W. Wyatt Oswald

Assistant Professor of Science
Emerson College
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
120 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116

Research Fellow
Harvard University, Harvard Forest
324 North Main Street
Petersham, MA 01366
Webpage: www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~woswald

Education

PhD (2002) University of Washington, College of Forest Resources
MS (1998) University of Washington, College of Forest Resources
AB (1994) Dartmouth College, Department of Geography

Publications

Oswald, WW, BCS Hansen, and DR Foster. In press. Comparison of pollen and stomates in late-glacial and early-Holocene lake sediments from eastern Massachusetts. Rhodora.

Oswald, WW, EK Faison, DR Foster, ED Doughty, B Hall, and BCS Hansen. In press. Post-glacial changes in spatial patterns of vegetation across southern New England. Journal of Biogeography.

Foster, DR, WW Oswald, EK Faison, ED Doughty, and BCS Hansen. In press. A climatic driver for abrupt mid-Holocene vegetation dynamics and the hemlock decline in New England. Ecology.

Faison, EK, DR Foster, WW Oswald, ED Doughty, and BCS Hansen. In press. Early-Holocene openlands in southern New England. Ecology.

Oswald, WW. 2006. Mollusks in a Holocene lake-sediment core from the Arctic Foothills of northern Alaska. The Nautilus 120: 30-33.

Hou, J, Y Huang, Y Wang, B Shuman, WW Oswald, EK Faison, and DR Foster. 2006. Postglacial climate reconstruction based on compound-specific D/H ratios of fatty acids from Blood Pond, New England. Geochemistry, Geophysics, and Geosystems 7: Q03008.

Oswald, WW, PM Anderson, TA Brown, LB Brubaker, FS Hu, AV Lozhkin, W Tinner, and P Kaltenrieder. 2005. Effects of sample mass and type on radiocarbon dating of arctic and subarctic lake sediments. The Holocene 15: 758-767.

Gavin, DG, LB Brubaker, JS McLachlan, and WW Oswald. 2005. Correspondence of pollen assemblages with forest zones across steep environmental gradients, Olympic Peninsula, Washington, USA. The Holocene 15: 648-662.

Kaufman, DS, TA Ager, NJ Anderson, PM Anderson, JT Andrews, PJ Bartlein, LB Brubaker, LL Coats, LC Cwynar, ML Duvall, AS Dyke, ME Edwards, K Gajewski, A Geirsdottir, FS Hu, AE Jennings, MR Kaplan, MW Kerwin. AV Lozhkin, GM MacDonald, GH Miller, CJ Mock, WW Oswald, BL Otto-Bliesner, K Rühland, EJ Steig, and BB Wolfe. 2004. Holocene thermal maximum in the western Arctic (0 to 180° W). Quaternary Science Reviews 23: 529-560.

Gavin, DG, WW Oswald, E Wahl, and JW Williams. 2003. A statistical approach for evaluating distance metrics and analog assignments for pollen records. Quaternary Research 60: 356-367.

Oswald, WW, LB Brubaker, FS Hu, and DG Gavin. 2003. Pollen-vegetation calibration for tundra communities in the Arctic Foothills, northern Alaska. Journal of Ecology 91: 1022-1033.

Oswald, WW, LB Brubaker, FS Hu, and GW Kling. 2003. Holocene pollen records from the central Arctic Foothills, northern Alaska: testing the role of substrate in the response of tundra to climate change. Journal of Ecology 91: 1034-1048.

Oswald, WW, PM Anderson, LB Brubaker, FS Hu, and DR Engstrom. 2003. Representation of tundra vegetation by pollen in lake sediments of northern Alaska. Journal of Biogeography 30: 521-535.

Oswald, WW, LB Brubaker, PM Anderson, and SC Gerlach. 2001. Late Holocene environmental and cultural changes at Tukuto Lake, northwestern Alaska. In: People and Wildlife in Northern North America: Essays in honor of R. Dale Guthrie. Edited by: SC Gerlach and MS Murray, British Archaeological Reports International Series 944, Archaeopress, Oxford, pp. 102-111.

Oswald, WW, LB Brubaker, and PM Anderson. 1999. Late Quaternary vegetational history of the Howard Pass area, northwestern Alaska. Canadian Journal of Botany 77: 570-581.