Recent Publications

Completed Works since 1990

Refereed Journals or Refereed Conference Proceedings
	Archibald, S.B., K. R. Johnson, R. W. Mathewes and D. R. Greenwood 2011. Intercontinental dispersal of giant thermophilic ants across the Arctic during early Eocene hyperthermals. Proceedings Royal Society B. (published online 4 May 2011). doi: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0729. pp 1-8.
	Goring, S., T. Lacourse, M.G. Pellatt, I.R. Walker and R.W. Mathewes. 2010. Are pollen-based climate models improved by combining surface samples from soil and lacustrine substrates? Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 162: 203-212.
	Zazula, G.D., D.G. Froese, S.C. Elias, S. Kuzmina and R.W. Mathewes. 2010. Early Wisconsinan (MIS 4) Arctic ground squirrel middens and a squirrel-eye-view of the mammoth-steppe. Quaternary Science Reviews (published online, May 23), pp. 1-18.
	Goring, S., M.G. Pellatt, T. Lacourse, I.R. Walker and R.W. Mathewes. 2009. A new methodology for reconstructing climate and vegetation from modern pollen assemblages: an example from British Columbia. Journal of Biogeography 36: 626-638.
	Hayden, B. and R. Mathewes. 2009. The rise and fall of complex large villages on the British Columbian Plateau: a geoarchaeological controversy. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 33: 281-296.
	Lacourse, T., R.W. Mathewes, and R.J. Hebda. 2007. Paleoecological analyses of lake sediments reveal prehistoric human impact on forest of Anthony Island UNESCO Heritage site, Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii), Canada. Quaternary Research 68: 177-183.
	Zazula, G., D. Froese, S. Elias, S. Kuzmina, R. Mathewes. 2007. Arctic ground squirrels of the mammoth-steppe: paleoecology of late Pleistocene middens (~24 000-29 450 C14 yr BP), Yukon Territory, Canada. Quaternary Science Reviews 26: 979-1003.
	Arsenault, TA.., J.J. Clague, and R.W. Mathewes. 2007. Late Holocene vegetation and climate change at Moraine Bog, Tiedemann Glacier, southern Coast Mountains, British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 44: 707-719.
	Mathewes, R.W. 2006. Forensic palynology in Canada: an overview with emphasis on archaeology and anthropology. Forensic Science International 163: 198-203.
	Zazula, G.D., A.M. Telka, C.R. Harington, C.E. Schweger and R.W. Mathewes. 2006. New spruce (Picea spp.) macrofossils from Yukon Territory: implications for Late Pleistocene refugia in Eastern Beringia. Arctic 59: 391-400.
	Barley, E., I.R. Walker, J. Kurek, L. Cwynar, R.W. Mathewes K. Gajewski, and B.P. 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.
	Lacourse, T., R.W. Mathewes, and D.W. Fedje. 2005. Late-glacial vegetation dynamics of the Queen Charlotte Islands and adjacent continental shelf, British Columbia, Canada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 226: 36-57.
	Lepofsky, D., K. Lertzman, D. Hallett, and R.W. Mathewes. 2005. Climate and culture change on the southern coast of B.C. 2400-1200 B.P.: a hypothesis. American Antiquity 70: 267-293.
	Greenwood, D.R., S.B. Archibald, R.W. Mathewes, and P.T. Moss. 2005. Fossil biotas from the Okanagan Highlands, southern British Columbia and northern Washington State: climates and ecosystems across an Eocene landscape. Canadian Journal of Earth Science 42: 167-185.
	Pellatt, M.G., R.W. Mathewes, and J.J. Clague. 2004. Reply to comments on: Implications of a late-glacial pollen record for the glacial and climatic history of the Fraser Lowland. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 203: 343-346
	Harington C.R., Ross R.L.M., Mathewes R., Stewart K.M. and Beattie O. 2004. A late Pleistocene Steller sea lion (Eumatopias jubatus) from Courtney, British Columbia: its death, associated biota, and paleoenvironment. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 41: 1285-1297.
	Clague J.J., Wohlfarth B., Ayotte J., Eriksson M., Hutchinson I., Mathewes R.W., Walker I.R., and Walker L. 2004. Late Holocene environmental change at treeline in the northern Coast Mountains, British Columbia, Canada. Quaternary Science Reviews 23: 2413-2431.
	Rosenberg, S.M., I.R. Walker, R.W. Mathewes, and D.J. Hallett. 2004. Midge-inferred Holocene climate history of two subalpine lakes in southern British Columbia. The Holocene 14, 2: 258-271
	Hallett, D.J., R.W. Mathewes, and R.C. Walker. 2003. A 1000-year record of forest fire, drought, and lake level change in southeastern British Columbia, Canada. The Holocene 13: 751-761.
	Hughes, J.F., and R.W. Mathewes. 2003. A modern analogue for plant colonization of paleo-tsunami sands in Cascadia. The Holocene 13: 879-888.
	Hallett, D.J., D.S. Lepofsky, R.W. Mathewes, and K.P. Lertzman. 2003. 11,000 years of fire history and climate in the mountain hemlock rainforests of southern British Columbia based on sedimentary charcoal. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 33: 292-312.
	Rosenberg, S.M., I.R. Walker, and R.W. Mathewes. 2003. Postglacial spread of hemlock (Tsuga) and vegetation history in Mount Revelstoke National Park, British Columbia, Canada. Canadian Journal of Botany 81: 139-151.
	Lacourse, T., R.W. Mathewes, and D.W. Fedje. 2003. Paleoecology of late-glacial terrestrial deposits with in situ conifers from the submerged continental shelf of western Canada. Quaternary Research 60: 180-188.
	Zazula, G.D., D.G. Froese, C.E. Schweger, R.W. Mathewes, A.B. Beaudoin, A.M. Telka, C.R. Harington, J.A. Westgate. 2003. Ice-age steppe vegetation in east Beringia. Nature 423: 603.
	Hughes, J.F., R.W. Mathewes, and J.J. Clague. 2002. Use of pollen and vascular plants to estimate coseismic subsidence at a tidal marsh near Tofino, British Columbia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 185: 145-161.
	Pellatt, M.G., R.W. Mathewes, and J.J. Clague. 2002. Implications of a late-glacial pollen record for the glacial and climatic history of the Fraser Lowland, British Columbia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 180: 147-157.
	Lertzman, K., D. Gavin, D. Hallett, L. Brubaker, D. Lepofsky and R. Mathewes. 2002. Long-term fire regime estimated from soil charcoal in coastal temperate rainforests. Conservation Ecology 6(2): 5. [on line] URL: http://www/consecol.org/vol6/iss2/art5. (19 pp).
	Mandryk, C.A.S., H. Josenhans, D. Fedje, and R.W. Mathewes. 2001. Late Quaternary environments of northwestern North America: implications for inland vs. coastal migration routes. Quaternary Science Reviews 20: 301-314.
	Pellatt, M.G., R.J. Hebda, and R.W. Mathewes. 2001. High resolution Holocene vegetation history and climate from Hole 1034B, ODP Leg 169S, Saanich Inlet, Canada. Marine Geology 174: 211-226.
	Lian, O.B., R.W. Mathewes, and S.R. Hicock. 2001. Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Port Moody Interstade, a nonglacial interval in southwestern British Columbia at about 18000 14C BP. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 38: 943-952.
	Hallett, D.J., R.W. Mathewes, and F.F. Foit Jr. 2001. Mid-Holocene Glacier Peak and Mount St. Helens We tephra layers detected in lake sediments from southern British Columbia, Canada, using high resolution sampling, magnetic susceptability and electron microprobe analysis. Quaternary Research. 55: 284-292.
	Heinrichs, M.L., I.R. Walker, and R.W. Mathewes, 2001. Chironomid-based paleosalinity records in southern British Columbia, Canada: a comparison of transfer functions. Journal of Paleolimnology 26: 147-159.
	Pellatt, M.G., M.J. Smith, R.W. Mathewes, I.R. Walker and S. Palmer. 2000. Holocene treeline and climate change in the subalpine zone near Stoyoma Mountain, Cascade Mountains, southwestern B.C., Canada. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research. 32(1):73-83.
	Archibald, S.B., and R.W. Mathewes. 2000. Early Eocene Insects from Quilchena, British Columbia and their paleoclimatic implications. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 78: 1-24.
	Heinrichs, M.L., I.R. Walker, R.W. Mathewes, and R.J. Hebda. 1999. Holocene chironomid-inferred salinity and paleovegetation reconstruction from Kilpoola Lake, B.C., Canada. Geographie Physique et Quaternaire 53 (2): 211-221.
	Clague, J.J., I. Hutchinson, R.W. Mathewes, and R.T. Patterson. 1999. Evidence for Late Holocene tsunamis at Catala Lake, B.C. Journal of Coastal Research 15 (1): 45-60.
	Hicock, S.R., O. Lian and R.W. Mathewes. 1999. "Bond cycles" recorded in terrestrial Pleistocene sediments of southwestern British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Quaternary Science 14 (5): 443-449.
	Pellatt, M.G., M.J. Smith, R.W. Mathewes, and I.R. Walker. 1998. Palaeoecology of postglacial treeline shifts in the northern Cascade Mountains, Canada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 141: 123-138.
	Smith, M.J., M.G. Pellatt, I.R. Walker, and R.W. Mathewes. 1998. Postglacial changes in chironomid communities and inferred climate near treeline at Mount Stoyoma, Cascade Mountains, southwestern British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Paleolimnology 20: 277-293.
	Clague, J.J., R.W.Mathewes, J.-P. Guilbault, I. Hutchinson, and B.D. Ricketts. 1998. 'Pre-Younger Dryas resurgence of the southwestern margin of the Cordilleman Ice Sheet, British Columbia, Canada'. Reply to comments. Boreas 27: 229-230.
	Heinrichs, M.L., S.E. Wilson, I.R. Walker, J.P. Smol, R.W. Mathewes and K.J. Hall. 1997. Midge-and diatom-based paleosalinity reconstructions for Mahoney Lake, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada. International Journal for Salt Lake Research 6: 249-267.
	Clague, J.J., R.W. Mathewes, J.P. Guilbault, I. Hutchinson, and B. Ricketts. 1997. Pre-Younger Dryas resurgence of the southwestern margin of the Cordilleran ice sheet, British Columbia, Canada. Boreas 26: 261-278.
	Pellatt, M.G., R.W. Mathewes, and I.R. Walker. 1997. Pollen analysis and ordination of lake sediment-surface samples from coastal British Columbia, Canada. Canadian Journal of Botany 75: 799-814.
	Hutchinson, I., J.J. Clague, and R.W. Mathewes. 1997. Reconstructing the tsunami record on an emerging coast: a case study of Kanim Lake, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada. Journal of Coastal Research 13: 545-553.
	Pellatt, M.G. and R.W. Mathewes. 1997. Holocene tree line and climatic change on the Queen Charlotte Islands, Canada. Quatermary Research 48: 88-99.
	Clague, J.J. and R.W. Mathewes. 1996. Neoglaciation, glacier-dammed lakes, and vegetation change in northwestern British Columbia, Canada. Arctic and Alpine Research 28: 10-24.
	Clague J.J., P.T. Bobrowski, J.P. Guilbault, and R.W. Mathewes. 1996. Late Holocene sea-level change, south-coastal British Columbia. In: Paleoseismicity and seismic hazards of southwestern British Columbia. Ed. by J.J. Clague. Geological Survey of Canada. Bulletin 494: 20-34.
	Compton, B.D., R.W. Mathewes and G. Guzman. 1995. Puff balls from the past: identification of Gasteromycetes from a Lillooet archaeological site and speculation regarding their prehistoric use. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 19: 154-159.
	Mathewes, R.W. and J.J. Clague. 1994. Detection of large prehistoric earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest by microfossil analysis. Science 264: 688-691.
	Vance, R.E. and R.W. Mathewes. 1994. Modern pollen and plant macrofossil deposition in a hypersaline prairie lake basin. Canadian J. of Botany 72: 539-548.
	Pellatt, M.G. and R.W. Mathewes. 1994. Paleoecology of postglacial treeline fluctuations on the Queen Charlotte Islands, Canada. Ecoscience 1: 71-81.
	Vance, R.E. J.J. Clague and R.W. Mathewes. 1993. Holocene paleohydrology of a hypersaline lake in southeastern Alberta. Journal of Paleolimnology 8: 103-120.
	Mathewes, R.W., L.E. Heusser and R.T. Patterson. 1993. Evidence for a Younger Dryas-like cooling on the Pacific Northwest Coast. Geology 21: 101-104.
	Mathewes, R.W. 1993. Evidence for Younger Dryas-age cooling on the North Pacific Coast of America. Quaternary Science Reviews 12: 321-331.
	Barrie, J.V., K.W. Conway, R.W. Mathewes, H.W. Josenhans and M. Johns. 1993. Submerged late Quaternary terrestrial deposits and paleoenvironment of northern Hecate Strait, British Columbia continental shelf, Canada. Quaternary International 20: 123-129.
	Clague, J.J., R.W. Mathewes, W.M. Buhay and T.W.D. Edwards. 1992. Early Holocene climate at Castle Peak, Southern Coast Mountains, British Columbia, Canada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 95: 153-167.
	Vance, R.E., R.W. Mathewes and J.J. Clague. 1992. A 7000-year record of lake-level change on the northern Great Plains: a high-resolution proxy of past climate. Geology 20: 879-882.
	Mathewes, R.W. 1991. Connections between palaeoenvironments and palaeoethnobotany in coastal British Columbia. In New Light on Early Farming, ed by J. Renfrew, Edinburgh University Press, pp 379-387.
	Gottesfeld, A.S., R.W. Mathewes and L.M. Johnson Gottesfeld. 1991. Holocene debris flows and environmental history, Hazelton area, British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 28:1583-1593.
	Mathewes, R.W. 1991. Climatic conditions in the western and northern Cordillera during the last glaciation: paleoecological evidence. Geographie Physique et Quaternaire 45: 333-339.
	Wainman, N. And R.W. Mathewes. 1990. Distribution of plant macroremains in surface sediments of Marion Lake, southwestern British Columbia. Canadian J. of Botany 68:364-373.
	Clague, J.J., R.J. Hebda, and R.W. Mathewes. 1990. Stratigraphy and Paleoecology of Pleistocene interstadial sediments, Central British Columbia. Quaternary Research 34:208-226.
	Blaise, B., J.J. Clague, and R.W. Mathewes. 1990. Time of maximum Late Wisconsin glaciation, West Coast of Canada. Quaternary Research 34:282-295.
Government Publications and Book Chapters
	Zazula, G.D., D.G. Froese, A.M. Telka, R.W. Mathewes, and J.A. Westgate. 2003. Plants, bugs, and a giant mammoth tusk: paleoecology of Last Chance Creek, Yukon Territory. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 2003. D.S. Emond and L.L. Lewis, (eds). Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon Region, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, p. 251-258.
	Mathewes, R.W., and M.G. Pellatt. 2000. Holocene climate in the south-central interior of British Columbia. In: The ancient past of Keatley Creek, Vol. I: Taphonomy, Ed. by B. Hayden, Archaeology Press, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada p.59-64..
	Clague, J.J., E. Naesgaard, and R.W. Mathewes. 1998. Geological evidence for past earthquakes. In: Clague, J.J., J.L. Luternauer, and D.C. Mosher (eds.), Geology and natural hazards of the Fraser River Delta, British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 525, p. 177-194.
	Hutchinson, I., R.T. Patterson, and R.W. Mathewes. 1998. Plant macrofossil, pollen, diatom, and foraminiferal biofacies of the Fraser Delta. In: Clague, J.J., J.L. Luternauer, and D.C. Mosher (eds.), Geology and natural hazards of the Fraser River Delta, British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 525, p. 161-175.
	Clague, J.J., P.T. Bobrowski, and R.W. Mathewes. 1998. Geological evidence for past large earthquakes in southwest British Columbia. Current Research 1998-A, Geological Survey of Canada, p. 217-224.
	Luternauer, J. and 12 others (incl. R.W. Mathewes). 1994. Fraser River Delta: geology, geohazards, and human impact. In: Monger, J., (ed.) Handbook of Lower Mainland Geology. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 481: 197-220.
	Josenhans, H.W., J.V. Barrie, K.W. Conway, R.T. Patterson, R.W. Mathewes and G.J. Woodsworth. 1993. Surficial Geology of the Queen Charlotte Basin: evidence of submerged proglacial lakes at 170 m on the continental shelf of western Canada. Current Research, Part A; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 93-1A; 119-127.
	Clague, J.J., S. Lichti-Federovich, J.P. Guilbault and R.W. Mathewes. 1991. Holocene sea-level change, south-coastal British Columbia. In: Current Research, Part A, Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 91-1A, pp. 15-21.
	Mathewes, J. V. Jr., T. W. Anderson, M. Boyko-Diakonow, R. W. Mathewes, J. H. McAndrews, R. J. Mott, P. J. H. Richard, J. C. Ritchie, and C. E. Schweger. 1989. Quaternary environments of Canada as documented by paleobotanical case histories; chapter 7, In Quaternary Geology of Canada and Greenland. Ed. by R. J. Fulton, J. A. Heginbottom and S. Funder. Geological Survey of Canada, Geology of Canada, no. 1, p. 483.
	Mathewes, R. W. and D. M. Jarzen. 1987. The Queen Charlotte tundra! Biome 7(2), National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa.
Reviews and Unrefereed Papers
	Mathewes, R.W. 1999. Review of "Brooks Peninsula: an ice-age refugium on Vancouver Island." The Midden 30(4): 20.
	Mathewes, R. W. 1990. Review of "Postglacial Vegetation of Canada", Earth-Science Reviews 27:382-383.
	Mathewes, R. W. 1989. Part 1. Physical and historical setting, pp. 1-2. In: G.G.E. Scudder & N. Gessler, (eds.), The Outer Shores. Based on the proceedings of the Queen Charlotte Islands First International Symposium, University of British Columbia, August 1984. 327 pp.
	Mathewes, R. W. 1984. Review of "Paleoecology of Beringia" by Hopkins, D. M., J. V. Matthews, Jr., C. E. Schweger and S. B. Young (eds.). American Antiquity 49: 666-667.
	Mathewes, R. W. 1974. Review of "Einfuhrung in die Botanik" by R. Bornkamm. New Phytologist 73: 803.
	Mathewes, R. W. 1974. Review of "Okologie der Pflanzen" by W. Larcher. New Phytologist 73: 803-804.
	Mathewes, R. W. 1972. Pollen offers useful clues to B. C. History. The Midden 4(4): 6-8.
Published Abstracts
	Arsenault, T.A., R.W. Mathewes, and J.J. Clague. 2003. Paleoecology of a Holocene bog near Tiedemann Glacier, Coast Mountains, British Columbia Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting (Nov. 2-5, 2003), Seattle. Program and Abstracts. Poster.
	Zazula, G.D., A.M. Telka, C.R. Harington, D.G. Froese, and R.W. Mathewes. 2003. Mammoths, horses and mucks - oh my! Paleoenvironment of Last Chance Creek, Yukon Territory. 3rd International Mammoth Conference 2003, Dawson City, Yukon. Program and Abstracts, p.151-152.
	Ward, B.C., Mathewes, R.W., Telka, A.M., and Geertsema, M. 2003. A paleoecological record of climatic deterioration from middle to late Wisconsinan time on the Interior Plateau of British Columbia, Canada. XVI INQUA Congress, Reno, Nevada, U.S.A. Programs and Abstracts, p. 163.
	Ward, B.C., Telka, A.M., Mathewes R.W. 2003. Late Wisconsinan glaciation and paleoecological reconstruction, Chehalis watershed, southwestern British Columbia. CANQUA-CGRG, Halifax, Nova Scotia.Program and Abstracts, pg. A127. Talk.
	Telka, A.M., Ward, B.C., and Mathewes, R.W. 2003. Plant and insect macrofossil evidence of the Port Moody Interstade in Eastern Fraser Lowland, Chehalis watershed, southwestern British Columbia. CANQUA-CGRG, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Program and Abstracts, pg. A119. Poster.
	Ward, B.C., Mathewes, R.W. 2003. A paleoecological record of climatic deterioration from Middle to Late Wisconsinan time on the Interior Plateau of British Columbia, Canada. CANQUA-CGRG, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Program and Abstracts, pg. A126. Poster.
	Ward, B.C., Geertsma, M., Telka, A.M., and Mathewes, R.W. 2003. A 15 ka record of climatic deterioration from Middle to Late Wisconsinan on the Interior Plateau of British Columbia. GAC-MAC-SEG, Vancouver, British Columbia. Program and Abstracts, C.D.
	Mathewes, R.W., and J.F. Hughes. 2002. Palynological evidence for crustal subsidence during late Holocene earthquakes in coastal British Columbia, Canada. Program and Abstracts, AASP-TMS-NAMS joint meeting, University College, London. Sept. 11-13, 2002.
	Mathewes, R.W., and T. Lacourse. 2002. Paleoecology of a "Lost World" - late Pleistocene environments on the Pacific Coast of Canada. AMQUA 2002. Program and Abstracts, p92-93, 17th Annual Meeting, Anchorage, Alaska; Aug. 8-11/02.
	Lacourse, T., and R.W. Mathewes. 2002. Late Pleistocene paleovegetation and plant resources of The Queen Charlotte Islands and the adjacent continental shelf (poster). AMQUA 2002, Program and Abstracts, P. 75, Anchorage Alaska, Aug. 8-11, 2002.
	Hughes, J.F., and R.W. Mathewes. 2002. Rapid crustal rebound followed the 1700 Cascadia earthquake at Tofino, British Columbia. Seismological Research Letters. 73(2): p.241.
	Hughes, J.F., and R.W. Mathewes. 2002. Pollen records vegetation change with elevation over short distances in a salt marsh near Tofino, British Columbia. Geological Assn. of Canada (GAC/MAC) annual meeting Abstracts, Saskatoon, Sask. May 2002.
	Mathewes, R.W. 2001. Phytogeographic musings about glaciated (and unglaciated?) landscapes of coastal British Columbia. Canadian Botanical Assn. Annual Mtg., Kelowna. B.C. Program and Abstracts, p.38.
	Mathewes, R.W., O.B. Lian and S.R. Hicock. 2001. Palynology and paleoecology of the Port Moody Interstade in southwestern British Columbia. Geological Assn. of Canada, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Abstracts Vol. 26: p97.
	Mathewes, R.W. 2001. Late-Pleistocene outburst flooding recorded by reworked Tertiary pollen in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. American Assn. of Stratigraphic Palynologists annual meeting, San Antonio, Texas, Oct. 2001.
	Rosenberg, S., I.R. Walker, and R.W. Mathewes. 2001. Palaeoecological analyses of subalpine lakes on the Coast and in the Interior wet belt of southern British Columbia Canadian Quaternary Assn. Annual Mtg. Whitehorse, Yukon, Aug. 2001.
	Blais-Stevens, A., J.J. Clague, R.J.Hebda, R.W. Mathewes, and B. Bornhold. 2001. Record of large, late-Pleistocene outburst floods preserved in Saanich Inlet sediments. Canadian Quaternary Assn. Annual Mtg. Whitehorse, Yukon. Aug. 2001.
	Hughes, J.F., and R.W. Mathewes. 2001. Weedy colonists of sand from the A.D. 1700 Cascadia tsunami. Seismological Research Letters, Vol. 72(2): p.270.
	Mathewes, R.W. 2000. Paleoecology of a lost world: postglacial environments and biogeography of the continental shelf of Western Canada. GeoCanada 2000, Calgary, Alberta. Conference CD.
	Pellatt, M., and R. W. Mathewes. 2000. Implications of the Mike Lake pollen record for the glacial and climatic history of the Fraser Lowland, British Columbia. GeoCanada 2000, Calgary, Alberta. Conference C.D.
	Mathewes, R.W. 2000. Paleoecology of a lost world: pollen analysis and the coastal route for the peopling of the Americas. 2000 GSA meeting, Reno, Nevada. Abstracts volume.
	Rosenberg, S.M., D.J. Hallett, I.R. Walker, and R.W. Mathewes. 2000. Preliminary chironomid paleotemperature reconstructions for two subalpine lakes, British Columbia, Canada. 8th International Symposium on Paleolimnology, Abstracts, Kingston, Ontario, August 20-24, 2000.
	Lacourse, T., and R.W. Mathewes. 2000. Late Pleistocene and Holocene paleoecology of The Queen Charlotte Islands and northern Vancouver Island (poster). 2000 GSA Meeting, Reno, Nevada. Abstracts Volume.
	Mathewes, R.W. and M.G. Pellatt. 1999. High-resolution palynology of a marine core from Saanich Inlet, British Columbia. American Assn. of Stratigraphic Palynologists, 32 Annual Mtg., Savannah, Georgia. Abstracts, p. 20.
	Hughes, J.F. and R.W. Mathewes. 1999. Palynological evidence for crustal subsidence during the last Cascadia subduction zone earthquake, Tofino, Vancouver Island, Canada. Seismoloigcal Research letters 70, p. 232.
	Hallett, D.J., D. Lepofsky, K. Lertzman, and R.W. Mathewes. 1999. Holocene fire history of the Mountain Hemlock Zone, based on high-resolution charcoal analysis of lake sediments and soil. Ecological Society of America 84th Meeting, Spokane, Washington p. 101.
	Hebda, R.J., M. Pellatt, and R.W. Mathewes. 1999. Discoveries from pollen studies of Ocean Drilling Program Core 169S from Saanich Inlet. Third B.C. Paleontological Symposium, University of Victoria, B.C. May 1999. Abstracts, p. 33.
	Clague, J.J., P.T. Bobrowski, I. Hutchinson, R.W. Mathewes, and J-P Guilbault. 1999. Geological evidence for giant earthquakes and their tsunamis along the west coast of North America. INQUA Abstracts, Durban, S. Africa, August 3-11/99.
	Heinrichs, M., I.R. Walker, and R.W. Mathewes. 1999. Chironomids as indicators of lake alinity and climate change in British Columbia. Society of Canadian Limnologists, Annual Mtg. January 8-10/99.
	Pellatt, M.G., R.W. Mathewes, and R. Hebda. 1998. High Resolution palynological record from Saanich Inlet, British Columbia: Postglacial Vegetation and Climate history. GAC/MAC annual meeting, Quebec City, May 1998.
	Pellatt, M.G., R. Hebda, and R.W. Mathewes. 1998. Vegetation migration and inferred climate history from Saanich Inlet, Canada. Ocean Drilling Program Leg. 1695: Pollen analysis and ordination of a marine sediment core. AMQUA Abstracts, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. P. 142.
	Heinrichs, M.L., I.R. Walker, and R.W. Mathewes. 1998. Chironomid Stratigraphy and paleosalinity reconstructions for three saline lakes, British Columbia, Canada. Societas Internationale Limnologie, meeting in Dublin, Ireland.
	Mathewes, R.W. 1998. Pollen analysis and the Pacific Rim Hypothesis for the peopling of the Americas. American Assn. of Stratigraphic Palynologists, Annual Mtg., Ensenada, Mexico.
	Mathewes, R.W. 1997. Paleoecology of a lost world: late-glacial paleoenvironments of the continental shelf of northwestern Canada. 50th Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference, Ellensburg, Washington, April 19/97. Program with Abstracts, p.49.
	Hutchinson I., P. Bobrowski, J. Clague, and R. Mathewes. 1997. Tsunami run-up and recurrence as recorded in deposits of nearshore lakes on the emerging west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. GAC/MAC Annual Meeting, May 19-21, Ottawa. Abstract.
	Mathewes, R.W. 1997. Pollen analysis and paleoclimate of the "Port Moody Interstade" around 18,000 yr. BP in Coastal British Columbia. Abstract. American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists, Sept. 14-19, Woods Hale, Mass. Program and Abstracts. P.25.
	Mathewes, R.W. 1997. Paleoecology of Fraser (Late Wisconsin) glaciation in coastal British Columbia, Canada. IX International Palynological Congress, Houston, Texas. June 1996.
	Pellatt, M.G., R.W. Mathewes, and I.R. Walker. 1996. Pollen analysis and ordination of lake surface sediment samples from Coastal British Columbia, Canada. IX International Palynological Congress, Houston, Texas, June, 1996
	Mathewes, R.W. 1995. Palynological evidence for earthquakes. Geological Association of Canada - Mineralogical Assn. of Canada Annual Meeting, Victoria, B.C. Program and Abstracts, p. A-67.
	Mathewes, R.W. 1995. A comparision of paleobotanical proxy data and climate model results at 18 ka in coastal British Columbia. American Assn. for the Advancement of Science, Pacific Division, 76th Annual Meeting, UBC. Program and Abstracts, p.15.
	Heinrichs, M.L., I.R. Walker and R.W. Mathewes. 1995. Reconstructions of paleosalinity changes in Mahoney and Kilpoola Lakes, Southcentral British Columbia, Canada. American Assn. for the Advancement of Science, Pacific Division, 76th Annual Meeting, UBC. Program and Abstracts, p.43.
	Pellatt, M.G., M.J. Smith and R.W. Mathewes. 1995. Paleoecology of postglacial vegetation shifts near Mt. Stoyama, Southwestern British Columbia. American Assn. for the Advancement of Science, Pacific Division, 76th Annual Meeting UBC, Program and Abstracts, p.54.
	Mathewes, R.W. 1995. Neoglaciation, ice-dammed lakes, and vegetation changes in northwestern British Columbia. International Quaternary Assn., XN Congress, Berlin, Germany. Terra Nostra 2/95, p.180.
	Mathewes, R.W. 1995. The Little Ice Age in Northwestern British Columbia: evidence from ponds, peats and pollen. 28th Annual Meeting, American Assn. of Stratigraphic Palynologists, Ottawa, Canada. Program and Abstracts, p.A-13.
	Hutchinson, I., J.J. Clague and R.W. Mathewes. 1995. A tsunami record from Kanim Lake, central west coast of Vancouver Island. Tsunami Deposit Symposium, University of Washington, Seattle. (May 22/23) Program and Abstract.
	Mathewes, R.W. 1995. The Little Ice Age in north-coastal British Columbia: geochronology of valley-glaciers, ice-dammed lakes, and vegetation changes. In Past Changes in western North America, PAGES, PEP-1 (Americas) Transect. Albuquerque, N.M., 19-21 Jan., 1995.
	Mathewes, R.W. and J.J. Clague. 1994. Palynology as a technique for identifying Holocene earthquakes in coastal wetlands. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Program, p. A 529. Seattle, USA.
	Mathewes, R.W. 1993. Evidence for Younger Dryas-age cooling on the North Pacific Coast of America. International Geological Correlation Programme "Termination of the Pleistocene: Global Younger Dryas?", Project IGCP-253. University of Winnipeg, Abstracts, p.36.
	Mathewes, R.W. 1993. Application of microfossil analysis for detecting prehistoric earthquakes in south coastal British Columbia. CANQUA, Program with Abstracts and field guide, p. A 31. Royal B.C. Museum, Victoria.
	Mathewes, R.W., R.T. Patterson and L.E. Heusser. 1992. Pollen and foraminiferal evidence of Late-Quaternary cooling on the British Columbia Coast - a possible Younger Dryas event. GAC/MAC joint meetings, May 25-27, Acadia University, Wolfville, N.S., Abstracts Vol., P. A-75.
	Vance, R.E. and Rolf W. Mathewes. 1991. Modern pollen and plant macrofossil deposition in a hypersaline lake basin, southeastern Alberta, Canada. (ibid).
	Clague, J.J., R.W. Mathewes, W.M. Buhay and T.W.D. Edwards. 1991. Early holocene climate at Castle Peak, southern Coast Mountains, B.C. Geological Association of Canada Program with Abstracts, Series A, Vol. 16, page A-24.
	Patterson, R.T., R.W. Mathewes, and L.E. Heusser. 1991. Foraminiferal and pollen evidence of Late-Quaternary cooling in the British Columbia Coast - a possible Younger Dryas event. Geological Society of America, October 1991, San Diego, Program with Abstracts.
	Vance, R.E., J.J. Clague and Rolf W. Mathewes. 1991. Holocene paleohydrology of a hypersaline lake in southeastern Alberta, Canada. In sedimentary and paleolimnological records of saline lakes, Aug.13-16/91, Saskatoon, Sask., IGCP Project 219.
	Mathewes, Rolf W. 1990. Holocene climatic fluctuations in British Columbia and their possible effects on prehistoric naive cultures. Climatic Fluctuations and Man 5: p. 74.
	Mathewes, Rolf W. 1990. Holocene vegetation and climate changes in the Cordillera. Geological Association of Canada/Mineralogical Assn. of Canada Joint annual meeting, Vancouver, May 10-18, 1990. Invited Symposium lecture "Geology of Canada: a DNAG Perspective." GMAC, Program with Abstracts, Vol. 15: p. A-85.
	Mathewes, Rolf W. 1990. Climatic conditions in the Cordillera during the last glaciation: paleoecological evidence. GAC/MAC Joint Annual meeting, Vancouver, May 10-18, 1990. Invited symposium lecture "Cordilleran Ice Sheet: Formation and Decay." GMAC, Program with Abstracts, Vol. 15: p. A-84.
	Mathewes, Rolf W. 1990. Debris flows, paleolimnology, and native oral history: a case history from British Columbia. CANQUA/AMQUA joint meeting, June 4-6, 1990, U. of Waterloo, Ontario. Programme and Abstracts, p. 25.
	Mathewes, Rolf W., and G. Quickfall. Pollen, peat, and paludification of the Queen Charlotte Islands. American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists, 1990 annual meeting, October 10-12, 1990, Banff, Alberta. Program and Abstracts.
	Vance, R.E. and Rolf W. Mathewes. 1990. A Holocene pollen, plant macrofossil, and sediment record from southeastern Alberta: implications for paleoclimatology of the northern mixed-grass prairie. American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists, annual meeting, October 10-12, 1990, Banff, Alberta. Program and Abstracts.
Technical Reports and Translations
	Velichko, A.A., B. Frenzel and M. PÈcsi. 1991. Atlas of paleoclimates and paleoenvironments of the northern hemisphere. Geographical Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, and Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart. (Listed as revisor of translation into English).
	Mathewes, R.W. 1985. Institutional Report. Canadian Committee on Climatic Changes and Man, Ottawa. (3 pages).
	Mathewes, R.W. 1985. Translated English Summary For: Kuster, H. and V. Korber-Grohne. Hochdorf I. Forchungen und Berichte in Baden-Nurremberg. Band 19. (Summary, pp. 146-148).
Consulting Reports
	1988 MacLaren Plansearch (Lavalin). 1988. South Moresby National Parks, Biophysical Literature Review and Annotated Bibliography. Prepared for Environment Canada (Parks). Volume I and Volume II.
	1987 Paleoenvironmental Studies. Report prepared for Gitksan Wet' Suwet'en Tribal council, Hazelton, B.C.
	1984 Mathewes, R.W. Report on Beaver Lake pollen analysis. Prepared for Hatfield Consultants, Vancouver.
	1982 Envirocon Ltd. Assessment of two spoil disposal sites in the vicinity of Steveston Island. Prepared for Public Works Canada.
	1981 Envirocon Ltd. Environmental overview of a dredge spoil disposal site on Steveston Island. Prepared for Public Works Canada.
	1981 Envirocon Ltd. and Crippen Consultants. Engineering feasibility and environmental impact study for a proposed highway bypass route of Nanaimo.
	1981-83 Vegetation description and rare plant surveys for Alcan Alumninum's Kemano completion project.
	1980 Envirocon Ltd. Blizzard Uranium Property. Baseline Environmental Studies. 4 volumes. Prepared for Norcen Energy Resources Ltd.
	1976 Slaney, F. F. and Co. Ltd. Environmental Considerations - Valemount Tete Jaune Railway Connection. Prepared for Canadian National Railways, Edmonton, Alberta, February 1976.
	1977 Envirocon Ltd. Routes, An Environmental Comparison of Alternative Pipeline Corridors in the Yukon Territory. Vol. 1. Prepared for the Environmental Assessment Panel, Alaska Highway Pipeline Project.
	1976 Slaney, F. F. and Co. Ltd. Environmental Considerations - Valemount Tete Jaune Railway Connection. Prepared for Canadian National Railways, Edmonton, Alberta, February 1976.
	1976 Slaney, F.F. and Co. Ltd. Environmental and Social Considerations, Grade Improvement Lake Louise, Alberta to Stephen, British Columbia. Prepared for Canadian Pacific Railways, Vancouver, British Columbia, January 1976.
	1975 Slaney, F.F. and Co. Ltd. Revegetation of Disturbed Dunes, Appendix 1.1-1 in Phase Two, Environmental Considerations Trans Canada Pipeline Loops, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Prepared for Trans Canada Pipeline Limited, Toronto.
	1975 TERA Consultants Ltd. Environmental assessment of a proposed new town center at Whistler Mountain. Prepared for Department of Lands, B.C.
	1975 Clinton Connection Study Group. Ashcroft Clinton Rail Connection, Volume One, Environmental Setting; Volume Two, Projected Route. Prepared for Canadian National Railways, Mountain Region, December 1975.
	1974 Slaney, F.F. and Co. Ltd. Environmental Considerations, Proposed Northern Railway Extension, Whitehorse to Pelly River. Prepared for Whitepass and Yukon Corporation Ltd., November 1974.
	1975 Slaney, F.F. and Co. Ltd. Phase Two, Environmental Considerations Trans Canada Pipeline Loops, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Prepared for Trans Canada Pipeline Limited, Toronto, June 1975.
	1974 Slaney, F.F. and Co. Ltd. Environmental Considerations, Proposed Northern Railway Extension, Whitehorse to Pelly River. Prepared for Whitepass and Yukon Corporation Ltd., November 1974.
	1974 Slaney, F.F. and Co. Ltd. Environmental Considerations Carcross to Skagway Highway, Mile 65.6 to Mile 85.2. Prepared for Department of Public Works, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, November 1974.
	1974 Slaney, F.F. and Co. Ltd. Environmental Considerations, Proposed Northern Railway Extension, Whitehorse to Pelly River. Prepared for Whitepass and Yukon Corporation Ltd., November 1974.

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Works Accepted for Publication / Production / or Presentation

Refereed Journals or Refereed Conference Proceedings
	Blais-Stevens, A., J.J. Clague, R.W. Mathewes, R.J. Hebda, and B.D. Bornhold. (in press). Record of large, Late Pleistocene outburst floods preserved in Saanich Inlet sediments, Vancouver Island, Canada. Quaternary Science Reviews (accepted June 27, 2003)
	Pellatt, M.G., R.W. Mathewes, and J.J. Clague (in press). Reply to comments on: Implications of a late-glacial pollen record for the glacial and climatic history of the Fraser Lowland\. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. (accepted Oct. 14, 2003)
	Rosenberg, S.M., I.R. Walker, R.W. Mathewes, and D.J. Hallett. (in press). Midge-inferred Holocene climate history of two subalpine lakes in southern British Columbia. The Holocene (accepted February 14, 2003).
Books
	Fedje, D., and R.W. Mathewes (editors). Haida Gwaii: Human History and Environment from the Time of Loon to the Time of the Iron People. University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver (2005).
Accepted Book Chapters and Government Publications
	Barrie, V., K. Conway, H. Josenhans, J. Clague, R.W. Mathewes, and D. Fedje (in press).Late Quaternary geology of Haida Gwaii and surrounding marine areas. In: Haida Gwaii: Human History and Environment from the Time of Loon to the Time of the Iron People. Accepted March 27, 2003.
	Lacourse, T. and R.W. Mathewes (in press). Late Quaternary terrestrial paleoecology of the continental shelf: paleovegetation, climate, and the coastal migration route. In: Haida Gwaii: Human History and Environment from the Time of Loon to the Time of the Iron People. Accepted March 27, 2003.
	Hebda, R., M. Pellatt, R.W. Mathewes, D. Fedje, and S. Acheson (in press). Vegetation history of Anthony Island, Haida Gwaii and its relationship to climate change and human settlement. In: Haida Gwaii: Human History and Environment from the Time of Loon to the Time of the Iron People. Accepted March 27, 2003.
	Clague, J.J., R.W. Mathewes, and T. Ager. (in press). Environments of Northwest North America before the last glacial maximum. In: Madsen, D.B. (ed.) Entering America: northeast Asia and Beringia before the Last Glacial Maximum. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
	Lepofsky, D., D. Hallett, K. Lerzman, K. Washbrook, S. McHalsie, and R. Mathewes (In press). Documenting precontact plant management on the Northwest Coast: an example of prescribed burning in the Central and Upper Fraser Valley, British Columbia. In D. Deur and Nancy J. Turner (eds.). Keeping it living: traditional plant tending and cultivation on the Northwest Coast, Univ. of Washington Press, Seattle.