Michael M. McGlue

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  • Pioneer Natural Resources Endowed Professor of Stratigraphy
  • Director of Graduate Studies
  • James B. Beam Institute for Kentucky Spirits Faculty Fellow
  • Earth & Environmental Sciences
michael.mcglue@uky.edu
111 Slone Research Building
859-257-1952
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Research Interests:
  • Conservation paleolimnology
  • Sustainability and Environmental Change
  • Limnogeology
  • Stratigraphy
Education

Ph.D., University of Arizona

B.S., Washington and Lee University

Research

My group conducts research in paleolimnology and the impacts of environmental change on aquatic ecosystems. We conduct field- and laboratory studies on the sediments and fossils of large lakes and wetlands, in order to answer questions related to climate change, fisheries conservation, human-landscape interactions, water, and natural resources. Our toolkit is diverse and integrates techniques in stratigraphy, geochemistry, geophysics, and paleoecology. Current areas of interest include the East African Rift Valley (Tanzania, Zambia), the Pantanal wetlands (Brazil), the lower Amazon River (Brazil), the eastern Sierra Nevada (CA), the Grand Teton (WY) and the Iowa Great Lakes.

*I am not presently recruiting graduate students.*

Selected Publications: 

* denotes student, †denotes corresponding author

Streib, L.*, Stone, J., Lyon, E., Ha, H., Zimmerman, S., Yeager, K., McGlue, M.M.†, (2021) Anthropogenic climate change has altered lake state in the Sierra Nevada (California, USA) Global Change Biology DOI:10.1111/gcb.15843

Kamulali, T.*, McGlue, M.M., Stone, J., Kimirei, I., Goodman, P.,  Cohen, A.S., (2021) Paleoecological analysis of Holocene sediment cores from the southern basin of Lake Tanganyika: Implications for the future of the fishery Journal of Paleolimnology DOI:10.1007/s10933-021-00219-4

McGlue, M.M., Yeager, K.M., Soreghan, M., Behm, M., Kimirei, I., Cohen, A.S., Mbonde, A., Apse, C., Limbu, P., Smiley, R.*, Doering, D.*, Lucas, J.S.*, McIntyre, P., (2021) Spatial variability in nearshore sediment pollution in Lake Tanganyika (East Africa) and implications for fisheries conservation Anthropocene 33, 100281

Ivory, S.J., McGlue, M.M., Peterman, C.*, Baldwin, P.*, Lucas, J.*, Cohen, A., Russell, J., Saroni, J., Msaky, E., Soreghan, M., (2021) Climate, vegetation, and weathering across space and time in tropical Lake Tanganyika. Quaternary Science Advances doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.2021.100023

McGlue, M.M., Ivory, S.J., Stone, J.R., Cohen, A.S., Kamulali, T.M., Latimer, J.C., Brannon, M.A.*, Kimirei, I.A. and Soreghan, M.J., (2020) Solar irradiance and ENSO affect food security in Lake Tanganyika, a major African inland fishery. Science Advances, 6(41), p.eabb2191.

Lyon, E.*, McGlue, M.M., Erhardt, A.E., Kim, S., Stone, J., Zimmerman, S., (2020), Late Holocene hydroclimate changes in the eastern Sierra Nevada revealed by a 4600 year paleoproduction record from June Lake, CA Quaternary Science Reviews, 242, 106432

Russell, J.M., Barker, P., Cohen, A., Ivory, S., Kimirei, I., Lane, C.,  Leng, M., Maganza, N., McGlue, M.M., Msaky, E., Noren, A., Park Boush, L., Salzburger, W., Scholz, C., Tiedemann R., and the Lake Tanganyika Scientific Drilling Team (2020), ICDP Workshop on Scientific Drilling in Lake Tanganyika, Africa: A late Neogene record of climate, rifting, and ecosystem evolution from the world’s oldest tropical lake Scientific Drilling 27, 53–60 https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-27-53-2020

Lucas, J.*, McGlue, M.†, Kimirei, I., Soreghan, M., Mbonde, A., Yeager, K., Limbu, P., Apse, C., McIntyre, P., (2020) Geophysical benthic habitat mapping at Lake Tanganyika: Implications for placing small scale coastal protected zones - Journal of Great Lakes Research 46 (2), 243-254

Hodelka, B.*, McGlue, M.M.†, Zimmerman, S., Ali, G., Tunno, I., (2020) Paleoproduction and environmental change at Mono Lake (CA) during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition - Palaeo3 109565

Ivory, S.J., McGlue, M.M., Spera, S., Silva, A., Bergier, I., (2019) Vegetation, rainfall, and pulsing hydrology in the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland - Environmental Research Letters 14 (12), 124017

Novello, V., Cruz, F.W., McGlue, M.M., Wong, C., Vuille, M., Ward, B., Santos, R. *, Jaqueto, P.F., Pessenda, L.C., Atorre, T., Ribeiro, L., Karmann, I., Barreto, E., Cheng, H., Lawrence, E.R., Paula, M.S., (2019) Abrupt changes in South America during the transition of the glacial to the Holocene - Earth and Planetary Science Letters 524, 115717

Bertassoli, D.*,  Sawakuchi, A.O., Chiessi, C.M., Schefuß, E., Hartmann, G.A., Haggi, C., Cruz, F., Zabel, M., McGlue, M.M., Santos, R.A., Pupim, F.N., (2019) Variations on the relative discharge of the Amazon and Xingu Rivers during the late Holocene linked to interhemispheric temperature anomalies - Geophysical Research Letters 46 (15), 9013-9022

Lo, E.L.*, McGlue, M.M.†, Silva, A., Yeager, K., Bergier, I., O’Dell, M.*, Macedo, H., Assine, M.,(2019) Fluvial-lacustrine sedimentary processes and landforms on the distal Paraguay fluvial megafan (Brazil) - Geomorphology 342, 163-175

Lyon, E.*, McGlue, M.M., Kim, S., Stone, J., Woolery, E., Zimmerman, S., (2019) Sub-lacustrine geomorphology and modern sedimentation at June Lake (CA), a glacial scour basin in the eastern Sierra Nevada - Journal of Sedimentary Research 89 (10), 919-934

Rasbold, G.G.*, McGlue, M.M., Stevaux, J., Parolin, M., Silva, A., (2018) Sponge spicule and phytolith evidence for late Quaternary environmental changes in the central Pantanal wetlands - Palaeo3 518, 119-133

Guerreiro, R.L., Bergier, I., McGlue, M.M.†, Warren, L., Abreu, U., Abrahão, J., Assine, M., (2018) Implications of recent findings for the conservation of soda lakes in Nhecolândia (Pantanal) – Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation 17:1, 9-18