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Dr. Jens Bischof is an instructor in the Department of Ocean, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences. He was born on Sept. 14, 1956, in Oldenburg, Germany. He received his Masters Degree in geology in 1983 and his Ph. D., also in geology, in 1990 from Kiel University, Germany. His Ph. D. is a treatise on the dispersal patterns of ice-rafted debris in the Norwegian Greenland Sea, and was written under the supervision of Dr. J"rn Thiede. In 1991, he came as a post-doc to the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he worked with Dr. David Clark on the dispersal patterns of ice rafted debris in the western Arctic Ocean. In 1992, he joined the Department of Geology at Old Dominion University as a post-doctoral fellow. Dr. Bischof was promoted to the rank of Research Assistant Professor (SSRP) in 1995 and has been working in that capacity since. At Old Dominion University, Dr. Bischof works together with Dr. Dennis Darby on the development of the paleo-climate history of the Arctic Ocean.
For 13 years, since the start of his dissertation, Dr. Bischof has studied the process of ice rafting. His specialty is the identification of ice rafted sand grains which can be frequently found dispersed in glacial marine deep-sea sediments. By linking these rock and mineral grains, which were transported by drifting ice during times of continental glaciations, to their respective sources, he was able to determine the directions of past ocean surface currents and to reconstructed an increasingly accurate picture of past climate changes. The results of his work will help to constrain climate models and have thus predictive value as well. Dr. Bischof's primary occupation is research, publishing, and applying for grants to keep the growing Arctic research group funded. His collaborators include the Drs. Dennis Darby, Gregory Cutter, Glen Cota, Louis Codispoti (all at Old Dominion University), David Clark (UW Madison), Gary Dwyer (Duke), Stefanie Pfirman, Gerard Bond (both at Columbia University), Erk Reimnitz, Arthur Grantz (all at Stanford University), Lawrence Phillips, Richard Poore (both at USGS), Leonid Polyak (Ohio State), Anne de Vernal, Claude Hillaire-Marcel (GEOTOP UQAM, University of Montreal), James McManus (Oregon State), and Robert Spielhagen (GEOMAR, Kiel).
Dr. Bischof welcomes everybody interested in problems of the paleo-climate and climate change for discussions.
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