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Publications

This collection is provided to enable interested people easy access to articles via pdf versions, links, and references.
Lichenometric map with 14C site, Buffalo Glacier
Lichenometric Dating Curve
Click-on the text above to see pdf of paper. Click-on the figure above to see full resolution. Parker E. Calkin & James M. Ellis (1980) A Lichenometric Dating Curve andits Application to Holocene Glacier Studies in the Central Brooks Range, Alaska, Arctic and AlpineResearch, 12:3, 245-264, DOI: 10.1080/00040851.1980.12004185
Topographic profiles of Brooks Range crests and valleys through Atigun Pass. View Looking West.
Geographic Distribution of Glaciers, Moraines, and Rock Glaciers
Click-on the text above to see pdf of paper. Click-on the figure above to see full resolution. James M. Ellis & Parker E. Calkin (1979) Nature and Distribution of Glaciers,Neoglacial Moraines, and Rock Glaciers, East-Central Brooks Range, Alaska, Arctic and AlpineResearch, 11:4, 403-420, DOI: 10.1080/00040851.1979.12004149
Preserved Vegetation Exposed during Retreat 14C
Click-on the text above to see pdf of paper. Click-on the figure above to see full resolution. P.E. Calkin and J.M. Ellis, 1981, A cirque glacier chronology based on emergent lichens and mosses: Journal of Glaciology, v. 27, no. 97, p. 511-515.
PhD Dissertation
Click-on the text above to see pdf of paper. James Ellis, 1982, Holocene Glaciation of the Central Brooks Range, University at Buffalo, 396 p.
Textbook Change-Detection Discussion
Click-on the text above to see pdf of paper. Glacier Retreat in the Brooks Range, Alaska in Climate Change (Chapter 16) of Remote Sensing Principles, Interpretation, and Applications (F.F. Sabins and J.M. Ellis), Waveland Press, p. 460-465.
Arrigetch Peaks Holocene Glaciation
Click-on the text above to see pdf of paper. J.M. Ellis, P.E. Calkin, and T.D. Hamilton, 1981 , Holocene glaciation of the Arrigetch Peaks, Brooks Range, Alaska: Arctic, v. 34, no. 2, p.158-169.
Environments and Soils
Click-on the text above to see the paper pdf. Field Measurements and Multivariate Analysis of over 50 cirque glaciers differentiated environments supporting non ice-cored moraines, ice-cored moraines, and tongue-shaped rock glaciers. J.M. Ellis and P.E. Calkin, 1982, Environments and soils of Holocene moraines and rock glaciers, central Brooks Range, Alaska, in Evenson, E.B., Ch. Schluchter, and J. Rabassa, eds., Tills and Related Deposits (Genesis/Petrology/Application/Stratigraphy): A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, p. 315-328
Gates of the Arctic
Click-on the text above to see the USGS pamphlet pdf. National Park Service, 2012, Glacier Chronologies in the southern Brooks Range (interview with Simon Pendleton); Experience your America, 2 p.
Glaciers and Rock Glaciers
Click-on the graphic above to see full resolution. The four panels show my (J. Ellis) concept of how the Neoglacial glaciers and rock glaciers developed after the retreat of the Pleistocene valley glaciers. C = empty cirque M = non glacier-cored moraine TRGC = tongue-shaped rock glacier M-W = mass-wasting (headwall debris falling on remnant Pleistocene glacier ice preserved in cirques)
Location of Pika Rock Glacier
Click-on the image above for full resolution. View looking South. USGS 1979 aerial photograph was orthorectified and draped over a DEM.
Rock Glaciers in the Brooks Range
click-on the text above to see the publication pdf. The publication shows the figure above that documents the change in Pika Rock Glacier's surface elevation as measured with theodolite and stadia during summer 1978 and then during summer 1983.
L.A. Haworth, P.E. Calkin, and J.M. Ellis, 1987 Distribution and activity of rock glaciers, central Brooks Range, Alaska in Giardino, J.R., J.F. Schroder, and J.D. Viteck, eds., Rock Glaciers, Allen & Urwin, Boston, p. 65-82
Profile of Pika Rock Glacier
Click-on the image above for full resolution. Rock glacier surface elevation as measured with theodolite and stadia during summer 1978 .
Guidebook for TAPS Road
click-on the text above to see the publication pdf J.M. Ellis, P.E. Calkin, M.P. Bruin, and L.A. Haworth, 1983, Guide to Grizzly Glacier and Jaeger and Pika Rock Glaciers, Atigun Pass area in Brown, I. and R. Krieg, eds., Guidebook 4- Fourth International Conference on Permafrost, July 18-22, 1983, University of Alaska, Alaska Division of Geology and Geophysical Surveys, p. 154-159.
Arrigetch Peaks Historic Photos
click-on the text above to see the publication pdf T.D. Hamilton, 1964, Comparative glacier photographs from northern Alaska: Journal of Glaciology, p. 479-487.
Direct Measurement of Lichen Growth
click-on the text above to see the publication pdf Leah A. Haworth, Parker E. Calkin & James M. Ellis (1986) Direct Measurement of Lichen Growth in the Central Brooks Range, Alaska, U.S.A., and ItsApplication to Lichenometric Dating, Arctic and Alpine Research, 18:3, 289-296, DOI:10.1080/00040851.1986.12004090

Publications

2020 Glacier Retreat in the Brooks Range, Alaska in Climate Change (Chapter 16) of Remote Sensing Principles, Interpretation, and Applications (F.F. Sabins and J.M. Ellis), Waveland Press, p. 460-465.
1987 Distribution and activity of rock glaciers, central Brooks Range, Alaska (L.A. Haworth, P.E. Calkin, and J.M. Ellis) in Giardino, J.R., J.F. Schroder, and J.D. Viteck, eds., Rock Glaciers, Allen & Urwin, Boston, p. 65-82.
1986 Direct measurement of lichen growth in the central Brooks Range, Alaska, USA and its application to lichenometric dating (L.A. Haworth, P.E. Calkin, and J.M. Ellis): Arctic and Alpine Research, v. 18, no. 3, p. 289-296.
1985 Cirque glacier regime and Neoglaciation, Brooks Range, Alaska (P.E. Calkin, J.M. Ellis, L.A. Haworth, P.E. Burns): Zeitschrift fur Gletscherkunde and Glazialgeologie, v. 21, no.1, 8 p.
1984 Chronology of Holocene glaciation, central Brooks Range, Alaska (J.M. Ellis and P.E. Calkin): Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 95, p. 897-912.
1983 Guide to Grizzly Glacier and Jaeger and Pika Rock Glaciers, Atigun Pass area (J.M. Ellis, P.E. Calkin, M.P. Bruin, and L.A. Haworth) in Brown, I. and R. Krieg, eds., Guidebook 4- Fourth International Conference on Permafrost, July 18-22, 1983, University of Alaska, Alaska Division of Geology and Geophysical Surveys, p. 154-159.
Environments and soils of Holocene moraines and rock glaciers, central Brooks Range, Alaska (J.M. Ellis and P.E. Calkin), in Evenson, E.B., Ch. Schluchter, and J. Rabassa, eds., Tills and Related Deposits (Genesis/Petrology/Application/Stratigraphy): A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, p. 315-328
1982 Holocene glaciation of the central Brooks Range, Alaska: Ph.D. dissertation, State University of New York at Buffalo, 396 p.
Development and application of a lichenometric dating curve, Brooks Range, Alaska (P.E. Calkin and J.M. Ellis), in Mahaney, W.C., ed., Quaternary Dating Methods: Milo Dowden, Stroudsberg, Pennsylvania, p. 227-246.
Holocene glacial chronology of the Brooks Range, northern Alaska (P.E. Calkin and J.M. Ellis) In Karlen, W., ed., Holocene Glaciers: Striae (Uppsala, Sweden), v. 18, p. 3-8.
1981 Holocene glaciation of the Arrigetch Peaks, Brooks Range, Alaska (J.M. Ellis, P.E. Calkin, and T.D. Hamilton): Arctic, v. 34, no. 2, p.158-169.
A cirque glacier chronology based on emergent lichens and mosses (P.E. Calkin and J.M. Ellis): Journal of Glaciology, v. 27, no. 97, p. 511-515.
1980 A lichenometric dating curve and its application to Holocene glacier studies in the central Brooks Range, Alaska (P.E. Calkin and J.M. Ellis): Arctic and Alpine Research, v. 12, no. 3, p. 245-264.
1979 Nature and distribution of glaciers, Neoglacial moraines, and rock glaciers, east-central Brooks Range, Alaska (J.M. Ellis and P.E. Calkin): Arctic and Alpine Research, v. 11, no. 4, p. 403-420.
1978 Neoglaciation of the Atigun Pass area, east-central Brooks Range, northern Alaska: M.A. thesis, State University of New York at Buffalo, 113 p. 18 Abstracts published between 1978 and 1984 on Brooks Range glacial geology and Holocene glacial history.
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