Pratigya Polissar

About Pratigya Polissar

Pratigya Polissar, With an exceptional h-index of 36 and a recent h-index of 26 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of California, Santa Cruz, specializes in the field of Climate Change, Paleoclimate, Isotope Hydrology, Organic Geochemistry.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO2

Low-frequency orbital variations controlled climatic and environmental cycles, amplitudes, and trends in northeast Africa during the Plio-Pleistocene

Pre-industrial Holocene glacier variability in the tropical Andes as context for anthropogenically driven ice retreat

Estimates of earthquake temperature rise and frictional energy

Oldest evidence of abundant C4 grasses and habitat heterogeneity in eastern Africa

A multi‐proxy approach using zircon (U‐Th)/he thermochronometry and biomarker thermal maturity to robustly capture earthquake temperature rise along the punchbowl fault, California

History of earthquakes along the creeping section of the San Andreas fault, California, USA

Pairing plant-wax H and C isotopes with lake-area–A method for evaluating the local amount effect in northern China during the late Quaternary

Pratigya Polissar Information

University

Position

Associate Professor Ocean Sciences

Citations(all)

4654

Citations(since 2020)

2612

Cited By

2995

hIndex(all)

36

hIndex(since 2020)

26

i10Index(all)

56

i10Index(since 2020)

51

Email

University Profile Page

Google Scholar

Pratigya Polissar Skills & Research Interests

Climate Change

Paleoclimate

Isotope Hydrology

Organic Geochemistry

Top articles of Pratigya Polissar

Low-frequency orbital variations controlled climatic and environmental cycles, amplitudes, and trends in northeast Africa during the Plio-Pleistocene

Communications Earth & Environment

2023/10/9

Rachel Lupien
Rachel Lupien

H-Index: 4

Pratigya Polissar
Pratigya Polissar

H-Index: 23

Pre-industrial Holocene glacier variability in the tropical Andes as context for anthropogenically driven ice retreat

Global and Planetary Change

2023/10/1

Estimates of earthquake temperature rise and frictional energy

Seismica

2023/6/7

Heather Savage
Heather Savage

H-Index: 17

Pratigya Polissar
Pratigya Polissar

H-Index: 23

Oldest evidence of abundant C4 grasses and habitat heterogeneity in eastern Africa

Science

2023/4/14

A multi‐proxy approach using zircon (U‐Th)/he thermochronometry and biomarker thermal maturity to robustly capture earthquake temperature rise along the punchbowl fault, California

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

2022/4

History of earthquakes along the creeping section of the San Andreas fault, California, USA

Geology

2022/4/1

Pairing plant-wax H and C isotopes with lake-area–A method for evaluating the local amount effect in northern China during the late Quaternary

Organic Geochemistry

2022/7/1

Pleistocene drivers of Northwest African hydroclimate and vegetation

Nature communications

2022/6/21

Controls on Alkenone carbon isotope fractionation in the modern ocean

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

2021/12

Evidence of seismic slip on a large splay fault in the Hikurangi subduction zone

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

2021/8

Carbon isotope fractionation in Noelaerhabdaceae algae in culture and a critical evaluation of the alkenone paleobarometer

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

2021/7

Late Miocene C4 Grassland Fire Feedbacks on the Indian Subcontinent

Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

2021/4

Hydrologic Changes Drove the Late Miocene Expansion of C4 Grasslands on the Northern Indian Subcontinent

Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

2021/4

Soil Carbon Loss and Weak Fire Feedbacks During Pliocene C4 Grassland Expansion in Australia

Geophysical Research Letters

2021/1/28

Relationship between individual chamber and whole shell Mg/Ca ratios in Trilobatus sacculifer and implications for individual foraminifera palaeoceanographic …

Scientific Reports

2021/1/11

Modulation of late Pleistocene ENSO strength by the tropical Pacific thermocline

Nature communications

2020/10/23

Reply to: Multiple drivers of Miocene C4 ecosystem expansions

Nature Geoscience

2020/7

Ecological dynamic equilibrium in an early Miocene (21.73 Ma) forest, Ethiopia

Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology

2020/2/1

Pratigya Polissar
Pratigya Polissar

H-Index: 23

Earthquake slip surfaces identified by biomarker thermal maturity within the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake fault zone

Nature communications

2020/1/27

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