Recent Publications - Dr. Elisabeth Levac
Dr. Elisabeth Levac
Department of Environmental Studies and Geography
Levac, E., 2011. Climatic and environmental change: monitoring, adaptation, action:
The new Multi-Scale Climate and Environmental Change (MUSCLE) Research Cluster. Journal of Eastern Townships Studies, vol. 37, pages 23-42.
Levac, E., Stretch, V., Sandercombe, S., Ashley, A., 2011. A pollen calendar for the main allergenic pollen types in the borough of Lennoxville (Sherbrooke), Quebec. Journal of Eastern Townships Studies, vol. 37, pages 43-62.
Lewis, C.F.M., Miller, A.A.L., Levac, E., Piper, D.J.W., Sonnichsen, G.V. (forthcoming). Lake Agassiz outburst age and routing by Labrador Current and the 8.2 cal ka cold event. Quaternary International, vol. 260, pages 83-97. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2011.08.023
Levac, E., Lewis, C.F.M., Miller, A.A.L. 2011. The Impact of the Final Lake Agassiz Flood Recorded in Northeast Newfoundland and Northern Scotian Shelves Based on Century-Scale Palynological Data. Abrupt Climate Change: Mechanisms, Patterns, and Impacts Geophysical Monograph Series 193. pages 139-159. doi:10.1029/2010GM001051.
Bourlon, E., Levac, E., 2007. Centennial to millennial Holocene climate oscillations from palynological records in Atlantic Canada. Submitted to Paleoceanography.
Anderson, T.W., Levac, E., Lewis, C.F.M., 2007. Cooling in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and estuary region at 9.7 to 7.2 14C ka: palynological response to the PBO and 8.2 ka cal BP cold events, Laurentide Ice Sheet air mass circulation and enhanced freshwater runoff. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, volume 246, pages 75-100. Special issue: Late Quaternary North American meltwater and floods to the Atlantic Ocean: evidence and impacts.
Mudie, P.J., Rochon, A., Prins, M., Soenarjo, D., Troelstra, S., Levac, E., Scott, D.B., Roncaglia, L., Kuijpers, A., 2006. Late Pleistocene-Holocene marine geology of Nares Strait: palaeoceanography from foraminifer and dinoflagellate cysts, sedimentology and stable isotopes. Polarforschung, volume 74, pages 169-183.
DeLazzer, A., Levac, E., Waugh, D.L., Richardson, D.H.S., 2006. Report on the Halifax experimental pollen and spores forecast program for the summer of 2005. Meteorological Service of Canada, Atlantic Region, Science Report Series 2006-09. 60 pages
Mudie, P.J., Rochon, A., Levac, E., 2005. Arctic catastrophes: rapid sea ice changes in the Canadian Arctic and the impact on humans. Geological Society Special Publication “Environmental Catastrophes and Recovery in the Holocene” edited by Iain Stewart and Suzanne Leroy. Environmental Archaeology, vol. 10, 113-126.
Levac, E., 2003. Palynological records from Bay of Islands, Newfoundland: direct correlation of Holocene paleoceanographic and climatic changes. Palynology, vol. 27, 135-154.
Mudie, P.J., Rochon, A. and Levac, E. 2002. Palynological records of red tides in Canada: past trends and implications for the future. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, vol. 180, p. 159-186.
Levac, E., 2001. High resolution Holocene palynological records from the Scotian Shelf. Marine Micropaleontology, vol. 43, p.179-197.
Levac, E., de Vernal, A., Blake, W. Jr. 2001. Holocene palynology of cores from the North Water Polynya, Baffin Bay. Journal of Quaternary Science, vol. 16, p. 353-363.
de Vernal, A., Henry, M., ... Levac, E., et al. 2001. Dinoflagellate cyst assemblages as tracers of sea-surface conditions in the northern North Atlantic, Arctic and sub-Arctic seas: the new "n = 677" data base and its application for quantitative paleoceanographic reconstructions. Journal of Quaternary Science, vol. 16, p. 681-698.
Cape Roberts Science Team, 1998. Initial report on CRP-1, Cape Roberts Project, Antarctica. Terra Antarctica, vol. 5.
Levac, E. and de Vernal, A. 1997. Postglacial changes of terrestrial and marine environments along the Labrador coast: palynological evidences from cores 91-045-005 and 91-045-006, Cartwright Saddle, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 34, p. 1358-1365.
