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Glen Fredlund

  • Associate Professor Emeritus, Geography

Education

  • PhD, Interdepartmental Special Studies Degree Program, Quaternary Studies, Departments of Geology, Geography, and Systematics and Ecology, University of Kansas, 1992
  • MA, Anthropology, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, 1983
  • BA, Anthropology, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, 1977

Courses Taught

  • Geog 340 – Biogeography
  • Geog 350 – Conservation of Natural Resources
  • Geog 475 – Geography of Soils

Research Interests

  • Biogeography
    • Quaternary Climate Change and Vegetation Response
    • Landscape Ecology
    • GIS
    • Conservation
  • Geomorphology
    • Fluvial and Eolian Response to Climate Change
  • Soils Geography
    • Soil Development
    • Landscape Evolution
  • Geoarchaeology
    • Reconstruction of Vegetation
    • Climate for Archeology

Related Activities

Director, Conservation and Environmental Science Program

Selected Publications

Hapner, J. A., Reinartz, J. A., Fredlund, G. G., Leithoff, K. G., Cutright, N. J., & Mueller, W. P.(2011) Avian Succession in Small Created and Restored Wetlands.Wetlands, 31(6), 1089-1102. Wetlands.
Halfen, A. F., Fredlund, G. G., & Mahan, S. A.(2010) Holocene stratigraphy and chronology of the Casper Dune Field, Casper, Wyoming, USA.The Holocene, 20(5), 773-783.
Rawling, 3rd, J. E., Fredlund, G. G., Mahan, S. , & others, . (2003) Aeolian cliff-top deposits and buried soils in the White River Badlands, South Dakota, USA.The Holocene, 13(1), 121-129.
Fredlund, G. G., & Tieszen, L. L.(1997) Calibrating grass phytolith assemblages in climatic terms: application to late Pleistocene assemblages from Kansas and Nebraska.Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 136(1), 199-211.
Fredlund, G. G., & Tieszen, L. (1997) Phytolith and carbon isotope evidence for late Quaternary vegetation and climate change in the southern Black Hills, South Dakota.Quaternary Research, 47(2), 206-217.
Fredlund, G. G.(1995) Late Quaternary Pollen Record from Cheyenne Bottoms, Kansas.Quaternary Research, 43(1), 67-79.
Fredlund, G. G., & Tieszen, L. T.(1994) Modern phytolith assemblages from the North American great plains.Journal of Biogeography, 21(3), 321-335.

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