Publications
* Queens College graduate student author
** Queens College undergraduate student author
SUBMITTED
Lesnek, A.J., Licciardi, J.M., Briner, J.P., Baichtal, J.F., Cosmogenic 36Cl surface exposure constraints on late Pleistocene coastal refugia in the eastern Mount Edgecumbe Volcanic Field, Alaska. Submitted to Scientific Reports, April 2026.
PUBLISHED
17. Lesnek, A.J., Licciardi, J.M., Hidy, A.J., Anderson, T.S., 2024, Technical note: Optimizing the in situ cosmogenic 36Cl extraction and measurement workflow for geologic applications. Geochronology, v. 6, no. 3, p. 475-489. [pdf]
16. Lesnek, A.J., 2023, Windows of opportunity for the peopling of the Americas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 120, no. 10, e2300979120. [pdf]
15. Price, B.N., Stansell, N.D., Fernández, A., Licciardi, J.M., Lesnek, A.J., Sorensen, M.K., Castillo, E.J., Muñoz, A., Shutkin, T., Ciocca, I., and Galilea, I., 2022, Chlorine-36 surface exposure dating of Late-Holocene moraines and glacial mass balance modeling, Monte Sierra Nevada, South-Central Chilean Andes (38°S). Frontiers in Earth Science, 1128. [pdf]
14. Darvill, C.M., Menounos, B., Goehring, B.M., and Lesnek, A.J., 2022, Cordilleran Ice Sheet Stability During the Last Deglaciation. Geophysical Research Letters, e2021GL097191. [pdf]
13. Walcott, C.K., Briner, J.P., Baichtal, J.F., Lesnek, A.J., and Licciardi, J.M., 2022, Cosmogenic ages indicate no MIS 2 refugia in the Alexander Archipelago, Alaska. Geochronology, v. 4, no. 1, p. 191–211. [pdf]
12. Baichtal, J.F., Lesnek, A.J., Carlson, R.J., Schmuck, N., Smith, J.L., Landwehr, D.J., and Briner, J.P., 2021, Late Pleistocene and early Holocene sea-level history and glacial retreat interpreted from shell-bearing marine deposits of Southeastern Alaska, Geosphere, v. 17, no. 6, p. 1590–1615. [pdf]
11. Young, N.E., Briner, J.P., Miller, G.H., Lesnek, A.J., Crump, S.E., Pendleton, S.L., Schwartz, R., and Schaefer, J.M., 2021, Pulsebeat of early Holocene glaciation in Baffin Bay from high-resolution beryllium-10 moraine chronologies, Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 270, 107179. [pdf]
10. Young, N.E., Lesnek, A.J., Cuzzone, J.K., Briner, J.P., Badgeley, J.A., Balter-Kennedy, A., Graham, B.L., Cluett, A., Lamp, J.L., Schwartz, R., Tuna, T., Bard, E., Caffee, M.W., Zimmerman, S.R.H., and Schaefer, J.M., 2021,Cosmogenic isotope measurements from recently deglaciated bedrock as a new tool to decipher changes in Greenland Ice Sheet size, Climate of the Past, v. 17, p. 419-450. [pdf]
9. Briner, J.P., Cuzzone, J.K., Badgeley, J.A., Young, N.E., Steig, E.J., Morlighem, M., Schlegel, N.J., Hakim, G.J., Schaefer, J., Johnson, J.V., Lesnek, A.J., Thomas, E.K., Allan, E., Bennike, O., Cluett, A.A., Csatho, B., de Vernal, A., Downs, J., Larour, E., and Nowicki, S., 2020, Greenland Ice Sheet mass loss rate will exceed Holocene values this century, Nature, v. 586, p. 70-74. [pdf]
8. Lesnek, A.J., Briner, J.P., Baichtal, J.F., and Lyles, A.S., 2020, New constraints on the last deglaciation of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet in coastal Southeast Alaska, Quaternary Research, v. 96, p. 140-160. [pdf]
7. Downs, J.Z., Johnson, J.V., Briner, J.P., Young N.E., Lesnek, A.J., and Cuzzone, J.K., 2020, West Greenland Ice Sheet retreat history reveals elevated precipitation during the Holocene thermal maximum, The Cryosphere, v. 14, p. 1121-1137. [pdf]
6. Young, N.E., Briner, J.P., Schaefer, J.M., Miller, G.H., Lesnek, A.J., Crump, S.E., Thomas, E.K., Pendleton, S.L., Cuzzone, J.K., Lamp, J., Zimmerman, S., and Caffee, M., 2020, Reply to Carlson (2020) comment on "Deglaciation of the Greenland and Laurentide ice sheets interrupted by glacier advance during abrupt coolings", Quaternary Science Reviews. [pdf]
5. Lesnek, A.J., Briner, J.P., Young, N.E., and Cuzzone, J.K., 2020, Maximum Southwest Greenland Ice Sheet recession in the early Holocene, Geophysical Research Letters, v. 47, e2019GL08316. [pdf]
4. Young, N.E., Briner, J.P., Miller, G.H., Lesnek, A.J., Crump, S.E., Thomas, E.K., Pendleton, S.L., Cuzzone, J.K., Lamp, J., Zimmerman, S., Caffee, M., and Schaefer, J.M., 2020, Deglaciation of the Greenland and Laurentide ice sheets interrupted by glacier advance during abrupt coolings, Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 229, 106091. [pdf]
3. Lesnek, A.J., Briner, J.P., Lindqvist, C., Baichtal, J.F., and Heaton, T.H., 2018, Deglaciation of the Pacific coastal corridor directly preceded the human colonization of the Americas, Science Advances, v. 4, no. 5, eaar5040. [pdf]
2. Lesnek, A.J. and Briner, J.P., 2018, Response of a land-terminating sector of the western Greenland Ice Sheet to early Holocene climate change: Evidence from 10Be dating in the Søndre Isortoq region, Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 180, p. 145-156. [pdf]
1. Briner, J.P., Tulenko J.P., Kaufman, D.S., Young N.E., Baichtal, J.F., and Lesnek, A., 2017, The Last Deglaciation of Alaska, Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica, v. 43, p. 429-448. [pdf]