McAndrews, John (emeritus)
Professor Emeritus
Senior Curator Emeritus, Royal Ontario Museum
University of Toronto
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Office: ES 3049
Tel.: 416 978 6940
e-mail: jock.mcandrews@utoronto.ca
Teaching Interest
Research Opportunity Program 299Y
Research Field
Quaternary biostratigraphy and climate, Palynology
Members of Research Group
Charles L. Turton
Dr. Eugene K. Ramcharan
Dr. J.H. McAndrews
Nature of Research
We apply fossil pollen analysis to questions about prehistoric agriculture, late-Pleistocene extinction of mastodon and Caribbean climate history.
Recent Publications
McCarthy, F.M.G., J.H. McAndrews and E. Papanigelakis. 2015. Paleoenvironmental context for Early Holocene caribou migration on the Alpena-Amberley Ridge. Pages 13-29. In: E. Sonnenburg, A. K Lemke, and J. M. O’Shea. (editors). Caribou Hunting in the Upper Great Lakes. Museum of Anthropology Memoir 57, University of Michigan, Ann Arbour.
Gordon, D.L. with contributions by J.H. McAndrews and I.D. Campbell. 2013. A lake through time: archaeological and palaeo-environmental investigations at Lake Temagami, 1985-1994. Ontario Archaeology 93:52-158.
Gao C., McAndrews J.H., Wang X., Menzies J., Turton C.L., Wood B.D., Pei J., Kodors, C. 2012. Glaciation of North America in the James Bay Lowland, Canada 3.5 Ma. Geology 40:11975-978.
McCarthy, F. and J. McAndrews. 2012. Early Holocene drought in the Laurentian Great Lakes basin caused by hydrologic closure of Georgian Bay. Journal of Paleolimnology 47:411-428.
McCarthy, F., S. Tiffin, A. Sarvis, J. McAndrews and S. Blasco. 2012. Early Holocene brackish closed basin conditions in Georgian Bay, Ontario, Canada: microfossil (thecamoebian and pollen) evidence. Journal of Paleolimnology 47:429-445.
McAndrews J.H., and C.L. Turton. 2010. Fungal spores record Iroquoian and Canadian agriculture in sediment of Crawford Lake, Ontario, Canada. Vegetation History and Archaobotany 19:495-501.
Lewis, C.F.M., S.M. Blasco, C.W. Heil Jr., R.I. Narragansett, J.B. Hubeny, G.R. Brooks, B.E. Medioli, J.P. Coakley, T.E. Croley, D.L. Dettman, T.W.D. Edwards II, K.R. Laird, J.H. McAndrews, F.M.G. McCarthy, T.C. Moore Jr., D.K. Rea, and A.J. Smith. 2008. Holocene dry climate disconnected the Laurentian Great Lakes. Eos 89(52):540-541.