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Dr Vincent Rinterknecht

Position: Lecturer in Geography & Geosciences
Tel: +44 01334 462382
Fax: +44 01334 463949
E-mail: vr10@st-andrews.ac.uk

Research Expertise Profile
Publications

Biography

I did my undergraduate studies at the University of Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France. I received my licence (1996) and maîtrise (1997) in physical geography spending half of my maîtrise year in Berlin, Germany within the framework of the Erasmus Programme. I then crossed the Atlantic to undertake a PhD in geosciences at Oregon State University. I applied the surface exposure dating technique to paleoclimate reconstruction and received my diploma in 2003. I then spent three years at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, USA, developing the surface exposure laboratory as part of my post-doctorate in the geochemistry department. In 2006 I accepted a post of lecturer in physical geography at St Andrews.

Since my licence back in France I have been interested in the deglaciation pattern of a major ice sheet that covered the European continent some 20 000 years ago. It was during my maîtrise and then during my PhD that I acquired the tools necessary to build direct the deglaciation chronologies that are essential for our understanding of the ice-climate interaction. Since then I have broadened my geographical and field interests. My current research takes me to places such as Ecuador, Greenland, Ukraine, and Norway where I continue to build chronologies of ice retreat to understand the possible mechanisms responsible for these retreats. Applications of surface exposure dating are diverse and I am developing research in paleolake shoreline reconstructions as well as erosion rate quantification at the watershed scale.

Profile

  • Master in Physical Geography (University of Strasbourg, France, 1997)
  • Ph.D. in Geography (Oregon State University, USA, 2003) 
  • Postdocdorate, Geochemistry (Lamont-Doherty earth Observatory of Columbia University, USA, 2003-2006)
  • Lecturer (University of St Andrews, 2006-present)

Responsibilities

  • Second year co-ordinator
  • Co - co-ordinator, World Series Seminar

Teaching Interests

  • First Year Geography: global climate systems and climate change
  • Honours module in Glaciers and Glacial Processes
  • Paleoclimate

Research Interests

  • Global Environmental Changes
  • Quaternary Geochronology
  • Glacial Geomorphology
  • Paleoclimate

Postgraduate Students

  • David Small

Publications

Rinterknecht VR, Clark PU, Raisbeck GM, Yiou F, Brook EJ, Tschudi S, Lunkka JP  2004, Cosmogenic 10Be dating of the Salpausselkä I Moraine in southwestern Finland.Quaternary Science Review 23, 2283–2289.

Rinterknecht VR, Marks L, Raisbeck GM, Yiou F, Clark PU, Brook EJ, and Piotrowski J  2005. Cosmogenic 10Be ages on the Pomeranian Moraine, Poland. Boreas 34, 186-191.

Rinterknecht VR, Clark PU, Raisbeck GM, Yiou F, Brook EJ, Bitinas A, Marks L, Zelcs V, Lunkka JP, Pavlovskaya IE, Piotrowsk JAI, Raukas A  2006. The Last Deglaciation of the Southeastern Sector of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet. Science 311, 1449-1452.

Rinterknecht VR, Pavlovskaya IE, Clark PU, Raisbeck GM, Yiou F, Brook EJ  2007. Timing of the Last Deglaciation in Belarus. Boreas 36, 307-313