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University of Vermont, Rubenstein School of the Environment and Natural Resources, Burlington, Vermont
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I am a geoscientist by training. My training focussed on the impact of climate and tectonics on landscapes using geochemistry as a tool to measure rates and dates of change at and near Earth's dynamic surface.
For more than 30 years, I've been a faculty member at the University of Vermont where I teach about the Earth, climate, and the environment at all levels from High School to large-enrollment general-education classes to doctoral-level graduate seminars.
I direct a US National Science Foundation Facility for geologic dating and lead the Camp Century project, a 30+ person, international, National Science Foundation funded effort to understand the history of northwest Greenland through analysis of a unique sediment core collected from nearly a mile below the ice sheet in 1966. I am proud to be a faculty fellow of the Gund Institute for Environment.
On July 2, 1966, drillers at Camp Century penetrated the Greenland Ice Sheet for the first time. As the Cold War raged, they collected more than 3 meters of frozen soil from beneath the ice sheet. Almost 60 years later, dozens of scientists from the United States and Europe are now analyzing that frozen soil using techniques unavailable and unimaginable in the 1960s. We are deciphering the history preserved in this unique archive of long-vanished landscapes and climates of the past. Supported by EAR-OPP-2114629.
Cosmogenic nuclides have revolutionized the study of Earth giving us a way to to measure the age of landforms, estimate the rate at which Earth erodes, understand climate change, and trace sediment across Earth's surface. Since 1994, UVM has maintained a clean laboratory dedicated to the preparation of samples for 10-Be, 26-Al, and 36-Cl. Since 2018, the facility has been supported by NSF Division of Earth Science Instrumentation and Facilities under EAR-1735676 and starting in 2023, EAR- 2300560.
You can reach me at pbierman@uvm.edu or paulrbierman@gmail.com, by text at (802) 238-6826, and by mail at the University of Vermont, 180 Colchester Avenue, Delehanty Hall, Burlington, VT 05405.
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