Patrick Larsen

Patrick came to UVM in 1993 and worked on the Laurentide ice margin in New Jersey calibrating cosmogenic nuclide production rates. His work was the first to suggest that the nominal rate of 6 atom per gram of ¹⁰Be per year in quartz was too high. After many years of replicating his data and journal submissions, the data set became fully public in QR in 2017.

MS Thesis, Geology (University of Vermont, 1995)

In situ Production rates of cosmogenic ¹⁰Be and ²⁶Al over the past 21,500 years determined from the terminal moraine of the Laurentide Ice sheet, North-Central New Jersey
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Undergraduate Degree

University of Utah, B.S. Geology and Geophysics, 1993

Current Position and Contact Information (7/2018)

Hydrogeologist
Larsen Applied Earth Science, LLC
656 Dimick Road
East Hardwick, VT 05836

Refereed Papers

Corbett, L. B., Bierman, P. R., Larsen, P., Stone, B. D. and Caffee, M. W. (2017) Cosmogenic nuclide age estimate for Laurentide Ice Sheet recession from the terminal moraine, New Jersey, USA, and constraints on Latest Pleistocene ice sheet behavior. Quaternary Research. v. 87(3), p. 482-498. doi:10.1017/qua.2017.11

Clapp, E., Bierman, P. R., Church, A. B., Larsen, P. L., Schuck, R. A. and Hanzas, J. P. (1996) Teaching geohydrology through analysis of groundwater resources and glacial geology, Northwestern Vermont. Journal of Geoscience Education. v. 44, p. 45-51. doi:10.5408/1089-9995-44.1.45

Clark, D., Bierman, P. R. and Larsen, P. (1995) Improving in situ cosmogenic chronometers. Quaternary Research. v. 44(3), p. 367-377. doi:10.1006/qres.1995.1081

Abstracts

Bierman, P. R., Davis, P. T., Marsella, K., Colgan, P. M., Mickelson, D. M., Larsen, P. and Caffee, M. (1998) What do glaciers take away? What do they leave behind?. GSA Abstracts with Programs, Annual meeting, Toronto, Canada. v. 30, p. 299. (download pdf)

Bierman, P. R., Larsen, P., Clapp, E. and Clark, D. H. (1996) Refining estimates of ¹⁰Be and ²⁶Al production rates, in Gosse, J. C., Reedy, R. C., Harrington, C. D. and Poths, J. eds., Workshop on Secular variations in production rates of cosmogenic nuclides on Earth Radiocarbon 38, no. 1 (1996) University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ. p. 149. (download pdf)

Baldwin, L., Bierman, P. R., Schwartz, A., Church, A. and Larsen, P. (1995) The effects of colonial disturbance and subsequent reforestation on the Vermont landscape. GSA Abstracts with Programs, Annual meeting, New Orleans, LA. v. 27, p. 28. (download pdf)

Larsen, P. L., Bierman, P. R. and Caffee, M. (1995) Cosmogenic ²⁶Al chronology of the late Wisconsinan glacial maximum in north-central New Jersey. GSA Abstracts with Programs, NE section meeting. v. 27, p. 63. (download pdf)

Larsen, P. L., Bierman, P. R. and Caffee, M. (1995) Preliminary in-situ production rates of cosmogenic ¹⁰Be and ²⁶Al over the past 21.5 ky from the terminal moraine of the Laurentide ice sheet, north-central New Jersey. GSA Abstracts with Programs, Annual meeting, New Orleans, LA. v. 27, p. 59. (download pdf)