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Department of Geosciences

Earth, Air, & Water

Jeffery Stone

Post-doctoral Researcher

Ph.D., 2005, Nebraska

Paleolimnology and paleohydrology, Paleoclimatology, Limnology, Micropaleontology, Quaternary environments

Contact Information

228 Bessey Hall
402-472-2663
jstoneunlserve.unl.edu

My research interests over the past 5 years have primarily involved paloelimnology (study of ancient lakes) and paleoclimatology (study of ancient climates) using fossil diatom (microscopic golden-brown algae) records from lake sediments as a means to reconstruct climate changes throughout the Late Pleistocene. My research has focused in the Northern Rocky Mountains of Montana, and more recently, ancient sediments from Lake Malawi in the tropics of Africa.

I am currently a postdoctoral research associate at both the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Arizona.

Selected Publications

  • Cohen, A.S., Stone, J.R., Beuning, K.R.M., Park, L.E., Reinthal, P.N., Dettman, D., Scholz, C.A., Johnson, T.C., King, J.W., Talbot, M.R., Brown, E.T., and Ivory, S.J., 2007, Ecological Consequences of Early Late-Pleistocene Megadroughts in Tropical Africa, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(42), 16422-16427, http://www.pnas.org/content/104/42/16422.full.pdf+html.
  • Stone, J.R., 2007, Using diatoms as ecological and paleoecological indicators in riverine environments, in Pond Scum to Carbon Sink: Geological and Environmental Applications of the Diatoms, Paleontological , S. Starratt (ed.), 24-33.
  • Stone, J.R., and Fritz, S.C., 2006, Multi-decadal drought and Holocene climate instability in the Rocky Mountains, Geology, 34(5), 409-412.
  • Stevens, L.R., Stone, J.R., Campbell, J., and Fritz, S.C., 2006, A 2200-yr record of hydrologic variability from Foy Lake, MT inferred from diatom and geochemical data, Quaternary Research, 65, 264-274, http://www.geosciences.unl.edu/~jstone/Stevens2006.pdf.
  • Stone, J.R., and Fritz, S.C., 2004, Three-dimensional modeling of lacustrine diatom habitat areas: improving paleolimnological interpretation of planktic:benthic ratios, Limnology and Oceanography, 49(5), 1540-1548, http://www.geosciences.unl.edu/~jstone/Stone&Fritz2004.pdf.