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Selected Publications of Leonid Polyak

• Polyak, L., Alley, R.B., Andrews, J.T., Brigham-Grette, J., Cronin, T.M., Darby, D.A., Dyke, A.S., Fitzpatrick, J.J., Funder, S., Holland, M., Jennings, A.E., Miller, G.H., O'Regan, M., Savelle, J., Serreze, M., St. John, K., White, J.W.C., Wolff, E., 2010. History of sea ice in the Arctic. Quatern. Science Reviews 29, 1757-1778.
• Polyak, L., Jakobsson, M., Quaternary sedimentation in the Arctic Ocean: recent advances and further challenges. Oceanography, in press.

Central Arctic Ocean

• Ishman, S.E., Polyak, L.& Poore, R.Z., 1996. An expanded record of Pleistocene deep Arctic change: Canada Basin, western Arctic Ocean. Geology 24, 139-142.
• Polyak, L., Edwards, M.H., Coakley, B.J. & Jakobsson, M., 2001. Ice shelves in the Pleistocene Arctic Ocean inferred from glaciogenic deep-sea bedforms. Nature 410, 453-456.
• Jakobsson, M., Løvlie, R., Arnold, E., Backman, J., Polyak, L. & et al, 2001. A multiproxy approach to Pleistocene stratigraphy and paleoenvironmental variation in the central Arctic Ocean. Global Planet. Change 31, 1-21.
• Polyak, L., Curry, W.B., Darby, D.A., Bischof, J. & Cronin, T.M., 2004. Contrasting glacial/interglacial regimes in the western Arctic Ocean as exemplified by a sedimentary record from the Mendeleev Ridge Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol. 203, 73-93.
• Backman, J., Jakobsson, M., Løvlie, R., Polyak, L. & Febo, L.A., 2004. Is the central Arctic Ocean a sediment starved basin? Quatern. Science Review 23, 1435-1454.
• Darby, D.A., Jakobsson, M., & Polyak, L., 2005. Icebreaker expedition collects key Arctic seafloor and ice data. Eos 86, No. 52, p. 549, 552.
• Darby, D.A., L. Polyak, & H. Bauch, 2006. Past glacial and interglacial conditions in the Arctic Ocean and marginal seas: a review. In: Structure and function of contemporary food webs on Arctic shelves: a Pan-Arctic comparison, P. Wassman (ed.), Progr. Oceanography, 71, 129-144.
• Polyak, L., Darby, D.A., Bischof, J., Jakobsson, M., 2007. Stratigraphic constraints on late Pleistocene glacial erosion and deglaciation of the Chukchi margin, Arctic Ocean. Quaternary Research, 67, 234-245.
• Jakobsson, M., Polyak, L., Edwards, M.H., Kleman, J., Coakley, B.J., 2008. Glacial geomorphology of the central Arctic Ocean: Chukchi Borderland and the Lomonosov Ridge. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 33, 526-545.
• Kaufman, D., Polyak, L., Adler, R., Channell, J., Xuan, C., 2008. Dating late Quaternary planktonic foraminifer Neogloboquadrina pachyderma from the Arctic Ocean by using amino acid racemization. Paleoceanography, 23, PA3224.
• Not, C., Hillaire-Marcel, C., Ghaleb, B., Polyak, L., Darby, D., 2008. ²¹⁰Pb-²²⁶Ra-²³⁰Th systematics in very low sedimentation rate sediments from the Mendeleev Ridge (Arctic Ocean). Canadian J. Earth Sci., 45, 1207-1219.
• Polyak, L., Bischof, J., Ortiz, J.D., Darby, D.A., Channell, J.E.T., Xuan, C., Kaufman, D.S., Løvlie, R., Schneider, D.A., Eberl, D.D., Adler, R.E., Council, E.A., 2009. Late Quaternary stratigraphy and sedimentation patterns in the western Arctic Ocean. Global Planet. Change, 68 (1-2).
• Yamamoto, M., Polyak, L., 2009. Changes in terrestrial organic matter input to the Mendeleev Ridge, western Arctic Ocean, during the Late Quaternary. Global Planet. Change, 68 (1-2).
• Adler, R.E., Polyak, L., Ortiz, J.D., Kaufman, D.S., Channell, J.E.T., Xuan, C., Grottoli, A.G., Sellen, E., Crawford, K.A., 2009. Sediment record from the western Arctic Ocean with an improved Late Quaternary age resolution: HOTRAX core HLY0503-8JPC, Mendeleev Ridge. Global Planet. Change, 68 (1-2).
• Yurco, L.N., Ortiz, J.D., Polyak, L., Darby, D.A., Crawford, K.A., 2010. Clay mineral cycles identified by diffuse spectral reflectance in Quaternary sediments from the Northwind Ridge: implications for glacial-interglacial sedimentation patterns in the Arctic Ocean. Polar Research 29, 176-197.
• Jakobsson, M., Nilsson, J., O'Regan, M., Backman, J., Löwemark, L., Dowdeswell, J.A., Polyak, L. et al., 2010. An Arctic Ocean ice shelf during MIS 6 constrained by new geophysical and geological data. Quatern. Sci. Rev. 29, 3505-3517.
• Cronin, T., Gemery, L., Briggs, W. M., Jr., Jakobsson, M., Polyak, L., Brouwers, E. M., 2010. Quaternary sea ice history in the Arctic Ocean based on a new ostracode sea-ice proxy. Quatern. Sci. Rev. 29, 3415-3429.

Alaskan margin

• Engels, J.L., Edwards, M.H., Polyak, L., Johnson, P.D., 2008. Seafloor evidence for ice shelf flow across the Alaska/Beaufort margin of the Arctic Ocean. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 33, 1047-1063.
• McKay, J.L., de Vernal, A., Hillaire-Marcel, C., Not, C., Polyak, L., Darby, D., 2008. Holocene fluctuations in Arctic sea-ice cover: dinocyst-based reconstructions for the eastern Chukchi Sea. Canadian J. Earth Sci., 45, 1377-1397.
• Barletta, F., St-Onge, G., Channell, J.E.T., Rochon, A., Polyak, L., Darby, D.A., 2008. High-resolution paleomagnetic secular variation and relative paleointensity records from the western Canadian Arctic: implication for Holocene stratigraphy and geomagnetic field behaviour. Canadian J. Earth Sci., 45, 1265-1281.
• Darby, D.A., Ortiz, J.D., Polyak, L., Lund, S., Jakobsson, M., Woodgate, R.A., 2009. The role of currents and sea ice in both slowly deposited central Arctic and rapidly deposited Chukchi-Alaskan margin sediments. Global Planet. Change, 68 (1-2).
• Ortiz, J.D., Polyak, L., Grebmeier, J.M., Darby, D.A., Eberl, D.D., Naidu, S., Nof, D., 2009. Provenance of Holocene sediment on the Chukchi-Alaskan margin based on combined diffuse spectral reflectance and quantitative X-Ray Diffraction analysis. Global Planet. Change, 68 (1-2).

Barents and Kara seas: glacial history

• Gataullin, V.N., Polyak, L.V., Epstein, O.G. & Romanyuk, B.F., 1993. Glacigenic deposits of the Central Deep: A key to the Late Quaternary evolution of the eastern Barents Sea. Boreas 22, 47-58.
• Polyak, L., Lehman, S.J., Gataullin, V. & Jull, A.J.T., 1995. Two-step deglaciation of the southeastern Barents Sea. Geology 23, 567-571.
• Polyak, L., Forman, S.L., Herlihy, F.A., Ivanov, G. & Krinitsky, P., 1997. Late Weichselian deglacial history of the Svyataya (Saint) Anna Trough, northern Kara Sea, Arctic Russia. Marine Geology 143, 169-188.
• Davies, T.A., Bell, T., Cooper, A.K., Josenhans, H., Polyak, L., Solheim, A., Stoker, M.S. & Stravers, J.A. (Eds), 1997. Glaciated Continental Margins: An Atlas of Acoustic Images. Chapman & Hall, London, 315 pp. (and three contributions therein).
• Polyak, L., Gataullin, V., Okuneva, O. & Stelle, V., 2000. New constraints on the limits of the Barents-Kara Ice Sheet during the Last Glacial Maximum based on borehole stratigraphy from the Pechora Sea. Geology 28, 611-614.
• Polyak, L., Gataullin, V., Gainanov, V., Gladysh, V., & Goremykin, Yu., 2002. Kara Sea expedition yields insight into LGM ice sheet extent. Eos 83, 46, p. 525, 529.
• Svendsen, J.I., Gataullin, V., Mangerud, J. & Polyak, L.V., 2004. The glacial history of the Barents and Kara Sea region. In: Ehlers, J. and Gibbard, P. (Eds.), Quaternary Glaciations - Extent and Chronology. Part I: Europe. Amsterdam, Elsevier, p. 369-378.
• Polyak, L., Niessen, F., Gataullin, V., Gainanov, V., 2008. The eastern extent of the Barents-Kara Ice Sheet during the Last Glacial Maximum based on seismic-reflection data from the eastern Kara Sea. Polar Research, 27, 162-174.

Barents and Kara seas: Holocene paleoceanography

• Polyak, L. & Solheim, A., 1994. Late- and post-glacial environments in the northern Barents Sea west of Franz Josef Land. Polar Research 13, 97-207.
• Polyak, L. & Mikhailov, V., 1996. Post-glacial environments of the southeastern Barents Sea: foraminiferal evidence. In: Andrews, J.T. et al. (Eds.), Late Quaternary paleoceanography of the North Atlantic margins. Geol. Soc. Sp. Publ. 111, 323-337.
• Polyak, L., Levitan, M., Khusid, T. & three others, 2000. The impact of glaciation, river-discharge, and sea-level change on Late Quaternary environments in the southwestern Kara Sea. Internat. J. Earth Sci. 89, 550-562.
• Voronina, E., Polyak, L., de Vernal, A. & Peyron, O. Holocene variations of sea-surface conditions in the southeastern Barents Sea, reconstructed from dinoflagellate cyst assemblages. J. Quaternary Sci. 16, 717-726.
• Lubinski, D.J., Polyak, L. & Forman, S.L., 2001. Latest Pleistocene and Holocene inflows of freshwater and Atlantic water to the northernmost Barents and Kara seas: foraminifera and stable isotopes. Quatern. Sci. Rev. 20, 1851-1879.
• Polyak, L., Levitan, M., Khusid, T., Merklin, L. & Mukhina, V., 2002. Variations in the influence of riverine discharge on the Kara Sea during the last deglaciation and the Holocene. Global Planet. Change. 32, 291-309.
• Polyak, L., Murdmaa, I. & Ivanova, E., 2004. A high-resolution, 800-year glaciomarine record from Russkaya Gavan’, a Novaya Zemlya fjord, eastern Barents Sea. The Holocene 14, 638-344.

Barents and Kara seas: modern environments and processes

• Forman, S.L. & Polyak, L., 1997. Radiocarbon content of pre-bomb marine mollusks and variations in the ¹⁴C reservoir for coastal areas of the Barents and Kara seas, Russia. Geophys. Res. Letters 24, 885-888.
• Smith, J.N., K.M. Ellis, L. Polyak, & three others, 2000. ^239,240Pu transport into the Arctic Ocean from underwater nuclear tests in Chernaya Bay, Novaya Zemlya. Cont. Shelf Research 20, 255-279.
• Polyak, L., Korsun, S., Febo, L.A., Stanovoy, V., Khusid, T., Hald, M. & Lubinski, D.J., 2002. Benthic foraminiferal assemblages from the southern Kara Sea, a river-influenced arctic marine environment. Journal of Foraminiferal Research 32, 252-273.
• Polyak, L., Lubinski, D.J., & Stanovoy, V., 2003. Stable isotopes in benthic foraminiferal calcite from a river-influenced arctic marine environment, Kara and Pechora seas. Paleoceanography 18, 3-1 to 3-17.

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