dbscott @ Dal.Ca

Department of Earth Sciences
Dalhousie University
1459 Oxford Street
PO BOX 15000
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada
B3H 4R2

Life Sciences Centre
3rd floor, Ocean Wing [plan]
Rm. 3613

902 494-3604

902 494-6889 (fax)

Deep-sea paleo-oceanography in the Arctic, Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Microfossils for use in environmental geology of coastal areas, focusing on coastal evolution, sea level and aquaculture.

Micropaleontology - Particularly Recent and Pleistocene Foraminifera and Ostracoda, and their use as environmental indicators and coastal zone management tools, Thecamoebians, their present distribution and usefulness in paleo-ecology.

Quaternary Geology - Sea-level changes and environmental changes related to glacial periods, Quaternary paleoceanography, stable isotopes in the Quaternary, global climate change, most recently using deep sea corals as a climate archive

1995-present

Professor, Earth Sciences, Dalhousie University

Project Leader of IGCP Project 367

Organizing Committee for Paleoceanography V Conference in October 1995

Co-Organizer of IGCP 367 Meeting, Chile, Nov. 1995, IGCP 367, Australia, Nov. 1996, organizer of IGCP 367, Alaska, May 1997.

Visiting scientist at Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara

Invited scientist to the Institute of Nuclear and Geological Sciences, Lower Hutt, New Zealand (1996/97)

Invited researcher and consultant to the Univ. Algarve, Faro Portugal (May 2000)

Senior scientist aboard ROPOS 2001 on the Scotian shelf obtaining the first video and samples of deepsea corals from this area as part of a large NSERC strategic grant on longterm climate studies

Together with Drs. Medioli and Schafer published a book for Cambridge Press on using foraminifera as environmental monitors.

1988-1995

Associate Professor, with Tenure, Earth Sciences, Dalhousie University

Co-Chair of Special Symposium at GSA, Boston (1993) on "Human Problems: Foraminiferal Solutions".

Proponent of new IGCP Project on rapid events in the late Quaternary.

NSERC Bilateral Exchange Programme with Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan (June-Oct 1992).

Visiting Researcher at Coastal Carolina College (1990-1991).

Co-Director of NATO Advanced Study Institute (Agglutinated Foraminifera) held in Tübingen, West Germany (Sept. 1989).

Visiting Scientist and Adjunct Professor at University of South Carolina - Coastal (since Jan. 1989).

Chief Investigator on 2 CSP grants to study Southern Ocean ODP material (1987-1989) and Iberian Abyssal Plain material (ODP Leg 149)

1985-1988

Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Earth Sciences, Dalhousie University

Chief investigator of Strategic Grant to study ODP material (1985-1988).

Organizer of IGCP Project 200 final meeting in Halifax, July 1987 (also NATO Advanced Study Institute).

Visiting Scientist at Univ. Sao Paulo, Brazil, (Feb. 1988) and Univ. de Mar del Plata, Argentina, (Dec. 1987-Jan 1988) as a coastal micropaleontological expert

1980-1985

NSERC Research Fellow, Earth Sciences, Dalhousie University

In addition to teaching one class, I was co-chief scientist on CSS DAWSON cruise 80-016.

Also co-investigator on NSERC Strategic Grant to study Quaternary Paleoceanography of Eastern Canada.

Co-chief scientist on DAWSON cruise 82-003 and HUDSON cruise 82-045,

Chief scientist on DAWSON cruise 84-011.

Leader of successful drilling project to Sable Island (funded by NSERC) which drilled a complete 150 m section of Quaternary (July 1985).

1978-1980

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Earth Sciences, Dalhousie University. In 1979, coordinated and worked a number of short cruises to collect cores from Bedford Basin and Northumberland Strait, Nova Scotia. Also continued coring in marshes and organized a two-week drilling operation on Sable Island (120 miles off the coast).

1977-1978

Research Assistant to Chairman, Earth Sciences, Dalhousie University. Studying sea level changes in the Maritimes, and other aspects of coastal marine geology in Nova Scotia.

1973-1975

Research Associate, University of San Diego (Environmental Studies Laboratory). Experience included collection, preparation, and examination of foraminifera and ostracods from most of the lagoons in S. California (see publ. 2, 3, 4, 6 below). A series of environmental impact statements were done on all types of marine and freshwater environments. Also involved in a Sea Grant program on coastal zone management to determine accurate datum indicators using marsh and estuarine foraminifera

Andrea Hawkes (M. Sc. )
Title:

Trecia Schell (Ph. D. )
Title: Holocene paleoproductivity in the Northwestern Pacific determined by foraminiferal assemblages in some fjords of Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

Elizabeth Levac(Ph.D. Candidate)
Title:

Charu Sharma (Ph.D. Candidate)
Title:Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Quaternary Mekong-Molengraaff River Deltas on the Sunda Shelf, South China Sea.

Richard Tobin (Ph.D. Candidate)
Title:Use of microfossils to detect historical pollution impacts in New Bedford Harbor, Massachusetts.

Roxanne McMillan (B. Sc. Honours, 2002)
MONITORING BIOREMEDIATION AFTER OIL SPILLS, OLD AND NEW, USING MARSH FORAMINIFERA AS INDICATORS

Laura Schrumm (B. Sc. Honours, 2001)
USE OF FORAMINIFERA AND THECAMOEBIANS AS RELIABLE INDICATORS OF MARINE/FRESHWATER TRANSITION ZONES IN SOUTHERN FLORIDA

Jennifer A. Sabean (B. Sc. Honours, 2001)
MONITORING OIL SPILL BIOREMEDIATION USING MARSH FORAMINIFERA AS INDICATORS

Andrea Hawkes (B. Sc. Honours, 2001)
EVIDENCE OF PRECURSOR EVENTS FOR MEGA-THRUST EARTHQUAKES ON THE WEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA

Warna S. Downey (B. Sc. Honours, 2001)
LATE CENOZOIC PALEOCEANOGRAPHIC CHANGES IN THE NORTHWEST PACIFIC USING RADIOLARIAN BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF ODP SITE 1179 AND OTHERS

Ryan Campbell (B.Sc. Honours, 2000)
Metal Impact on Benthic Foraminifera in Baie Des Chaluers, New Brunswick, Canada: A Reconnaissance Review of Marine Geochemistry and Species Distribution.

Javaux, Emmmanuelle (Ph.D., 1999)
Benthic Foraminifera from the Modern Sediments of Bermuda: Implications for Holocene Sea-Level Studies

Craig Atkinson (B.Sc. Advanced Major, 1999)
Morphological Changes in Chezzetcook Inlet: A Historical Study Using Air Photography Composites

Michelle Williamson (B.Sc. Advanced Major, 1999)
Reconstruction of Pollution History at Mill Cove, Bedford Basin Using Benthic Foraminifera.

Regan Braund (B. Sc. Honours, 1998)
Cambrian Multichambered Foraminifera from the Halifax and Goldenville Groups of the Meguma Supergroup, Nova Scotia

David MacIsaac (B. Sc. Honours, 1998)
Foraminiferal distribution related to hurricanes, South Carolina.

Erika Vye (B. Sc. Honours, 1997)
Benthic foraminifera under fish farming operations in the Bras d'Or Lakes; Implications for aquaculture feasibility in Nova Scotia

Eric Collins(Ph.D., 1996)
Marsh-Estuarine Benthic Foraminiferal Distributions and Holocene Sea-Level Reconstructions Along the South Carolina Coastline

Jijun Zhang (Ph. D., 1996)
North Atlantic Deep-Water Circulation During the Messinian Stage (The Latest Miocene) - Possible Cause and Effect: Foraminiferal and Stable Isotope Evidence

Neil Tibert (M.Sc., 1996)
A Paleoecological Interpretation for the Ostracodes and Agglutinated Foraminifera from the Earliest Carboniferous Marginal Marine Horton Bluff Formation (Blue Beach Member), Nova Scotia, Canada.

John Zevenhuisen (M.Sc., 1996)
Late Quaternary and Surficial Marine Geology of Southeastern Hudson Bay

Jennifer L. Waringer (B. Sc. Honours, 1996)
Cretaceous marginal marine and freshwater rhizopods from central Nova Scotia, Canada

Alison Creech(B. Sc. Honours, 1995)
A Study of Carbonate Rocks From the Late Visean to Namurian Mabou Group, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia

Barbara E. Medioli(B. Sc. Honours, 1995)
Marginal Marine Foraminifera and Thecamoebians in the Upper Cretaceous to Eocene Deposits of the South-Central Pyrenees, Spain

Barbosa (M.Sc.) at Univ. de Sao Paulo, Brazil;

Ferrero (Ph.D.) at Univ. Mar del Plata, Argentina (1988-1990)

2004 Convenor of Special Session on Sequence Stratigraphy, International Geological Congress, Florence, Italy.
2003- Chair, Department of Earth Sciences, Dalhousie University.
2003 Member, Technical Program Committee, Northeast Geological Society of America meeting, Halifax, March 2003
2002- Member, International Geological Correlation Program 449, Fluvial Strata
2001 Convenor of Special Session on Accommodation in Alluvial Strata, 7th International Conference on Fluvial Sedimentology, Lincoln, Nebraska.
2000- Associate Editor, Journal of Sedimentary Research. (Nominating Committee for Best Paper Award 2001)
1997 Convenor of Special Session "Anabranching Rivers: Geomorphology and Sedimentology", 6th International Conference on Fluvial Sedimentology, Cape Town, South Africa
1997-2000 Contributing author for book "The Last Billion Years", produced by Atlantic Geoscience Society (book won Association of Geoscience Editors award, 2002)
1998-9 Chair, NSERC Grant Selection Committee 08, Solid Earth Sciences.
1996-9 Member, NSERC Grant Selection Committee 08, Solid Earth Sciences.;
1995-8 Principal Investigator for 3-year NSERC Strategic Grant "Hydrogeological study of hypersaline waters in the intermediate depth, land-ocean transition zone within the Sydney Carboniferous Basin"
1995-8 Associate Editor of Sedimentology and Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology