Andrew Christ - University of Vermont/National Science Foundation Community Cosmogenic Facility

Andrew Christ (doctoral student and Post Doc, 2018-2023)

Drew is a glacial geomorphologist who uses several field-based and lab methods to understand how glaciers and climate change sculpt landscapes through time. He has embarked to Antarctica several times to conduct field-based geological mapping and sample collection. Through this research, he and his collaborators hope to unlock new information about ice sheet dynamics in the geologic past as a guide for future warming and sea level rise. In the future, Andrew hopes to bring expertise about climate change in the polar regions to policy discussions concerning national security, trade, and climate resiliency.

PhD Dissertation (Boston University, 2019)

Pleistocene records of ice sheet processes and glacial history from Antarctica and Greenland

BA Thesis (Hamilton College, 2011)

Late Holocene paleoenvironmental history of Barilari Bay, Graham Land, west Antarctic Peninsula

Undergraduate Degree

Hamilton College, B.A. Geosciences with honors, 2011

Email Address

Andrew.Christ@uvm.edu

Current Position and Contact Information (1/2021)

NSF Postdoctoral Fellow Gund Postdoctoral Fellow & Lecturer
Department of Geology
Gund Institue for Environment
University of Vermont

Farrell Hall, Room 212
210 Colchester Avenue
Burlington, Vermont 05405

Refereed Papers

Christ, A.J. and others, (2021) A multi-million-year-old record of Greenland vegetation and glacial history preserved in sediment beneath 1.4 km of ice at Camp Century, PNAS

Bierman, P. R, Bender, A. M., Christ, A., Corbett, L., Halsted, C., Portenga, E., and Schmidt, A., (2020) Cosmogenic Nuclides in Earth Surface Processes, Cosmogenic Nuclides in Earth Surface Processes, Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences, Elsevier. doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102908-4.00124-7

Christ, A. J., Bierman, P. R., Knutz. P., Corbett, L. B., Fosdick, J.C., Thomas, E. K., Cowling, O. C., Hidy, A. J. and Caffee, M.W., (2019) The northwest Greenland Ice Sheet during the Early Pleistocene was similar to today. Geophysical Research Letters. 10.1029/2019GL085176

Christ, A. and Bierman, P.R. (2019) The local Last Glacial Maximum in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica: implications for ice-sheet behavior in the Ross Sea Embayment. Geological Society of America Bulletin. doi.org/10.1130/B35139.1

Abstracts

Bierman, P. R., Montgomery, D. R., and Christ, A. J. (2019) Key Concepts in Geomorphology - edition 2 of a community-based textbook. GSA Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ. v. 51(5), Abstract 105-6. doi:10.1130/abs/2019AM-336235

Christ, A. J., and Bierman, P. R. (2018) Distribution and sources of scatter in Antarctic exposure age chronologies: a case study from McMurdo Sound. GSA Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN. v. 50(6), Abstract 172-15. doi:10.1130/abs/2018AM-322603

Christ, A. J., and Bierman, P. R. (2018) Integrating terrestrial and marine records of the last glacial maximum in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica: Implications for grounded ice expansion, ice flow, and deglaciation of the Ross Sea Embayment. CANQUA-AMQUA meeting, Ottawa, Canada. p. 24. (download pdf)

Bierman, P. R., Corbett, L. B., Christ, A., and Halsted, C. (2018) You can learn and do cosmogenic ¹⁰Be and ²⁶Al procesing at the University of Vermont's community sample processing facility. CANQUA-AMQUA meeting, Ottawa, Canada. p. 107. (download pdf)