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Dennis A. Darby

Dennis A. Darby

Office Phone: (757)683-4701
E-mail: ddarby@odu.edu
Office Location: OCNPS 341
Current Students: Wesley B. Myers, Ph.D.; Shavonne Miles, MS; Edward Council (Wright State University) 
Curriculum Vitae
Research Lab
Recent APEX 2011 meeting at Longyearbyen, Svalbard
2011 OEAS News Feature
2007 Science News Feature
2007 Lomonosov Ridge Off Greenland Expedition
HOTRAX Special Issue in Global & Planetary Change
2010 Sedimentary Course Photos

Research Interests

 

Current Projects

  • Paleoclimate and paleoceanography of the Arctic and sub-Arctic
  • Provenance of sands
  • Sedimentology and depositional environments

Constraints of warming in the Arctic Ocean (NSF-Arctic Natural Science)

History of ice-rafting from Greenland and the Arctic Ocean

Educational Background

 

Courses

1971 Geology PhD with minor in Oceanography, University of Wisconsin, Madison

 

 

1968 Geology, University of Pittsburgh

 

 

1966 Geology, University of Pittsburgh
 
OEAS 320 - Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
OEAS 531 - Sedimentary Petrology
OEAS 620 - Advanced Geological Sciences
OEAS 634 - Applied Clay Mineralogy
OEAS 735 - Paleoclimatology
                                                      

Selected Publications

Darby, D.A., Myers. W. B., Jakobsson, M., Rigor, I., 2011, Dirty Sea Ice Characteristics and Sources: The Role of Anchor Ice. Jour. Geophy. Res. (Oceans), Vol. 116, No. C9, C09008.Polyak, L., Alley, R.B., Andrews, J.T., Brigham-Grette, J., Cronin, T.M.,
Darby, D.A., Dyke, A., Fitzpatrick, J.J., Funder, S., Holland, M., Jennings, A.E., Miller, G.H., O'Regan, M.A., Savelle, J., Serreze, M., St. John, K., White, J.W.C., Wolff, E., 2010, History of sea ice in the Arctic. Quat. Sci. Rev., 29: 1757-1778, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.02.010.
Darby, D.A., Polyak, L., and Jakobsson, M., 2009. The 2005 HOTRAX Expedition to the Arctic Ocean. Global Planet. Change, 68: 1-4, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2009.04.005
Darby, D.A., Ortiz, J. Polyak, L., Lund, S., Jakobsson, M., and Woodgate, R.A., 2009. The role of currents and sea ice in both slowly deposited central Arctic and rapidly deposited Chukchi-Alaskan margin sediments. Global Planet. Change. 68: 58-72. doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2009.02.007
Darby, D.A. and P. Zimmerman, 2008, Ice-Rafted Detritus Events in the Arctic During the Last Glacial Interval and the Timing of the Innuitian and Laurentide Ice Sheet Calving Events, Polar Research 27: 114-127. doi:10.1111/j.1751-8369.2008.00057.
Darby, D.A., 2008, The Arctic perennial ice cover over the last 14 million years, Paleoceanography, v. 23, PA1S07, doi:10.1029/2007PA001479.
Polyak, L., Darby, D.A., Bischof, J., Jakobsson, M., 2007, Stratigraphic constraints on late Pleistocene glacial erosion and deglaciation of the Chukchi margin, Arctic Ocean. Quaternary Research, 67: 234-245.
Darby, D.A., L. Polyak, and H. Bauch, 2006, Past glacial and interglacial conditions in the Arctic Ocean and marginal seas, a review. In: Structure and function of contemporary food webs on Arctic shelves: a Pan-Arctic comparison, P. Wassman, (ed.). Progr. Oceanography, 71: 129-144.
Darby, D., Jakobsson, M., and Polyak, L., 2005, Icebreaker expedition collects key Arctic seafloor and ice data. EOS, 86(52): 549, 552.
Darby, D. A. and Bischof, J.F., 2004. A Holocene record of changing Arctic Ocean ice drift, analogous to the effects of the Arctic Oscillation, Paleoceanography, v. 19, PA1027, doi:10.1029/2003PA000961, 9 p.
Darby, D. A., 2003, Sources of sediment found in sea ice from the western Arctic Ocean, new insights into processes of entrainment and drift patterns. J. of Geophy. Res., v. 108, C8, 3257, doi:10.1029/2002JC001350, 13-1 to 13-10.
Darby, D.A., Bischof, J., Spielhagen, R., Marshall, S., and Herman, S., 2002, Arctic ice export events and their potential impact on global climate during the late Pleistocene. Paleoceanography, 17(2): 15.1-15.17.
Bischof, J.A. and Darby, D.A., 1997, Mid to Late Pleistocene ice drift in the western Arctic Ocean: evidence for a different circulation in the past. Science, v.277: 74-78.
Darby. D.A., Bischof, J.F., and Jones, G.A., 1997. Radiocarbon chronology of depositional regimes in the western Arctic Ocean. Deep-Sea Research, 44:1745-1757.
Darby, D.A., 1990. Evidence for the Hudson River as the dominant source of sand on the U.S. Atlantic Shelf. Nature, v. 346, p.828-831.