HERBERT E. WRIGHT, JR.
Regents' Professor of Geology, Ecology, and Botany (Emeritus)
PhD, 1943, Harvard University
Limnological Research Center
Office: 221 Pillsbury Hall
Phone: 651-646-0665
Fax: 612-625-3819
Email: hew@...
Professional Society Memberships
- Geological Society of America (Fellow)
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow)
- American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
- Ecological Society of America
- International Society of Limnology
- Sigma Xi
- International Quaternary Association
- American Quaternary Association
Honors and Awards
- Guggenheim Fellow 1954-1955
- D.Sc.(Hon.) Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 1966
- National Academy of Sciences, 1977
- Pomerance Award, Archaeological Institute of America, 1984
- Ph.D. (Hon.) Lund University, Sweden, 1987
- Career Award, Archaeological Division, Geological Society of America, 1989
- Science Achievement Award, Science Museum of Minnesota, 1990
- Distinguished Career Award, Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division, Geological Society of America, 1992
- Fryxell Award for Interdisciplinary Studies, Society of American Archaeology, 1993
- DSc. (Hon.), University of Minnesota, 1996
- Distinguished Career Award, American Quaternary Association, 1996
- Honorary President, 16th International Quaternary Association, 2003
Courses Taught
- Glacial Geology
- Quaternary Paleoecology and Climate
Supervised Graduate Theses
36 PhD and 38 MS degrees in Geology,
Ecology, and Archeology, of which the most
recent are:
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Russanne Low, PhD. 2000.
The role of human impactand other corcing factors in the development of frest structure and composition in the mid- to late Holocene of western Europe.
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Rebecca Teed, Ph.D. 1999. A >130,000 year long pollen record from Pittsburg Basin, Illinois.
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Carrie J. Patterson, {hD. 1996. Glacial geology of southwestern Minnesota, with emphasis
on the deposits and dynamics of the Des Moines lobe.
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Sharon M. Locke, PhD, 1995, A paleohydrologic model applied to the Holocene sediment stratigraphy of two lakes in north-central Minnesota.
Research Interests
My early research interests were primarily in the
field of arid-region geomorphology and Minnesota
glacial geology, but in the late 1950's I
recognized the importance of vegetational history
in Quaternary studies, and in 1958 I established
a Pollen Laboratory and in 1963 the Limnological
Research Center. Since that time my research has
expanded into the fields of ecology, limnology,
paleoecology, and archaeology, with projects in
Iraq, Iran, Labrador, Peruvian Andes, Sweden
Siberia, Bulgaria, and Ireland as well as in New
Mexico, Alaska, and Minnesota.
Recent Publications
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Cohen, D., Person, M., Daannen, R., Locke, S.,
Dahlstrom, D., Zabielski, V., Winter, T.C.,
Rosenberry, D.O., Wright, H., Ito, E., Nieber,
J.L., and Gutowski, W.J., 2006.Groundwater-supported evapotranspiration within
glaciated watersheds under conditions of climate
change. . Journal of Hydrology 320,
484-500.
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Westover, K.S., Fritz, S.C., Blyakharchuk, T.A.,
and Wright, H.E., 2006. Diatom paleolimnological
record of Holocene climatic and environmental
change in the Altai Mountains, Siberia, 2006.
Journal of Paleolimnology 33, 519-541.
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Kelley, D.W., Brachfeld, S.A., Nater, E.A., and
Wright, H.E., 2006. Sources of sediment in Lake
Pepin on the upper Mississippi River in
response to Holocene Climatic changes. Journal
of Paleolimnology 35, 193-206.
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Stefanova, I., Atanassova, J., Delcheva, M., and
Wright, H.E., 2006. Chronological framework for
the Late Glacial pollen and macrofossil
sequence in the Pirin Mountains, Bulgaria: Lake
Besbog and Lake Kremensko-5. The Holocene 16,
1-16
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Stefanova, I., Lazarova, M., and Wright, H.E.,
2006 Elevational gradients during the
Lateglacial/Holocene vegetatioaonal
transition..Vegetational History and
Archaeobotany 15, 215-230.
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Wright, H.E.,Blyakharchuk, T.A., Velichko, A.A., and
Borisova, O.K., editors. of English edition of
A.A. Velichko and V.P. Nechaev, 2005.Cenozoic Climatic and Environmental
Changes in Russia, Geological Society of America
Special Paper 382.
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Wright, H.E., 2005. Contrasts in the Quaternary
of mid-North America and mid-Eurasia: notes of
Quaternary landscapes of western Siberia.
Journal of Quaternary Science 20, 813-819.
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Wright, H.E., Blyakharchuk, T.A., Velichko,
A.A., and Borisova, O.K., editors. of English
edition of A.A. Velichko and V.P. Nechaev, 2005,
Cenozoic Climatic and Environmental Changes in
Russia, Geological Society of America Special
Paper 382.
Recent Research Support
- NSF ATM 0081722 Collaborative research: The role of aquifers in paleoclimatic reconstructions of glaciated watersheds (with M. Person and E.Ito)
- NSF ATM 0222183- Late-glacial and early-Holocene climatic anomalies in southwestern Bulgaria (current). 9/1/02 to 8/31/05.
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