Publications (graduate students and PDF's I work with are underlined)

Edited Volumes

 

• Froese, D.G., Lowe, D.J., Knott, J.R., and Slate, J.L. (eds), 2008, Global tephra studies: John Westgate and Andrei Sarna-Wojcicki commemorative volume: Quaternary International, v. 178, p. 1-306.   (Link to volume)  (Special Issue of Quaternary International focused on recent developments in tephrochronology)  Volume Introduction

 

Papers

 

2009

• Haile, J., Froese, D.G., MacPhee, R.D.E., Roberts, R.G., Arnold, L.J., Reyes, A.V., Rasmussen, M., Nielsen, R., Brook, B.W., Robinson, S., Demuro, M., Gilbert, M.T.P, Munch, K., Austin, J., Cooper, A., Barnes, I., Moller, P., and E. Willerslev. 2009. Ancient DNA reveals late survival of mammoth and horse in interior Alaska. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 5p. (Early Edition)

• Froese, D.G., Zazula, G.D., Westgate, J.A., Preece, S.J., Sanborn, P.T., Reyes, A.V., Pearce, N.J.G. The Klondike goldfields and Pleistocene environments of Beringia 2009.  GSA Today, 19 (8), pp. 4-10.
• Lacelle, D., St-Jean, M., Lauriol, B., Clark, I.D., Lewkowicz, A., Froese, D.G., Kuehn, S.C., Zazula, G. 2009. Burial and preservation of a 30,000 year old perennial snowbank in Red Creek valley, Ogilvie Mountains, central Yukon, Canada.  Quaternary Science Reviews, . Article in Press.
• Froese, D.G., Reyes, A.V., Westgate, J.A., and Preece,S.J. 2009.  Implications of Ancient Ice.  Science, 323, 714-715.
• Kuehn, S.C., Froese, D.G., Pearce, N.J.G., Foit, N., Carrara, P., and Rotheisler, P., 2009, Major- and trace-element characterization, expanded distribution, and a new chronology for the latest Pleistocene Glacier Peak tephras in western North America: Quaternary Research, 71, 201-216.
• Calmels, F., and Froese, D.G.  2009. Cryostratigraphic record of permafrost degradation and recovery following historic surface disturbances, Klondike area, Yukon.  In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 2008, L.H. Weston, L.R. Blackburn, and L.L. Lewis (eds.)  Yukon Geological Survey, 85-97.    
• Livingston, J., Smith, D.G., Froese, D.G., and Hugenholtz, C., 2009, Floodplain stratigraphy of the ice jam dominated middle Yukon River: a new approach to longterm flood frequency: Hydrological Processes, 23 357-371.
• Westgate, J.A., Preece, S.J., Froese, D.G., Telka, A.M., Storer, J.E., Pearce, N.J.G., Enkin, R.J., Jackson Jr., L.E., Lebarge, W., Perkins, W.T. 2009.  Gold run tephra: A middle pleistocene stratigraphic and paleoenvironmental marker across west-central Yukon Territory, Canada.Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 46 (6), pp. 465-478.

2008

• Froese, D.G., Westgate, J.A., Reyes, A.V., Enkin, R.J., and Preece, S.J., 2008.  Ancient permafrost and a future, warmer Arctic. Science, v. 321. no. 5896, p. 1648 DOI: 10.1126  (link to full text)
• Herd, C.D.K., Froese, D.G., Walton, E.L., Kofman, R.S., Herd, E.P.K., and Duke, J., 2008.   Anatomy of a young impact event in central Alberta: Prospects for the ‚Äòmissing‚Äô Holocene impact record, Geology, v.36, 955-958.
• Lakeman, T.R., Clague, J.J., Menounos, B., Osborn, G.D., Jensen, B.J.L., and Froese, D.G., 2008. Holocene tephras in lake cores from northern British Columbia: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. v. 45,  935-947.
• Ward, B.C., Bond, J.D., Froese, D.G., and Jensen, B.J.L., 2008. Old Crow tephra (140 ¬± 10 ka) constrains penultimate Reid glaciation in central Yukon Territory: Quaternary Science Reviews. v.27, 1909-1915. 
• Froese, D.G., Alloway, B.V., and Lowe, D.J., 2008, John A. Westgate--Global tephrochronologist, stratigrapher, mentor: Quaternary International, v. 178, p. 4-9. PDF  
• Froese, D.G., Lowe, D.J., Knott, J.R. and Slate, J.L. 2008.  Global tephra studies: John Westgate and Andrei Sarna-Wojcicki commemorative volume, Quaternary International, v. 178, 1-3.  PDF
• Westgate, J.A., Preece, S.J., Froese, D.G., Pearce, N.J.G., Roberts, R.G., Demuro, M., Hart, W.K., and Perkins, W., 2008, Changing ideas on the identity and stratigraphic significance of the Sheep Creek tephra beds in Alaska and the Yukon Territory, northwestern North America: Quaternary International, v. 178, p. 183-209.
• Jensen, B.J.L., Froese, D.G., Preece, S.J., Westgate, J.A., and Stachel, T., 2008, An extensive middle to late Pleistocene tephrochronologic record from east-central Alaska: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 27, p. 411-427. 
• Demuro, M., Roberts, R. G., Froese, D. G., Arnold, L. J., Brock, F., and Ramsey, C. B., 2008. Optically stimulated luminescence dating of single and multiple grains of quartz from perennially frozen loess in western Yukon Territory, Canada:  comparison with radiocarbon chronologies for the late Pleistocene Dawson tephra. Quaternary Geochronology 3, 346-364. 
• Dubruyne, R., Chu, G., King, C., Bos, K., Kuch, M., Schwarz, C., Szpak, P., Grocke, D., Matheus, P., Zazula, G., Guthrie, D., Froese, D., Buigues, B., De Marliave, C., Flemming, C., Poinar, D., Fisher, D., Southon, D., Tikhonov, A.N., Macphee, R.D.E., and Poinar, H. in press.  Out of America: Ancient DNA evidence for a new world origin of late Quaternary Woolly Mammoths:  Current Biology. DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2008.07.073
• Kennedy, K.E., and Froese, D.G. 2008, Aggregate resource exploration using a process-depositional model of meltwater channel development in the Eagle Plains area, northern Yukon. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 2007, D.S. Emond, L.R. Blackburn, R.P. Hill and L.H. Weston (eds.), Yukon Geological Survey, p. 169-178.  PDF

2007

• Robinson, S.C., Froese, D.G., Beaudoin, A.B., Doubt, J., and Clague, J.J. 2007. Plant macrofossils associated with an early Holocene beaver dam in Interior Alaska.Arctic 430-438.
• Johnson, S.S., Hebsgaard, M.B., Christensen, T.R., Mastepanov, M., Nielsen, R., Munch, K., Brand, T., Gilbert, M.T.P., Zuber, M.T., Bunce, M., Ronn, R., Gilichinsky, D., Froese, D., and Willerslev, E., 2007, Ancient bacteria show evidence of DNA repair: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 104, p. 14401-14405.
• Wooller, M.J., Zazula, G.D., Edwards, M., Froese, D.G., Boone, R.D., Parker, C., and Bennett, B. 2007. Stable Carbon Isotope Compositions of Eastern Beringian Grasses and Sedges: Investigating Their Potential as Paleoenvironmental Indicators.  Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, v. 39, 318-331. 
• Zazula, G.D., Froese, D.G., Elias, S.A., Kuzmina, S., and Mathewes, R.W. 2007. Arctic ground squirrels of the mammoth-steppe: paleoecology of Late Pleistocene middens (~24 000-29 450 14C yr BP), Yukon Territory, Canada.‚Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 26, 979-1003.

2006

• Zazula, G.D., Froese, D.G., Elias, S.A., Kuzmina, S., La Farge, C., Reyes, A.V., Sanborn, P.T., Schweger, C.E., Smith, C.A.S., and Matthews, R.W.  (2006)  Vegetation buried under Dawson tephra (25,000 14C yr BP) and locally diverse late Pleistocene paleoenvironments of Goldbottom Creek, Yukon, Canada.  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology and Palaeobiology, v. 242, 253-286.
• Clague, J.J., Luckman, B.H., Van Dorp, R.D., Gilbert, R., Froese, D., Jensen, B.J.L., and Reyes, A.V., 2006, Rapid changes in the level of Kluane Lake in Yukon Territory over the last millennium: Quaternary Research, v. 66, p. 342-355. pdf
• Froese, D.G., Zazula, G.D., and Reyes, A.V., 2006, Seasonality of the late Pleistocene Dawson tephra and exceptional preservation of a buried riparian surface in central Yukon Territory, Canada:Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 25, p. 1542-1551. pdf
• Sanborn, P.T., Smith, C.A.S., Froese, D.G., Zazula, G.D., and Westgate, J.A., 2006, Full-glacial paleosols in perennially frozen loess sequences, Klondike goldfields, Yukon Territory, Canada: Quaternary Research, v. 66, p. 147-157. pdf

2005

• Froese, D.G. Smith, D.G. and D.T. Clement. 2005.  Characterizing large river history with shallow geophysics: Middle Yukon River, Yukon Territory and Alaska. Geomorphology 67: 391-406. pdf
• Zazula, G.D., Froese, D.G., Westgate, J.A., La Farge, C. and R.W., Matthewes. 2005. Paleoecology of Beringian "packrat" middens from central Yukon Territory, Canada. Quaternary Research, 63(2): 189-198.pdf
• Clague, J.J., Froese, D.G., Hutchinson, I., James, T.S. and Simon, K.M., 2005. Early growth of the last Cordilleran ice sheet deduced from glacioisostatic depression in southwest British Columbia, Canada. Quaternary Research, 63(1): 53-59.pdf
• Weinstock J, Willerslev E, Sher A, Tong W, Ho SYW, Rubenstein R, Storer J, Martin L, Bravi C, Prieto A, Froese D.G., Scott E, Xulong L, Cooper A. 2005.  Evolution, systematics, and phylogeography of Pleistocene horses in the new world: A molecular perspective. Public Library of Science Biology 3(8): e241. (link)
• Davies, M.R., Froese, D.G. and Cruden, D.M., 2005. Klapperhorn Mountain debris flows, Yellowhead Pass, British Columbia, International Conference on Landslide Risk Assessment, Vancouver, BC, pp. D010, 9p.

2004

• Shapiro, B., Drummond, A.J., Rambaut, A., Wilson, M.C., Matheus, P.E., Sher, A.V., Pybus, O.G., Gilbert, M.T.P., Barnes, I., Binladen, J., Willerslev, E., Hansen, A.J., Baryshnikov, G.F., Burns, J.A., Davydov, S., Driver, J.C., Froese, D.G., Harington, C.R., Keddie, G., Kosintsev, P., Kunz, M.L., Martin, L.D., Stephenson, R.O., Storer, J., Tedford, R., Zimov, S. and Cooper, A., 2004.  Rise and Fall of the Beringian Steppe Bison. Science, 306(5701): 1561-1565. pdf
• Duk Rodkin, A., Barendregt, R.W., Froese, D.G., Weber, F.R., Enkin, R., Smith, I.R., Waters, P., Klassen, R.W. and Zazula, G.D., 2004. Timing and extent of Plio-Pleistocene glaciations in northwestern Canada and east-central Alaska. In: J. Ehlers and P. Gibbard (Editors), Quaternary Glaciations - Extent and Chronology, Part II: North America. Developments in Quaternary Science. Elsevier, pp. 346-382.

2003

• Froese, D.G., Smith, D.G., Ager, T.A., Westgate, J.A., Preece, S.J., Sandhu, A., Enkin, R.J. and F. Weber 2003. Recurring middle Pleistocene outburst floods in east-central Alaska. Quaternary Research, 60, 50-62. pdf
• Zazula, G.D., Froese, D.G., Schweger, C.E., Mathewes, R., Telka, A., Harington, C.R., and J.A. Westgate 2003.  Late Pleistocene steppe macrofossils in east Beringia. Nature, 423, p. 603. pdf
• Zazula, G.D., Froese, D.G., Telka, A., Matthewes, R., and J. Westgate  2003.  Plants, bugs and a giant mammoth tusk: Paleoecology of Last Chance Creek, Klondike area, Yukon Territory. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 2002, D.S. Emond and L.L. Lewis (eds.), Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon Region, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, p. 251-258. (pdf)
• Westgate, J.A., Froese, D.G., Preece, S.J., Sandhu, A. 2003. Age of the gold-bearing White Channel gravel of the Klondike goldfields.  Yukon Exploration Geology 2002, In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 2002, D.S. Emond and L.L. Lewis (eds.), Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon Region, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, p. 241-250. (pdf)

2002

• Froese, D.G., Westgate, J.A., Preece, S.J., and J. Storer 2002. Rapid Communication: Age and significance of the late Pleistocene Dawson tephra in eastern Beringia.  Quaternary Science Reviews, 20-21, 2133-2138. (pdf)
• Baines, D., Smith, D.G., Froese, D.G., and Baumann, P. 2002. Electrical Resistivity Ground Imaging (ERGI): A new tool in fluvial sedimentology.  Sedimentology, 49 (3), 441-449. pdf
• Jackson, L.E., Froese, D.G., Telka, A., Westgate, J.A., Preece, S.J., Storer, J., and C. Huscroft 2002.  Late Cenozoic Geology Ancient Pacific Margin NATMAP project, Report 5: Paleoecology sampling and paleoclimate records, south Klondike placer district, Yukon Territory.  Geological Survey of Canada Current Research 2002-A2, 16p. (pdf)

2001

• Westgate, J.A., Preece, S.J., Froese, D.G., Walter, R.C., and Schweger, C.A. 2001. Tephrochronology dates two extensive glaciations in Yukon Territory.  Quaternary Research, 56 (3), 288-306. (pdf)
• Froese, D.G., R.J. Enkin, and D.G. Smith 2001. Placer depositional settings and their ages along Dominion Creek, Klondike area, Yukon. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 2000, D.S. Emond, and L.H. Weston (eds), Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, p. 159-169. (pdf)
• Sandhu, A. S., J.A. Westgate, S.J. Preece, and D.G. Froese 2001. Glass-fission-track ages of late Cenozoic distal tephra beds in the Klondike district, Yukon Territory; In Yukon Exploration and Geology 2000, D.S. Emond and L.H. Weston (eds.), Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, p. 247-256. (pdf)

2000

• Froese, D.G., Barendregt, R.W., Enkin, R.J, and J. Baker. 2000 Paleomagnetic evidence for multiple late Pliocene-early Pleistocene glaciations in the Klondike area, Yukon Territory. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 37, 863-877 (pdf)
• Froese, D.G. and Smith, D.G., 2000. Ground penetrating radar investigation of the upper Yukon River valley between White River, Yukon and Eagle, Alaska. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 1999, D.S. Emond and L.H. Weston (eds.), Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, p. 211-216. (pdf)
• Shimamura, K., Froese, D.G., and L. Jackson 2000.   Late Cenozoic geology, Ancient Pacific Margin NATMAP Project, report 1:   long-baseline, dual-frequency GPS static positioning trial, Stewart River map area, Yukon Territory. Geological Survey of Canada, Current Research 2000-A2, 6p.

Fieldguides, etc

 

• Froese, D.G., Westgate, J.A. and Alloway, B.V., 2005. Field Trip Guide for the International Field Conference and Workshop of Tephrochronology and Volcanism: Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada.  Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Science Report 2005/26, 132p.
• Alloway, B.V., Froese, D.G., and J.A. Westgate  2005.  Proceedings of the International Conference and Workshop on Tephrochronology and Volcanism: Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada July 31st-August 8th, 2005 Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences science report 2005/22 69p.
• Froese, D.G., Matheus, P., and J. Rasic 2003.  Beringian environments and heritage of the Upper Yukon River:  A field workshop from Dawson City, Yukon through Yukon Charley Rivers National Preserve, Alaska, May 30-June 3, 2003, 62p.
• Froese, D.G. and G.D Zazula  2003.  Fieldguide to Quaternary Research in the Klondike Goldfields, Yukon Territory. Yukon Heritage Branch Occasional Papers in Earth Science 6, 69p.
• Froese, D.G., Duk-Rodkin, A., and J.D. Bond  2001.  Fieldguide to Quaternary Research in central and western Yukon Territory.  Yukon Heritage Branch Occasional Papers in Earth Science 2, 102p.

Geologic Maps

• Froese, D.G., 2004. Surficial Geology,  Medrick Creek (115O/16), Yukon Territory, Geological Survey of Canada, Open File  4593.
• Froese, D.G., 2005. Surficial Geology of Flat Creek (115 O/15) Yukon Territory,  Geological Survey of Canada,Open File 4592.
• Froese, D.G. and Jackson, L.E.Jr.., 2005. Surficial Geology, Grand Forks, Yukon Territory 115O/14, Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 4591.
• Froese, D.G. and Jackson, L.E.Jr., 2005. Surficial geology, Granville, Yukon Territory (NTS 115-O/10) Geological Survey of Canada Open File 4587.