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Selected Publications (1980-2004)

Murnane, R. and K.B. Liu, eds.
2004 Hurricanes and Typhoons: Past, Present, and Future. Columbia University Press, New York.

Liu, K.B.
2004 “Paleotempestology: Principles, Methods, and Examples from Gulf Coast Lake Sediments,” in Murnane, R. and K.B. Liu, eds., Hurricanes and Typhoons: Past, Present, and Future. Columbia University Press, New York, pp. 13-57.

Louie, K.S. and Liu, K.B.
2004 “Ancient Records of Typhoons in Chinese Historical Documents,” in Murnane, R. and K.B. Liu, eds., Hurricanes and Typhoons: Past, Present, and Future. Columbia University Press, New York, pp. 222-48.

Liu, K.B.
2004 “Paleotempestology: Geographic Solutions to Hurricane Hazard Assessment and Risk Prediction,” in Janelle, D., B. Warf, and K. Hansen, eds., WorldMinds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 443-8.

Elsner, J.B. and K.B. Liu
2003 “Examining the ENSO-Typhoon Hypothesis,” Climate Research 25(1):43-54.

Reese, C.A., K.B. Liu, and K.R. Mountain
2003 “Pollen Dispersal and Deposition on the Ice Cap of Volcan Parinacota, Southwestern Bolivia,” Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 35(4):58-63.

Liu, K.B., H.Y. Lu, and C.M. Shen
2003 “Assessing the Vulnerability of the Alabama Gulf Coast to Intense Hurricane Strikes and Forest Fires in the Light of Long-term Climatic Changes,” Ning, Z.H., R.E. Turner, T. Doyle, and K. Abdollahi, eds., Integrated Assessment of the Climate Change Impacts on the Gulf Coast Region, Gulf Coast Regional Climate Change Council, Baton Rouge, pp. 223-30.

Lu, H.Y. and K.B. Liu
2003 “Phytoliths of Common Grasses in the Coastal Environments of Southeastern USA,” Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 58(3):587-600.

Louie, K.S. and K.B. Liu
2003 “Earliest Historical Records of Typhoons in China,” Journal of Historical Geography 29(3):299-316.


Lu, H.Y. and K.B. Liu
2003 “Morphological Variations of Lobate Phytoliths from Grasses in China and the Southeastern United States,” Diversity and Distributions 9:73-87.

Reese, C.A. and K.B. Liu
2002 “Pollen Dispersal and Deposition on the Quelccaya Ice Cap,” Physical Geography 23:44-58.

Maxwell, A. and K.B. Liu
2002 “Late Quaternary Pollen and Associated Records from the Monsoonal Areas of Continental South and SE Asia,” in Kershaw, P., B. David, N. Tapper, D. Penny, and J. Brown, eds., Bridging Wallace’s Line: The Environmental and Cultural History and Dynamics of the SE-Asian-Australian Region, Advances in GeoEcology 34, Catena Verlag, Reiskirchen, pp. 189-228.

Liu, K.B., C. Shen, and K.S. Louie
2001 “A 1000-year History of Typhoon Landfalls in Guangdong, Southern China, Reconstructed from Chinese Historical Documentary Records,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 91:453-64.

Liu, K.B. and M.L. Fearn
2000 “Reconstruction of Prehistoric Landfall Frequencies of Catastrophic Hurricanes in Northwestern Florida from Lake Sediment Records,” Quaternary Research 54:238-45.

Liu, K.B. and M.L. Fearn
2000 “Holocene History of Catastrophic Hurricane Landfalls along the Gulf of Mexico Coast Reconstructed from Coastal Lake and Marsh Sediments,” in Ning, Z.H. and K.K. Abdollahi, eds., Current Stresses and Potential Vulnerabilities: Implications of Global Change for the Gulf Coast Region of the United States, Gulf Coast Regional Climate Change Council, Franklin Press, Baton Rouge, pp. 38-47.

Elsner, J.B., K.B. Liu, and B.L. Kocher
2000 “Spatial Variations in Major U.S. Hurricane Activity: Statistics and a Physical Mechanism,” Journal of Climate 13:2293-305.

Murnane, R.J., C. Barton, E. Collins, J. Donnelly, J. Elsner, K. Emanuel, I. Ginis, S. Howard, C. Landsea, K.B. Liu, D. Malmquist, M. McKay, A. Michaels, N. Nelson, J. O’Brien, D. Scott, T. Webb III
2000 “Model Estimates Hurricane Wind Speed Probabilities,” EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 81(38):433-8.

Yu, G. and 30 others arranged alphabetically (including K.B. Liu)
2000 “Paleovegetation of China: A Pollen Data-based Synthesis for the Mid-Holocene and Last Glacial Maximum,” Journal of Biogeography 27:635-64.

Tang, L.Y., Shen, C.M., Liu, K.B., and Overpeck, J.T.
1999 "Changes in the South Asian paleomonsoon: New high-resolution paleoclimatic records from Tibet," Kexue Tongbao 44 (18): 2004-2008 (in Chinese).

Liu, K.B.
1999 "Millennial-scale variability in catastrophic hurricane landfalls along the Gulf of Mexico coast." Preprint Volume of the 23rd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, 10-15 January, 1999, Dallas, Texas, American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA, pp. 374-377.

Elsner, J.B., Liu, K.B., and Kocher, B.L.
1999 "Trends in hurricane landfall probabilities in the U.S.," Preprint Volume of the 23rd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, 10-15 January, 1999, Dallas, Texas, American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA, pp. 384-387.

Liu, K.B., Yao, Z., and Thompson, L.G.
1998 "A pollen record of Holocene climatic changes from the Dunde ice cap, Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau," Geology 26: 135-138.

Kremenetski, C.V., Liu, K.B., and MacDonald, G.M.
1998 "The late Quaternary dynamics of pines in northern Asia," in: Richardson, D.M. (ed.), Ecology and Biogeography of Pinus, Chapter 4, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 95-106.

Liu, K.B. and Fearn, M.L.
1997 "Lake sediment records of hurricane Opal and prehistoric hurricanes from the Florida Panhandle," Preprint Volume of the 22nd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, 19-23 May, 1997, Fort Collins, Colorado, American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA, pp. 397-398.

Fearn, M.L. and Liu, K.B.
1997 "Identification of maize pollen: Reply to Eubanks," American Antiquity 62: 146-148.

Colinvaux, P.A., Liu, K.B., De Oliveira, P., Bush, M.B., Miller, M.C., Piperno, D.R., and Steinitz-Kannan, M.
1996 "Temperature depression in the lowland tropics in glacial times," Climatic Change 32: 19-33.

Lam, N.S.N. and Liu, K.B.
1996 "Generation of a national rural sampling frame for HIV/AIDS research using space-filling curves," Professional Geographer 48: 321-332.

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Lam, N.S.N., M. Fan, and Liu, K.B.
1996 "Spatial-temporal spread of the AIDS epidemic, 1982-1990: A correlogram analysis of four regions of the United States," Geographical Analysis 28(2): 93-107.

Thompson, L.G., Moseley-Thompson, E., Davis, M.E., Lin, P-N., Henderson, K.A., Cole-Dai, J., Bolzan, J.F., Liu, K.B.
1995 "Late Glacial Stage and Holocene tropical ice core records from Huascaran, Peru," Science 269: 46-50.

Fearn, M.L. and Liu, K.B.
1995 "Maize pollen of 3500 B.P. from southern Alabama," American Antiquity 60: 109-117.

Liu, K.B. and Qiu, H.L.
1994 "Late-Holocene pollen records of vegetational changes in China: Climate or human disturbance"? Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences 5(3): 120-137.

Lam, N. S. N. and Liu, K. B.
1994 "Spread of AIDS in rural America, 1982-1990," Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 7: 485-490.

Liu, K. B. and Fearn, M.L.
1993 "Lake sediment record of late Holocene hurricane activities from coastal Alabama," Geology 21: 793-796.

Fan, M., Lam, N. S. N., and Liu, K. B.
1993 "Using GlS to model the spatial spread of the AIDS epidemic in the United States," American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM) Technical Papers, 1993 Annual Convention and Exposition, New Orleans, pp. 186-195.

Liu, K. B., Sun, S., and Jiang, X.
1992 "Environmental Change in the Yangtze River Delta since 12,000 yr B.P.," Quaternary Research 28: 32-45.

Liu, K. B.
1992 "The Shifting Forest Ecotone in Postglacial Northern Ontario," in Janelle, D., (ed.),
Geographical Snapshots of North America. Guilford Press, New York, pp. 204-207.

Liu, K. B.
1990 "Holocene paleoecology of the boreal forest and Great Lakes-St. Lawrence forest in northern Ontario," Ecological Monographs 60(2):1 79-212.

Chmura, G. and Liu, K. B.
1990 "Pollen in the Lower Mississippi River," Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 64: 253-261.

Bush, M. B., Colinvaux, P. A., Wiemann, M. C., Piperno, D. R., and Liu, K. B.
1990 "Late Pleistocene temperature depression and vegetation change in Ecuadorian Amazonia." Quaternary Research 34: 330-345.

Thompson, L. G., Davis, M. E., Mosley-Thompson, E., and Liu, K. B.
1988 "Pre-lncan Agricultural Activity Recorded in Dust Layers in Two Tropical Ice Cores," Nature 336: 763-765.

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Liu, K. B.
1988 "Quaternary history of the temperate forests of China," Quaternary Science Reviews, 7:1-20.

Liu, K. B. and Colinvaux, P. A.
1988 "A 5200-year history of Amazon rain forest," Journal of Biogeography 15:231 -248.

Ward, J. V. and Liu, K. B. (eds.)
1988 Quaternary Palynology of Tropical Areas, special issue of Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Vol. 55, Nos. 1-3. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 271 pages.

Ward, J. V. and Liu, K. B.
1988 "Introduction." Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 55:1-3.

Colinvaux, P. A., Frost, M., Frost, l., Liu, K. B., and Steinitz-Kannan, M.
1988 "Three pollen diagrams of forest disturbance in the Western Amazon," Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 55:73-81.

Colinvaux, P. A., Olson, K. N., and Liu, K. B.
1988 "Late-glacial and Holocene pollen diagrams from two endorheic lakes of the inter-Andean Plateau of Ecuador," Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 55:83-99.

Colinvaux, P. A. and Liu, K. B.
1987 "The Late Quaternary climate of the Amazon Basin," in Berger, W. H. and Labeyrie, L. D. (ed.) Abrupt Climatic Change, pp. 113-122, D. Riedel, Dordrecht, Netherlands.

McAndrews, J. H., Liu, K. B., Manville, G. C., Prest, V. K., and Vincent, J.-S.
1987 "The Environment after 9000 B.C.," in R.C. Harris, (ed.), Historical Atlas of Canada, Vol. 1, Plate 4; University of Toronto Press, Toronto.

Liu, K. B. and Lam, N. S. N.
1985 "Discriminant analysis of Late Quaternary pollen stratigraphies from Ontario," Modeling and Simulation 16:155-159.

Liu, K. B. and Colinvaux, P. A.
1985 "Forest changes in the Amazon Basin in the last glacial maximum," Nature 318:556-557.

Colinvaux, P. A., Miller, M. C., Liu, K. B., Steinitz-Kannan, M., and Frost, l. G.
1985 "Discovery of permanent Amazon lakes and hydraulic disturbance in the upper Amazon Basin," Nature 313:42-45

Liu, K. B. and Lam, N. S. N.
1985 "Paleovegetational reconstruction based on modern and fossil pollen data: An application of discriminant analysis," Annals of the Association of American Geographers 75:115-130.

Lam, N. S. and Liu, K. B.
1984 "A geographic information system for the Palynologists: An Ontario example," Modeling and Simulation 15:93-97.

Lai, K. W., Liu, K. B., Yeung, K. C., Leung, C. F., Wai, C. C.
1982 "A Preliminary study on the geological structure of Ma Shi Chau, Hong Kong," The Geographical Bulletin 16:69-90 (in Chinese, with English abstract).

Liu, K. B.
1981 "Pollen evidence of late-Quaternary climatic changes in Canada: a review. Part II. Eastern Canada," Ontario Geography 17:61-82.

Liu, K. B.
1980 "Pollen evidence of late-Quaternary climatic changes in Canada: a review. Part I. Western Canada," Ontario Geography 15:83-101.

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Papers Presented at Professional Meetings (with Published Abstracts)

2000

Liu, K.B.
2000 "Landfall probabilities of catastrophic hurricanes reconstructed from coastal sedimentary records," An invited featured lecture presented in the PCS Catastrophe Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona, May 1-3, 2000.

Liu, K.B., Shen, C., and Yao, Z.
2000 "A 3,000-year history of catastrophic hurricane landfalls from Virginia Beach," Paper presented in the 96th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 4-8, 2000.

Yao, Z., Liu, K.B., and Thompson, L.G.
2000 "A Holocene pollen and charcoal record from the Guliya Ice Cap, northwestern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau," Paper presented in the 96th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 4-8, 2000.

Tabanez, A.A.J. and Liu, K.B.
2000 "Short-term vegetation changes in tropical forest fragments in southeastern Brazil and consequences for conservation," Paper presented in the 96th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 4-8, 2000.

Shen, C.., Liu, K.B., Tang, L., and Overpeck, J.T.
2000 "Palynological evidence of monsoon dynamics from lake sediments in the eastern and central Tibetan Plateau," Paper presented in the 96th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 4-8, 2000.

Liu, K.B.
2000 "Reconstructing the hurricane landfall probabilities of the Northern Atlantic Coast: Lake-sediment records from Cape Cod, Massachusetts," Paper presented in the 2000 RPI (Risk Prediction Initiative) Research Update Workshop, Miami, Florida, March 27-29, 2000.

Liu, K.B.
2000 "Paleotempestology: Reconstruction of past hurricane landfalls from sedimentary proxy records," Paper presented in the 2000 AAAS Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC., February 17-22, 2000.

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1999

Liu, K.B. and Shen, C.
1999 "A 500-year record of interdecadal to century-scale variability in typhoon landfalls in southern China," Paper presented in the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), San Francisco, December 13-17, 1999.

Liu, K.B. and Shen, C.
1999 "A 500-year record of interdecadal to century-scale variability in typhoon landfalls in southern China," Paper presented in the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), San Francisco, December 13-17, 1999.

Liu, K.B. and Shen, C.
1999 "Historical climatology of typhoon landfalls in southern China reconstructed from Chinese historical documentary evidence: The last millennium," Paper presented in the International workshop on "Climate Variability Reconstructed from Historical Evidence and Other Proxy Records," Manzanillo, Mexico, December 1-5, 1999.

Liu, K.B.
1999 "The Chinese pollen database: A status report." Presentation at the International workshop on "Global Pollen Database," Boulder, Colorado, November 7-10, 1999.

Liu, K.B., Fearn, M.L, and Gathen, K.
1999 "Geological fingerprints of Hurricane Camille in the sediments of coastal lakes and marshes," Paper presented in "The Impact of Hurricane Camille" Storm Impact Symposium to mark the 30th Anniversary, Sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey and six other agencies, New Orleans, August 17-18, 1999.

Liu, K.B.
1999 "Reconstructing the hurricane landfall probabilities of the mid-Atlantic Coast: Lake-sediment records from Virginia Beach," Paper presented in the 1999 RPI (Risk Prediction Initiative) Research Update Workshop, Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Bermuda, May 12-15, 1999.

Liu, K.B. and Fearn, M.L.
1999 "Do hurricane activities vary at timescales of centuries to millennia?" Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 23-27, 1999.

Zhou, X. and Liu, K.B.
1999 "A 4,000-year pollen record of vegetation changes, sea level rise, and hurricane disturbance in the Atchafalaya Marsh of southern Louisiana," Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 23-27, 1999.

Elsner, J.B., Liu, K.B., Kocher, B.L., and Kimberlain, T.B.
1999 "Shifts in U.S. hurricane landfall probabilities," Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 23-27, 1999.

Shen, C., Liu, K.B., Yao, Z., Tang, L., and Overpeck, J.T.
1999 "Numerical analysis of modern pollen data from the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau," Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 23-27, 1999.

Yao, Z., Liu, K.B., and Thompson, L.G.
1999 "Response of the Dunde ice-core pollen record to recent climatic changes in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau," Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 23-27, 1999.

Liu, K.B.
1999 "Millennial-scale variability in catastrophic hurricane landfalls along the Gulf of Mexico coast," Paper presented in the 23rd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, American Meteorological Society, Dallas, Texas, January 10-15, 1999.

Elsner, J.B., Liu, K.B., and Kocher, B.L.
1999 "Trends in hurricane landfall probabilities in the U.S.," Paper presented in the 23rd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, American Meteorological Society, Dallas, Texas, January 10-15, 1999.

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1998

Liu, K.B.
1998 "Landfall probabilities of catastrophic hurricanes reconstructed from Gulf Coast sediment records," Invited paper presented in the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), San Francisco, December 6-10, 1996.

Overpeck, J.T., Liu, K.B., Tang, L.Y., MacDonald, G.M., Trumbore, S., and Anderson, D.M.
1998 "Climate coupling of the North Atlantic, Eurasia and the Asian Monsoon over the last 18,000 years: Data and climate model results," Invited paper presented in the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), San Francisco, December 6-10, 1996.

Murnane, R.J., Elsner, J., Barton, C., Collins, E., Donnelly, J., Liu, K.B., Scott, D., and Webb III, T.
1998 "A model for estimating hurricane landfall probabilities from the historical record," Invited paper presented in the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), San Francisco, December 6-10, 1996.

Liu, K.B.
1998 "Biogeography at LSU," Paper presented in the Southwest Regional meeting of the Association of American Geographers (SWAAG), Baton Rouge, October 29-31, 1998.

Liu, K.B.
1998 "Monsoon climate changes and vegetation dynamics in the Tibetan Plateau since the Last Glacial Maximum," Paper presented in the International Geographical Conference on China and the World in the 21st Century, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, August 13-15, 1998.

Liu, K.B. and Shen, C.
1998 "Reconstruction of a 1,000-year record of typhoon landfalls in southern China from Chinese historical documentary sources," Paper presented in the PAGES (Past Global Changes) Workshop on Calibration of Historical Data for Reconstruction of Climatic Variations, Barcelona, Spain, July 6-8, 1998.

Liu, K.B.
1998 "Landfall probabilities of prehistoric catastrophic hurricanes reconstructed from Gulf Coast lake-sediment records," Paper presented in the 1998 RPI (Risk Prediction Initiative) Research Update Workshop, Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Bermuda, May 11-13, 1998.

Liu, K.B. and Fearn, M.L.
1998 "Reconstructing Holocene hurricane activities along the Gulf of Mexico coast," Paper presented in the PAGES (Past Global Changes) Open Science Meeting, Senate House, University of London, England, April 20-23, 1998.

Liu, K.B. and Shen, C.
1998 "Reconstructing a 1,000-year record of typhoon landfalls in southern China from historical documentary records," Paper presented in the PAGES (Past Global Changes) Open Science Meeting, Senate House, University of London, England, April 20-23, 1998.

Liu, K.B.
1998 "Holocene climate change and landfall probabilities of catastrophic hurricanes along the Gulf Coast," Paper presented in the Gulf Coast Regional Climate Change Workshop, sponsored by Southern University and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Baton Rouge, February 25-27, 1998.

Liu, K.B. and Fearn, M.L.
1998 "Landfall probabilities of prehistoric catastrophic hurricanes estimated from Gulf Coast lake-sediment records," Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, March 25 29, 1998.

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Fearn, M.L. and Liu, K.B.
1998 "5000 to 3000 BP: The calm before the storms?," Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, March 25-29, 1998.

Zhou, X., Liu, K.B., Fearn, M.L., Cahoon, D.R., and Fournet, S.C.
1998 "A 1,200-year history of intense hurricane strikes in the Atchafalaya Marsh of southern Louisiana," Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, March 25-29, 1998.

Shen, C. and Liu, K.B.
1998 "A 1,000-year record of typhoon landfalls in Guangdong Province reconstructed from Chinese historical documentary data," Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, March 25-29, 1998.

Yao, Z., Liu, K.B., and Thompson, L.G.
1998 "A high-resolution pollen record from the Dunde Ice Cap: Climatic changes in western China during the last 2000 years," Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, March 25-29, 1998. Worth, Texas, April 1-5, 1997.

1997

Liu, K.B.
1997 "Reconstructing the recurrence intervals of catastrophic hurricanes: Lake and marsh sedimentary records from the Gulf Coast," Paper presented in the Risk Prediction Initiative (RPI) Funded Research Update Workshop, Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Bermuda, May 6-7, 1997.

Liu, K.B.
1997 "Reconstructing a 1,000-year record of typhoon activities from Chinese historical documentary evidence: A pilot study for Guangdong Province," Paper presented in the Risk Prediction Initiative (RPI) Funded Research Update Workshop, Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Bermuda, May 6-7, 1997.

Liu, K.B. and Fearn, M.L.
1997 "Lake sediment records of hurricane Opal and prehistoric hurricanes from the Florida Panhandle," Paper presented in the 22nd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, American Meteorological Society, Fort Collins, Colorado, May 19-23, 1997.

Liu, K.B. and Fearn, M.L.
1997 "Reconstructing late-Holocene activities of catastrophic hurricanes along the U.S. Gulf Coast: New data from Florida and Louisiana," Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Fort Worth, Texas, April 1-5, 1997.

Fearn, M.L. and Liu, K.B.
1997 "Hurricane Opal's sedimentary signature in West Florida's coastal lakes," Paper presented in the Association of American Geographers, Fort Worth, Texas, April 1-5, 1997.

Yao, Z., Liu, K.B., and Thompson, L.G.
1997 "Pollen analysis of a 139 m ice core from the Dunde Ice Cap, western China," Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Fort Worth, Texas, April 1-5, 1997.

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1996

Liu, K.B., Yao, Z., and Thompson, L.G.
1996 "A pollen record of Holocene climatic changes from the Dunde Ice Cap, Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau," Paper presented in the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, December 15-19, 1996.

Maxwell, A., and Liu, K.B.
1996 "Late Quaternary terrestrial pollen records from monsoonal areas of continental South and Southeast Asia," Paper presented in the International Conference on The Environmental and Cultural History and Dynamics of the Australian-Southeast Asian Region, Department of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, December 10 12, 1996.

Liu, K.B. and Sun, Xiangjun
1996 "The Chinese pollen database." Paper presented in the 9th International Palynological Congress, Houston, June 23-29, 1996.

Liu, K.B.
1996 "Determining hurricane return periods from coastal lake and marsh sediments of the U.S. Gulf Coast." Paper presented in the meeting on Climate Variability and Tropical Cyclone Prediction meeting sponsored by the Atlantic Global Change Institute of the Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Bermuda, June 12-14, 1996.

Liu, K.B., Overpeck, J.T., Tang, L., Xu, X., Yang, S., Cole, J.E., Trumbore, S.E., and Shen, C.
1996 "Monsoon climate changes and vegetation dynamics in eastern Tibet since the Last Glacial Maximum." Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Charlotte, April 9-13, 1996.

Yao, Z., Liu, K.B., and Thompson, L.G.
1996 "A 30-year record of seasonal pollen deposition in the Dunde Ice Cap, 1947-1976," Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Charlotte, April 9-13, 1996.

Lam, N.S.N., and Liu, K.B.
1996 "On generating a national rural sampling frame for HIV/AIDS research," Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Charlotte, April 9-13, 1996.

Thomas, K.L., and Liu, K.B.
1996 "The secrets of the plantation revealed: Results of palynological work at Poverty Point," Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Charlotte, April 9-13, 1996.

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1995

Liu, K.B., Overpeck, J.T., Xu, X., Tang, L., Cole, J.E., Shen, C., and Trumbore, S.E.
1995 "Late-Quaternary climate and vegetational history of eastern Tibet." Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, New Orleans, November 6-9, 1995.

Liu, K.B., Liu, G., Chen, G, and Yao, Z.
1995 "Vegetation and modern pollen deposition in the northeastern Qinghai Tibetan Plateau." Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, March 14-18, 1995.

Fearn, M.L. and Liu, K.B.
1995 "3500 B.P. corn pollen from southern Alabama." Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, March 14-18, 1995.

Thomas, K.L. and Liu, K.B.
1995 "A palynological study of swamp sediments at the Poverty Point archaeological site, NE Louisiana." Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, March 14-18, 1995.

Lam, N.S.N. and Liu, K.B.
1995 "Use of GIS in generating clusters of rural counties for AIDS patient sampling." Paper presented in the Eleventh Louisiana Remote Sensing and GIS Annual Meeting, Lafayette, April 1995.

1994

Liu, K.B., Fearn, M.L., and Li, X.
1994 "Abrupt climatic change along the northern Gulf of Mexico coast at 3200 yr B.P." Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Franscisco, March 28--April 2, 1994.

Gathen, K., Fearn, M.L., and Liu, K.B.
1994 "Recent and prehistoric hurricanes and their impacts on Horn Island, Mississippi," Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Franscisco, March 28--April 2, 1994.

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1993

Liu, K.B.
1993 "Pollen evidence of the Younger Dryas in China: An appraisal." Paper presented in the "Palynology and Climate" Symposium at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists (AASP), Baton Rouge, October 25-28, 1993.

Li, X., Liu, K.B., and Fearn, M.
1993 "A 6000-year pollen and diatom stratigraphy from the Pearl River Marsh, coastal Louisiana." Paper presented in the "Palynology and Climate" Symposium at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists (AASP), Baton Rouge, October 25-28, 1993.

Liu, K. B. and Qiu, H. L.
1993 "Late-Holocene pollen records of vegetational changes in China: Climate or human disturbance?" Paper presented in the IGBP-PAGES Workshop on "High Resolution Records of Past Climate from Monsoon Asia: The
Last 2000 Years and Beyond," Taipei, Taiwan, April 21-23, 1993.

Liu, K. B. and Fearn, M. L.
1993 "Where in the mud is hurricane Camille"? Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Atlanta, April 6-10, 1993.

Lam, N. S. N., Algeo, K., Fan, M., and Liu, K. B.
1993 "Gravity model-based predictions of the regional spread of AIDS in the United States." Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Atlanta, April 6-10, 1993.

Fearn, M. L. and Liu, K. B.
1993 "Searching for sedimentary records of Gulf Coast hurricanes." Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the Geological Society of America, Tallahassee, FL, April 1-2,1993.

Gathen, K., Fearn, M. L., and Liu, K. B.
1993 "Reconstruction of past hurricane effects on Horn Island, Mississippi." Paper presented in the Southwest Regional meeting of the Association of American Geographers (SWAAG), New Orleans, March 17-20,1993.

Fan, M., Lam, N. S. N., and Liu,
1993 "Using GlS to model the spatial spread of the AIDS epidemic in the United States." Paper presented in the annual convention of the ACSM ASPRS, New Orleans, February 15-19, 1993.

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1992

Liu, K. B.
1992 "China in the global paleoclimate data network: An assessment of the pollen record." Paper presented in the 13th International CODATA Conference, Beijing, China, October 19-22, 1992.

Liu, K. B.
1992 "Phytogeography and postglacial history of the forest ecotone in Northern Ontario." Paper presented in the 27th International Geographical Congress, Washington, D.C., August 9-14, 1992.

Lam, N. S. N., Liu, K. B., and Fan, M.
1992 "Mapping and Modeling the spread of AIDS in the United States during the last decade based on county data." Paper presented in the 27th International Geographical Congress, Washington, D.C., August 9-14,1992.

Liu, K. B. and Coggins, C.
1992 "Modern distribution and Quaternary paleoecology of major tree taxa in China." Paper presented in the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Diego, April 19-22, 1992.

Lam, N. S. N. and Liu, K. B.
1992 "Spatial analysis of the AIDS epidemic in the United States based on county data." Paper presented in the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Diego, April 19-22,1992.

1991

Liu, K. B.
1991 "Quaternary paleoecology of the monsoonal regions of China: some important research problems." Paper presented in the XllI INQUA (International Union for Quaternary Research) Congress, Beijing, China, August 1991.

Liu, K. B.
1991 "Quaternary vegetational history of the monsoonal regions of China." Paper presented in the Xlll INQUA Congress, Beijing, China, August 1991.

Colinvaux, P. A., Bush, M. B., and Liu, K. B.
1991 "Temperature depression in Ice-age Amazonia and Panama." Paper presented in the Xlll INQUA (International Union for Quaternary Research) Congress, Beijing, China, Aug'91.

Liu, K. B., Fearn, M. L., and Li, X.
1991 "A 5000-year history of hurricane climate and vegetation change along the Gulf Coast of Alabama." Paper presented in the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Miami, April 1991.

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1990

Fearn, M. L. and Liu, K. B.
1990 "Reconstructing the Late-Holocene Hurricane Climate of the Alabama Gulf Coast from Lake Sediments." Paper presented in the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Dallas, October, 1990.

Liu, K. B., Sun, S., and Jiang, X.
1990 "Late Quaternary Vegetation History of the Yangtze River Delta." Paper presented in the Asian-Pacific Regional Conference of the International Geographical Union (IGU), Beijing, China, August, 1990.

Liu, K. B.
1990 "Large-scale ecological applications of paleoecology." Paper presented in the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Toronto, Canada, April 1990.

Fearn, M. L. and Liu, K. B.
1990 "Lake sediment and pollen records of hurricane disturbance along the Gulf Coast of Alabama." Paper presented in the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Toronto, Canada, April 1990.

1989

Liu, K. B., Sun, S., Jiang, X., and Qiu, H.
1989 "Environmental change in the Yangtze River delta since 1 2K." Paper presented in the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Baltimore, March 1989.

Lam, N. S. N. and Liu, K. B.
1989 "Geography of the AIDS epidemic in the United States based on county data." Paper presented in the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Baltimore, March 1989.

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1988

Liu, K. B. and Lam, N. S. N.
1988 "Geography of the AIDS epidemic in Louisiana." Paper presented in the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Phoenix, April 1987.

Liu, K. B. and Colinvaux, P. A.
1988 "Holocene paleoecology of the tropical rainforest in Western Amazonia." Paper presented in the 26th Congress of the International Geographical Union (IGU), Sidney, Australia, August 1988.

Chmura, G. and Liu, K. B.
1988 "Pollen in the Lower Mississippi River." Paper presented in the 7th International Palynological Conference, Brisbane, Australia, August 1988.

Debusschere, K., Liu, K. B. and Owsley, D. W.
1988 "Pollen analysis of human remains in the 18th century cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana." Paper presented in the 53rd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Phoenix, April 1988.

1987

Liu, K. B.
1987 "Quaternary palynology of China: State of the art." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Portland, April 1987.

Heusser, L. E., Morley, J. J., and Liu, K. B.
1987 "Northeast Asian terretrial and marine monsoon environment during the past 30,000 years." Paper presented in the 12th Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research, Ottawa, August 1987.

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1986

Colinvaux, P. A., K. B. Liu, and I. Frost
1986 "Amazon diversity in light of the paleoecological record." Paper presented in the IV International Congress of Ecology, Syracuse. August 1986.

Liu, K. B.
1986 "The Pleistocene changes of vegetation and climate in China," paper presented at the Ninth Biennial Meeting of American Quaternary Association, Urbana-Champaign, June 1986.

Liu, K. B.
1986 "Paleobotanical evidence of substantial Pleistocene cooling in the western Amazon lowlands: A test of the refuge hypothesis," paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Minneapolis, May, 1986.

1985

Liu, K. B.
1985 "Quaternary paleoenvironment of China: The pollen evidence," paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Detroit, April 1985.

Colinvaux, P. A., Liu, K. B., and I. Frost
1985 "Palynological and paleolimnological evidence for late-Quaternary climatic changes in the western Amazon Basin," paper presented in the NATO/NSF workshop on Abrupt Climatic Change, Grenoble, France, October 1985.

Colinvaux, P. A., Liu, K. B., and I. Frost
1985 "Disturbance and species diversity in the western Amazon Basin: Evidence of paleolimnology and palynology," paper presented in the Third International Congress of Systematics and Evolutionary Biology, Brighton, England, July 1985.

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1984

Colinvaux P. A., Liu, K. B., and I. Frost
1984 "Palynology of the western Amazon Basin," Paper presented at the Sixth International Palynological Conference, Calgary, August 1984.

Colinvaux P. A., Liu, K. B., K. N. Olson, and I. Frost
1984 "Holocene history of climate, vegetation, and volcanism in Ecuador," Paper presented at the 8th Biennial Meeting of the American Quaternary Association, Boulder, August 1984.

Liu, K. B.
1984 "Pollen-floristic zonation in northern Ontario," Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington, D.C., April 1984.

1980-83

Liu, K. B.
1983 "Postglacial displacements of the Boreal Forest/Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Forest ecotone in northern Ontario," Paper presented in the Warren Nystrom Award special session at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, April 1983.

Liu, K. B.
1982 "Postglacial vegetational history of the northern Clay Belt in Ontario," Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Antonio, April 1982.

Liu, K. B.
1982 "Palynology and Paleoecology of the Boreal Forest/Great Lakes- St. Lawrence Forest ecotone in northern Ontario," Paper presented at the Seventh Biennial Meeting of the American Quaternary Association, Seattle, June 1982.

Liu, K. B. and A. M. Davis
1981 "Postglacial environmental changes in northern Ontario as reflected by pollen and varve-sedimentary records from a meromictic lake," Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, April 1981.

Liu, K. B. and S. N. Lam
1980 "Reconstructing the postglacial vegetational history of east-central Canada: A numerical approach based on modern and fossil pollen data," Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Louisville, April 1980. 28(2): 93-107.

Thompson, L.G., Moseley-Thompson, E., Davis, M.E., Lin, P-N., Henderson, K.A., Cole-Dai, J., Bolzan, J.F., Liu, K.B.
1995 "Late Glacial Stage and Holocene tropical ice core records from Huascaran, Peru," Science 269: 46-50.

Fearn, M.L. and Liu, K.B.
1995 "Maize pollen of 3500 B.P. from southern Alabama," American Antiquity 60: 109-117.

Liu, K.B. and Qiu, H.L.
1994 "Late-Holocene pollen records of vegetational changes in China: Climate or human disturbance"? Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences 5(3): 120-137.

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Lam, N. S. N. and Liu, K. B.
1994 "Spread of AIDS in rural America, 1982-1990," Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 7: 485-490.

Liu, K. B. and Fearn, M.L.
1993 "Lake sediment record of late Holocene hurricane activities from coastal Alabama," Geology 21: 793-796.

Fan, M., Lam, N. S. N., and Liu, K. B.
1993 "Using GlS to model the spatial spread of the AIDS epidemic in the United States," American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM) Technical Papers, 1993 Annual Convention and Exposition, New Orleans, pp. 186-195.

Liu, K. B., Sun, S., and Jiang, X.
1992 "Environmental Change in the Yangtze River Delta since 12,000 yr B.P.," Quaternary Research 28: 32-45.

Liu, K. B.
1992 "The Shifting Forest Ecotone in Postglacial Northern Ontario," in Janelle, D., (ed.), Geographical Snapshots of North America. Guilford Press, New York, pp. 204-207.

Liu, K. B.
1990 "Holocene paleoecology of the boreal forest and Great Lakes-St. Lawrence forest in northern Ontario," Ecological Monographs 60(2):1 79-212.

Chmura, G. and Liu, K. B.
1990 "Pollen in the Lower Mississippi River," Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 64: 253-261.

Bush, M. B., Colinvaux, P. A., Wiemann, M. C., Piperno, D. R., and Liu, K. B.
1990 "Late Pleistocene temperature depression and vegetation change in Ecuadorian Amazonia." Quaternary Research 34: 330-345.

Thompson, L. G., Davis, M. E., Mosley-Thompson, E., and Liu, K. B.
1988 "Pre-lncan Agricultural Activity Recorded in Dust Layers in Two Tropical Ice Cores," Nature 336: 763-765.

Liu, K. B.
1988 "Quaternary history of the temperate forests of China," Quaternary Science Reviews, 7:1-20.

Liu, K. B. and Colinvaux, P. A.
1988 "A 5200-year history of Amazon rain forest," Journal of Biogeography 15:231 -248.

Ward, J. V. and Liu, K. B. (eds.)
1988 Quaternary Palynology of Tropical Areas, Special issue of Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Vol. 55, Nos. 1-3. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 271 pages.

Ward, J. V. and Liu, K. B.
1988 "Introduction." Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 55:1-3.

Colinvaux, P. A., Frost, M., Frost, l., Liu, K. B., and Steinitz-Kannan, M.
1988 "Three pollen diagrams of forest disturbance in the Western Amazon," Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 55:73-81.

Colinvaux, P. A., Olson, K. N., and Liu, K. B.
1988 "Late-glacial and Holocene pollen diagrams from two endorheic lakes of the inter-Andean Plateau of Ecuador," Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 55:83-99.

Colinvaux, P. A. and Liu, K. B.
1987 "The Late Quaternary climate of the Amazon Basin," in Berger, W. H. and Labeyrie, L. D. (ed.) Abrupt Climatic Change, pp. 113-122, D. Riedel, Dordrecht, Netherlands.

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McAndrews, J. H., Liu, K. B., Manville, G. C., Prest, V. K., and Vincent, J.-S.
1987 "The Environment after 9000 B.C.," in R.C. Harris, (ed.), Historical Atlas of Canada, Vol. 1, Plate 4; University of Toronto Press, Toronto.

Liu, K. B. and Lam, N. S. N.
1985 "Discriminant analysis of Late Quaternary pollen stratigraphies from Ontario," Modeling and Simulation 16:155-159.

Liu, K. B. and Colinvaux, P. A.
1985 "Forest changes in the Amazon Basin in the last glacial maximum," Nature 318:556-557.

Colinvaux, P. A., Miller, M. C., Liu, K. B., Steinitz-Kannan, M., and Frost, l. G.
1985 "Discovery of permanent Amazon lakes and hydraulic disturbance in the upper Amazon Basin," Nature 313:42-45

Liu, K. B. and Lam, N. S. N.
1985 "Paleovegetational reconstruction based on modern and fossil pollen data: An application of discriminant analysis," Annals of the Association of American Geographers 75:115-130.

Lam, N. S. and Liu, K. B.
1984 "A geographic information system for the Palynologists: An Ontario example," Modeling and Simulation 15:93-97.

Lai, K. W., Liu, K. B., Yeung, K. C., Leung, C. F., Wai, C. C.
1982 "A Preliminary study on the geological structure of Ma Shi Chau, Hong Kong," The Geographical Bulletin 16:69-90 (in Chinese, with English abstract).

Liu, K. B.
1981 "Pollen evidence of late-Quaternary climatic changes in Canada: a review. Part II. Eastern Canada," Ontario Geography 17:61-82.

Liu, K. B.
1980 "Pollen evidence of late-Quaternary climatic changes in Canada: a review. Part I. Western Canada," Ontario Geography 15:83-101.

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Papers Presented at Professional Meetings (with published abstracts)

1998

Liu, K.B.
1998 "Biogeography at LSU," Paper presented in the Southwest Regional meeting of the Association of American Geographers (SWAAG), Baton Rouge, October 29-31, 1998.

Liu, K.B.
1998 "Monsoon climate changes and vegetation dynamics in the Tibetan Plateau since the Last Glacial Maximum," Paper presented in the International Geographical Conference on China and the World in the 21st Century, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, August 13-15, 1998.

Liu, K.B. and Shen, C.
1998 "Reconstruction of a 1,000-year record of typhoon landfalls in southern China from Chinese historical documentary sources," Paper presented in the PAGES (Past Global Changes) Workshop on Calibration of Historical Data for Reconstruction of Climatic Variations, Barcelona, Spain, July 6-8, 1998.

Liu, K.B.
1998 "Landfall probabilities of prehistoric catastrophic hurricanes reconstructed from Gulf Coast lake-sediment records," Paper presented in the 1998 RPI (Risk Prediction Initiative) Research Update Workshop, Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Bermuda, May 11-13, 1998.

Liu, K.B. and Fearn, M.L.
1998 "Reconstructing Holocene hurricane activities along the Gulf of Mexico coast," Paper presented in the PAGES (Past Global Changes) Open Science Meeting, Senate House, University of London, England, April 20-23, 1998.

Liu, K.B. and Shen, C.
1998 "Reconstructing a 1,000-year record of typhoon landfalls in southern China from historical documentary records," Paper presented in the PAGES (Past Global Changes) Open Science Meeting, Senate House, University of London, England, April 20-23, 1998.

Liu, K.B.
1998 "Holocene climate change and landfall probabilities of catastrophic hurricanes along the Gulf Coast," Paper presented in the Gulf Coast Regional Climate Change Workshop, sponsored by Southern University and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Baton Rouge, February 25-27, 1998.

Liu, K.B. and Fearn, M.L.
1998 "Landfall probabilities of prehistoric catastrophic hurricanes estimated from Gulf Coast lake-sediment records," Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, March 25 29, 1998.

Fearn, M.L. and Liu, K.B.
1998 "5000 to 3000 BP: The calm before the storms?," Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, March 25-29, 1998.

Zhou, X., Liu, K.B., Fearn, M.L., Cahoon, D.R., and Fournet, S.C.
1998 "A 1,200-year history of intense hurricane strikes in the Atchafalaya Marsh of southern Louisiana," Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, March 25-29, 1998.

Shen, C. and Liu, K.B.
1998 "A 1,000-year record of typhoon landfalls in Guangdong Province reconstructed from Chinese historical documentary data," Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, March 25-29, 1998.

Yao, Z., Liu, K.B., and Thompson, L.G.
1998 "A high-resolution pollen record from the Dunde Ice Cap: Climatic changes in western China during the last 2000 years," Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, March 25-29, 1998. Worth, Texas, April 1-5, 1997.

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1997

Liu, K.B.
1997 "Reconstructing the recurrence intervals of catastrophic hurricanes: Lake and marsh sedimentary records from the Gulf Coast," Paper presented in the Risk Prediction Initiative (RPI) Funded Research Update Workshop, Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Bermuda, May 6-7, 1997.

Liu, K.B.
1997 "Reconstructing a 1,000-year record of typhoon activities from Chinese historical documentary evidence: A pilot study for Guangdong Province," Paper presented in the Risk Prediction Initiative (RPI) Funded Research Update Workshop, Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Bermuda, May 6-7, 1997.

Liu, K.B. and Fearn, M.L.
1997 "Lake sediment records of hurricane Opal and prehistoric hurricanes from the Florida Panhandle," Paper presented in the 22nd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, American Meteorological Society, Fort Collins, Colorado, May 19-23, 1997.

Liu, K.B. and Fearn, M.L.
1997 "Reconstructing late-Holocene activities of catastrophic hurricanes along the U.S. Gulf Coast: New data from Florida and Louisiana," Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Fort Worth, Texas, April 1-5, 1997.

Fearn, M.L. and Liu, K.B.
1997 "Hurricane Opal's sedimentary signature in West Florida's coastal lakes," Paper presented in the Association of American Geographers, Fort Worth, Texas, April 1-5, 1997.

Yao, Z., Liu, K.B., and Thompson, L.G.
1997 "Pollen analysis of a 139 m ice core from the Dunde Ice Cap, western China," Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Fort Worth, Texas, April 1-5, 1997.

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1996

Liu, K.B., Yao, Z., and Thompson, L.G.
1996 "A pollen record of Holocene climatic changes from the Dunde Ice Cap, Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau," Paper presented in the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, December 15-19, 1996.

Maxwell, A., and Liu, K.B.
1996 "Late Quaternary terrestrial pollen records from monsoonal areas of continental South and Southeast Asia," Paper presented in the International Conference on The Environmental and Cultural History and Dynamics of the Australian-Southeast Asian Region, Department of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, December 10 12, 1996.

Liu, K.B. and Sun, Xiangjun
1996 "The Chinese pollen database." Paper presented in the 9th International Palynological Congress, Houston, June 23-29, 1996.

Liu, K.B.
1996 "Determining hurricane return periods from coastal lake and marsh sediments of the U.S. Gulf Coast." Paper presented in the meeting on Climate Variability and Tropical Cyclone Prediction meeting sponsored by the Atlantic Global Change Institute of the Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Bermuda, June 12-14, 1996.

Liu, K.B., Overpeck, J.T., Tang, L., Xu, X., Yang, S., Cole, J.E., Trumbore, S.E., and Shen, C.
1996 "Monsoon climate changes and vegetation dynamics in eastern Tibet since the Last Glacial Maximum." Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Charlotte, April 9-13, 1996.

Yao, Z., Liu, K.B., and Thompson, L.G.
1996 "A 30-year record of seasonal pollen deposition in the Dunde Ice Cap, 1947-1976," Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Charlotte, April 9-13, 1996.

Lam, N.S.N., and Liu, K.B.
1996 "On generating a national rural sampling frame for HIV/AIDS research," Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Charlotte, April 9-13, 1996.

Thomas, K.L., and Liu, K.B.
1996 "The secrets of the plantation revealed: Results of palynological work at Poverty Point," Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Charlotte, April 9-13, 1996.

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1995

Liu, K.B., Overpeck, J.T., Xu, X., Tang, L., Cole, J.E., Shen, C., and Trumbore, S.E.
1995 "Late-Quaternary climate and vegetational history of eastern Tibet." Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, New Orleans, November 6-9, 1995.

Liu, K.B., Liu, G., Chen, G, and Yao, Z.
1995 "Vegetation and modern pollen deposition in the northeastern Qinghai Tibetan Plateau." Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, March 14-18, 1995.

Fearn, M.L. and Liu, K.B.
1995 "3500 B.P. corn pollen from southern Alabama." Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, March 14-18, 1995.

Thomas, K.L. and Liu, K.B.
1995 "A palynological study of swamp sediments at the Poverty Point archaeological site, NE Louisiana." Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, March 14-18, 1995.

Lam, N.S.N. and Liu, K.B.
1995 "Use of GIS in generating clusters of rural counties for AIDS patient sampling." Paper presented in the Eleventh Louisiana Remote Sensing and GIS Annual Meeting, Lafayette, April 1995.

1994

Liu, K.B., Fearn, M.L., and Li, X.
1994 "Abrupt climatic change along the northern Gulf of Mexico coast at 3200 yr B.P." Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Franscisco, March 28--April 2, 1994.

Gathen, K., Fearn, M.L., and Liu, K.B.
1994 "Recent and prehistoric hurricanes and their impacts on Horn Island, Mississippi," Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Franscisco, March 28--April 2, 1994.

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1993

Liu, K.B.
1993 "Pollen evidence of the Younger Dryas in China: An appraisal." Paper presented in the "Palynology and Climate" Symposium at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists (AASP), Baton Rouge, October 25-28, 1993.

Li, X., Liu, K.B., and Fearn, M.
1993 "A 6000-year pollen and diatom stratigraphy from the Pearl River Marsh, coastal Louisiana." Paper presented in the "Palynology and Climate" Symposium at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists (AASP), Baton Rouge, October 25-28, 1993.

Liu, K. B. and Qiu, H. L.
1993 "Late-Holocene pollen records of vegetational changes in China: Climate or human disturbance?" Paper presented in the IGBP-PAGES Workshop on "High Resolution Records of Past Climate from Monsoon Asia: The Last 2000 Years and Beyond," Taipei, Taiwan, April 21-23, 1993.

Liu, K. B. and Fearn, M. L.
1993 "Where in the mud is hurricane Camille"? Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Atlanta, April 6-10, 1993.

Lam, N. S. N., Algeo, K., Fan, M., and Liu, K. B.
1993 "Gravity model-based predictions of the regional spread of AIDS in the United States." Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Atlanta, April 6-10, 1993.

Fearn, M. L. and Liu, K. B.
1993 "Searching for sedimentary records of Gulf Coast hurricanes." Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the Geological Society of America, Tallahassee, FL, April 1-2,1993.

Gathen, K., Fearn, M. L., and Liu, K. B.
1993 "Reconstruction of past hurricane effects on Horn Island, Mississippi." Paper presented in the Southwest Regional meeting of the Association of American Geographers (SWAAG), New Orleans, March 17-20,1993.

Fan, M., Lam, N. S. N., and Liu,
1993 "Using GlS to model the spatial spread of the AIDS epidemic in the United States." Paper presented in the annual convention of the ACSM ASPRS, New Orleans, February 15-19, 1993.

1992

Liu, K. B.
1992 "China in the global paleoclimate data network: An assessment of the pollen record." Paper presented in the 13th International CODATA Conference, Beijing, China, October 19-22, 1992.

Liu, K. B.
1992 "Phytogeography and postglacial history of the forest ecotone in Northern Ontario." Paper presented in the 27th International Geographical Congress, Washington, D.C., August 9-14, 1992.

Lam, N. S. N., Liu, K. B., and Fan, M.
1992 "Mapping and Modeling the spread of AIDS in the United States during the last decade based on county data." Paper presented in the 27th International Geographical Congress, Washington, D.C., August 9-14,1992.

Liu, K. B. and Coggins, C.
1992 "Modern distribution and Quaternary paleoecology of major tree taxa in China." Paper presented in the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Diego, April 19-22, 1992.

Lam, N. S. N. and Liu, K. B.
1992 "Spatial analysis of the AIDS epidemic in the United States based on county data." Paper presented in the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Diego, April 19-22,1992.

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1991

Liu, K. B.
1991 "Quaternary paleoecology of the monsoonal regions of China: some important research problems." Paper presented in the XllI INQUA (International Union for Quaternary Research) Congress, Beijing, China, August 1991.

Liu, K. B.
1991 "Quaternary vegetational history of the monsoonal regions of China." Paper presented in the Xlll INQUA Congress, Beijing, China, August 1991.

Colinvaux, P. A., Bush, M. B., and Liu, K. B.
1991 "Temperature depression in Ice-age Amazonia and Panama." Paper presented in the Xlll INQUA (International Union for Quaternary Research) Congress, Beijing, China, Aug'91.

Liu, K. B., Fearn, M. L., and Li, X.
1991 "A 5000-year history of hurricane climate and vegetation change along the Gulf Coast of Alabama." Paper presented in the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Miami, April 1991.

1990

Fearn, M. L. and Liu, K. B.
1990 "Reconstructing the Late-Holocene Hurricane Climate of the Alabama Gulf Coast from Lake Sediments." Paper presented in the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Dallas, October, 1990.

Liu, K. B., Sun, S., and Jiang, X.
1990 "Late Quaternary Vegetation History of the Yangtze River Delta." Paper presented in the Asian-Pacific Regional Conference of the International Geographical Union (IGU), Beijing, China, August, 1990.

Liu, K. B.
1990 "Large-scale ecological applications of paleoecology." Paper presented in the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Toronto, Canada, April 1990.

Fearn, M. L. and Liu, K. B.
1990 "Lake sediment and pollen records of hurricane disturbance along the Gulf Coast of Alabama." Paper presented in the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Toronto, Canada, April 1990.

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1989

Liu, K. B., Sun, S., Jiang, X., and Qiu, H.
1989 "Environmental change in the Yangtze River delta since 1 2K." Paper presented in the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Baltimore, March 1989.

Lam, N. S. N. and Liu, K. B.
1989 "Geography of the AIDS epidemic in the United States based on county data." Paper presented in the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Baltimore, March 1989.

1988

Liu, K. B. and Lam, N. S. N.
1988 "Geography of the AIDS epidemic in Louisiana." Paper presented in the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Phoenix, April 1987.

Liu, K. B. and Colinvaux, P. A.
1988 "Holocene paleoecology of the tropical rainforest in Western Amazonia." Paper presented in the 26th Congress of the International Geographical Union (IGU), Sidney, Australia, August 1988.

Chmura, G. and Liu, K. B.
1988 "Pollen in the Lower Mississippi River." Paper presented in the 7th International Palynological Conference, Brisbane, Australia, August 1988.

Debusschere, K., Liu, K. B. and Owsley, D. W.
1988 "Pollen analysis of human remains in the 18th century cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana." Paper presented in the 53rd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Phoenix, April 1988.

1987

Liu, K. B.
1987 "Quaternary palynology of China: State of the art." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Portland, April 1987.

Heusser, L. E., Morley, J. J., and Liu, K. B.
1987 "Northeast Asian terretrial and marine monsoon environment during the past 30,000 years." Paper presented in the 12th Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research, Ottawa, August 1987.

1986

Colinvaux, P. A., K. B. Liu, and I. Frost
1986 "Amazon diversity in light of the paleoecological record." Paper presented in the IV International Congress of Ecology, Syracuse. August 1986.

Liu, K. B.
1986 "The Pleistocene changes of vegetation and climate in China," paper presented at the Ninth Biennial Meeting of American Quaternary Association, Urbana-Champaign, June 1986.

Liu, K. B.
1986 "Paleobotanical evidence of substantial Pleistocene cooling in the western Amazon lowlands: A test of the refuge hypothesis," paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Minneapolis, May, 1986.

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1985

Liu, K. B.
1985 "Quaternary paleoenvironment of China: The pollen evidence," paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Detroit, April 1985.

Colinvaux, P. A., Liu, K. B., and I. Frost
1985 "Palynological and paleolimnological evidence for late-Quaternary climatic changes in the western Amazon Basin," paper presented in the NATO/NSF workshop on Abrupt Climatic Change, Grenoble, France, October 1985.

Colinvaux, P. A., Liu, K. B., and I. Frost
1985 "Disturbance and species diversity in the western Amazon Basin: Evidence of paleolimnology and palynology," paper presented in the Third International Congress of Systematics and Evolutionary Biology, Brighton, England, July 1985.

1984

Colinvaux P. A., Liu, K. B., and I. Frost
1984 "Palynology of the western Amazon Basin," Paper presented at the Sixth International Palynological Conference, Calgary, August 1984.

Colinvaux P. A., Liu, K. B., K. N. Olson, and I. Frost
1984 "Holocene history of climate, vegetation, and volcanism in Ecuador," Paper presented at the 8th Biennial Meeting of the American Quaternary Association, Boulder, August 1984.

Liu, K. B.
1984 "Pollen-floristic zonation in northern Ontario," Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington, D.C., April 1984.

1980-83

Liu, K. B.
1983 "Postglacial displacements of the Boreal Forest/Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Forest ecotone in northern Ontario," Paper presented in the Warren Nystrom Award special session at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, April 1983.

Liu, K. B.
1982 "Postglacial vegetational history of the northern Clay Belt in Ontario," Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Antonio, April 1982.

Liu, K. B.
1982 "Palynology and Paleoecology of the Boreal Forest/Great Lakes- St. Lawrence Forest ecotone in northern Ontario," Paper presented at the Seventh Biennial Meeting of the American Quaternary Association, Seattle, June 1982.

Liu, K. B. and A. M. Davis
1981 "Postglacial environmental changes in northern Ontario as reflected by pollen and varve-sedimentary records from a meromictic lake," Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, April 1981.

Liu, K. B. and S. N. Lam
1980 "Reconstructing the postglacial vegetational history of east-central Canada: A numerical approach based on modern and fossil pollen data," Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Louisville, April 1980.

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