Research

Tim Patterson has made ~200 scholarly contributions, including ~120 peer-reviewed research papers. He utilizes micropaleontological, sedimentological and geochemical techniques to:

• study of paleoclimate records in Holocene lacustrine, marine, and bog to assess the dynamics of climate variability.
  
• assess the impact of anthropogenic land-use change on natural lacustrine systems.
  
• investigate the dynamics of sea-level change utilizing fossil salt marsh deposits.

 

Selected Current Research Projects:

• Reconstructing Holocene climate change from fjord/estuarine environments in the northeast Pacific.
  
• Late Quanternary climate change archived in annually deposited varves of meromictic lakes in Ontario (e.g. Teapot Lake, Bram pton, Ontario, and Pink Lake, Gatineau Park, Quebec).
  
• Late Quaternary climate and precipitation records archived in ombrotrophic bog deposits (e.g. Mer Bleue Bog, Ottawa, Ontario).
  
• Late Quaternary sea-level changes on the NE Irish coast.
  
• Holocene sea-level change along the British Columbia coast.
  
• Ecology and palaeoecology of benthic foraminifera on the NE Irish coast.
  
• Impact of agriculture and urbanization on kettle lakes within the environmentally sensitive Oak Ridges Moraine, north of the Greater Toronto Area.
  
• Impact of mining activities on lake ecosystems within the Canadian Shield of northeastern Ontario.
  
• Impact of agriculture and forestry on lake ecosystems in southern New Brunswick.

Links to previous research web sites that are no longer being updated: