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Kam-biu Liu / Biogeography
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2004 “Ancient Records of Typhoons in Chinese Historical Documents,” in Murnane,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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