EDUCATION

Brown University, Providence, RI

    Ph.D., Earth System History Division, Department of Geological Sciences

    Advisor: Dr. Meredith Hastings

The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

    M.S., School of Earth Sciences and Byrd Polar Research Center

    Advisor: Dr. Lonnie Thompson

Colgate University, Hamilton, NY

    B.A., Department of Geology

    Magna Cum Laude

    Advisor: Dr. Amy Leventer

RESEARCH AND TEACHING POSITIONS

Graduate Research Associate

    School of Earth Sciences and Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State

        University, Columbus, OH

Graduate Teaching Assistant

    School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

        Earth Systems I: Geological Environment

        Global Change and Sustainability in the Earth System

Undergraduate Research Assistant

    Department of Geology, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY

Undergraduate Field Assistant

    RV-LM Gould 05-02, Antarctic Peninsula

Undergraduate Summer Research Scholarship

    Department of Geology, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY

HONORS AND AWARDS

First Year Graduate Fellowship

    Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant

    School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Hackett-Rathmall Memorial Scholarship

    Department of Geology, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY

PUBLICATIONS

Gould, B.A., León, B., Buffen, A.M., Thompson, L.G. Evidence of a High-Andean, Mid-Holocene Plant Community: An Ancient DNA Analysis of Glacially-Preserved Remains. Submitted to American Journal of Botany.

Buffen, A.M., Thompson, L.G., Davis, M.E., Mosley-Thompson, E., Zagorodnov, V.S., Lin, P.-N., Bender, M.L., Barnett, B.A., Mikhalenko, V.N., Schotterer, U., Urmann, D. New Holocene and Late Last Glacial Stage Ice Core Climate Histories From Nevado Coropuna, Southwestern Peru. In Preparation.

Buffen, A.M., Thompson, L.G., Mosley-Thompson, E., Huh, K.I., 2009. Recently Exposed Vegetation Reveals Holocene Changes in the Extent of the Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru. Quaternary Research 72 (2), 157-163.

Buffen, A., Leventer, A., Rubin, A., Hutchins, T., 2007. Diatom Assemblages in Surface Sediments of the Northwestern Weddell Sea, Antarctic Peninsula. Marine Micropaleontology 62 (1), 7-30.

ABSTRACTS

Thompson, L.G., Mosley-Thompson, E.S., Davis, M.E., Urmann, D., Buffen, A., 2007. Ice Core Evidence for Amplification of the Recent Warming at High Elevations in the Tropics and the Likely Regional Impacts. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Thompson, L.G., Buffen, A.M., Davis, M.E., Kehrwald, N.M., Mosley-Thompson, E., Lin, P.-N., Urmann, D.H., 2007. 1500-Year Climate and Environmental Ice-Core Records From the Tropical Pacific Rim. NOAA IDEA and East-West Center Workshop on Climatic Changes in the Last 1500 Years: Their Impact on Pacific Islands, Honolulu, HI.

Thompson, L.G., Mosley-Thompson, E., Davis, M.E., Buffen, A., 2006. Glaciological Evidence of Temporal and Spatial Tropical Climate Variability. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Patterson, M., Leventer, A., Drake, A., Domack, E., Buffen, A., Ishman, S., Szymcek, P., Brachfeld, S., Backman, E., 2005. Mid-Holocene Warmth in the Antarctic Peninsula: Evidence From the Vega Drift. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.