Daniel Douglass

Instructor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
14 Holmes Hall
Boston, MA 02115
Phone: 617.373.4381
Fax: 617.373.4378
d.douglass@neu.edu

Education

Ph.D. Geology, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2005
M.S. Geology, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2000
B.S. Earth Science, Northland College, Magna cum Laude 1997

Research Interests

  • Quaternary geochronology and rates of landscape evolution
  • Pleistocene glacio-climatic reconstructions and glacial geomorphology
  • Pedogenesis and the application of soil science to address geologic problems

Faculty Research

Selected Publications

  • Douglass, D.C., Mickelson, D.M., Soil Development and Glacial History, West Fork of Beaver Creek, Uinta Mountains, Utah: Arctic, Antarctic, and Apline Research (in press).
  • Douglass, D.C., Singer, B.S., Kaplan, M.R., Mickelson, D.M., Caffee, M.W., 2006. Interpreting moraine ages from cosmogenic surface exposure ages of erratic boulders: an example from Lago Buenos Aires, Argentina. Quaternary Geochronology 1, 43-58.
  • Bockheim, J.G., Douglass, D.C., 2006. Origin and significance of calcium carbonate in soils of southwestern Patagonia. Geoderma 136, 751-762.
  • Douglass, D.C., Bockheim, J.G., 2006. Soil-forming rates and processes on Quaternary moraines near Lago Buenos Aires, Argentina. Quaternary Research 65, 293-307.
  • Douglass, D.C., Singer, B.S., Kaplan, M.R., Ackert, R.P., Mickelson, D.M., Caffee, M.W., 2005. Evidence for Early Holocene glacial advances in southern South America from cosmogenic surface exposure dating. Geology 33, 237-240.
  • Kaplan,M.R., Douglass, D.C., Singer, B.S., Ackert, R.P., Caffee, M.W., 2005. Cosmogenic nuclide chronology of pre-last glaciation of maximum moraines at Lago Buenos Aires, 46&degS, Argentina.Quaternary Research 63, 301-315.