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A selection of Kurt's publications

Stories appearing in popular press outlets
A History of U.S. Public Lands. Overland Journal + The Radavist - 2019
Mountain Flyer - 2018
Mountain Flyer - 2017
Bunyan Velo - 2013
Regular Contributions
Regular contributions to Adventure Journal's website
Kurt's long-running bikepacking-oriented column for Bike Magazine
Peer-Reviewed Scientific Publications
Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada
Spanish Cave and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains
Uinta Mountains
Baffin Island:
  • Reorganization of ice sheet flow patterns in Arctic Canada and the mid-Pleistocene transition. Geophysical Research Letters (2010).
  • Last Glacial Maximum Laurentide Ice Sheet oxygen isotope composition recorded by subglacial carbonate precipitates on Baffin Island. Geology (2012).
  • Establishing an absolute chronology for the Plio-Pleistocene Arctic Clyde Foreland Formation using a combined amino acid racemization and cosmogenic radionuclide approach. Quaternary Geochronology (2012).
  • Testing the regolith hypothesis for the mid-Pleistocene transition using the sedimentary record of Laurentide Ice Sheet erosion in the eastern Canadian Arctic. Quaternary Science Reviews (2013).
  • Carbonate precipitation, chemical weathering, and palynomorph preservation beneath the Laurentide Ice Sheet. Quaternary Research (2014).

Spanish Cave and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains:
  • Last Glacial Maximum equilibrium-line altitude trends and precipitation patterns in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, southern Colorado. Boreas (2009).
  • Dramatic increase in late Cenozoic alpine erosion rates recorded by cave sediment in the southern Rocky Mountains. Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2010).

Uinta Mountains:
  • Last glacial maximum climate inferences from cosmogenic dating and glacier modeling of the Western Uinta ice field, Uinta Mountains, Utah. Quaternary Research (2008).
  • Glacial geology and equilibrium line altitude reconstructions for the Provo River drainage, Uinta Mountains, Utah, U.S.A. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research (2007).
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