David J. Barclay Associate Professor Geology Bowers 324 ph: (607) 753-2921 fx: (607) 753-2927 barclayd@cortland.edu

Teaching:

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Research:

Glaciers	Tree-Rings	Paleoclimate	Geomorphology

My research interests include a range of issues relating to glaciers, tree-rings and climate change in southern Alaska.  My recent work has focussed on how climate has changed over the past 2000 years, and on using tree-ring cross-dates of glacially killed trees to reconstruct glacier fluctuations during this interval.  I am also interested in the dynamics of tidewater (iceberg-calving) glaciers and how the geomorphology of their fjords and termini can effect their behavior during advance.

Locally I am interested in the geomorphology and Pleistocene glacial history of New York state.  Projects have included the evidence (or lack thereof) for post-Laurentide local glaciation in the Adirondacks High Peaks region, landscape history of central New York, and stream channel migration and instability in glaciated valleys.

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Publications:

Wiles, G.C., Barclay, D.J., Calkin, P.E. and Lowell, T.V., in press, Century to millennial-scale temperature variations for the last two thousand years indicated from glacial geologic records of Southern Alaska: Global and Planetary Change, v.60, p.115-125.  [pdf]

Barclay, D.J., Barclay, J.L., Calkin, P.E. and Wiles, G.C., 2006, A revised and extended Holocene glacial history of Icy Bay, southern Alaska, U.S.A.: Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, v.38, p.153-162.  [pdf]

Reyes, A.V., Wiles, G.C., Smith, D.J., Barclay, D.J., Allen, S., Jackson, S., Larocque, S., Laxton, S., Lewis, D., Calkin, P.E. and Clague, J.J., 2006, Expansion of alpine glaciers in Pacific North America in the first millennium A.D.: Geology, v.34, p.57-60.  [pdf] [data]

Wiles, G.C., D'Arrigo, R.D., Villalba, R., Calkin, P.E. and Barclay, D.J., 2004, Century scale solar variability and Alaskan temperature change over the past millennium: Geophysical Research Letters, v.31, L15203, doi: 10.1029/2004GL020050.  [pdf]

Barclay, D.J., Wiles, G.C. and Calkin, P.E., 2003, An 850 year record of climate and fluctuations of the iceberg-calving Nellie Juan Glacier, south central Alaska, U.S.A.; Annals of Glaciology, v.36, p.51-56.  [pdf]

Calkin, P.E., Wiles, G.C. and Barclay, D.J., 2001, Holocene coastal glaciation of Alaska: Quaternary Science Reviews, v.20, p.449-461.  [pdf]
 

Barclay, D.J., Calkin, P.E. and Wiles, G.C., 2001, Holocene history of Hubbard Glacier in Yakutat Bay and Russell Fiord, southern Alaska: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.113, p.388-402. [pdf]
 

Ackert, R.P. Jr., Barclay, D.J., Borns, H.W. Jr., Calkin, P.E., Kurz, M.D., Steig, E.J. and Fastook, J.L., 1999, Measurements of past ice sheet elevations in interior West Antarctica: Science, v.286, p.276-280.  [pdf]
 

Wiles, G.C., Barclay, D.J. and Calkin, P.E., 1999, Tree-ring dated Little Ice Age histories of maritime glaciers, western Prince William Sound, southern Alaska: The Holocene, v.9, p.163-173. [pdf]
 

Barclay, D.J., Wiles, G.C. and Calkin, P.E., 1999, A 1119-year tree-ring-width chronology from western Prince William Sound, southern Alaska: The Holocene, v.9, p.79-84.  [pdf]
 

Hodge, D.S., Bursik, M.I. and Barclay, D.J., 1995, Simulation of Physical Processes in Environmental Laboratories: Journal of Geological Education, v.43, p.453-460.  [abstract]
 

Borns, H.W. Jr., Dorion, C., Calkin, P.E., Wiles, G.C. and Barclay, D.J., 1995, Evidence for thicker ice in interior West Antarctica: Antarctic Journal of the United States, v.30, no.5, p.100-101.

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Education:

Dissertation: "Tree-ring and glacial records of Holocene climate change, northern Gulf of Alaska region"

Honors program with concentration in geosciences

Exchange year spent at SUNY College at Plattsburgh, NY.

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