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Jennifer L. Pierce

Researcher at Boise State University

Publications -  107
Citations -  4052

Jennifer L. Pierce is an academic researcher from Boise State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Holocene & Feminism. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 102 publications receiving 3759 citations. Previous affiliations of Jennifer L. Pierce include Wright-Patterson Air Force Base & University of New Mexico.

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Changes in Fire Regimes Since the Last Glacial Maximum: An Assessment Based on a Global Synthesis and Analysis of Charcoal Data

TL;DR: This article synthesized sedimentary charcoal records of biomass burning since the last glacial maximum (LGM) and present global maps showing changes in fire activity for time slices during the past 21,000 years.
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Gender Trials: Emotional Lives in Contemporary Law Firms

TL;DR: Piercer et al. as discussed by the authors conducted a covert/ethnographic, overt/interview study of two Bay-area law firms and found that women at the top perform the male-stereotyped emotional work of aggression, winning at all costs, humiliating the other, intimidating, wooing, strategic flattering, and marshaling all conceivable emotional resources in the name of being a successful adversary.
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Fire-induced erosion and millennial-scale climate change in northern ponderosa pine forests

TL;DR: In this paper, fire-related sediment deposits in alluvial fans in central Idaho were used to reconstruct Holocene fire history in xeric ponderosa pine forests and examine links to climate.
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Telling Stories: The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History

TL;DR: Maynes, Pierce, and Laslett as discussed by the authors argue that personal narratives-autobiographies, oral histories, life history interviews, and memoirs-are an important research tool for understanding the relationship between people and their societies.
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Fire, storms, and erosional events in the Idaho batholith

TL;DR: The South Fork Payette River basin in west-central Idaho experienced a prolonged storm that culminated on January 1, 1997, with intense rain on melting snow that triggered slide failures, producing debris flows and sediment-charged floods as mentioned in this paper.