{"id":28,"date":"2018-08-10T14:03:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T14:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/~dsk5\/?page_id=28"},"modified":"2025-10-04T17:31:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T00:31:49","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/~dsk5\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/~dsk5\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/9293_darrell_kaufman_20210729-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-619\" style=\"width:225px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: revert; color: #666699;\">My research group studies geologic records of environmental changes to understand how the Earth <\/span><span style=\"font-size: revert; color: #666699;\">system responds to natural and anthropogenic forcings&nbsp;on &nbsp;millennial time scales.&nbsp;We focus on <\/span><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"#jump1\">lake sediments from Alaska<\/a><span style=\"font-size: revert; color: #666699;\">, <\/span><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"#jump2\">geochronology<\/a><span style=\"font-size: revert; color: #666699;\">, and <\/span><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"#jump3\">proxy climate syntheses<\/a><span style=\"font-size: revert; color: #666699;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><br><span style=\"color: #666699;\">Regents\u2019 Professor<\/span><br><\/span><\/strong>School of Earth and Sustainability<br>Northern Arizona University<br>Geology Annex (building 13), rm 306; 928-523-7192<br><a href=\"mailto:darrell.kaufman@nau.edu\">Email<\/a>: darrell.kaufman@nau.edu<br><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DKaufman1\">Twitter<\/a>: https:\/\/twitter.com\/DKaufman1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-full wp-image-637\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"401\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/~dsk5\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Unprecedented-changes.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/~dsk5\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Unprecedented-changes.png 950w, https:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/~dsk5\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Unprecedented-changes-300x127.png 300w, https:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/~dsk5\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Unprecedented-changes-768x324.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Large-scale climate indicators from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/report\/ar6\/wg1\/chapter\/chapter-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 2<\/a> of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report quantifying their current state compare with the past<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #666699;\">Publications<\/span><br><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=KpeykKsAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">Google Scholar<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/~dsk5\/index.php\/sample-page\/\">Full list<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>Laboratories<\/strong><\/span><br><a href=\"https:\/\/geochronology-lab.nau.edu\">Amino Acid Geochronology<\/a> (AAGL)<br><a href=\"https:\/\/sed-records-lab.nau.edu\">Sedimentary Records of Environmental Change<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/aceisotopelab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arizona Climate and Ecosystems (ACE) Isotope Lab<\/a> (radiocarbon)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #666699;\">Projects<\/span><br><\/strong><\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"https:\/\/arcticlakesproject.nau.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arctic Glacial Lakes<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><br><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/southalaskalakes.nau.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South Alaska Lakes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>More at<\/strong><\/span><br><a style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"https:\/\/nau.edu\/ses\/past-present-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Past and Present Climate Change<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">, School of Earth &amp; Sustainability<br><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/takingearthstemperature.nau.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taking Earth&#8217;s Temperature -Delving into Climate&#8217;s Past<\/a>, NAU Documentary<br><a href=\"https:\/\/polarfieldservice.wordpress.com\/?s=kaufman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reports from the field<\/a>, Polar Field Services<br><a href=\"http:\/\/jan.ucc.nau.edu\/~dsk5\/oldsite\/Pine_Kaufman_story.pdf\">Core Curriculum<\/a>, Pine, NAU Alumni Association magazine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/~dsk5\/index.php\/brief-cv\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #666699;\">Curriculum vitae<\/span><\/strong><\/a> (brief)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regents\u2019 ProfessorSchool of Earth and SustainabilityNorthern Arizona UniversityGeology Annex (building 13), rm 306; 928-523-7192Email: darrell.kaufman@nau.eduTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/DKaufman1 PublicationsGoogle ScholarFull list LaboratoriesAmino Acid Geochronology (AAGL)Sedimentary Records of Environmental ChangeArizona Climate and Ecosystems (ACE) Isotope Lab (radiocarbon) ProjectsArctic Glacial LakesSouth Alaska Lakes More atPast and Present Climate Change, School of Earth &amp; SustainabilityTaking Earth&#8217;s Temperature -Delving into Climate&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/~dsk5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/~dsk5\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/~dsk5\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/~dsk5\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/~dsk5\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/~dsk5\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"https:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/~dsk5\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"https:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/~dsk5\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/~dsk5\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}