake Agassiz Drainage [Abstract]. GSA Abstracts with Programs, 37(1), 5.

Rinterknecht, V.R., Schaefer, J.M., Lowell, T.V., Denton, G.H., Teller, J.T., Broecker, W.S., Fisher, T.G., and Kubik, P.W. (12/13/2004). Cosmogenic Dating Evidence for the Routing of Lake Agassiz Overflow During the Younger Dryas [Abstract]. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Lowell, T.V., Fisher, T.G., Waterson, N.J., and Glover, K. C. (2004). Deglaciation Of The Fort Mcmurray, Alberta, Area: Is It Later Than We Think? [Abstract]. GSA, 36(5), 498.

Hamilton, R., Goetz, S.L., Hamm, N.R., and Lowell, T.V. (2004). Channel Development of Superglacial Streams in Clean Ice: Implications for Understanding Bedrock-Channel Formation [Abstract]. GSA, 36(3), 10.

Davis, T., Denner, J., Goetz, S.L., Hamm, N.R., and Lowell, T.V. (2004). Sediment Storage in an Ice-Marginal Lake, Matanuska Glacier, Alaska [Abstract]. GSA, 36(3), 11.

Lowell, T.V. (2003). Response of New Zealand glaciers to the climate events of the Little Ice Age: A Templet for Older Climate Changes? [Abstract]. GSA, 35(6), 480.

Stewart, A.K. and Lowell, T.V. (2003). Asymmetries in the Miami-Scioto interlobate area, West-Central, Ohio, United States [Abstract]. GSA, 35(6), 425.

Beckwith-Laube, M., Kennedy, M., Wiles, G., Calking, P., and Lowell, T.V. (2003). Late Holocene Glacial Stratigraphy of Columbia Bay Alaska: Extending the Record [Abstract]. GSA, 35(6), 424.

McArthur, K., Leondard, E.M., Fricke, H., and Lowell, T.V. (2003). Glacial-Interglacial Environmental Change as Inferred from Organic Content and Carbon Isotope Analysis of Peat, Brewster Bog, Ohio [Abstract]. GSA, 35(6), 210.

Glover, K., Lowell, T.V., Pair, D., and Wiles, G.C. (2003). Last Termination: A Network of Paleocbasins Dating to C. 16,000 14C yr [Abstract]. XVI INQUA congress, 165.

Szabo, J.P. Lowell, T.V., Pair, D., and Wiles, G.C. (2003). Studies on the Stratigraphy of Glacial Deposits and rates of retreat of Wisconsinan ice [Abstract]. XVI INQUA Congress, 73.

Glover, K.C., and Lowell, T.V. (2003). Paleoclimate Reconstruction of the Last Termination from a Bog Sequence, Champaign Co., Ohio [Abstract]. Third International Limnogeology Congress Abstract Volume, 105.

Glover, K.C., and Lowell, T.V. (2003). Paleoclimate Reconstruction of the Late Termination, Campaign Co. Ohio [Abstract]. GSA, 34, 504.

Lowell, T.V., Pair, D., and Wiles, G.C. (03/24/2003). Preliminary Radiocarbon retreat chronology of the Erie Lobe: It might mean this [Abstract]. North-Central Section, GSA, Kansas City, Missouri.

Peer Reviewed Publications

Wiles, G.C., Barclay, D.J., Calking, P.E., and Lowell, T.V. (2008). Century to millennial-scale temperature variations for the last two thousand years indicated from glacial geologic records of Southern Alaska. Global and Planetary Change (60), 115-125.

Lepper, K., Fisher, T.G., Hadjas, I., and Lowell, T.V. (2007). Ages for the Big Stone Moraine and the oldest beaches of Glacial Lake Agassiz: Implications for deglacial chronology. Geology (35), 667-670.

Derouin, S.A., Lowell, T.V., and Hadjas, I. (2007). Evolution and deglaciation of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan: An examination of chronology and stratigraphy in kettle lake cores. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 33 (4), 875-886.

Lutz, B., Wiles, G.C., Lowell, T.V., and Michaels, J. (2007). The 8200 abrupt climate change in Brown’s Lake, Northeast Ohio. Quaternary Research, 67, 292-296.

Fisher, T.G., Lowell, T.V. (2006). Questioning the age of the Moorhead Phase in the glacial Lake Agassiz basin. Quaternary Science Reviews, 21-22, 2688-2691.

Schaefer, J., Denton, G.H., Barrell, D., Ivy-Ochs, S., Kubik, P.W., Anderson, B.G., Phillips, F.,M., and Lowell, T.V., and Schlüchter, C. (2006). Near-Synchronous Interhemispheric termination of the Last Glacial Maximum in Mind-Latitudes, Mid-latitude moraines reveal near-synchronous interhemispheric termination of the Last Glacial Maximum. Science (312), 1510-1513.

Lowell, T.V., and Fisher, T.G. (2006). Reply to comment on Testing the Lake Agassiz meltwater trigger for the Younger Dryas, by E. Steig. Eos, 87, 132.

Fisher, T.G., Lowell, T.V., Loope, H.M. (2006). Comment on “Alternative routing of Lake Agassiz overflow during the Younger Dryas: New dates, paleotopography, and a re-evaluations” by Teller et al. 2005. Quaternary Science Reviews (25), 1137-1141.

Lowell, T.V., Fisher, T.G., Comer, G.C., Hajdas, I., Waterson, N., Glover, K., Loope, H.M., Schaefer, J.M., Rinterknecht, V., Broecker, W., Denton, G.H., and Teller, J.T. (2005). Testing the Lake Agassiz meltwater trigger for the Younger Dryas. Eos, 86, 365-373.

Lowell, TV., Schoenenberger, K., Deddens, J.A., Denton, G.H., Smith, C. Black, J., and Hendy, C.H. (2005). Rhizocarpon calibration curve for the Aoraki/ Mount Cook area of New Zealand. Journal of Quaternary Science, 20, 313-325.

Vandergoes, M.J., Newnham, R.M., Preusser, F., Hendy, C.H., Lowell, T.V., Fitzsimons, S.J., Hogg, A.G., Kasper, H.U., Schluchter, C. (2005). Regional Insolation forcing of late Quaternary climate change in the Southern Hemisphere. Nature (436), 242-245.

Borns, H.W. Jr., Doner, L.A., Dorion, C.C., Jacobson, G.L., Kaplan, M.E., Kreutz, K.J., Lowell, T.V., Thompson, W.B.,, & Weddle T.K. (2004). The Deglaciation of Maine, in Ehlers J., and Gibbard, P.L., eds, Quaternary Glaciations- Extent and Chronology, Amsterdam, Elsevier. Developments in Quaternary Science, 2b, 89-109.

Hulbe, C. L., MacAyeal, D. R., Denton, G. H., Kleman, J., Lowell, T. V. (2004). Catastrophic ice shelf breakup as the source of Heinrich event icebergs. Paleoceanography (19), PA1004, doi:10.1029/2003PA000890.

Books

Gilman, R., Chapman, C.A., Lowell, T.V., and Borns, H.W., Jr. (1989). The geology of Mount Desert Island: A visitor's guide to the geology of Acadia National Park. Maine Geological Survey, Bulletin 38.

Other Publications

Maynard, J.B., Lowell, T.V., and Nash, D.B. (2004). Geological and geochemical appraisal of the Shaker Creek Aquifer in the vicinity of the Mason OH wellfield. .

Lowell, T.V. (1996). Open File Map 96-5. Surficial Geology of the Southwest Harbor Quadrangle Maine.

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