RÉSUMÉ
SUMMARY AND HIGHLIGHTS
Publications
8 books, 150 journal publications
Presented 30 research papers at international meetings in 12 countries outside the US
Current Research Projects
- Cause of the global climate changes, global warming
- Cause of abrupt global climatic changes at the termination of the last Ice Age.
- Relationship of 25-year, glacial, and ocean warming and cooling cycles to solar irradiance and global warming
- Relationship of atmospheric cosmogenic isotope (10Be, 14C) production rates to global climate change
- 14C, and cosmogenic 10Be isotope dating of glacial deposits in the Cascade Range, Sawtooth Range, New Zealand Alps, and the Argentine Andes and Columbia Plateau
- Correlation of Quaternary interhemispheric climate changes
- Measurement of radiocarbon marine reservoir values
- Early Holocene glaciation of the Cascade Range
- Tephra and lahar chronology of Mt. Baker
- Interpretation of LIDAR imagery of glacial topography in western Washington
- Use of shorelines to determine isostatic uplift rates in the Puget Lowland
- Cause of debris torrents
Offices in Professional Societies
International
- Director of field excursions for the 2003 International Quaternary Congress.
- Associate Editor, GEOMORPHOLOGY (International Journal)
- U.S. representative to UNESCO International Geological Correlation Project, Glaciations in the Northern Hemisphere
- Member of International Geological Correlation Project, UNESCO
- Member of International Quaternary Association
- Member, Commission on Quaternary Stratigraphy of North America
- Founding member of American Quaternary Association
National
- Associate Editor, Geological Society of America Bulletin .
- Received national award for "Distinguished service to the Quaternary Geology and
- Geomorphology Division, Geological Society of America.”
- Elected national chairman of Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division, Geological Society of America
- Elected national 1st-vice-chairman of Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division, Geological Society of America
- Elected national 2nd-vice-chairman of Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology
Division, Geological Society of America - Elected national secretary of the Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division, Geological Society of America, 6 times (12 years)
- Chairman of the Geological Society of America national meeting in Seattle
- National Chairman of the Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Panel to select the Kirk Bryan Award for the best paper in geomorphology
- Member of national Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division Management Board
- Member of national Geological Society of American Committee on Grants and Awards
- National council member, American Quaternary Research Association.
Membership in Professional Organizations
- Geological Society of America (Fellow)
- Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division (past president)
- American Geophysical Union
- International Quaternary Assoc.
- American Quaternary Assoc.
Research Grants and Awards
- 8 NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Research Grants
- 3 Department of Interior Research Grants
- U.S. Geological Survey Research Grant
- Council on Governments Research Grant
Papers Presented at International Meetings
- Geological Society of America, Vancouver, B.C.
- Geological Society of America, Toronto, Ont.
- International Quaternary Assoc. Congress, Ottawa, Ontario
- International Geological Correlation Program (UNESCO), Paris, France
- International Quaternary Assoc. Congress, Moscow, USSR
- International Quaternary Assoc. Congress Field Conference, Leningrad, USSR
- International Geological Correlation Program (UNESCO), Kyoto, Japan
- International Geological Correlation Program (UNESCO), Kiel, West Germany
- International Geological Correlation Program (UNESCO), Ostrava, Czechoslovakia
- International Quaternary Association Commission, Zurich, Switzerland
- International Quaternary Congress, Birmington, England
- International Quaternary Association Commission, Reykjavik, Iceland
- International Geological Correlation Program (UNESCO), Prague, Czechoslovakia
- International Geological Correlation Program (UNESCO), Stuttgart, Germany
- International Quaternary Association Commission, Stockholm, Sweden
- International Geological Correlation Program (UNESCO), Prague, Czechoslovakia
- International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Grenoble, France
- International Geological Correlation Program (UNESCO), Prague, Czechoslovakia
- International Geological Correlation Program (UNESCO), Salzburg, Austria
- International Quaternary Congress, Christchurch, New Zealand
- International Geological Correlation Program (UNESCO), Koln, Germany
- International Geological Congress, Montreal, Canada
- International Quaternary Congress, Paris, France
- Geological Society of America, Mexico City, Mexico
- International Geological Congress, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Publications
Books
Easterbrook, D. J., 1999 Surface processes and landforms: Prentice Hall Publishing Co., 546 p.
Easterbrook, D. J., 1999, Interpretation of landforms from topographic maps and air photos: Prentice Hall Publishing Co., 193 p.
Easterbrook, D. J., 1993, Surface processes and landforms: Macmillan Publishing Co., 520 p.
Easterbrook, D. J., 1993, Interpretation of landforms from topographic maps and air photos: Western Washington University Press, 185 p.
Easterbrook, D. J., 1982, Potential geologic natural landmarks, Cascade Range, Washington: Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service, Dept. of Interior, Wash. D. C., 277 p.
Easterbrook, D. J., 1971, Geology and geomorphology of western Whatcom County, Washington: Western Washington State College Press, 68 p.
Easterbrook, D. J., and Rahm, D. A., 1970, Landforms of Washington: Union Printing Co., 156 p.
Easterbrook, D. J., 1969, Principles of Geomorphology: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 462 p.
A Few Selected Geologic Journal Publications
Easterbrook, D.J., submitted, Synchronous, late Pleistocene, ice sheet and alpine glacial fluctuations in the Northern and Southern hemispheres—implications for abrupt, global, climate changes, Boreas.
Easterbrook, D.J., 2005, Causes and effects of abrupt, global, climate changes and global warming: Geological Society of America.
Easterbrook, D.J., Evenson, E.B., Gosse, J., Ivy-Ochs,S., Kovanen, D.J., and Sherard, C.A., 2004, Synchronous, Global, Late Pleistocene Ice Sheet And Alpine Glacial Fluctuations, Geological Society of America.
Sherard, C.A., Easterbrook, D.J., Evenson, E.B., Gosse, J., Ivy-Ochs,S., and Kovanen, D.J., 2004, Late Pleistocene alpine glacial oscillations in the North Cascades, WA and Sawtooth Mts., ID and their relationship to global climatic changes, Geological Society of America.
Easterbrook, D.J., 2003, Global, double, younger dryas, glacial fluctuations in ice sheets and alpine glaciers, International Quaternary Association.
Easterbrook, D.J., 2003, Synchronicity and sensitivity of alpine and continental glaciers to abrupt, global, climatic changes during the Younger Dryas, 2003, Geological Society of America.
Easterbrook, D.J., 2002, Implications of Younger Dryas glacial fluctuations in the western U.S., New Zealand, and Europe, Geological Society of America.
Easterbrook, D.J., 2003, Determinaton of 36Cl production rates from the well-dated deglaciation surfaces of Whidbey and Fidalgo Islands, Washington Quaternary Research, v. 59, p.132-134.
Kovanen, D. J., and Easterbrook, D. J., 2002, Radiocarbon reservoir values for late Pleistocene marine shells in the Fraser Lowland of western north America.
Easterbrook, D. J., and Kovanen, D. J., 1998, “Pre-Younger Dryas Resurgence of the southwestern Margin of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, British Columbia, Canada”—Comments: Boreas, v. 27, p. 229-230, Oslo, Norway.
Easterbrook, D. J., 1994, Chronology of Pre-late Wisconsin Pleistocene the Puget Lowland, Washington: in Lasmanis, R., and Cheney, E. S., Regional Geology of Washington State, Washington Division of Geology and Earth Resources, Bulletin 80, p. 191-206.
Berger G. W.,. and Easterbrook, D. J., 1993, Thermoluminescence dating tests for lacustrine, glaciomarine, and floodplain sediments from western Washington and British Columbia: Canadian Journal of Earth Science, vol. 30, p. p. 1815-1828.
Easterbrook, D. J., 1992, Advance and retreat of Cordilleran ice sheets in Washington, U.S.A.: Geographie Physique et Quaternaire, v. 46, no. 1, p. 51-68.
Berger, G. W., Burke, R. M., Carver, G. A., and Easterbrook, D. J., 1991, Test of thermo-luminescence dating with coastal sediments from northern California: Chemical Geology, Isotope Geoscience Section, Elsevier Science Publishers, v. 87, p. 21-37.
Easterbrook, D. J., Naeser, N. A., and Roland, J., and Carson, R. J., 1988, Application of paleomagnetism, fission-track dating, and tephra chronology to Lower Pleistocene sediments in the Puget Lowland, Washington: in Dating Quaternary Sediments, Geological Society of America Special Paper 227, p 139-165 .
Easterbrook, D. J., 1988, Paleomagnetism of Quaternary sediments: in Dating Quaternary Sediments, Geological Society of America Special Paper 227, 111-122.
Easterbrook, D. J., 1988, Dating Quaternary Sediments: Geological Society of America Special Paper 227, 165 p.
Easterbrook, D. J., and Boellstorff, J., 1984, Paleomagnetism and chronology of early Pleistocene tills in the central U.S.: in Correlation of Quaternary Chronologies: Geobooks, Norwich, United Kingdom, p. 73-90.
Easterbrook,·D.·J., 1983 Remanent magnetism in glacial tills and related diamictons: in Symposium volume, Genesis of glacial deposits, Balkema Publ. Co., Rotterdam, Netherlands, p. 303-313.
Isterbruk, D D (Easterbrook, D J.); Bullstorf, D. (Boellstorff, J.), 1982, Paleomagnetizm i khronologiya rannepleystotsenovykh moren Tsentra SShA (Paleomagnetism and chronology of early Pleistocene moraines in the central United States): Issledovaniya chetvertichnogo perioda (izbrannyye doklady XI kongressa INKVA), Studies of the Quaternary period, selected papers from the XI INQUA congress, Editors: Kartashov, I P; Nikiforova, K. V., Mezhdunarodnyy soyuz po izucheniyu chetvertichnogo perioda, XI, Moscow, USSR, Izd. Nauka, Moscow, USSR, p. 122-127.
Easterbrook, D. J., and Boellstorff, J., 1981, Age and correlation of early Pleistocene glaciations based on paleomagnetic and fission track dating in North America: International Geological Correlation Program, Report. no. 6, Prague, Czech., p. 72-82.
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