Don J. Easterbrook, Professor Emeritus
(360) 650-3583; don.easterbrook@wwu.edu

Global climate change; glacial geology; geomorphology; Quaternary geochronology; environmental geology (updated 12/11/09)

Research Activities

Global climate change

• Causes of climate change
• Correlation of glacial fluctuations, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, climate, and solar variation
• 500 year record of temp changes using oxygen isotope data from the Greenland ice core
• Effect of CO₂ on climate change
• Geologic history of climate change

Glacial

• Abrupt Pleistocene, global, climatic changes and their relationship to the cause of ice ages
• Pleistocene geochronology, ¹⁴C and cosmogenic isotope dating of glaciations in the Puget Lowland, Cascade Range, Columbia Plateau, Rocky Mountains, and New Zealand
• Global Younger Dryas climate change

Other

• Volcanic ash and lahar chronology
• Debris torrents
• Large seismically-triggered landslides.