Konrad Gajewski
Full Professor, Department of Geography
Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and thereby authorized to supervise theses.
Cross-appointed at the Graduate level with the Ottawa-Carleton Institute of Biology and the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre.
Laboratory for Paleoclimatology and Climatology (LPC)
Office: Simard 09
Telephone: 613-562-5800, ext. 1057
E-mail: gajewski@uOttawa.ca
University degrees
1983 – PhD, Meteorology, Statistics minor, University of Wisconsin- Madison
1979 – MS, Quaternary Studies, University of Maine at Orono
1973 – BS, Biology, Union College, Schenectady, NY
Fields of interest
- Paleoclimatology and paleoecology
- Climatology
- Biogeography
- Quaternary studies
- Global change
- Statistical analysis of environmental data
- Geographic information system (GIS)
Courses taught 2010-2010
Selected publications
Munoz, S and K Gajewski. 2010. Distinguishing prehistoric human influence on late Holocene forests in southern Ontario, Canada. Holocene 20: 967-981. doi:10.1177/0959683610362815
Bartlein, PJ, SP Harrison, S Brewer, S Connor, BAS Davis, K Gajewski, J Guiot, TI Harrison-Prentice, A Henderson, O Peyron, IC Prentice, M Scholze, H Seppä, B Shuman, S Sugita, RS Thompson, AE Viau, J Williams and H Wu. 2011. Pollen-based continental climate reconstructions at 6 and 21 ka: a global synthesis. Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0904-1
Peros, M and K Gajewski. 2011 On the glacial and postglacial history of the western Canadian Arctic Islands. Quaternary Research. 75: 307-308. doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2010.08.011
Munoz, SE, K Gajewski and MC Peros. 2010. Synchronous environmental and cultural change in the prehistory of the northeastern United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 107(51): 22008-22013. doi:10.1073/pnas.1005764107.
Fortin, M-C and K Gajewski. 2010. Postglacial environmental history of western Victoria Island, Canadian Arctic. Quaternary Science Reviews. 29: 2099-2110. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.05.004
Ladd, M and K Gajewski. 2010. The North American summer Arctic front during 1948 to 2007. International Journal of Climatology 30: 874-883. doi: 10.1002/joc.1940
Peros, M, K Gajewski, T Paull, R Ravindra, B Podritske. 2010. Multi-proxy record of postglacial environmental change of south-central Melville Island, Northwest Territories, Canada. Quaternary Research. 73: 247-258. doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2009.11.010
Fortin, M-C and K Gajewski. 2010. Holocene climate change and its effect on lake ecosystem production in northern Victoria Island, Canadian Arctic. Journal of Paleolimnology 43: 219-234 doi: 10.1007/s10933-009-9326-7
Peros, M, S Munoz, K Gajewski & A Viau. 2010. Prehistoric demography of North America inferred from radiocarbon data. Journal of Archaeological Science 37: 656-664. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2009.10.029
Kaufman, DS, D Schneider, N McKay, C Ammann, R Bradley, K Briffa, G Miller, B Otto-Bliesner, J Overpeck, B Vinther and Arctic Lakes 2k Project Members (M Abbott, Y Axford, B Bird, HJB Birks, A Bjune, J Briner, T Cook, M Chipman, P Francus, K Gajewski, Á Geirsdóttir, F Hu, B Kutchko, S Lamoureux, M Loso, G MacDonald, M Peros, D Porinchu, C Schiff, H Seppä, E Thomas). 2009. Recent warming reverses long-term cooling. Science 325: 1236-1239. DOI: 10.1126/science.1173983.
Bunbury, J and K Gajewski. 2009. Biogeography of freshwater ostracodes in the Canadian Arctic. Arctic 63: 324-332.
Fortin, M-C and K Gajewski. 2009. Assessing sediment production indices in Arctic lakes. Polar Biology 32: 985-998. doi: 10.1007/s00300-009-0598-1
Bunbury, J and K Gajewski. 2009. Postglacial climates inferred from a lake at treeline, southwest Yukon Territory, Canada. Quaternary Science Reviews 28: 354-369 doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.10.007
Viau, A, K Gajewski, M Sawada and J Bunbury. 2008. Low- and High-frequency climate variability in Beringia during the past 25,000 years. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 45: 1435-1453. doi:10.1139/E08-036
Peros, M and K Gajewski. 2009. Pollen-based reconstructions of late Holocene climate from the central and western Canadian Arctic. Journal of Paleolimnology 41: 161-175. doi: 10.1007/s10933-008-9256-9
Gajewski, K. 2008. The global pollen database in biogeographical and paleoclimatic studies. Progress in Physical Geography 32: 379-402. doi: 10.1177/0309133308096029
Viau, A and K Gajewski. 2009. Reconstructing millennial-scale, regional paleoclimates of boreal Canada during the Holocene. Journal of Climate 22: 316-330. doi: 10.1175/2008JCLI2342.1
Peros, M, K Gajewski & A Viau. 2008. Continental-scale tree population response to rapid climate change, competition and disturbance. Global Ecology and Biogeography 17: 658-669
Finkelstein, S A and K Gajewski. 2008. Responses of Fragilarioid-dominated diatom assemblages in a small Arctic lake to Holocene climatic changes, Russell Island, Nunavut, Canada. Journal of Paleolimnology 40: 1079-1095.
Gajewski, K. 2008. Comment on “Abrupt environmental change in Canada’s northernmost lake inferred from diatom and fossil pigment stratigraphy” by Dermott Antoniades et al. Geophysical Research Letters 35, L08701, doi:10.1029/2007GL032316.
Paull, T, P Hamilton, K Gajewski and M LeBlanc. 2008. Numerical analysis of small Arctic diatoms (Bacillariophyceae) representing the Staurosira and Staurosirella species complexes. Phycologia 47: 213-224.
Peros, M and K Gajewski. 2008. Testing the reliability of pollen-based diversity estimates. Journal of Paleolimnology 40: 357-368.
Bunbury, J and K Gajewski. 2008. Does a one point sample adequately characterize the lake environment for paleoenvironmental calibration studies? Journal of Paleolimnology 39: 511-531.
Peros, M and K Gajewski. 2008. Holocene climate and vegetation change on Victoria Island, western Canadian Arctic. Quaternary Science Reviews. 27: 235-249. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.09.002
Podritske, B and K Gajewski. 2007. Diatom community response to multiple scales of Holocene climate variability in a small lake on Victoria Island, NWT, Canada. Quaternary Science Reviews 26: 3179-3196.
Finkelstein, S and K Gajewski. 2007. A paleolimnological record of diatom community dynamics and late Holocene climatic changes from Prescott Island, Nunavut, central Canadian Arctic. The Holocene 17: 803-812.
Zabenskie, S and K Gajewski. 2007. Post-glacial climatic change on Boothia Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada. Quaternary Research 68: 261-270.
Viau, A and K Gajewski. 2007. Comment on “The magnitudes of millennial- and orbital-scale climatic change in eastern North America during the Late Quaternary” by Shuman et al., 2005. Quaternary Science Reviews 26:264-267.
Watrin, J, A-M Lézine, K Gajewski and A Vincens. 2007. Pollen-plant-climate relations in Sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Biogeography 34: 489-499.
Williams, J. W., B. Shuman, P. J. Bartlein, J. Whitmore, K. Gajewski, M. Sawada, T. Minckley, S. Shafer, A. E. Viau, T. Webb, III, P. M. Anderson, L. B. Brubaker, C. Whitlock, and O. K. Davis. 2006. An Atlas of Pollen-Vegetation-Climate Relationships for the United States and Canada. American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Foundation, Dallas, TX. 293 pp. (ISSN 0160-8843)
Gajewski, K. 2006. Is Arctic palynology a “blunt instrument”? Géographie physique et Quaternaire. 60: 95-102.
Zalatan, R and K Gajewski. 2006. A Salix-based dendroclimatic reconstruction of winter precipitation for the Kuujjua River area, Victoria Island, Arctic Canada. Tree Ring Research 62: 81-88.
Viau, A, K Gajewski, M Sawada and P Fines. 2006. Mean-continental July temperature variability in North America during the past 14,000 years. Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres 111, D09102, doi:10.1029/2005JD006031 .
Gajewski, K, A Viau, M Sawada, D Atkinson and P Fines. 2006. Synchronicity in climate and vegetation transitions between Europe and North America during the Holocene. Climatic Change 78: 341-361.
Barley, E, I Walker, J Kurek, L Cwynar, R Mathewes, K Gajewski and B Finney. 2006. A northwest North American training set: distribution of freshwater midges in relation to air temperature and lake depth. Journal of Paleolimnology. 36: 295-314.
Finkelstein, S, K Gajewski and A Viau. 2006. Taxonomic resolution and the postglacial history of the forests of eastern North America: analysis from the NAPD. Journal of Ecology 94: 415-430.
Gajewski, K, G Bouchard, S Wilson, J Kurek and L Cwynar. 2005. Distribution of Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera) head capsules in recent sediments of Canadian Arctic lakes. Hydrobiologia 549: 131-143.
Whitmore, J, K Gajewski, M Sawada, JW Williams, T Minckley, B Shuman, PJ Bartlein, T Webb III, AE Viau, S Shafer, P Anderson, L Brubaker. 2005. A North American Modern Pollen Database for Multi-scale Paleoecological and Paleoclimatic Applications. Quaternary Science Reviews 24: 1828-1848.
Bunbury, J and K Gajewski. 2005. Quantitative analysis of freshwater ostracodes in the southwest Yukon Territory, Canada. Hydrobiologia. 545: 117-128.
Zalatan R and K Gajewski. 2005. Tree-ring analysis of five Picea glauca-dominated sites from the interior boreal forest in the Shakwak Trench, Yukon Territory, Canada. Polar Geography 29: 1-16.
Wilson, S and K GAJEWSKI. 2004. Modern chironomid assemblages and their relationship to physical and chemical variables from southwest Yukon and northern British Columbia Lakes. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research 36: 432-441.
Bouchard, G., K GAJEWSKI and P Hamilton. 2004. Biogeography of diatoms from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Journal of Biogeography 31:1955-1973.
Leitner, R and K GAJEWSKI. 2004. Modern and Holocene stomate records of treeline variations in northwestern Québec. Canadian Journal of Botany 82: 726-734.
Leblanc, M, K GAJEWSKI and P Hamilton. 2004. A diatom-based Holocene paleoenvironmental record from a lake on the Boothia Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada. The Holocene 14: 423-431.
Kauffman, D, TA Ager, NJ Anderson, PM Anderson, JT Andrews, PJ Bartlein, LB Brubaker, LL Coats, LC Cwynar, ML Duvall, AS Dyke, ME Edwards, WR Eisner, K GAJEWSKI, A Geirsdóttir, FS Hu, AE Jennings, MR Kaplan, MW Kerwin, AV Lozhkin, GM MacDonald, GH Miller, CJ Mock, WW Oswald, BL Otto-Bliesner, DF Porinchu, K Rühland, JP Smol, EJ Steig, and BB Wolfe (PARCS working group). 2004. Holocene thermal maximum in the western Arctic (0o to 180oW) Quaternary Science Reviews 23:529-560.
Sawada, M, A Viau, G Vettoretti, W R Peltier and K GAJEWSKI. 2004. Paleoclimate model-data comparison for 6ka. Quaternary Science Reviews 23(3-4): 225-244.
Postdoctoral researcher: Matthews Perros
Thesis supervision
M.Sc.
Paul Beckwith
Nathalie Paquette
Peter Keiser
