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Biography

I am a Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Toronto with research interests in Quaternary paleoecology and paleoclimatology, peatlands, biogeosciences, climate change and ecosystem function, wetlands, Arctic and boreal ecosystems.

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Employment (3)

University of Toronto: Toronto, Ontario, CA

2012-07-01 to present | Associate Professor (Earth Sciences)
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Sarah Finkelstein

University of Toronto: Toronto, Ontario, CA

2006-01-01 to 2012-06-30 | Assistant Professor (Geography)
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Sarah Finkelstein

University of Ottawa: Ottawa, Ontario, CA

2004-09-01 to 2005-11-30 | NSERC Post-doctoral fellow (Geography)
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Education and qualifications (3)

University of Toronto: Toronto, Ontario, CA

1999-09-01 to 2004-08-30 | PhD (Geography)
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University of Cambridge: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

1998-09-01 to 1999-08-01 | M. Phil. (Plant Sciences)
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Sarah Finkelstein

Princeton University: Princeton, NJ, US

1994-09-01 to 1998-06-01 | A.B. (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology / Environmental Studies)
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South-central Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics and the formation of proglacial Lake Vita during MIS 3

Quaternary Research
2025-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Michelle S. Gauthier; Tyler J. Hodder; April S. Dalton; Vanessa Brewer; Olav B. Lian; Sarah A. Finkelstein; Maria Schaarschmidt; Alessandro Mereghetti
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Peat Depth and Carbon Storage of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada

Geophysical Research Letters
2025-01-28 | Journal article
Contributors: Yiyao Li; Daorui Han; Cheryl A. Rogers; Sarah A. Finkelstein; Oleksandra Hararuk; James M. Waddington; Carlos Barreto; James W. McLaughlin; James Snider; Alemu Gonsamo
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Drivers of high rates of carbon burial in a riverine-influenced freshwater marsh in the Long Point Walsingham Priority Place of southern Ontario

FACETS
2025-01-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Amanda L. Loder; Adam Gillespie; Omid Haeri Ardakani; Cecilia Cordero Oviedo; Sarah A. Finkelstein; Irene Gregory-Eaves
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Peat depth and carbon storage of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada

2024-11-01 | Preprint
Contributors: Yiyao Li; Daorui Han; Cheryl A Rogers; Sarah A Finkelstein; Oleksandra Hararuk; Mike Waddington; Carlos Barreto; James McLaughlin; James Snider; Alemu Gonsamo
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Preservation of probable MIS 7 deglacial and nonglacial deposits near the edge of the Hudson Bay Lowland in Manitoba, Canada

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
2024-11-01 | Journal article
Contributors: M.S. Gauthier; T.J. Hodder; A.S. Dalton; Olav B. Lian; M. Schaarschmidt; M. Ross; M. Väliranta; S.A. Finkelstein
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Unravelling the fragmented sediment–landform assemblage in an area of thick Quaternary sediment, western Hudson Bay Lowland, Canada

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
2024-11-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Tyler J. Hodder; Michelle S. Gauthier; Martin Ross; Samuel E. Kelley; Olav B. Lian; April S. Dalton; Sarah A. Finkelstein
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Corrigendum: The unrecognized importance of carbon stocks and fluxes from swamps in Canada and the USA (Environ. Res. Lett. 17 053003)

Environmental Research Letters
2023-05-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Scott J Davidson; Emily Dazé; Eunji Byun; Dean Hiler; Markus Kangur; Julie Talbot; Sarah A Finkelstein; Maria Strack
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Drivers of high rates of carbon burial in a riverine-influenced freshwater marsh in the Lake Erie watershed of southern Ontario, Canada

2023-03-09 | Preprint
Contributors: Amanda Lily Loder; Adam Gillespie; Omid Haeri Ardakani; Sarah A Finkelstein
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Long-Term Carbon Accumulation in Temperate Swamp Soils: a Case Study from Greenock Swamp, Ontario, Canada

Wetlands
2022-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Emily Dazé; Eunji Byun; Sarah A. Finkelstein
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The unrecognized importance of carbon stocks and fluxes from swamps in Canada and the USA

Environmental Research Letters
2022-05-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Scott J Davidson; Emily Dazé; Eunji Byun; Dean Hiler; Markus Kangur; Julie Talbot; Sarah A Finkelstein; Maria Strack
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Characterizing the Meghalayan Stage in southern Africa: A multiproxy record of paleoenvironmental change at the southern margin of the Kalahari

Quaternary International
2022-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Magdalena K. Sobol; Michael Chazan; Louis Scott; Sarah A. Finkelstein
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Holocene regional climate change and formation of southern Ontario's largest swamp inferred from a kettle-lake pollen record

Quaternary Research
2022-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Eunji Byun; Sharon A. Cowling; Sarah A. Finkelstein
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Large Soil Carbon Storage in Terrestrial Ecosystems of Canada

Global Biogeochemical Cycles
2022-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Camile Sothe; Alemu Gonsamo; Joyce Arabian; Werner A. Kurz; Sarah A. Finkelstein; James Snider
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Ecohydrological controls on apparent rates of peat carbon accumulation in a boreal bog record from the Hudson Bay Lowlands, northern Ontario, Canada

Quaternary Research
2021-11-29 | Journal article
Contributors: Marissa A. Davies; Jerome Blewett; B. David A. Naafs; Sarah A. Finkelstein
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Long-Term Carbon Accumulation in Temperate Swamp Soils: A Case Study from Greenock Swamp, Ontario, Canada

2021-11-29 | Preprint
Contributors: Emily Dazé; Eunji Byun; Sarah A Finkelstein
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Large soil carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems of Canada

2021-09-28 | Preprint
Contributors: Camile Sothe; Alemu Gonsamo; Joyce Arabian; Werner A Kurz; Sarah A Finkelstein; James Snider
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Large soil carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems of Canada

2021-05-27 | Preprint
Contributors: Camile Sothe; Alemu Gonsamo; Joyce Arabian; Werner A Kurz; Sarah A Finkelstein; James Snider
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Carbon cycle dynamics during episodes of rapid climate change

Environmental Research Letters
2021-04-01 | Journal article
Contributors: K J Meissner; E Brook; S A Finkelstein; J Rae
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Linking testate amoeba assemblages to paleohydrology and ecosystem function in Holocene peat records from the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Ontario, Canada

The Holocene
2021-03 | Journal article
Contributors: David Bysouth; Sarah A Finkelstein
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Using Water Table Depths Inferred From Testate Amoebae to Estimate Holocene Methane Emissions From the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
2021-02 | Journal article
Contributors: M. A. Davies; J. W. McLaughlin; M. S. Packalen; S. A. Finkelstein
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Extensive wetland development in mid-latitude North America during the Bølling–Allerød

Nature Geoscience
2021-01-21 | Journal article
Contributors: Eunji Byun; Hiromitsu Sato; Sharon A. Cowling; Sarah A. Finkelstein
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North American Swamps: What Lies Beneath

2021-01-04 | Other
Contributors: Sarah Finkelstein; Emily Daze; Eunji Byun; Dean Hiler
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Carbon Accumulation in Freshwater Marsh Soils: a Synthesis for Temperate North America

Wetlands
2020 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85078503727

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19436246 02775212

Contributors: Loder, A.L.; Finkelstein, S.A.
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Climate variability of the Common Era (AD 1–2000) in the eastern North American Arctic: Impacts on human migrations

Quaternary International
2020 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85067303724

Part of ISBN:

10406182

Contributors: Friesen, T.M.; Finkelstein, S.A.; Medeiros, A.S.
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Sarah Finkelstein via Scopus - Elsevier

Post-glacial lake development and paleoclimate in the central Hudson Bay Lowlands inferred from sediment records

Journal of Paleolimnology
2020 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85082861063

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15730417 09212728

Contributors: Hargan, K.E.; Finkelstein, S.A.; Rühland, K.M.; Packalen, M.S.; Dalton, A.S.; Paterson, A.M.; Keller, W.; Smol, J.P.
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Sarah Finkelstein via Scopus - Elsevier

The Widespread Environmental Footprint of Indigo Denim Microfibers from Blue Jeans

Environmental Science and Technology Letters
2020 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85091928893

Part of ISBN:

23288930

Contributors: Athey, S.N.; Adams, J.K.; Erdle, L.M.; Jantunen, L.M.; Helm, P.A.; Finkelstein, S.A.; Diamond, M.L.
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Sarah Finkelstein via Scopus - Elsevier

Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink

Nature Climate Change
2020-12-07 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1758-678X
Part of ISSN: 1758-6798
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Sarah Finkelstein

Reconstructing past biomes states using machine learning and modern pollen assemblages: A case study from Southern Africa

Quaternary Science Reviews
2019 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85063733177

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02773791

Contributors: Sobol, M.K.; Scott, L.; Finkelstein, S.A.
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Sarah Finkelstein via Scopus - Elsevier

Typha (Cattail) Invasion in North American Wetlands: Biology, Regional Problems, Impacts, Ecosystem Services, and Management

Wetlands
2019 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85068157138

Part of ISBN:

19436246 02775212

Contributors: Bansal, S.; Lishawa, S.C.; Newman, S.; Tangen, B.A.; Wilcox, D.; Albert, D.; Anteau, M.J.; Chimney, M.J.; Cressey, R.L.; DeKeyser, E. et al.
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Sarah Finkelstein via Scopus - Elsevier

Was the Laurentide Ice Sheet significantly reduced during Marine Isotope Stage 3?

Geology
2019 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85060466113

Part of ISBN:

19432682 00917613

Contributors: Dalton, A.S.; Finkelstein, S.A.; Forman, S.L.; Barnett, P.J.; Pico, T.; Mitrovica, J.X.
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Widespread global peatland establishment and persistence over the last 130,000 y

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
2019 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85062870461

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10916490 00278424

Contributors: Treat, C.C.; Kleinen, T.; Broothaerts, N.; Dalton, A.S.; Dommaine, R.; Douglas, T.A.; Drexler, J.Z.; Finkelstein, S.A.; Grosse, G.; Hope, G. et al.
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Sarah Finkelstein via Scopus - Elsevier

Erratum to: Palaeoclimate constraints on the impact of 2 °C anthropogenic warming and beyond (Nature Geoscience, (2018), 11, 7, (474-485), 10.1038/s41561-018-0146-0)

Nature Geoscience
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85050229963

Part of ISBN:

17520908 17520894

Contributors: Fischer, H.; Meissner, K.J.; Mix, A.C.; Abram, N.J.; Austermann, J.; Brovkin, V.; Capron, E.; Colombaroli, D.; Daniau, A.-L.; Dyez, K.A. et al.
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Sarah Finkelstein via Scopus - Elsevier

Late Pleistocene chronology, palaeoecology and stratigraphy at a suite of sites along the Albany River, Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85042260088

Part of ISBN:

00310182

Contributors: Dalton, A.S.; Finkelstein, S.A.; Barnett, P.J.; Väliranta, M.; Forman, S.L.
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Latitudinal limits to the predicted increase of the peatland carbon sink with warming

Nature Climate Change
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85053496549

Part of ISBN:

17586798 1758678X

Contributors: Gallego-Sala, A.V.; Charman, D.J.; Brewer, S.; Page, S.E.; Prentice, I.C.; Friedlingstein, P.; Moreton, S.; Amesbury, M.J.; Beilman, D.W.; Björck, S. et al.
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Sarah Finkelstein via Scopus - Elsevier

Palaeoclimate constraints on the impact of 2 °c anthropogenic warming and beyond

Nature Geoscience
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85048956902

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17520908 17520894

Contributors: Fischer, H.; Meissner, K.J.; Mix, A.C.; Abram, N.J.; Austermann, J.; Brovkin, V.; Capron, E.; Colombaroli, D.; Daniau, A.-L.; Dyez, K.A. et al.
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Sarah Finkelstein via Scopus - Elsevier

Potential carbon loss associated with post-settlement wetland conversion in southern Ontario, Canada

Carbon Balance and Management
2018-12 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1750-0680
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Sarah Finkelstein

Towards a Holarctic synthesis of peatland testate amoeba ecology: Development of a new continental-scale palaeohydrological transfer function for North America and comparison to European data

Quaternary Science Reviews
2018-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Matthew J. Amesbury; Robert K. Booth; Thomas P. Roland; Joan Bunbury; Michael J. Clifford; Dan J. Charman; Suzanne Elliot; Sarah Finkelstein; Michelle Garneau; Paul D.M. Hughes et al.
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Predictive pollen-based biome modeling using machine learning

PLOS ONE
2018-08-23 | Journal article
Contributors: Magdalena K. Sobol; Budiman Minasny; Sarah A. Finkelstein
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Biostratigraphic Evidence Relating to the Age-Old Question of Hannibal's Invasion of Italy, I: History and Geological Reconstruction

Archaeometry
2017 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84960155887

Part of ISBN:

14754754 0003813X

Contributors: Mahaney, W.C.; Allen, C.C.R.; Pentlavalli, P.; Kulakova, A.; Young, J.M.; Dirszowsky, R.W.; West, A.; Kelleher, B.; Jordan, S.; Pulleyblank, C. et al.
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Sarah Finkelstein via Scopus - Elsevier

Biostratigraphic Evidence Relating to the Age-Old Question of Hannibal's Invasion of Italy, II: Chemical Biomarkers and Microbial Signatures

Archaeometry
2017 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84961256428

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14754754 0003813X

Contributors: Mahaney, W.C.; Allen, C.C.R.; Pentlavalli, P.; Kulakova, A.; Young, J.M.; Dirszowsky, R.W.; West, A.; Kelleher, B.; Jordan, S.; Pulleyblank, C. et al.
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Sarah Finkelstein via Scopus - Elsevier

Pollen and macrofossil-inferred palaeoclimate at the Ridge Site, Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada: evidence for a dry climate and significant recession of the Laurentide Ice Sheet during Marine Isotope Stage 3

Boreas
2017 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85007203305

Part of ISBN:

15023885 03009483

Contributors: Dalton, A.S.; Väliranta, M.; Barnett, P.J.; Finkelstein, S.A.
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Interactions between climate and landscape drive Holocene ecological change in a High Arctic lake on Somerset Island, Nunavut, Canada

Arctic Science
2017-03-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2368-7460
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Sarah Finkelstein

A comparison of radiocarbon ages derived from bulk peat and selected plant macrofossils in basal peat cores from circum-arctic peatlands

Quaternary Geochronology
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84946811315

Contributors: Holmquist, J.R.; Finkelstein, S.A.; Garneau, M.; Massa, C.; Yu, Z.; MacDonald, G.M.
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Climate and peat type in relation to spatial variation of the peatland carbon mass in the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada

Journal of Geophysical Research G: Biogeosciences
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84963831824

Part of ISBN:

21698961 21698953

Contributors: Packalen, M.S.; Finkelstein, S.A.; McLaughlin, J.W.
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Constraining the Late Pleistocene history of the Laurentide Ice Sheet by dating the Missinaibi Formation, Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada

Quaternary Science Reviews
2016 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-84977616258

Part of ISBN:

02773791

Contributors: Dalton, A.S.; Finkelstein, S.A.; Barnett, P.J.; Forman, S.L.
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Drivers of Change in a 7300-Year Holocene Diatom Record from the Hemi-Boreal Region of Ontario, Canada

PLOS ONE
2016-08-17 | Journal article
Contributors: Kristen K. Beck; Navnith K.P. Kumaran; Andrew S. Medeiros; Sarah A. Finkelstein
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Long-term successional changes in peatlands of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada inferred from the ecological dynamics of multiple proxies

Holocene
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84918513900

Contributors: Hargan, K.E.; Rühland, K.M.; Paterson, A.M.; Holmquist, J.; MacDonald, G.M.; Bunbury, J.; Finkelstein, S.A.; Smol, J.P.
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Sarah Finkelstein via Scopus - Elsevier

A database and synthesis of northern peatland soil properties and Holocene carbon and nitrogen accumulation

Holocene
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84907145200

Contributors: Loisel, J.; Yu, Z.; Beilman, D.W.; Camill, P.; Alm, J.; Amesbury, M.J.; Anderson, D.; Andersson, S.; Bochicchio, C.; Barber, K. et al.
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Carbon storage and potential methane production in the Hudson Bay Lowlands since mid-Holocene peat initiation

Nature Communications
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84902326996

Contributors: Packalen, M.S.; Finkelstein, S.A.; McLaughlin, J.W.
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Sarah Finkelstein via Scopus - Elsevier

Evaluating diatom-derived Holocene pH reconstructions for Arctic lakes using an expanded 171-lake training set

Journal of Quaternary Science
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84899050381

Contributors: Finkelstein, S.A.; Bunbury, J.; Gajewski, K.; Wolfe, A.P.; Adams, J.K.; Devlin, J.E.
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Peer review (8 reviews for 7 publications/grants)

Review activity for Catena. (1)
Review activity for Journal of geophysical research. (1)
Review activity for Nature climate change (1)
Review activity for Nature communications (1)
Review activity for Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology. (2)
Review activity for Quaternary science reviews. (1)
Review activity for Vegetation history and archaeobotany. (1)