dmcgee | Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Mr. David McGee

Graduate Student

Earth and Environmental Sciences

Geochemistry

419 Comer

61 Route 9W - PO Box 1000

Palisades

10964-8000

Phone:

(845) 365-8514

dmcgee@ldeo.columbia.edu

Fields of interest:

Dryland paleohydrology, eolian dust deposition and transport in past climates, constant flux proxies in ocean sediments

My research applies the tools of isotope geochemistry to questions of paleoclimate, paleoceanography and hydrology. My current projects include:

-Reconstructing dust deposition rates and provenance in the Pacific Ocean over late Pleistocene glacial-interglacial cycles

-Improving our understanding of constant-flux proxies used in paleoceanographic studies (²³⁰Th, ³He), in particular how they respond to sediment redistribution by ocean currents

-Estimating hydrothermal and surface water fluxes into Mono Lake using ³⁶Cl and ³He in order to understand its carbon budget

-Dating past shorelines of closed-basin lakes and cave deposits in arid regions to reconstruct dryland paleohydrology

Education

List of degrees from highest to lowest:

M.S. in Earth and Environmental Science

Tulane University

2006

M.A. in Teaching

Chatham College

2003

B.A. in Geology

Carleton College

1997

Honors & Awards:

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship 2005

Lawrence McKinley Gould Award in the Natural Sciences 1997

Phi Beta Kappa 1996

Educational Activities:

LDEO Data Puzzle Project: Paleoclimate data puzzle

GK-12 Fellow at the High School for Arts, Imagination, and Inquiry

TA for "The Earth's Carbon Cycle" and "Earth Systems: Climate"

Selected Publications:

Covariant glacial-interglacial dust fluxes in the equatorial Pacific and Antarctica, Winckler, G.; Anderson, R. F.; Fleisher, M. Q.; Mcgee, D.; Mahowald, N. , Science, Apr 4, Volume 320, Issue 5872, p.93-96, (2008), DOI 10.1126/science.1150595

Deglacial changes in dust flux in the eastern equatorial Pacific, McGee, D.; Marcantonio, F.; Lynch-Stieglitz, J. , Earth and Planetary Science Letters, May 15, Volume 257, Issue 1-2, p.215-230, (2007), DOI 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.02.033