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Marcus Vandergoes

 

Marcus Vandergoes

Full Name: Marcus Vandergoes

Position: Quaternary Paleoclimate Scientist

Contact details

Email: m.vandergoes  
Phone: +64-4-570 4541

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Qualifications

1992: BSc, Physical Geography and Zoology; 1993: PGDipSci, Physical Geography; 1996: MSc, Physical Geography; 2000: PhD, Physical Geography

Areas of expertise

Paleontology: Chironomid Analysis
Paleontology: Dating
Paleontology: Micropaleontology
Paleontology: Paleoclimatology
Paleontology: Paleoecology
Paleontology: Paleoenvironmental Analysis
Paleontology: Palynology

Professional activities

American Geophysical Union: Member
Ministry of Research Science and Technology: Oxygen Group: Member
Victoria University of Wellington: SGEES: Adjunct Research Associate
INQUA sub-commission project: PASH2 - Land-Ocean Correlation of Long Quaternary Records, Southern Hemisphere: Member
University of Maine: Climate Change Institute: Assistant Research Professor
Australasian INTIMATE Project: Member, 2007 Joint co-ordinator
PAGES- Past global changes: Member
New Zealand Paleoclimate website: Joint manager
Victoria University of Wellington: Joint Antarctic Research Institute: Member

Major publications

Massaferro, J.I.; Moreno, P.I.; Denton, G.H.; Vandergoes, M.J.; Dieffenbacher-Krall, A. 2009 Chironomid and pollen evidence for climate fluctuations during the Last Glacial Termination in NW Patagonia. Quaternary science reviews, 28(5/6): 517-525; doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.11.004 [link to electronic copy]
Power, M.J.; Vandergoes, M.J. (et al.) 2008 Changes in fire regimes since the Last Glacial Maximum : an assessment based on a global synthesis and analysis of charcoal data. Climate dynamics, 30(7/8): 887-907
Vandergoes, M.J.; Dieffenbacher-Krall, A.C.; Newnham, R.M.; Denton, G.H.; Blaauw, M. 2008 Cooling and changing seasonality in the Southern Alps, New Zealand during the Antarctic Cold Reversal. Quaternary science reviews, 27(5/6): 589-601; doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.11.015 [link to electronic copy]
Alloway, B.V.; Lowe, D.J.; Barrell, D.J.A.; Newnham, R.M.; Almond, P.C.; Augustinus, P.C.; Bertler, N.A.N.; Carter, L.; Litchfield, N.J.; McGlone, M.S.; Shulmeister, J.; Vandergoes, M.J.; Williams, P.W. 2007 Towards a climate event stratigraphy for New Zealand over the past 30,000 years (NZ-INTIMATE project). Journal of Quaternary science, 22(1): 9-35
Dieffenbacher-Krall, A.C.; Vandergoes, M.J.; Denton, G.H. 2007 An inference model for mean summer air temperatures in the Southern Alps, New Zealand, using subfossil chironomids. Quaternary science reviews, 26(19-21): 2487-2504; doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.06.016 [link to electronic copy]
Massaferro, J.; Vandergoes, M.J. 2007 Chironomid records : postglacial Southern Hemisphere. p. 398-408 IN: Elias, S.A. (ed) Encyclopedia of Quaternary science. Amsterdam: Elsevier [link to electronic copy]
Newnham, R.M.; Vandergoes, M.J.; Garnett, M.H.; Lowe, D.J.; Prior, C.A.; Almond, P.C. 2007 Test of AMS 14C dating of pollen concentrates using tephrochronology. Journal of Quaternary science, 22(1): 37-51; doi: 10.1002/jqs.1016
Newnham, R.M.; Vandergoes, M.J.; Hendy, C.H.; Lowe, D.J.; Preusser, F. 2007 A terrestrial palynological record for the last two glacial cycles from southwestern New Zealand. Quaternary science reviews, 26(3/4): 517-535; doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.05.005 [link to electronic copy]
Turney, C.S.M.; Kershaw, A.P.; Lowe, J.J.; van der Kaars, S.; Johnston, R.; Rule, S.; Moss, P.; Radke, L.; Tibby, J.; McGlone, M.S.; Wilmshurst, J.M.; Vandergoes, M.J.; Fitzsimons, S.J.; Bryant, C.; James, S.; Branch, N.P.; Cowley, J.; Kalin, R.M.; Ogle, N.; Jacobsen, G.; Fifield, L.K. 2006 Climatic variability in the southwest Pacific during the Last Termination (20-10 kyr BP). Quaternary science reviews, 25(9/10): 886-903; doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2005.09.007 [link to electronic copy]
Vandergoes, M.J.; Newnham, R.M.; Preusser, F.; Hendy, C.H.; Lowell, T.V.; Fitzsimons, S.J.; Hogg, A.G.; Kasper, H.U.; Schluechter, C. 2005 Regional insolation forcing of Late Quaternary climate change in the Southern Hemisphere. Nature, 436(7048): 242-245 [link to electronic copy]
Vandergoes, M.J.; Fitzsimons, S.J. 2003 The Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition (LGIT) in south Westland, New Zealand : paleoecological insight into mid-latitude Southern Hemisphere climate change. Quaternary science reviews, 22(14): 1461-1476
Vandergoes, M.J.; Prior, C.A. 2003 AMS dating of pollen concentrates : a methodological study of Late Quaternary sediments from South Westland, New Zealand. Radiocarbon, 45(3): 479-491
Vandergoes, M.J.; Fitzsimons, S.J.; Newnham, R.M. 1997 Late glacial to Holocene vegetation and climate change in the eastern Takitimu Mountains, western Southland, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 27(1): 53-66

 

 

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