Quaternary Environments: Publications
Research papers, book chapters, essays, and selected popular articles
Beaudoin, A. B. (2011) On the Development, Maintenance, and Use of a Modern Pollen Reference Collection. Collection Forum 25(1-2):62-79.
Beaudoin, A. B. (2009) Four Words Connecting Darwin and Museums. Alberta Museums Review 35(1):15-24.
Beaudoin, A. B. (2009) Small Wonder: Using SEM Images to Exhibit the "Small Stuff". Curator: The Museum Journal 52(3):261-272.
Beaudoin, A. B. (2007) On the Laboratory Procedure for Processing Unconsolidated Sediment Samples to Concentrate Subfossil Seed and Other Plant Macroremains. Journal of Paleolimnology 37:301-308. DOI: 10.1007/s10933-006-9031-8
Beaudoin, A. B. (2006) On the Development, Care, and Maintenance of Collections of Reference and Subfossil Seed and Plant Macroremains. Collection Forum 20(1-2):55-66.
Beaudoin, A. (2003) A Comparison of Two Methods for Estimating the Organic Content of Sediments. Journal of Paleolimnology 29(3):387-390. DOI: 10.1023/A:1023972116573
Beaudoin, A. B. (2003) Climate and Landscape of the Last 2000 Years in Alberta. In Archaeology in Alberta: A View from the New Millennium edited by Jack W. Brink and John F. Dormaar, pp. 10-45. Archaeological Society of Alberta, Medicine Hat, Alberta.
Beaudoin, A. B. (2003) Why Can't I Find Our Web Presentation? Alberta Museums Review 29(1):32-28.
Beaudoin, A. B. (2002) On the Identification and Characterization of Drought and Aridity in Postglacial Paleoenvironmental Records from the Northern Great Plains. Géographie physique et Quaternaire 56(2-3):229-246. E-SCAPE Contribution 3. [Note: Published in 2004]
Beaudoin, A. B. (2001) A Regional Compilation of Postglacial Paleoenvironmental Records from the Northern Plains for the SCAPE Project. Current Research in the Pleistocene 18:91-92. E-SCAPE Contribution 1.
Beaudoin, A. B. (1999) What They Saw: The Climatic and Environmental Context for Euro-Canadian Settlement in Alberta. Prairie Forum 24(1):1-40.
Beaudoin, A. B. (1999) Tips and Tricks for Designing a Museum Website. Alberta Museums Review 25(1):61-64.
Beaudoin, A. B. (1999) Surfers, Scholars and Sightseers: Evaluating the First Operational Year of The Provincial Museum of Alberta's WWW Presentation. Alberta Museums Review 25(1):66.
Beaudoin, A. B. (1998) A Report and Critical Evaluation of Museums and the Web 1998, Toronto, Ontario, April 22-25, 1998. Alberta Museums Review 24(3):61-62.
Beaudoin, A. B. (1997) Entangled in the Past: Archaeology on the World Wide Web. Alberta Archaeological Review 27:11-20.
Beaudoin, A. B. (1997) Are National Parks Also Museums? Alberta Museums Review, Summer 1997, pp. 21-23.
Beaudoin, A. B. (1993) A Compendium and Evaluation of Postglacial Pollen Records in Alberta. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 17:92-112.
Beaudoin, A. B. (1993) The Possible Contribution of Pollen Records from Alberta to a 6 Ka Climate Reconstruction. In Proxy Climate Data and Models of the Six Thousand Years Before Present Time Interval: The Canadian Perspective, edited by Alice Telka, pp. 2-5. Canadian Global Change Program Incidental Report No. IR93-3. Royal Society of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Beaudoin, A. B. (1991) Alberta Radiocarbon Dates 1988-1989. In Archaeology in Alberta, 1988 and 1989, edited by M. Magne, pp. 239-253. Archaeological Survey, Provincial Museum of Alberta, Occasional Paper No. 33. Alberta Culture and Multiculturalism, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. [Available through the Museum Shop]
Beaudoin, A. B. (1989) Annotated Bibliography: Late Quaternary Studies in Alberta's Western Corridor 1950-1988. Archaeological Survey of Alberta Manuscript Series No. 15, xvii + 362 pages. Alberta Culture and Multiculturalism, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. [Available through the Museum Shop]
Beaudoin, A. B. (1989) The Response of the Treeline Zone to Climatic Change in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The Canadian Geographer 33:83-85.
Beaudoin, A. B. (1988) Alberta Radiocarbon Dates 1986-1987. In Archaeology in Alberta, 1987, compiled by M. Magne, pp. 159-167. Archaeological Survey of Alberta, Occasional Paper No. 32. Alberta Culture and Multiculturalism, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. [Available through the Museum Shop]
Beaudoin, A. B. (1987) Alberta Radiocarbon Dates 1982-1986. In Archaeology in Alberta, 1986, compiled by M. Magne, pp. 197-213. Archaeological Survey of Alberta, Occasional Paper No. 31. Alberta Culture and Multiculturalism, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. [Available through the Museum Shop]
Beaudoin, A. B. (1987) Collection and Submission of Samples for Radiocarbon Dating. In Archaeology in Alberta, 1986, compiled by M. Magne, pp. 188-196. Archaeological Survey of Alberta, Occasional Paper No. 31. Alberta Culture and Multiculturalism, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. [Available through the Museum Shop]
Beaudoin, A. B. (1986) Using Picea/Pinus Ratios from the Wilcox Pass Core, Jasper National Park, Alberta, to Investigate Holocene Timberline Fluctuations. Géographie physique et Quaternaire 40:145-152.
Beaudoin, A. B., and M. J. Head (editors) (2004) The Palynology and Micropalaeontology of Boundaries GSL Special Publications, SP230, Geological Society London, 368 pages.
Beaudoin, A. B., and M. J. Head (2004) Drawing a Line in the Sand: Identifying and Characterizing Boundaries in the Geological Record. In The Palynology and Micropalaeontology of Boundaries, edited by A. B. Beaudoin and M. J. Head, pp. 1-10. Special Publication 230. Geological Society, London. DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.230.01.01
Beaudoin, A. B., and R. H. King (1994) Holocene Palaeoenvironmental Record Preserved in a Paraglacial Alluvial Fan, Sunwapta Pass, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada. Catena 22:227-248. DOI: 10.1016/0341-8162(94)90004-3
Beaudoin, A. B., and R. H. King (1990) Late Quaternary Vegetation History of Wilcox Pass, Jasper National Park, Alberta. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 80:129-144. DOI: 10.1016/0031-0182(90)90125-Q
Beaudoin, A. B., and R. H. King (1986) Using Discriminant Function Analysis to Identify Holocene Tephras Based on Magnetite Composition: A Case Study from the Sunwapta Pass Area, Jasper National Park. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 23:804-812.
Beaudoin, A. B., D. S. Lemmen and R. E. Vance (1997) Paleoenvironmental Records of Postglacial Climate Change in the Prairie Ecozone. On-line paper for EMAN (Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network).
Beaudoin, A. B., and G. A. Oetelaar (2006) The Day the Dry Snow Fell: The Record of a 7627-year-old Disaster. In Alberta Formed, Alberta Transformed, Volume 1, edited by M. Payne, D. G. Wetherell, C. Kavanaugh. pp. 37-53. Co-published by University of Alberta Press and University of Calgary Press. E-SCAPE Contribution 5
Beaudoin, A. B., and G. A. Oetelaar (2003) The Changing Ecophysical Landscape of Southern Alberta During the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene. Plains Anthropologist Vol. 48, Number 187, pp. 187-207. E-SCAPE Contribution 2.
Beaudoin, A. B. and J. Petrik (2007) The Benefits of a Photograph and Image Cataloguing Database for Research and Archival Purposes, Illustrated by an Example from Canadian Archaeology. Collections 3(3):211-222.
Beaudoin, A. B., and H. P. Pyszczyk (1998) Where Was Anthony Henday and What Did He See? Alberta Archaeological Review 28:25-31.
Beaudoin, A. B., and M. A. Reasoner (1992) Evaluation of Differential Pollen Deposition and Pollen Focussing at Three Holocene Intervals in Lake O'Hara, Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada: Intra-Lake Variability in Pollen Percentages, Concentration and Influx. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 75:103-131. DOI: 10.1016/0034-6667(92)90152-7
Beaudoin, A. B., and F. D. Reintjes (1994) Late Quaternary Studies in Beringia and Beyond, 1950-1992: An Annotated Bibliography. Archaeological Survey, Royal Alberta Museum, Occasional Paper No. 35. Alberta Community Development, Edmonton. viii + 386 pages. [Available through the Museum Shop]
Beaudoin, A. B., and M. Wright (1993) Links between Culture and Environment: An Example from Archaeological and Palaeoenvironmental Research in the Grande Prairie Region, Northwestern Alberta, 1987-1991. In Culture and Environment: A Fragile Coexistence, edited by R. W. Jamieson, S. Abonyi and N. Mirau, Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Chacmool Conference of the Archaeological Association of the University of Calgary, pp. 231-235. Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Beaudoin, A. B., M. Wright and B. Ronaghan (1996) Late Quaternary Landscape History and Archaeology in the 'Ice-Free Corridor': Some Recent Results from Alberta. Quaternary International 32:113-126. DOI: 10.1016/1040-6182(95)00058-5
Dormaar, J. F., and A. B. Beaudoin (1991) Application of Soil Chemistry to Interpret Cultural Events at the Calderwood Buffalo Jump (DkPj-27), Southern Alberta, Canada. Geoarchaeology 6:85-98.
Gaglioti, Benjamin V., Brian M. Barnes, Grant D. Zazula, Alwynne B. Beaudoin and Matthew J. Wooller (2011) Late Pleistocene paleoecology of arctic ground squirrel (Urocitellus parryii) caches and nests from Interior Alaska's mammoth steppe ecosystem, USA. Quaternary Research 76(3):373-382. DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2011.08.004
Head, M. J., and A. B. Beaudoin (editors) (2002) New Frontiers and Applications in Palynology and MicroPalaeontology: A Canadian Perspective. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 180(1-3):1-251.
Head, M. J., and A. B. Beaudoin (2002) Palynology and MicroPalaeontology in Canada - An Introduction. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 180(1-3):1-4. DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(01)00420-5
Ives, J. W., Yang Zhijun, A. B. Beaudoin and Ye Qixiao (1994) Human Presence in Heilongjiang, China, Along the Late Pleistocene Periphery of Beringia. Current Research in the Pleistocene 11:136-138.
Luckman, B. H., M. S. Kearney, R. H. King and A. B. Beaudoin (1986) Revised 14C Age for St. Helens Y Tephra at Tonquin Pass, British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 23:734-736.
Oetelaar, G. A., and A. B. Beaudoin (2005) Darkened Skies and Sparkling Grasses: The Potential Impact of the Mazama Ash Fall on the Northwestern Plains. Plains Anthropologist, Vol. 50, Number 195, pp. 285-305. E-SCAPE Contribution 4.
Robinson, Simon, Alwynne B. Beaudoin, Duane G. Froese, Jennifer Doubt and John J. Clague (2007) Plant Macrofossils Associated with an Early Holocene Beaver Dam in Interior Alaska. Arctic 60(4):430-438.
Ronaghan, B. M., and A. B. Beaudoin (1988) An Archaeological Survey in the Upper North Saskatchewan River Valley. In Archaeology in Alberta, 1987, compiled by M. Magne, pp. 25-45. Archaeological Survey of Alberta, Occasional Paper No. 32. Alberta Culture and Multiculturalism, Edmonton, Alberta. [Available through the Museum Shop]
Sauchyn, D. J., and A. B. Beaudoin (1998) Recent Environmental Change in the Southwestern Canadian Plains. The Canadian Geographer 42(4):337-353. DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0064.1998.tb01350.x
Vance, R. E., A. B. Beaudoin and B. H. Luckman (1995) The Paleoecological Record of 6 ka BP Climate in the Canadian Prairie Provinces. Géographie physique et Quaternaire 49:81-98.
Vickers, J. R., and A. B. Beaudoin (1989) A Limiting AMS Date for the Cody Complex Occupation at the Fletcher Site, Alberta, Canada. Plains Anthropologist, Vol. 34, Number 125, pp. 261-264.
Wilson, M. C., J. R. Vickers, A. C. MacWilliams, A. B. Beaudoin and I. G. Robertson (1991) New Studies at the Fletcher Paleo-Indian Bison Kill (Alberta/Scottsbluff), Southern Alberta. In Archaeology in Alberta, 1988 and 1989, edited by M. Magne, pp. 127-133. Archaeological Survey, Provincial Museum of Alberta, Occasional Paper No. 33. Alberta Culture and Multiculturalism, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. [Available through the Museum Shop]
Woywitka, Robin, and Alwynne B. Beaudoin (2009) Legacy Databases and GIS: A Discussion of the Issues Illustrated by a Case Study of Archaeological Site Data from Southeast Alberta, Canada. The Canadian Geographer 53(4):462-472. DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0064.2009.00282.x. E-SCAPE Contribution 7.
Zazula, G. D., D. G. Froese, C. E. Schweger, R. W. Mathewes, A. B. Beaudoin, A. M. Telka, C. R. Harington, and J. A. Westgate (2003) Ice-age Steppe Vegetation in East Beringia. Nature 423:603.
Zazula, G. D., C. E. Schweger, A. B. Beaudoin and G. H. McCourt (2006) Macrofossil and Pollen Evidence for Full-glacial Steppe Within an Ecological Mosaic along the Bluefish River, Eastern Beringia. Quaternary International 142-143:2-19. Special Issue: Third International Mammoth Conference, Dawson, Yukon, 24-29 May 2003, edited by J. E. Storer. [Note: Published in 2005] DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2005.03.010
Selected Book Reviews (last ten years only)
Beaudoin, A. B. (2011) The Making of the Geological Society of London edited by C. L. E. Lewis and S. J. Knell. Reviewed in Geolog 40(3):14-17.
Beaudoin, A. B. (2011) Microcosmos: Discovering the World Through Microscopic Images from 20 X to Over 22 Million X Magnification by Brandon Broll. Reviewed in C.A.P. Newsletter 34(1):6-8.
Beaudoin, A. B. (2010) The Legacy of the Mastodon: The Golden Age of Fossils in America by Keith Thomson. Reviewed in Geoscience Canada 37(3):141-143.
Beaudoin, A. B. (2010) Mt. St. Helens: Surviving the Stone Wind by Catherine Hickson. Reviewed in Geolog 39(2):14-15.
Beaudoin, A. B. (2010) Travels with the Fossil Hunters edited by Peter J. Whybrow. Reviewed in Geolog 39(1):13-14.
Beaudoin, A. B. (2009) Innocents in the Dry Valleys: An Account of the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition, 1958-59 by Colin Bull. Reviewed in The Canadian Field-Naturalist 123(4):385-386.
Beaudoin, A. B. (2009) Earth Matters edited by Elinor Greenwood and Elizabeth Haldane. Reviewed in The Canadian Field-Naturalist 123(1):89-91.
Beaudoin, A. B. (2009) Arc of the Medicine Line: Mapping the World's Longest Undefended Border Across the Western Plains by Tony Rees. Prairie Forum 34(2):455-461.
Beaudoin, A. B. (2009) Evolution's Captain: The Story of the Kidnapping That Led to Charles Darwin's Voyage Aboard the "Beagle" by Peter Nichols. Reviewed in Geolog 38(2):25-26.
Beaudoin, A. B. (2009) Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum by Richard Fortey. Geoscience Canada 36(1):45-46.
Beaudoin, A. B. (2009) Darwin's Origin of Species: A Biography by Janet Browne. AASP Newsletter 42(2):20-21.
Beaudoin, A. B. (2008) Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities: The Causes of Mass Extinctions by Tony Hallam. Reviewed in AASP Newsletter 41(3):20-24.
Beaudoin, A. B. (2007) The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin. Reviewed in Prairie Forum 32(1):201-205.
Beaudoin, A. B. (2007) Archaeomalacology: Molluscs in Former Environments of Human Behaviour, edited by Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer. Reviewed in Canadian Journal of Archaeology 31:103-107.
Beaudoin, A. B. (2007) Pollen: The Hidden Sexuality of Flowers by Rob Kesseler and Madeline Harley. Reviewed in AASP Newsletter 40(3):12-15.
Beaudoin, A. B. (2006) An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore. Reviewed in The Canadian Field-Naturalist 120(4):494-495. [Vol. published in 2008]
Beaudoin, A. B. (2006) The Atlas of Climate Change by Kirstin Dow and Thomas E. Downing. Reviewed in The Canadian Field-Naturalist 120(4):493-494. [Vol. published in 2008]
Beaudoin, A. B. (2006) Land Snails of British Columbia by Robert G. Forsyth. Reviewed in The Canadian Field-Naturalist 120(3):383-384. [Vol. published in 2007]
Beaudoin, A. B. (2006) The Last Giant of Beringia: The Mystery of the Bering Land Bridge, by Dan O'Neill. Reviewed in Earth Sciences History 25(1):162-163.
Beaudoin, A. B. (2006) Islands on the Plains: Ecological, Social, and Ritual Use of Landscapes, edited by M. Kornfeld and A. J. Osborn. Reviewed in American Antiquity 71(3):588-589.
Beaudoin, A. B. (2005) Canada's Forests: A History by Ken Drushka. Reviewed in The Canadian Field-Naturalist 119(4):603-604. [Note: Published in 2007]
Beaudoin, A. B. (2005) Portraits of the Bison, by Wes Olson. Reviewed in The Canadian Field-Naturalist 119(4):596-597. [Note: Published in 2007]
Beaudoin, A. B. (2005) Survival by Hunting: Prehistoric Human Predators and Animal Prey, by George C. Frison. Reviewed in The Canadian Field-Naturalist 119(3):465-466. [Note: Published in 2006]
Beaudoin, A. B. (2005) Boreal Forest of Canada and Russia by W. O. Pruitt and L. M. Baskin. The Canadian Field-Naturalist 119(1):150-151. [Note: Published in 2006]
Beaudoin, A. B. (2005) Five Billion Years of Global Change by Denis Wood. Reviewed in The Canadian Geographer 49(2):223-224.
Beaudoin, A. B. (2003) The War on Weeds in the Prairie West: An Environmental History by Clinton L. Evans. Reviewed in The Canadian Field-Naturalist 117(4):670-671 [Note: Published in 2004]
Beaudoin, A. B. (2003) American Beginnings: The Prehistory and Palaeoecology of Beringia edited by F. H. West. Reviewed in Canadian Journal of Archaeology 27(2):314-317.
Beaudoin, A. B. (2003) The Dinosaur Hunters: A Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World by Deborah Cadbury. Reviewed in Geoscience Canada 30(3):141-142.
Beaudoin, A. B. (2002) The Fisher Site: Archaeological, Geological and Paleobotanical Studies at an Early Paleo-Indian Site in Southern Ontario, Canada by Peter Storck. Reviewed in Canadian Journal of Archaeology 26(1):66-72.
