Publications

Research Papers

1. Mackay H, Plunkett G, Jensen B, et al. (2021). The 852/3 CE Mount Churchill eruption: examining the potential climatic and societal impacts and the timing of the Medieval Climate Anomaly in the North Atlantic Region. Climate of the Past Discussions, [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-2021-170, in review.

2. Cutler N, Streeter R, Engwell S, Bolton M, Jensen B, Dugmore A. (2020). How does tephra deposit thickness change over time? A calibration exercise based on the 1980 Mount St Helens tephra deposit.

Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 399, 106883. Published.

3. Foo, Z H, Jensen B, Bolton M. (2020). Glass geochemical compositions from widespread tephras erupted over the last 200 years from Mount St. Helens. Journal of Quaternary Science, 35(1-2), 102-113. Published.

4. Bolton M, Jensen B, Wallace K, Praet N, Fortin D, Kaufman D, De Batist M. (2019). Machine learning classifiers for attributing tephra to source volcanoes: An evaluation of methods for Alaska tephras. Journal of Quaternary Science. Published.

5. Bolton M, Beaudoin A. (2017). Climate reconstructions based on postglacial macrofossil assemblages from four river systems in southwestern Alberta. Canadian Water Resources Journal. 42(3): 289-305. Published.

6. Allan T, Bolton M. (2017). Identification of macrofossils within stone tools: A possibility for tracing the source of artifacts?. COMPASS. 1(1): 1-12.

Published.

Presentations

1. Bolton M, Broadman E, Jensen B, et al. (2021). Holocene volcanism trends from south-central Alaska tephra records: exploring linkages to climate. AGUFM, 2021, V52A-03.

2. Monteath A, Jensen B, Davies L, et al. (2021). Temporal patterns in the tephrostratigraphic framework of Eastern North America: What caused the Late-glacial/Early Holocene Quescence? GSA Connects 2021, Portland, Oregon

3. Reyes A, Andersen B, Bolton M, et al. (2020). Prospects, pitfalls, and pratfalls of high latitude palaeoenvironmental reconstruction from the post-eruptive sedimentary fill of kimberlite pipes in Northern Canada. GSA Connects 2020, Montreal, Quebec

4. Bolton M (2020). Measuring volume: sizing up volcanic eruptions. ATLAS Talk Series, Feb. 2020, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

5. Jensen B, Polard-Yopek N, McGee T, Bolton M. (2019). Memories of Ash: The May 18th 1980 Mount St. Helens Eruption North of the Border. AGUFM, 2019, V23I-0301.

6. Bolton M, Jensen B, Wallace K, Praet N, Fortin D, Kaufman D, De Batist M. (2019). Quantitative geochemical fingerprinting: Machine learning to trace tephra to source. 20^th Congress of the International Union of Quaternary Research (INQUA) 2019, Dublin, Ireland [Poster]

7. Bolton M, Jensen B, Wallace K, Praet N, Fortin D, Kaufman D, De Batist M. (2019). Quantitative geochemical fingerprinting: Machine learning to trace tephra to source. ATLAS Symposium 2019, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

8. Bolton M, Beaudoin A. (2018). Riparian macrofossil record as a means to quantitatively reconstruct regional Holocene climate trends. University of Alberta's Palaeontological Society's 7th Biennial Symposium, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, March 11 2018 [Poster]

9. Bolton M, Beaudoin A. (2018). Identification of late Quaternary macrofossils and recent applications in southwestern Alberta. Alberta Palaeontological Society Twenty-second Annual Symposium, March 17-18 2018, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta, Abstracts and Short Papers, pp. 28-30. [Poster]

10. Beaudoin A, Bolton M. (2017). After the flood: Analysis of organic rich sediments exposed by the 2013 floods along rivers in southwest Alberta. Geological Association of Canada - Mineralogical Association of Canada (GACMAC) 2017, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. [Poster]

11. Gilliland K, Bolton M, Beaudoin A. (2017). Rescuing the Ranch: Geoarchaeology and Historic Resources

Impact Mitigation at the FM Ranch Campsite (EfPk-1) in Southern Alberta, Canada. Developing

International Geoarchaeology (DIG) 2017, Newcastle, United Kingdom Main

12. Barron-Ortiz C, Jass C, Bolton M. (2017). Patterns of extripation prior to the last glacial maximum in Alberta, Canada. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) 2017, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. [Poster]

13. Beaudoin A, Bolton M, Bohach L. (2016). Preliminary observations on organic-rich sediments revealed by

2013 floods along the Highwood River, southwest Alberta. Archaeological Society of Alberta Conference, High River, Alberta,Canada

14. Beaudoin A, Bolton M, Bohach L. (2016). Preliminary observations on organic-rich sediments revealed by

2013 floods along the Highwood River, southern Alberta. 49th Annual Meeting of the Canadian

Archaeological Association, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada. [Poster]

Other Contributions

1. Bolton M. (2021). Computational approaches to tephra geochemical correlation and deposit volume estimation. 268. MSc Thesis, University of Alberta

2. Bolton M, Beaudoin A. (2017). Recognizing common macrofossils: a pictorial guide to recurrent seeds and shells from southern Albertan alluvial deposits. Woywitka R. Archaeological Survey of Alberta Occasional Paper No. 36. : 156-168 (31 pages). Archaeological Survey of Alberta

3. Bolton M, Beaudoin A. (2016). Reconstructing the Highwood River’s Holocene palaeoecology:

Assessment of organic-rich alluvial samples collected following the 2013 flood event. Woywitka R. Back on the horse: Recent developments in archaeological and palaeontological research in Alberta. Archaeological Survey of Alberta Occasional Paper No. 36. : 161-168. Archaeological Survey of Alberta

2. Bolton M. (2013). Examination of hydric soil and surface water interactivity at Oxford Brook, Miramichi, New Brunswick. 62. Thesis, New Brunswick Community Colleges