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1 MICHAEL R. KAPLAN Curriculum Vitae 407 Comer Geochemistry L-DEO of Columbia University Education Ph.D., University of Colorado, Geological Sciences Dec, 1999 Major disciplines: glacial geology, former ice sheet dynamics (paleoglaciology), cosmogenic nuclide techniques, and paleoclimate Main advisor: Gifford Miller (glaciologist W. Tad Pfeffer was the second reader) M.S., University of Maine, Geological Sciences 1994 Major disciplines: glacial geology and geomorphology, soft rock stratigraphy and sedimentology, ice sheet-ocean interactions, and marine paleoclimate Main advisor: Harold Borns B.A. summa cum laude, Univ. of Buffalo, Class concentration: Geology, Physical Geography, and Cartography (Geography and minor in Geological Sciences) 1992 Professional Experience Lamont Associate Research Professor (Senior) Lamont Associate Research Professor (Junior) Lamont Assistant Research Professor Doherty Associate Research Scientist Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Honorary Fellow, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh Royal Society of London Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Edinburgh Weeks Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, UW-Madison Research Associate, Dept. of Geological Sciences, Univ. of Colorado Boulder Research Assistant, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Res., Univ. of Colorado-Boulder Research Assistant, Institute for Quaternary and Studies, Univ. of Maine-Orono Research Assistant, Department of Physics and Astronomy, SUNY-Buffalo Publications (* = 1 st author is, or was, a mentee) In review Moreno, P.I., Denton, G.H., Moreno, H., Lowell, T.V., Putnam, A.E., Kaplan, M.R., Radiocarbon chronology of the last glacial termination in northwestern Patagonia, Quaternary Science Reviews. McGee, D., Winckler, G., Borunda, A., Serno., S., Anderson, R.F., Kaplan, M.R., Tracking eolian dust with helium and thorium: Impacts of grain size and provenance, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. M. Kaplan CV, Page 1 of 7

2 In press Bromley, G.R.M., Hall, B.L., Thompson, W.B., Kaplan, M.R., Garcia, J.L., Schaefer, J,M. Late Glacial fluctuations of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in the White Mountains of Maine and New Hampshire, U.S.A., Quaternary Research. Yuan, X., Cane, M., Kaplan, M., Workshop on Connecting the Tropics to the Polar Regions; New York, June 2-3, 2014, Eos Transactions, expected April or May. Published 1. * Doughty, A.M., Schaefer, J,M., Putnam, A.E., Denton, G.H., Kaplan, M.R., Barrell, D.J.A., Andersen, B.G., Kelley, S.E., Finkel, R.C., Schwartz, R., 2015, Mismatch of Glacier Extent and Summer Insolation in Southern Hemisphere Mid-Latitudes, Geology, v. 43, Schaefer, J.M, Putnam, A.E., Denton, G.H., Kaplan, M.R., Birkel, S., Doughty, A., Kelley, S., Barrell, D.J.A., Finkel, R.C., Winckler, G., Anderson, R.F., Ninneman, U.S., Barker,S., Schwartz, R., Schluechter, C., 2015, The Southern Glacial Maximum 65,000 years ago and its unfinished Termination, Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 114, Bromley, G.R.M., Winckler, G., Schaefer, J.M., Kaplan, M.R., 2014, Pyroxene separation by HF leaching and its impact on helium isotopes, Quaternary Geochronology, v. 23, J. Strelin, M. M. Kaplan, Vandergoes,M., G.Denton, J. Schaefer, 2014, Holocene Glacier Chronology of the Lago Argentino Basin, Southern Patagonian Icefield, Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 101, *Kelley, S., Kaplan, M.R., Schaefer, J.M., Andersen, B.G., Barrell, D.J.A., Putnam, A.E., Denton, G.H., Schwartz, R., Finkel, R.C. Doughy, A.M., 2014, High-precision 10 Be chronology of moraines in the Southern Alps indicates synchronous cooling in Antarctica and New Zealand 42,000 years ago, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 405, *García, J.L., Hall, B.L., Kaplan, M.R., Vega, R.M., Strelin, J. A., 2014, Glacial Geomorphology of the Torres del Paine Region: Implications for Glaciation, Deglaciation and Paleolake History, Geomorphology, v. 204, Kaplan, M.R., Schaefer, J.M., Denton, G.H., Doughty, A.M., Barrell, D.J.A., Chinn, T.J.H., Putnam, A.E., Andersen, B., Mackintosh, A.N., Finkel, R.C., Schwartz, R., Anderson, B.A., The anatomy of long-term warming since 15 kyr ago in New Zealand based on net glacier snowline rise, Geology, v. 41, *Doughty, A.M., Anderson, B.A., Mackintosh, A.N., Kaplan, M.R., Vandergoes, M.J., Chinn T. J. H., Barrell, D.J.A., Denton, G.H., Schaefer, J.M., Putnam, A.E., Late-glacial climate in the Southern Alps of New Zealand inferred from glacial modeling, Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 74, * Putnam, A.E., Schaefer, J.M., Denton, G.H., Barrell, D.J.A., Birkel, S.D., Andersen, B.G., Kaplan, M.R., Finkel, R.C., Schwartz, R., Doughty, A.M., 2013, The last local glacial maximum at 44 S documented by a 10 Be moraine chronology at Lake Ohau, Southern Alps of New Zealand. Quaternary Science Reviews, v.62, *Garcia, J.L., Kaplan, M.R., Hall, B.L., Schaefer, J.M., Vega, R.M., Schwartz, R. Finkel, R.C., 2012, Glacier expansion in Southern Patagonia throughout the Antarctic Cold Reversal, Geology, v. 40, p M. Kaplan CV, Page 2 of 7

3 11. Kaplan, M.R., Strelin, J.A., Schaefer, J.M., Denton, G.H., Finkel, R.C., Schwartz, R., Putnam, A.E., Vandergoes, M.J., Goehring, B.M., Travis, S.G., In-situ cosmogenic 10 Be production rate at Lago Argentino, Patagonia: Implications for late-glacial climate chronology, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 309, *Sagredo, E.A., Moreno, P.I., Villa-Martínez, R., Kaplan M.R., Kubik, P.W., Stern, C.R, Fluctuations of the Última Esperanza ice lobe (52 S), Chilean Patagonia, during the last glacial maximum and termination, Geomorphology v. 125, *Putnam, A.E., Denton, G.H., Schaefer, J.M., Barrell, D.J.A., Andersen, B.G., Finkel, R., Schwartz, R., Doughty, A.M., Kaplan, M.R, and Schlüchter, C., 2010b, Glacier advance in southern middle latitudes during the Antarctic Cold Reversal: Nature Geoscience, v. 3, p (with accompanying News and Views, p ) 14. Kaplan, M. R., Schaefer, J.M., Denton, G.H., Barrell, D.J.A., Chinn, T.J.H., Putnam, A.E, Andersen, B.G., Finkel, R.C., Schwartz, R., Doughty, A., Glacier retreat in New Zealand during the Younger Dryas Stadial, Nature v. 467, (with accompanying News and Views, p ). 15. *Hein, A.S., Hulton, N.R.J., Dunai, T., Sugden, D., Kaplan, M.R., Xu, S., The chronology of the Last Glacial Maximum and Late-glacial events in central Argentine Patagonia. Quaternary Science Reviews v. 29, *Putnam, A., Schaefer, J., Barrell, D.J.A., Vandergoes, M., Denton, G.H., Kaplan, M., Finkel, R.C., Schwartz, R., Goehring, B.M., Kelley, S., In situ cosmogenic 10 Be production-rate calibration from the Southern Alps, New Zealand, Journal of Quaternary Geochronology, v Sidall, M., Kaplan, M.R., Schaefer, J.M., Putnam, A., Kelly, M.A., Goehring, B., The bipolar switch - changing influence of Antarctic and Greenland temperature records on sea level over the last glacial cycle. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 29, Schaefer, J.M., Denton, G.D., Kaplan, M. R., Putnam, A., Finkel, R.C., Barrell, D.J.A., Andersen, B.G., Schwartz, R. Mackintosh, A., Chinn, T., Schlüchter, C., High frequency glacier events in New Zealand during the Holocene are incoherent to the northern climate record. Science, v. 324, (with accompanying Perspective, p ) 19. Zech, R., Smith, J., Kaplan, M., Chronologies of the LGM and its Termination in the Andes based on Surface Exposure Dating. In, Springer-Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research Series (DPER), Past climate variability from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene in South America and Surrounding regions. Edited by F.Vimeux, F. Sylvestre, M. Khodri, Kaplan, M.R., Hein, A.S., Hubbard. A., Lax, S.M., 2009, Can glacial erosion limit the extent of glaciation? Geomorphology, v. 103, (Lax was a LDEO summer intern). 21. *Moy,C.M., Moreno, P.I., Dunbar, R.B., Francois, J-P, Kaplan, M.R., Villalba, R., Haberzettle, T., Climate Change in Southern South America during the last two Millennia. In, Springer- Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research Series (DPER), Past climate variability from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene in South America and Surrounding regions. Edited by F.Vimeux, F. Sylvestre, M. Khodri, p *Hein, A.S., Hulton, N.R.J., Dunai, T., Schnabel, C., Kaplan, M.R., Naylor, M., Xu, S, Middle Pleistocene glaciation in Patagonia dated by cosmogenic-nuclide measurements on outwash gravels. M. Kaplan CV, Page 3 of 7

4 Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 286, Moreno, P.I., Kaplan, M.R., François, J.P., Villa-Martínez, R., Moy, C.M., Stern, C.R., Kubik, P.W., 2009, Renewed glacial activity during the Antarctic Cold Reversal and persistence of cold conditions until 11.5 ka in SW Patagonia, Geology, v. 37, Kaplan, M.R., Moreno, P.I., Rojas, M., 2008, Glacial Dynamics in Southernmost South America during Stage 5e to YD time: A Brief Review with a Focus on Cosmogenic Nuclide Measurements. Journal of Quaternary Science, v. 23, Sidall, M., Kaplan, M.R., 2008, A Tale of Two Ice Sheets. Nature Geoscience News and Views, v. 1, Kaplan, M.R., Fogwill, C.J., Sugden, D.E., Hulton, N.R.J., Kubik, P.W., Freeman. S.P.H.T., 2007, Southern Patagonian glacial chronology for the Last Glacial period and implications for Southern Ocean climate. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 27, Kaplan, M.R., 2007, Major Ice Sheet Response in Eastern New England to a Cold North Atlantic Ocean, c cal ka, Quaternary Research, v. 68, Kaplan, M.R., Coronato, A., Hulton, N.R.J., Rabassa, J.O., Kubik, P.W. Freeman, S., 2007, Cosmogenic Nuclide Measurements in Southernmost South America and Implications for Landscape Change. Geomorphology, v. 87, Kaplan, M.R. and Wolfe, A.P., 2006, Spatial and temporal variability of Holocene temperature trends in the North Atlantic sector: Quaternary Research, v. 65, Kaplan, M.R., Singer, B.S., Douglass, D.C., Ackert, R.P., Caffee, M.C., 2006, Response to Wenzens (2006) comment on Kaplan et al. (2005): Cosmogenic nuclide chronology of pre-last glaciation maximum moraines at Lago Buenos Aires, 46 S, Argentina. Quaternary Research 66, *Douglass, D.C., Singer, B.S., Kaplan, M.R., Mickelson, D.M., Caffee, M.W., 2006, Cosmogenic nuclide surface exposure dating of boulders on last-glacial and late-glacial moraines, Lago Buenos Aires, Argentina: Interpretive strategies and paleoclimate implications. Quaternary Geochronology, v. 1, Kaplan, M.R., Douglass, D.C., Singer, B.S., Ackert, R.P., and Caffee, M.W., 2005, Cosmogenic nuclide chronology of pre-last glaciation maximum moraines at Lago Buenos Aires, 46 S, Argentina: Quaternary Research, v. 63, (the above article was the most cited article for the previous 5 years in QR in January, 2010) 33. Hubbard, A., Hein, A.S., Kaplan, M.R., Hulton, N.R.J., 2005, A modeling reconstruction of the late glacial maximum ice sheet and its deglaciation in the vicinity of the Northern Patagonian Icefield, South America: Geografiska Annaler, v.87, *Douglass, D. C., Singer, B.S., Kaplan, M.R., Ackert, R.P., Mickelson, D.M., Caffee, M.W., 2005, Evidence of Early Holocene Glacial Advances in Southern South America from Cosmogenic Surface Exposure Dating: Geology, v. 33, Kaplan, M.R., Ackert, R.P., Singer, B. S., Douglass, D.C., and Kurz, M.D., 2004, Cosmogenic nuclide chronology of millennial-scale glacial advances during O-isotope Stage 2 in Patagonia: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.116, (in Science Editor s Choice: v. 304, 23 of April 2004 p. 491) 36. Ackert, R.P., Singer, B.S., Guillou, H., Kaplan, M.R., and Kurz, M.D., 2003, Calibration of 3 He production rates against 40 Ar/ 39 Ar and K-Ar dated lava flows in Patagonia: Earth and Planetary Science M. Kaplan CV, Page 4 of 7

5 Letters, v. 210, Kaufman and 29 others, 2004, Holocene thermal maximum in the western Arctic (0-180 W): Quaternary Science Reviews v. 23, Kaplan, M.R. and Miller, G. H., 2003, Early Holocene delevelling and deglaciation of the Cumberland Sound region, Baffin Island, Arctic Canada: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 115, Borns, H.W., Jr., Dorion, C.C., Jacobson, G.L. Jr., Kreutz, K.J., Thompson, W.B., Weddle, T.K., Doner, L.A., Kaplan, M.R., and Lowell, T.V, 2003, The deglaciation of Maine: in J. Ehlers and P. Gibbard, (eds.), Extent and Chronology of Glaciations, Volume 2, North America, Maine, INQA commission on glaciation, Germany. 40. Miller, G.H., Wolfe, A.W., Steig, E.J., Kaplan, M.R., and Briner, J.P., 2002, The Goldilocks Dilemma: Big Ice, Little Ice, or "Just-Right" Ice in the Eastern Canadian Arctic: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 21, Kaplan, M.R., Wolfe, A.W., and Miller, G.H., 2002, Holocene environmental variability in southern Greenland inferred from lake sediments: Quaternary Research, v. 58, *Briner, J. P., Kaufman, D. S., Werner, A., Caffee, M., Leavy, L. B., Kaplan, M. R., and Finkel, R., 2002, Glacier readvance during the late glacial (Younger Dryas?) in the Ahklun Mountains, southwestern Alaska: Geology, v. 30, Kaplan, M.R., Miller, G.H., and Steig, E.J., 2001, Low gradient outlet glaciers (or ice streams?) drained the Laurentide Ice Sheet: Geology, v. 26, Wolfe, A.P., Steig, E.J. and Kaplan, M.R., 2001, An alternative model for the geomorphic history of late Wisconsinan surfaces on eastern Baffin Island: a comment on Bierman et al. (1999): Geomorphology, v. 39, *Dorion, C.C., G. Balco, M. R. Kaplan, K.J. Kreutz, J. Wright, and H. W. Borns, Jr., 2001, The deglaciation of eastern Maine: in M. Retelle and T. Weddle (eds.), Deglacial history and relative sea-level changes, northern New England and adjacent Canada: Geol. Soc. of America Special Publication 351, Kaplan, M.R., W.T., Pfeffer, C. Sassolas, G.H. Miller, 1999, Numerical Modeling of the Northeastern Laurentide Ice Sheet in the Baffin Island Region, Eastern Canadian Arctic: the role of a Cumberland Sound ice stream, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v.36, p Kaplan, M.R., 1999, Retreat of a tidewater margin of the Laurentide ice sheet in eastern coastal Maine ca. 14 to 13, C yrs BP: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 111, Pfeffer, W.T., M. Dyurgerov, M. Kaplan, J. Dywer, C. Sassolas, A. Jennings, B. Raup, W. Manley, 1997, Numerical Modeling of Late Glacial Laurentide advance of ice across Hudson Strait: Insights into terrestrial and marine geology, mass balance, and calving flux: Paleoceanography, v.12, Ram, M., Illing, M., Weber, and P., Keonig, G., and Kaplan, M., 1995, Polar ice stratigraphy from laser light scattering: scattering from ice: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 22, M. Kaplan CV, Page 5 of 7

6 Field Experience Costa Rica (2014); Antarctic Peninsula (2014, 2013); Central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica (2011); central and northern Argentina (2005, 2010, 2012); Patagonia (2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2008, 2007, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001); South Island, New Zealand (2009, 2006); Greece (2005); Western Nevada (1999); Northeast Cumberland Peninsula, Baffin Island, Arctic Canada (1998); Cumberland Sound and Southeast Cumberland Peninsula (1997,1996); Inner Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island (1995); Tarfala Research Station, Sweden (1994), Eastern Coastal Maine (1993); Summit (GISP2) Greenland (1991,1992). Services to the Community Convener/Organizer of special sessions/workshops Lamont Mini Conference, June 2-3,2014 Connecting the tropics to the Polar Regions; New York, June 2-3, 2014, with Xiaojun Yuan and Mark Cane. AGU 2013, PP024. Past terrestrial climates in the middle latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere. AGU 2012, I helped initiate and organize EP012: Coevolution of Glaciation and Glaciated Mountains (note my name was accidently removed). AGU 2009, PP14: Empirical and Modeling Perspectives to Understanding the Tempo, Mode, and Origin of Climate Change During the Neoglacial Period. AGU 2008, Paleoclimate and Modern Perspectives of the Southern Hemisphere Westerlies and Polar Frontal Zone. INQUA, Cairns, Australia, September Special session co-organizer on 'Glacial chronologies from the tropics to the polar ice sheets.' 2005 GSA National Meeting. Organized special session on Free versus Cold-Based Ice: Cosmogenic Nuclides, Trimlines, and Ice Sheet History of Differentially Weathered Landscapes Helped organize a workshop on applications of Cosmogenic nuclide measurements at the University of Edinburgh, October NSF Panels Informal Science Education (ISE-DRL), 2012 Informal Science Education (ISE-DRL), 2011 Reviewer of proposals National Science Foundation FONDECYT and CONICYT (Chile) National Geographic Society Natural Environment Research Council (NERC, U.K.) Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Australian Antarctic Science (AAS) Program Swiss NSF Reviewer of journal and special publications Nature Geoscience EPSL GCA Revista Asoc. Geol. Argentina Quat. International Quat. Research Geografiska Annaler Quat. Science Reviews Journal of Quat. Science Arctic, Alpine and Antarctic Research Annals of Glaciology The Holocene GSA Special publications Paleo3 Sedimentology Journal of Climate Geology M. Kaplan CV, Page 6 of 7

7 Other Awards, Honors, and Accomplishments 2008 and Early promotion to Assistant and Associate Research Professor, respectively Comer Science and Education Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow Honorary Fellow, College of Science and Engineering, University of Edinburgh Royal Society of London Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Edinburgh Weeks Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, UW-Madison 1997 Winner, "best talk," Colorado Scientific Society Senior Partner (Big Brother) in Partners program to help Denver area youth As a first year graduate student, I independently funded my first field season in the Canadian Arctic Graduate Student Travel Grant, Graduate School at the University of Maine at Orono 1992 (1) -The Award for Excellence of Scholarship, to Senior Geography major, from the National Council for Geographic Education and the Association of American Geographers, (2) Elected to Phi Beta Kappa 1991 Elected to Golden Key National Honor Society 1985 Eagle Scout, Boy Scouts of America M. Kaplan CV, Page 7 of 7

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