Oregon State University College of Science Geosciences ProfessorAppointed: 1988 | |
QualificationsPh.D., University of Colorado, Geology, 1984. M.Sc., University of Waterloo, Geology, 1980. B.S., St. Lawrence University, 1978. Expertise and Research InterestsQuaternary stratigraphy
Glacial sedimentation and erosion
Marine geology
Paleoclimatology
History and dynamics of former ice sheets
Other ExpertiseAcademic Experience: Associate Editor - Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, 1985-1988
Editorial Board - Geology, 1995-1997
Editorial Advisory Board - Quaternary Science Reviews, 1996-1997
Steering Committee, Terrestrial Aspects of Earth System History, U.S.Global Change Research Program, National Science Foundation, 1996-1997
Panel Member, Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division, Geological Society of America, 1995-1997
Advisory Panel, Antarctic Geology and Geophysics, Office of Polar Programs, NSF,1995-1996
Councilor (Geohistory), American Quaternary Association, 1994-1998
Snow, Ice, and Permafrost Committee, American Geophysical Union, 2000-2002
INQUA Commission on Glaciation, 1999-2003
Chair, Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division,Geological Society of America, 1999-2000
Associate Editor, Geophysical Research Letters, 1998-2001
Regional Editor (North America), Quaternary Science Reviews, 1998-present
1st Vice-Chair, Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division, Geological Society of America, 1998-1999
Steering Committee, EPILOG (Environmental Processes at the Last Glacial Maximum: Land, Oceans, and Glaciers), IMAGES, 1998-present
2nd Vice-Chair, Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division, Geological Society of America, 1997-1998
Snow, Ice, and Permafrost Committee, American Geophysical Union, 1996-1999
Editorial Board, Geology, 2002-2004
Associate Editor, Journal of Climate, 2003-2005
Marine Earth System History (MESH) Steering Committee, NSF, 2003-2005
Member, U.S. National Committee for International Union for Quaternary Research, 2004-2006 KeywordsCOS Keywords:Geology, Marine Geology, Sedimentology, Soil Erosion, Stratigraphy.Additional Terms:Erosion, Geology, Glacial Sedimentation, Marine Geology, Paleoclimatology, Quaternary Stratigraphy.MembershipsAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science American Geophysical Union American Quaternary Association Canadian Quaternary Association Geological Society of America Honors and Awards2002, Milton Harris Award for Exceptional Achievement in Basic Research,
Oregon State University
2001, L.L. Stewart Faculty Development Award,
Oregon State University
1997, Gladys W. Cole Memorial Research Award,
Geological Society of America
1997, Fellow,
Geological Society of America
1995, Thomas T. Sugihara Young Faculty Research Award,
Oregon State University
1987, Silver Circle Award, Excellence in Teaching,
University of Illinois
Previous Positions1984-1988, University of Illinois, Assistant Professor 1984, University of Illinois, Lecturer 1987, Smithsonian Institute, Visiting Scientist 1982-1983, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Visiting Scientist 1980-1983, University of Colorado, Research Assistant Funding Received- National Science Foundation (NSF):
Modeling ice sheet evolution on orbital and millennial timescales.,
$396,524,
Jul 1, 1999
to Jun 30, 2003.
- National Science Foundation (NSF):
Origin of the mid-Pleistocene transition,
$214,150,
Jul 1, 1997
to Jun 30, 2000.
- National Science Foundation (NSF):
Developing an improved chronology of the southern margin of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet.,
$276,640,
Jan 1, 2000
to Dec 31, 2003.
- National Science Foundation (NSF):
Developing a cosmogenic chronology of late-Pleistocene glaciation, Wallowa Mountains, OR,
$104,917,
Jan 1, 1998
to Dec 31, 2000.
- National Science Foundation (NSF):
Collaborative research: Testing and constitutive modeling of fine-grained tills deposited by the Laurentide Ice Sheet.,
$147,364,
2003
to 2005.
- National Science Foundation (NSF):
Collaborative research: Constraining late Pleistocene tropical climates by dating and modeling former glaciers.,
$155,000,
2003
to 2005.
- Cosmogenic nuclide chronology of weathering zones and ice sheet limits in northern Labrador, National Science Foundation (NSF), $28,829, 7/96-6/97
- Unstable behavior of the southern margin of the Laurentide Ice Sheet and implications for ice sheet dynamics and climate change, National Science Foundation (NSF), $147,000, 6/94-6/97
Publications- Licciardi, J.M, Clark, P.U, Brook, E.J, Elmore, D, Sharma, P., Variable responses of western USA glaciers during the last deglaciation, Geology, 32, 81-84, 2004
- Roy, M, Clark, P.U, Barendregt, R.W, Glassman, J.R, Enkin, R.J, Baker, J., Glacial stratigraphy and paleomagnetism of late Cenozoic deposits of the north-central U.S, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 116, 30-41, 2004
- Cottet-Puinel, M, Weaver, A, Hillaire-Marcel, C, de Vernal, A, Clark, P.U, Eby, M., Variation of Labrador Sea deep water formation over the last glacial cycle in a climate model of intermediate complexity, Quaternary Science Reviews, 23, 449-465, 2004
- Weaver, A.J, Saenko, O.A, Clark, P.U, Mitrovica, J.X., Meltwater pulse 1A from Antarctica as a trigger of the Bølling-Allerød warm period, Science, 299, 1709-1713, 2003
- Clark, P.U, Brook, E.J, Raisbeck, G.M, Yiou, F, Clark, J., Cosmogenic 10Be ages of the Saglek Moraines, Torngat Mountains, Labrador, Geology, 31, 617-620, 2003
- McCabe, A.M, Clark, P.U., Deglacial chronology from County Donegal, Ireland: Implications for deglaciation of the British-Irish Ice Sheet, Journal of the Geological Society of London, 160, 847-855, 2003
- Dyke, A.S, Andrews, J.T, Clark, P.U, England, J.H, Miller, G.H, Shaw, J, Veillette, J., The Laurentide and Innuitian Ice Sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum, Quaternary Science Reviews, 21, 9-32, 2002
- Clark, P.U, Mix, A.C., Ice sheets and sea level of the Last Glacial Maximum, Quaternary Science Reviews, 21, 1-8, 2002
- Clark, P.U, Pisias, N.G, Stocker, T.S, Weaver, A.J., The role of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation in abrupt climate change, Nature, in press, 2002
- Clark, P.U, Mitrovica, J.X, Milne, G.A, Tamisiea, M., Sea-level fingerprinting as a direct test for the source of global meltwater pulse IA, Science, 295, 2438-2441, 2002
- Breemer, C.W, Clark, P.U, Haggerty, R., Subglacial hydrology of the late-Pleistocene Lake Michigan Lobe, Laurentide Ice Sheet, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 114, 665-674, 2002
- Marshall, S.J, Clark, P.U., Basal temperature evolution of North American ice sheets and implications for the 100-kyr cycle, Geophysical Research Letters, 29, doi: 10.1029/2002GL0, 2002
- Clark, P.U, Mix, A.C, Bard, E., Ice sheets and sea level of the Last Glacial Maximum, Eos, 82, 241, 246-247, 2001
- Licciardi, J.M, Clark, P.U, Brook, E.J, Pierce, K.L, Kurz, M.D, Elmore, D, Sharma, P., Cosmogenic 3He and 10Be chronologies of the northern Yellowstone Ice Cap, Montana, USA, Geology, 29, 1095-1098, 2001
- Clark, P.U, Marshall, S.W, Clarke, G.K.C, Hostetler, S.W, Licciardi, J.W, Teller, J.T., Freshwater forcing of abrupt climate change during the last glaciation, Science, 293, 283-287, 2001
- Hostetler, S.W, Bartlein, P.J, Clark, P.U, Small, E.E, Soloman, A.M., Mesoscale climate and surface-atmosphere feedbacks along the southern margin of the Laurentide Ice Sheet 11,000 years ago, Nature, 405, 334-337, 2000
- Clark, P.U, Mix, A.C., Ice sheets by volume, Nature, 406, 689-690, 2000
- S.W. Hostetler, P.U. Clark, Tropical climate at the last glacial maximum inferred from glacier mass-balance modeling, Science, 290, 1747-1750, 2000
- S.W. Fleming, P.U. Clark, Investigation of water pressure transients beneath temperate glaciers using numerical groundwater flow experiments, Journal of Quaternary Science, 15, 567-572, 2000
- P.A. Thomas, D.J. Easterbrook, P.U. Clark, Early Holocene glaciation on the south flank of Mt. Baker, Washington, Quaternary Science Reviews, 19, 1043-1046, 2000
- P.U. Clark, N.G. Pisias, Interpreting iceberg deposits in the deep sea, Science, 290, 51-52, 2000
- Clark, P.U, Alley, R.B, Pollard, D., Northern Hemisphere ice-sheet influences on global climate change, Science, 286, 1104-1111, 1999
- Alley, R.B, Clark, P.U., The deglaciation of the northern hemisphere: A global perspective, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 27, 149-182, 1999
- J.M. Licciardi, M.D. Kurz, P.U. Clark, E.J. Brook, Calibration of cosmogenic He-3 production rates from Holocene lava flows in Oregon, USA, and effects of the Earth's magnetic field, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 172, 261-271, 1999
- S.W. Hostetler, P.U. Clark, P.J. Bartlein, A.C. Mix, N.G. Pisias, Atmospheric transmission of North Atlantic Heinrich events, Journal of Geophysical Research, 104, 3947-3952, 1999
- McCabe, A.M, Clark, P.U., Ice-sheet variability around the North Atlantic Ocean during the last deglaciation, Nature, 392, 373-377, 1998
- Clark, P.U, Pollard, D., Origin of the mid-Pleistocene transition by ice-sheet erosion of regolith, Paleoceanography, 13, 1-9, 1998
- Hostetler, S.W, Clark, P.U., Climatic controls of western U.S. alpine glaciers at the last glacial maximum, Quaternary Science Reviews, 15, 1997
- Clark, P.U, Licciardi, J.M, MacAyeal, D.R, Jenson, J.W., Numerical reconstruction of a soft-bedded Laurentide Ice Sheet during the last glacial maximum, Geology, 24, 679-682, 1996
- Clark, P.U, Alley, R.B, Keigwin, L.D, Licciardi, J.M, Johnsen, S.J, Wang, H., Origin of the first global meltwater pulse following the last glacial maximum, Paleoceanography, 11, 563-577, 1996
- Clark, P.U., Fast glacier flow over soft beds, Science, 267, 43-44, 1995
- Clark, P.U, and Bartlein, P.J., Correlation of late Pleistocene glaciation in the western United States with North Atlantic Heinrich events, Geology, 23, 483-486, 1995
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