Don J. Easterbrook, Professor Emeritus
(360) 650-3583; don.easterbrook@wwu.edu
Global climate change; glacial geology; geomorphology; Quaternary geochronology; environmental geology
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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.
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