My research lies at the intersection of Geology, Ecology, and Climate Science. I employ a variety of geochemical, biological-, and sedimentary-based proxy methods to reconstruct past climate change, and then test how keystone environmental processes responded to this change. The methods I use involve paleobotany, dendrochronology, lake sedimentology, stable isotope analysis, and Quaternary Geology. My past projects range from identifying the remains of ice age plants, quantifying permafrost carbon release during past warming events, identifying the causes of ice age mammal extinctions in Arctic Alaska, testing how humans and climate influenced boreal wildfire activity, developing new tree-ring records to understand climate change in winter, and dating Little Ice Age glacier advances in Southeast Alaska. I enjoy working in remote places.
2022-2025: Tracking Divergent Warming and Tree Growth at Arctic Treeline
Funded By: NSF Arctic Natural Sciences
Principal Investigator: Rosanne D’Arrigo (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory). Co-
Investigators: Kevin Anchukaitis (University of Arizona), Laia Andreu-Hayles (Lamont-
Doherty Earth Observatory), Benjamin Gaglioti (UAF)
NSF Project Page
2022-2024: RII Track-4: NSF: Does warming-driven root damage lead to drought
stress in declining yellow-cedar trees?
Funded By: NSF EPSCoR
Principal Investigator: Benjamin Gaglioti (UAF). Co-Investigator: Kevin Anchukaitis
(University of Arizona)
NSF Project Page
2020-2023: Evaluating recently burned areas as fuel breaks in the rapidly warming boreal forest of Interior Alaska
Funded By: Joint Fire Science Program, Department of Interior
Principal Investigator: Benjamin Gaglioti (UAF). Co-Investigators: Daniel H. Mann (UAF); Jennifer Barnes (National Park Service).
JFSP Project Page
2020-2023: Collaborative Research: Extending Key Records of Holocene Climate Change and Glacier Fluctuations in the North Pacific Region Using Subfossil Wood from Southeastern Alaska
Funded By: The National Science Foundation Paleoclimate Program
Principal Investigator: Benjamin Gaglioti (UAF). Co-Investigators: Daniel H. Mann (UAF); Gregory Wiles (College of Wooster).
NSF Project Award Page
2019-2022: Emergence of Beavers as Ecosystem Engineers in the New Arctic
Funded By: The National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs
Principal Investigator: Kenneth Tape (UAF). Co-Investigators: Benjamin Jones (UAF); Benjamin Gaglioti (UAF).
NSF Project Award Page
2018-2020: Ancient ghost forests reveal how Alaska’s glaciers and cedar trees responded to past warming events
Funded By: National Geographic
Principal Investigator: Benjamin Gaglioti (UAF). Co-Investigators: Daniel H. Mann (UAF); Benjamin Jones (UAF); Gregory Wiles (College of Wooster); Laia Andreu-Hayles (Columbia University); Lauren Oakes (Stanford University).
Gaglioti’s National Geographic Explorer Page
2016-2020: Alaskan Tundra Fires during a Time of Rapid Climate Change
Funded By: Joint Fire Science Program
Principal Investigator: Daniel H. Mann (UAF). Co-Investigators are Benjamin Jones (UAF); Benjamin Gaglioti (UAF); Eric Miller (BLM Alaska Fire Service)
JFSP Project ID: 16-1-01-8
Ward Jones, M., Habeck, J.O., Ulrich, M., Crate, S., Gannon, G., Schwoerer, T., Jones, B., Kanevskiy, M., Baral, P., Maharjan, A. ….Gaglioti, B.V.,…. and Steiner, J., 2024. Socioecological dynamics of diverse global permafrost-agroecosystems under environmental change. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 56(1), p.2356067. Link to Publication
Mann, D.H., Wilson, P.R., Gaglioti, B.V., Groves, P. and Young, M.E., 2024. Surges of the Black Rapids Glacier tracked climate over the last 600 years. Quaternary Science Reviews, 344, p.108969. Link to Publication
Gaglioti, B.V., Mann, D.H., Wiles, G.C., Andreu‐Hayles, L., Hansen, W.D. and Wiesenberg, N., 2024. Forest‐wide growth rates stabilize after experiencing accelerated temperature changes near an Alaskan glacier. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(16), p.e2024GL109469. Link to Publication
Mann, D.H. and Gaglioti, B.V., 2024. The Northeast Pacific Ocean and Northwest Coast of North America within the global climate system, 29,000 to 11,700 years ago. Earth-Science Reviews, p.104782. Link to Publication
Jones, B.M., Kanevskiy, M.Z., Shur, Y., Gaglioti, B.V., Jorgenson, M.T., Ward Jones, M.K., Veremeeva, A., Miller, E.A. and Jandt, R., 2024. Post-fire stabilization of thaw-affected permafrost terrain in northern Alaska. Scientific Reports, 14(1), p.8499. Link to Publication
Leland, C., D’Arrigo, R., Davi, N., Anchukaitis, K.J., Andreu‐Hayles, L., Porter, T.J., Galloway, T., Mant, M., Wiles, G., Wilson, R., Beaulieu, S., Oelkers, R., Gaglioti, B.V., Rao, M.P., Reid, E. and Nixon, T. 2023. A spatiotemporal assessment of extreme cold in northwestern North America following the unidentified 1809 CE volcanic eruption. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 38(5), p.e2022PA004581. Link to Publication
Hansen, W.D., Foster, A., Gaglioti, B., Seidl, R. and Rammer, W., 2023. The Permafrost and Organic LayEr module for Forest Models (POLE-FM) 1.0. Geoscientific Model Development, 16(7), pp.2011-2036. Link to Publication
Wiles, G.C., Devereux, K., Gaglioti, B.V. and D’Arrigo, R.D., 2023. A 420‐Year Perspective on Winter Lake Erie Levels. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(1), p.e2022GL099911. Link to Publication
Gaglioti, B.V., Mann, D.H. and Wiles, G.C., 2022. Ecosystems at Glacier Margins Can Serve as Climate‐Change Laboratories. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(13), p.e2022GL098574. Link to Publication
Tape, K.D., Clark, J.A., Jones, B.M., Kantner, S., Gaglioti, B.V., Grosse, G., Nitze, I., 2022. Expanding beaver pond distribution in Arctic Alaska, 1949 to 2019 Scientific Reports 12(1), pp.1-9. Link to Publication
Jones, B.M., Grosse, G., Farquharson, L.M., Roy-Léveillée, P., Veremeeva, A., Kanevskiy, M.Z., Gaglioti, B.V., Breen, A.L., Parsekian, A.D., Ulrich, M. and Hinkel, K.M., 2022. Lake and drained lake basin systems in lowland permafrost regions. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 3(1), pp.85-98. Link to Publication
Monteath, A.J., Gaglioti, B.V., Edwards, M.E. and Froese, D., 2021. Late Pleistocene shrub expansion preceded megafauna turnover and extinctions in eastern Beringia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(52). Link to Publication
Gaglioti, B.V., Mann, D.H., Wiles, G. and Wiesenberg, N., 2021. Is the modern-day dieback of yellow-cedar unprecedented? Canadian Journal of Forest Research 51(12), pp.1953-1965. Link to Publication
Jones, B.M., Tape, K.D., Clark, J.A., Bondurant, A.C., Ward Jones, M.K., Gaglioti, B.V., Elder, C.D., Witharana, C. and Miller, C.E., 2021. Multi-dimensional remote sensing analysis documents beaver-induced permafrost degradation, Seward Peninsula, Alaska. Remote Sensing, 13(23), p.4863. Link to Publication
Bergstedt, H., Jones, B.M., Hinkel, K., Farquharson, L., Gaglioti, B.V., Parsekian, A.D., Kanevskiy, M., Ohara, N., Breen, A.L., Rangel, R.C. and Grosse, G., 2021. Remote Sensing-Based Statistical Approach for Defining Drained Lake Basins in a Continuous Permafrost Region, North Slope of Alaska. Remote Sensing, 13(13), p.2539. Link to Publication
Rangel, R.C., Parsekian, A.D., Farquharson, L.M., Jones, B.M., Ohara, N., Creighton, A.L., Gaglioti, B.V., Kanevskiy, M., Breen, A.L., Bergstedt, H. and Romanovsky, V.E., 2021. Geophysical Observations of Taliks Below Drained Lake Basins on the Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126(3), p.e2020JB020889. Link to Publication
Gaglioti, B.V., Berner, L.T., Jones, B.M., Orndahl, K.M., Williams, A.P., Andreu‐Hayles, L., D’Arrigo, R.D., Goetz, S.J. and Mann, D.H., 2020. Tussocks enduring or shrubs greening: Alternate responses to changing fire regimes in the Noatak River Valley, Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, p.e2020JG006009. Link to Publication
Andreu-Hayles, L., Gaglioti, B.V., Berner, L.T., Levesque, M., Anchukaitis, K.J., Goetz, S.J. and D’Arrigo, R., 2020. A narrow window of summer temperatures associated with shrub growth in Arctic Alaska. Environmental Research Letters, 15(10), p.105012. Link to Publication
Berner, L.T., Massey, R., Jantz, P., Forbes, B.C., Macias-Fauria, M., Myers-Smith, I., Kumpula, T., Gauthier, G., Andreu-Hayles, L., Gaglioti, B.V. and Burns, P., 2020. Summer warming explains widespread but not uniform greening in the Arctic tundra biome. Nature Communications, 11(1), pp.1-12. Link to Publication
Wiles, G.C., Charlton, J., Wilson, R.J., D’Arrigo, R.D., Buma, B., Krapek, J., Gaglioti, B.V., Wiesenberg, N. and Oelkers, R., 2019. Yellow-cedar blue intensity tree-ring chronologies as records of climate in Juneau, Alaska, USA. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 49(12), pp.1483-1492. Link to Publication
Gaglioti, B.V., Mann, D.H., Wiles G.C., Jones B.M., Charlton, J., Weisenberg N., Andreu-Hayles L. (2019) Timing and causes of coastal Alaska glacier advances during the 19th century as documented by tree-ring dating and historical accounts. Frontiers in Earth Science 7, 82. Link to Publication
Gaglioti, B.V., Mann, D.H., Williams, A.P., Wiles, G.C., Stoffel, M., Oelkers, R., Jones, B.M. and Andreu‐Hayles, L., 2019. Traumatic resin ducts in Alaska mountain hemlock trees provide a new proxy for winter storminess. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 124(7), pp.1923-1938.Link to Publication
Arp, C.D., and 16 others (Gaglioti B.V.) (2019) Ice roads through lake-rich arctic watersheds: Integrating climate uncertainty and freshwater habitat responses into adaptive management. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research 51 9–23. Link to Publication
Mann, D.H., Groves, P., Gaglioti, B.V. and Shapiro, B.A., 2019. Climate‐driven ecological stability as a globally shared cause of Late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions: The Plaids and Stripes Hypothesis. Biological Reviews, 94(1), pp.328-352. Link to Publication
Gaglioti, B.V., Mann, D.H., Groves, P., Kunz, M.L., Wooller, M.J., Farquharson, L.M., Jones, B.M., & Reanier R., 2018. Aeolian stratigraphy describes ice-age paleoenvironmental in unglaciated Arctic Alaska. Quaternary Science Reviews182, 175-190. Link to Publication
Elder, C.D., Xu, X., Walker, J., Schnell, J.L., Hinkel, K.M., Townsend-Small, A., Arp, C.D., Pohlman, J.W., Gaglioti, B.V. and Czimczik, C.I., 2018. Greenhouse gas emissions from diverse Arctic Alaskan lakes are dominated by young carbon. Nature Climate Change, 8(2), pp.166-171. Link to Publication
Gaglioti, B.V., Mann, D.H., Wooller, M.J., Jones, B.M., Wiles, G.C., Groves, P., Kunz, M.L., Baughman C.A., & Reanier R., (2017). Younger-Dryas cooling and sea-ice feedbacks were prominent features of the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in Arctic Alaska. Quaternary Science Reviews. 169, 330-343. Link to Publication
Stackpoole, S.M., Butman, D.E., Clow, D., Verdin, K., Gaglioti, B.V., Genet, H., & Striegl, R. (2017) Inland waters and their role in the carbon cycle of Alaska. Ecological Applications, (25) 1403–1420. Link to Publication
Gaglioti, B.V., Mann, D.H., Jones, B.M., Wooller, M.J. & Finney, B.P., 2016. High-resolution records detect human-caused changes to the boreal forest wildfire regime in interior Alaska. The Holocene, 26(7), 1064-1074. Link to Publication
Elvert, M., Pohlman, J.W., Becker, K.W., Gaglioti, B.V., Hinrichs, K.U. & Wooller, M.J., (2016). Methane turnover and environmental change from Holocene lipid biomarker records in a thermokarst lake in Arctic Alaska. The Holocene, 26(11), 1766-1777. Link to Publication
Mann, D.H., Groves, P., Reanier, R.E., Gaglioti, B.V., Kunz, M.L., & Shapiro, B.A. (2015). Life and extinction of megafauna in the ice-age Arctic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015, 165-173. Link to Publication
Wooller, M. J., Gaglioti, B.V., Fulton, T. L., Lopez, A., & Shapiro, B. (2015). Post-glacial dispersal patterns of Northern pike inferred from an 8800 year old pike (Esox cf. lucius) skull from interior Alaska. Quaternary Science Reviews 120, 118-125. Link to Publication
Arp, C. D., Whitman, M. S., Jones, B. M., Grosse, G., Gaglioti, B. V., & Heim, K. C. (2014). Beaded streams of Arctic permafrost landscapes. Biogeosciences Discussions, 11(7), 11391-11441. Link to Publication
Gaglioti, B. V., Mann, D. H., Jones, B. M., Pohlman, J. W., Kunz, M. L., & Wooller, M. J. (2014). Radiocarbon age-offsets in an arctic lake reveal the long-term response of permafrost carbon to climate change. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 119(8), 1630-1651. Link to Publication
Tape, K.T., Flint, P.L., Meixell, B.W., & Gaglioti, B.V. (2014) Inundation, sedimentation, and subsidence creates goose habitat along the Arctic coast of Alaska. Environmental Research Letters, 8(4) 045031. Link to Publication
Jones, B. M., Breen, A. L., Gaglioti, B. V., Mann, D. H., Rocha, A. V., Grosse, G., & Walker, D. A. (2013). Identification of unrecognized tundra fire events on the north slope of Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 118(3), 1334-1344. Link to Publication
Jones, B. M., Gusmeroli, A., Arp, C. D., Strozzi, T., Grosse, G., Gaglioti, B. V., & Whitman, M. S. (2013). Classification of freshwater ice conditions on the Alaskan Arctic Coastal Plain using ground penetrating radar and TerraSAR-X satellite data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 34(23), 8267-8279. Link to Publication
Mann, D. H., Groves, P., Kunz, M. L., Reanier, R. E., & Gaglioti, B. V. (2013). Ice-age megafauna in Arctic Alaska: extinction, invasion, survival. Quaternary Science Reviews, 70, 91-108. Link to Publication
Wooller, M.J., Kurek, J., Gaglioti, B.V., Cwynar, L.C., Bigelow, N., Reuther, J. D., & Smol, J. P. (2012). An ~11,200 year paleolimnological perspective for emerging archaeological findings at Quartz Lake, Alaska. Journal of Paleolimnology, 48(1), 83-99. Link to Publication
Wooller, M. J., Pohlman, J. W., Gaglioti, B. V., Langdon, P., Jones, M., Anthony, K. M. W., & Elvert, M. (2012). Reconstruction of past methane availability in an Arctic Alaska wetland indicates climate influenced methane release during the past ~12,000 years. Journal of Paleolimnology, 48(1), 27-42. Link to Publication
Blinnikov, M. S., Gaglioti, B. V., Walker, D. A., Wooller, M. J., & Zazula, G. D. (2011). Pleistocene graminoid-dominated ecosystems in the Arctic. Quaternary Science Reviews, 30(21), 2906-2929. Link to Publication
Gaglioti, B.V., Barnes, B.M., Zazula, G.D., Beaudoin, A.B., & Wooller, M.J. (2011). Late Pleistocene paleoecology of arctic ground squirrel (Urocitellus parryii) caches and nests from Interior Alaska's mammoth steppe ecosystem, USA. Quaternary Research, 76(3), 373-382. Link to Publication
Wooller, M.J., Zazula, G.D., Blinnikov, M., Gaglioti, B.V., Bigelow, N., Sanborn, P., & La Farge, C. (2011). The detailed palaeoecology of a mid-Wisconsinan interstadial (ca. 32 000 14C yr BP) vegetation surface from interior Alaska. Journal of Quaternary Science, 26(7), 746-756. Link to Publication
Gaglioti, B. V., Severin, K., & Wooller, M. J. (2010). Developing graminoid cuticle analysis for application to Beringian palaeoecology. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 162(1), 95-110. Link to Publication
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