Rate My Professor Jason Briner

Briner's scholarly pursuits lie in the broad field of Quaternary geology and global climate change. He examines glacial settings to elucidate ice sheet processes, glacial landscape evolution, and past glacier fluctuations, while also analyzing paleoenvironments recorded in Holocene and Pleistocene lake sediments to contextualize paleoclimate as a template for modern global change. His specialties are Quaternary and glacial geology, paleoclimatology, and Arctic environmental change. Directing the Paleoclimate Lab, he has produced key publications such as 'Rate of mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet will exceed Holocene values this century' (Nature, 2020), 'GISP2 bedrock reveals extended periods of ice-free Greenland during the Pleistocene' (Nature, 2016), 'Glacial erosion and history of Inglefield Land, northwest Greenland' (The Cryosphere, 2025), 'The configuration of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet in southern Norway during the Younger Dryas' (Norwegian Journal of Geology, 2023), 'Drill site selection for cosmogenic-nuclide exposure dating of the bed of the Greenland Ice Sheet' (The Cryosphere, 2022), and 'Holocene Glaciation in the Americas' (Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, 2025). Briner instructs courses including ERT 102 Climate Change, ERT 312 Surface Processes and Hydrology I, ERT 445/545 Glacial Geology, ERT 453/553 Quaternary Dating and Paleoclimate, and ERT 478/578 Advanced Field Methods: Alaska’s Changing Glacial Landscapes. He maintains memberships in the Geological Society of America, American Quaternary Association, and American Geophysical Union.