Member Since 1997
Matthew Kirby
Professor, California State University Fullerton
Professional Experience
California State University Fullerton
Professor
2002 - Present
Education
Doctorate
2002
Current Roles
President-Elect
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Executive Committee
Section President-Elect
Council
Chair
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Emiliani Lecture Committee
Publications
Southern California Vegetation, Wildfire, and Erosion Had Nonlinear Responses to Climatic Forcing Du...

A multiproxy record from Baldwin Lake, San Bernardino Mountains, allowed us to examine variation and relationships between erosion, wildfire, veget...

February 07, 2020
AGU Abstracts
A 21,000 year record of hydroclimatic variability from Big Lake, California (Northern California Coast Range)
LACUSTRINE RECORDS OF PALEOHYDROCLIMATE FROM THE PLEISTOCENE TO PRESENT II POSTER
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 13 december 2023
Daisy Quiroz, Matthew Kirby, Joe Carlin, Glen M. M...
Our study focuses on Big Lake, located in the Northern Coast Range of California. Big Lake represents a key site for understanding Californias water h...
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Re-visiting Lake Mojave using a basin analysis approach: trying to resolve a complex history of lake level change during the late Glacial through Early Holocene.
LACUSTRINE RECORDS OF PALEOHYDROCLIMATE FROM THE PLEISTOCENE TO PRESENT I ORAL
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 12 december 2023
Matthew Kirby, Edward J. Knell, Jenifer Leidelmeij...
Glacial Lake Mojave has long been studied (e.g., Brown et al., 1990). A well-dated comparison, however, between lake sediment cores and beach, or near...
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Diatom-inferred Water Depth Transfer Function from a Single Lake in Northern California
LAKES PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE: ARCHIVES OF CLIMATE VARIABILITY, PALEOENVIRONMENT, GEOHAZARDS, AND ECONOMIC RESOURCES II ORAL
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 14 december 2021
Jiwoo Han, Matthew Kirby, Joe Carlin, Benjamin C....
Understanding natural paleohydroclimate variability is important in understanding future climate changes from natural and anthropogenic variability to...
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Volunteer History
2023 - 2024
Chair
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Emiliani Lecture Committee
2023 - 2024
Member
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Canvassing Committee
2023 - 2024
President-Elect
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
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