Publications
Publications (peer-reviewed) (* Denotes student author)
Larsen, D.J., Crump, S.E., *Blumm, A.R., 2020. Alpine glacier resilience and Neoglacial fluctuations linked to Holocene snowfall trends in the western United States. Science Advances 6, 1-7.
Larsen, D.J., Crump, S.E., Abbott, M.B., Harbert, W., *Blumm, A.R., Wattrus, N., Heberger, J., 2019. Paleoseismic evidence for climatic and magmatic controls on the Teton Fault, WY. Geophysical Research Letters 46, doi: 10.1029/2019GL085475.
Geirsdóttir, Á., Miller, G.H., Andrews, J.T., Harning, D.J., Anderson, L.S., Florian, C., Larsen, D.J., Thordarson, T., 2019. The onset of Neoglaciation in Iceland and the 4.2 ka event. Climate of the Past 15, 25-40.
Reilly, B.T., Stoner, J.S., Hatfield, R.G., Abbott, M.B., Marchetti, D.W., Larsen, D.J., Finkenbinder, M.S., Hillman, A.L., Kuehn, S.C., Heil, C.W., 2018. Regionally Consistent Western North America Paleomagnetic Directions from 15-35 ka: Assessing Chronology and Uncertainty with Paleosecular Variation (PSV) Stratigraphy. Quaternary Science Reviews 201, 186-205.
Larsen, D.J., Finkenbinder, M.S., Abbott, M.B., *Ofstun, A., 2016. Deglaciation and postglacial environmental changes in the Teton Mountain Range recorded at Jenny Lake, Grand Teton National Park, WY. Quaternary Science Reviews 138, 62-75.
Geirsdóttir, Á., Miller, G.H., Larsen, D.J., 2016. Landforms in Hvítárvatn, central Iceland, produced by recent advances of surging and non-surging glaciers. In: Dowdeswell, J.A., Canals, M., Jakobsson, M., Todd, B.J., Dowdeswell, E.K., Hogan, K.A., (Eds.), Atlas of Submarine Glacial Landforms: Modern, Quaternary and Ancient. The Geological Society of London 46, 1-4.
Larsen, D.J., Geirsdóttir, Á., Miller, G.H., 2015. Precise chronology of Little Ice Age expansion and repetitive surges of Langjökull, central Iceland. Geology 43, 167-170.
Larsen, D.J., Miller, G.H., Geirsdóttir, Á., 2013. Asynchronous Little Ice Age glacier fluctuations in Iceland and European Alps linked to shifts in subpolar North Atlantic circulation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 380, 52-59.
Miller, G.H., Briner, J.P., Refsnider, K.A., Lehman, S.J., Geirsdóttir, Á., Larsen, D.J., Southon, J.R., 2013. Substantial agreement on the timing and magnitude of Late Holocene ice cap expansion between East Greenland and the Eastern Canadian Arctic: A commentary on Lowell et al., 2013. Quaternary Science Reviews 77, 239-245.
Geirsdóttir, Á., Miller, G.H., Larsen, D.J., Ólafsdóttir, S., 2013. Abrupt Holocene climate transitions in the northern North Atlantic region recorded by synchronized lacustrine records in Iceland. Quaternary Science Reviews 70, 48-62.
Ólafsdóttir, K.B., Geirsdóttir, Á., Miller, G.H., Larsen, D.J., 2013. Evolution of NAO and AMO strength and cyclicity derived from a 3 ka varve-thickness record from Iceland. Quaternary Science Reviews 69, 142-154.
Larsen, D.J., Miller, G.H., Geirsdóttir, Á., Ólafsdóttir, S., 2012. Non-linear Holocene climate evolution in the North Atlantic: a high-resolution, multi-proxy record of glacier activity and environmental change from Hvítárvatn, central Iceland. Quaternary Science Reviews 39, 14-25.
Miller, G.H., Geirsdóttir, Á., Zhong, Y., Larsen, D.J., Otto-Bliesner, B.L., Holland, M., Bailey, D.A., Refsnider, K.A., Lehman, S.J., Southon, J.R., Anderson, C., Bjornsson, H., Thordarson, T., 2012. Abrupt onset of the Little Ice Age triggered by volcanism and sustained by sea-ice/ocean feedbacks. Geophysical Research Letters 39, L02708, doi:10.1029/2011GL050168.
Larsen, D.J., Miller, G.H., Geirsdóttir, Á., Thordarson, T., 2011. A 3000-year varved record of glacier activity and climate change from the proglacial lake Hvítárvatn, Iceland. Quaternary Science Reviews 30, 2715-2731.
Non-refereed Publications and Student Theses (* Denotes student author)
*Berberian, L.A., 2020. Holocene Tephra Archives and Tephrochronology in Iceland: Establishing a Soil Stratigraphic Inventory of Marker Tephra for the Kjölur Region of the Central Highlands, Iceland. Undergraduate thesis. Occidental College.
*Van Dusen, I.L., 2020. Pattern and signature of Holocene soil erosion in Central Iceland as recorded by lake sediments and relict soils. Undergraduate thesis. Occidental College.
*Blumm, A.R., 2019. Reconstructing Earthquake events on the Teton Fault, WY. Undergraduate thesis. Occidental College.
Larsen, D.J., and Abbott, M.B., 2018. A High-Resolution Geophysical Survey of Jenny Lake: Using Lake Sediments to Construct a Continuous Record of Tectonic Activity and Earthquake-Triggered Disturbances at Grand Teton National Park. University of Wyoming—National Park Service Research Center Final Report Vol. 38, Article 2.
*Huddleston, J., 2018. Reconstructing Holocene Climate in the Teton Range from Proglacial Lacustrine Sediments. Undergraduate thesis. Occidental College.
*Glanzrock, I., 2017. Climate Change and Jökulhlaups: The Boulder Perspective (A Case Study at Sólheimasandur, Iceland). Undergraduate honors thesis. Occidental College.
*Fasulo, C., 2017. Seismic stratigraphy of Jenny Lake, Grand Teton National Park, WY. Undergraduate honors thesis. University of Pittsburgh.
*Ofstun, A.R., 2015. A 14,500-year reconstruction of forest fires from Jenny Lake, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. Undergraduate honors thesis. University of Pittsburgh.
Larsen, D.J., 2014. Holocene climate evolution and glacier fluctuations inferred from proglacial lake sediments at Hvítárvatn, central Iceland. PhD thesis, University of Colorado, Boulder.
Larsen, D.J., 2013. Holocene climate evolution and glacier fluctuations inferred from proglacial lake sediments at Hvítárvatn, central Iceland. PhD thesis, University of Iceland.
Conference Presentations (* Denotes student author/presenter)
*Muscott, A., Larsen, D.J., Crump, S.E., *Wang, L., 2021. A 14,000-year record of rock glacier activity in the Teton Range, WY from alpine lake sediments. GSA Fall Meeting. Abstract# 369997.
Larsen, D.J., Crump, S.E., *Blumm, A.R., 2020. Alpine glacier resilience and Neoglacial fluctuations linked to Holocene snowfall trends in the western U.S. AGU Fall Meeting. Abstract #C056-0002.
Lesnek, A.J., Larsen, D.J., Licciardi, J.M., 2020. A multi-proxy reconstruction of Pleistocene-Holocene denudation rates in the eastern Teton Range, Wyoming. AGU Fall Meeting. Abstract # EP029-0006.
Larsen, D.J., Crump, S.E., *Blumm, A.R., 2020. Alpine glacier resilience and Neoglacial fluctuations linked to Holocene snowfall trends in the western U.S. AGU Fall Meeting. Abstract #741292.
Larsen, D.J., Crump, S.E., *Blumm, A.R., Abbott, M.B., 2019. Postglacial paleoseismicity of the Teton normal fault recorded by lake sediments in Grand Teton National Park, WY. AGU Fall Meeting. Abstract #T41H-0370.
*Blumm, A.R., Larsen, D.J., Crump, S.E., Abbott, M.B., 2019. Characterizing Earthquake Generated Turbidites in Sediments from Jenny Lake, Grand Teton National Park, WY. AGU Fall Meeting. Abstract #EP21C-2224.
*Van Dusen, I., *Berberian, L.A., Larsen, D.J., Geirsdóttir, Á., Thordarson, T., 2019. Grazing Livestock, Tephra Fall, and a Changing Climate: Analyzing the Pattern and Signature of Holocene Soil Erosion in central Iceland as recorded by Lake Sediments and Relict Soils. AGU Fall Meeting. Abstract # 618559.
*Berberian, L.A., Larsen, D.J., *Van Dusen, I., Thordarson, T., Geirsdóttir, Á.; Miller, G.H., 2019. Holocene Landscape Disturbances in the Central Highlands of Iceland as Recorded in Soil Sediment Archives. AGU Fall Meeting. Abstract # 612377.
*Van Dusen, I., *Berberian, L.A., Larsen, D.J., Geirsdóttir, Á., Thordarson, T., 2019. Pattern and signature of Holocene soil erosion in the Icelandic highlands as recorded by lake sediments. GSA Annual Meeting. Abstract #281-8.
*Berberian, L.A., Larsen, D.J., *Van Dusen, I., Thordarson, T., Geirsdóttir, Á.; Miller, G.H., 2019. Holocene landscape disturbances in the central highlands of Iceland as recorded in soil sediment archives. The 49th International Arctic Workshop, Stockholm University, Sweden.
Larsen, D.J., *Van Dusen, I., *Berberian, L., Geirsdóttir, Á., Thordarson, T., Miller, G.H., 2018. Investigating the relative roles of climate and human activity in driving landscape dynamics and ecosystem changes in the Icelandic highlands during the Holocene. AGU Fall Meeting. Abstract #PP43G-1995.
Stoner, J.S., Reilly, B.T., Hatfield, R.G., Abbott, M.B., Marchetti, D.W., Larsen, D.J., Finkenbinder, M.S., Hillman, A.L., Kuehn, S.C., Heil, C.W., 2018.
Regionally Consistent Western North America Paleomagnetic Directions from 15-35 ka: Assessing Chronology and Uncertainty with Paleosecular Variation (PSV) Stratigraphy. AGU Fall Meeting. Abstract #GP43B-0781.
*Blumm, A.R., and Larsen, D.J., 2018. Mineralogical and grain size fingerprinting of earthquake deposits contained in sediments from Jenny Lake, Grand Teton National Park, WY. AGU Fall Meeting. Abstract #PP11E-0984.
Geirsdóttir, Á.; Miller, G.H., Harning, D.J., Andrews, J.T., Anderson, L.S., Larsen, D.J., 2018. When did the current glaciers in Iceland nucleate?: Evidence from proximal lakes. The 48th International Arctic Workshop, Boulder, CO.
Larsen, D.J., Crump, S.E., Harbert, W.P., Abbott, M.B., Fasulo, C., 2017. Lake sediment records of deglaciation and postglacial tectonic activity in the Teton Range, WY. GSA Annual Meeting. Abstract #307917.
Crump, S.E., and Larsen, D.J., 2017. Evidence for Younger Dryas glacier activity in the Teton Range, WY. GSA Annual Meeting. Abstract #308607.
*Weidhaas, N., Woods, A., Rodbell, D., Larsen, D.J., Abbott, M.B., Hatfield, R., 2017. The timing and magnitude of late Pleistocene and Holocene lake level change from paired carbonate d18O – stratigraphy record of a core transect in Lake Junin, Peru. GSA Northeastern Section Meeting. Abstract # 290751.
*Hart, E., Ohara, S.L., Larsen, D.J., Kinash, N., Cook, A., Abbott, M.B., 2017. A Holocene record of changing monsoon strength from Peru. GSA Northeastern Section Meeting. Abstract # 291550.
Larsen, D.J., Meegan Kumar, D., Geirsdóttir, Á., Miller, G.H., 2017. Soil deposits record Holocene climate and landscape disturbance in the highlands of Iceland. The 47th International Arctic Workshop, Buffalo, NY.
Rodbell, D., et al., 2017. An ~500,000 yr record of tropical glaciation recovered during the Lake Junin (Peru) Drilling Project. European Geophysical Union Annual Meeting. Abstract # EGU2017-3812.
Geirsdóttir, Á., Miller, G.H., Ólafsdóttir, S., Larsen, D.J., Harning, D., Florian, C., Gunnarson, S., 2017. Holocene climate variability and rapid transitions in the northern North Atlantic. PAGES Open Science Meeting, Zaragoza Spain.
Larsen, D.J., Polissar, P.J., Abbott, M.B., 2016. A Northern Hemisphere perspective on Holocene hydroclimate trends in the tropical Andes. AGU Fall Meeting. Abstract #PP21C-2305.
Larsen, D.J., Crump, S.E., Harbert, W.P., Abbott, M.B., Wattrus, N.J., 2016. The sedimentary record of deglaciation and postglacial tectonic activity in the Teton Range from lakes in Grand Teton National Park, WY. GSA Annual Meeting. Abstract #287954.
Crump, S.E., Larsen, D.J., Pendleton, S.L., 2016. Exposure dating of major landslides along the Teton fault, WY: Preliminary results and implications for paleoseismicity. GSA Annual Meeting. Abstract # 284616.
Weidhaas, N., Woods, A., Abbott, M.B., Rodbell, D.T., Hatfield, R., Larsen, D.J., Brady, K., Delgado, G., Hillman, A., 2015. Controls on the Composition and Distribution of Holocene Sediment in Lake Junín, Peru. AGU Fall meeting. Abstract #PP13B-2282.
Marchetti, D., Abbott, M.B., Bailey, C., Wenrich, E., Stoner, J., Larsen, D.J., Finkenbinder, M., Anderson, L., Brunelle, A., Carter, V., Power, M., Hatfield, R., Reilly, B., Harris, M., Grimm, E., Donovan, J., 2015. Fish Lake, Utah – a promising long core site straddling the Great Basin to Colorado Plateau transition zone. AGU Fall Meeting. Abstract # PP12A-08.
Harris, M., Oliviera-Manna, M., Bailey, C., Marchetti, D., Brunelle, A., Abbott, M.B., Larsen, D.J., Stoner, J., Grimm, E., Donovan, J., Anderson, L., Power, M., Chavez, V., Carter, V., Hart, I., 2015. Fish Lake, Utah – shallow seismic investigation of a lake-filled high-altitude graben. AGU Fall Meeting. Abstract #PP12A-07.
Geirsdóttir, A., Axford, Y., Florian, C., Miller, G.H., Crump, S., Larsen, D.J., Olafsdottir, S., Thordarson, T., Blair, C., 2015. Holocene Climate and Catchment-Specific Responses to Climate Change, recorded in a Transect of Icelandic Lakes. AGU Fall Meeting. Abstract #PP12A-01.
*Ofstun, A., Larsen, D.J., Abbott, M.B., Finkenbinder, M.S., Pompeani, D.P., 2015. A Reconstruction of Forest Fires from Jenny Lake, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. GSA Annual Meeting. Abstract #298-7.
Geirsdóttir, A., Miller, G.H., Briner, J., Lehman, S., Landvik, J., Larsen, D.J., Pendleton, S., Schweinsberg, A., 2015. Nonlinear climate response to Holocene insolation forcing across the North Atlantic Arctic. The XIX INQUA Congress, Nagoya, Japan.
Geirsdóttir, A., Miller, G.H., Larsen, D.J., Pendleton, S., Florian, C., 2015. Abrupt transitions to a cold North Atlantic in the late Holocene. European Geosciences Union, GA 2015 Meeting. Abstract# EGU2015-7493.
*Ofstun, A., Larsen, D.J., Abbott, M.B., Finkenbinder, M.S., Pompeani, D.P., 2015. A Reconstruction of Forest Fires from Jenny Lake, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. Northeastern Sectional GSA Meeting. Abstract #253008.
Larsen, D.J., Polissar, P.J., Abbott, M.B., 2014. Late Pleistocene and Holocene Hydroclimate Variability in the Tropical Andes from Alpine Lake Sediments, Cordillera de Mérida, Venezuela. AGU Fall Meeting. Abstract #PP43A-1456.
Reilly, B.T., Stoner, J.S., Hatfield, R.G., Ziegler, L.B., Abbott, M.B., Larsen, D.J., Hillman, A.L., 2014. A 33 kyr Paleomagnetic Secular Variation Record from Fish Lake, Utah. AGU Fall Meeting, Abstract #GP53A-3761.
Larsen, D.J., 2014. Latest Pleistocene and Holocene climate and environmental change from alpine lake sediments at Grand Teton National Park, WY. GSA Rocky Mountain Sectional Meeting, Abstract# 238277.
Larsen, D.J., Miller, G.H., Geirsdóttir, Á., 2014. Dynamic terminus fluctuations of Langjökull during the Little Ice Age. The 44th International Arctic Workshop, Boulder, CO.
Larsen, D.J., Miller, G.H., Geirsdóttir, Á., 2013. Asynchronous Little Ice Age glacier fluctuations in Iceland and European Alps linked to shifts in subpolar North Atlantic circulation. AGU Fall Meeting. Abstract# PP13E-08.
Larsen, D.J., Miller, G.H., Geirsdóttir, Á., 2013. An annually resolved Little Ice Age record of surge periodicity, iceberg calving, and dynamic terminus fluctuations of Langjokull, central Iceland. GSA Annual Meeting, Abstract# 101-11.
Larsen, D.J., Miller, G.H., Geirsdóttir, Á., Flowers, G.E., Bjornsson, H., 2012. Climate, Ice, and Mud: investigating the relationship between glacier activity and sediment flux using varved lake sediments, Iceland. AGU Fall Meeting. Abstract# C53A-0827.
Geirsdóttir, Á., Miller, G.H., Larsen, D.J., Ólafsdóttir, S., 2012. North Atlantic Holocene climate inferences derived from PSV-synchronized marine and lacustrine records from Iceland. AGU Fall Meeting.
Larsen, D.J., Miller, G.H., Geirsdóttir, Á., 2012. Little Ice Age fluctuations of Langjökull ice cap from varved lake sediment. 11th International NCCR Climate Summer School, Ticino, Switzerland.
Geirsdóttir, Á., Miller, G.H., Ólafsdóttir, S., Larsen, D.J., 2012. Paleomagnetic synchronization and land-sea paleoclimatic correlations from Iceland. 42nd Arctic Workshop, Winter Park, CO.
Larsen, D.J., Miller, G.H., Geirsdóttir, Á., Ólafsdóttir, S., 2012. Non-linear Holocene climate evolution in the North Atlantic: A high-resolution, multi-proxy record of glacier activity and environmental change from Hvítárvatn, central Iceland. The 42nd International Arctic Workshop, Winter Park, CO.
Geirsdóttir, Á., Thordarson, T., Miller, G.H., Larsen, D.J., Ólafsdóttir, S., 2011. Non-linear Holocene climate behavior reconstructed from Icelandic lake sediment linked to both explosive and diffusive volcanism. AGU Fall Meeting, Abstract #V11F-2570.
Larsen, D.J., Miller, G.H., Geirsdóttir, Á., Ólafsdóttir, S., Thordarson, T., 2011. A high-resolution, multi-proxy record of Holocene glacier activity and environmental change from the central highlands of Iceland. The XVIII INQUA Congress, Bern, Switzerland.
Miller, G.H., Geirsdóttir, Á., Zhong, Y., Bliesner, B.O., Larsen, D.J., Holland, M., Bailey, D., Thordarson, T., Refsnider, K.A., Lehman, S.J., Southon, J.R., 2011. Abrupt onset and intensification of the Little Ice Age linked to explosive volcanism and sea-ice/ocean feedbacks. The 41st International Arctic Workshop, Montreal, Canada.
Geirsdóttir, Á., Miller, G.H., Larsen, D.J., Thordarson, T., Ólafsdóttir, S., Stoner, J.S., 2010. Synchronized high-resolution lacustrine records in Iceland show Non-Linear Response to Holocene Insolation. AGU Fall Meeting, Abstract #PP41A-1614.
Larsen, D.J., Miller, G.H., Geirsdóttir, Á., Thordarson, T., 2010. A 3000-year annually resolved glacier and climate record from the proglacial lake Hvítárvatn, Iceland. APEX (Arctic Paleoclimate and its Extremes) 4th International Meeting, Hofn, Iceland.
Larsen, D.J., Miller, G.H., Geirsdóttir, Á., Ólafsdóttir, S., 2010. A multi-proxy record of Holocene climate and glacier activity from proglacial lake Hvítárvatn, central Iceland. AGU Fall Meeting, Abstract #PP21B-1685.
Miller, G.H., Geirsdóttir, Á., Larsen, D.J., Thordarson, T., Refsnider, K.A., Lehman, S.J., Southon, J.R., 2010. Refining the timing and magnitude of Medieval warmth in the NW North Atlantic. AGU Fall Meeting, Abstract #PP43B-1684.
Larsen, D.J., Miller, G.H., Geirsdóttir, Á., 2009. An Annually Resolved 3ka Record of Landscape Alteration, Climate, and Ice Sheet Activity from Glacial Lake Hvítárvatn, Iceland. GSA Annual Meeting, Abstract #5-11.
Larsen, D.J., Miller, G.H., Geirsdóttir, Á., 2009. A 3 ka Record of annually resolved climate and ice sheet activity from Glacial Lake Hvítárvatn, Iceland. The 39th International Arctic Workshop, Lewiston, ME.
Miller, G.H., Larsen, D.J., Geirsdóttir, Á., Refsnider, K.A., Anderson, C., 2009. Rapid onset of the Little Ice Age summer cold in the North Atlantic derived from precisely dated ice cap records. AGU Fall Meeting, Abstract #PP52A-10.
Olafsdóttir, K.B., Geirsdóttir, Á., Miller, G.H., Larsen, D.J., Axford, Y., Thordarson, T., 2009. Spectral Analysis of variations in laminae thickness in a 3000-year varved record from glacial lake Hvítárvatn, central Iceland. AGU Fall Meeting, Abstract #PP41B-1501.
Geirsdóttir, Á., Miller, G.H., Larsen, D.J., Axford, Y., Thordarson, T., 2008. Differential response times of climate proxies during the last 2000 years reconstructed from Icelandic lake systems. AGU Fall Meeting, Abstract #C54A-03.
Schupack, B., Miller, G.H., Larsen, D.J., 2008. Detecting the unseen: a new analytical approach towards the identification of cryptotephras in distal lacustrine archives. The 38th International Arctic Workshop, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.
Larsen, D.J., Miller, G.H., Geirsdóttir, Á., Black, J.B., 2007. Laminated sediments from proglacial Lake Hvítárvatn in west central Iceland provide an opportunity for high resolution Holocene climate proxy. The 37th International Arctic Workshop, Skaftafell, Iceland.
Larsen, D.J., Goss, J.M., Humphreys, A.E., Russoniello, C.J., Weeks, S.S., and Gastaldo, R.A., 2005. The paleoecology and depositional environment of a Silurian mixed siliciclastic system: Ripogenus Dam, Maine. Northeast GSA meeting. Abstract #6-15.
Larsen, D.J., Peppe, D.J., 2005. A re-evaluation of Taxodiaceous taxa present in a Late Paleocence deposit in central North Dakota: A scanning electron analysis of morphology and anatomy. Northeast GSA meeting. Abstract #33-6.