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Dennis Kent

Adjunct Senior Research Scientist

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Biology and Paleo Environment

Paleomagnetics Lab

61 Route 9W - PO Box 1000

Palisades

NY

10964-8000

US

Phone: 

(845) 558-2026

dvk@ldeo.columbia.edu

CV: 

DVKcv2020.pdf

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Fields of interest: 

Paleomagnetism, geomagnetism and rock magnetism, and their application to geologic problems. Current interests include Cenozoic and Mesozoic geomagnetic polarity time scales; paleoclimatology, paleolatitude, and tectonic controls on the carbon cycle; the Late Paleozoic Ice Age and paleogeography of the Pangea supercontinent; paleointensity variations; magnetic properties of terrestrial and marine sediment, polar ice and their environmental significances.

Education

List of degrees from highest to lowest:

Docteur honoris causa

Sorbonne, Universities of Paris-IPGP

PhD

Columbia University

BS

City College of the City University of New York

Honors & Awards: 

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2012)

Arduino Lecture, University of Padova (2010)

William Gilbert Award, American Geophysical Union (2009)

Petrus Peregrinus Medal, European Geosciences Union (2006)

Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (2004)

Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research, Rutgers University (2004)

Arthur L. Day Medal, Geological Society of America (2003)

Vening Meinesz Medal, Delft University, Holland (2003)

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1993)

Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (1991)

Fellow of the Geological Society of America (1985)

Referenced in the Following News Items:

In Ancient Rocks, Scientists See a Climate Cycle Working Across Deep Time

Earth’s Magnetic Field: About to Flip or Just Returning to Normal?

Scientists Discover World's Oldest Stone Tools

Megavolcanoes Tied to Pre-Dinosaur Mass Extinction

Seeking the Deadly Roots of the Dinosaurs’ Ascent

Paleomagnetism Researcher Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Humans Shaped Stone Axes 1.8 Million Years Ago, Study Says

Giant CO2 Eruptions in the Backyard?

Scientists Target East Coast Rocks for CO2 Storage

Selected Publications:

Pangea B and the Late Paleozoic Ice Age Kent, D.V.; Muttoni, G. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (2020)

Mapping Solar System chaos with the Geological Orrery Olsen, Paul E.; Laskar, Jacques; Kent, Dennis V.; Kinney, Sean T.; Reynolds, David J.; Sha, Jingeng; Whiteside, Jessica PNAS (2019)

Jurassic monster polar shift confirmed by sequential paleopoles from Adria, promontory of Africa Muttoni, G; Kent, D. V. JGR Solid Earth (2019)

Adria As Promontory Of Africa And Its Conceptual Role In The Tethys Twist And Pangea B To Pangea A Transformation In The Permian Muttoni, Giiovanni; Kent, Denis V. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia (2019)

Magnetochronology of the Entire Chinle Formation (Norian Age) in a Scientific Drill Core From Petrified Forest National Park (Arizona, USA) and Implications for Regional and Global Correlations in the Late Triassic Kent, Dennis V.; Olsen, Paul E.; Lepre, Christopher; Rasmussen, Cornelia; Mundil, Roland; Gehrels, George E.; Giesler, Dominique; Irmis, Randall B.; Geissman, John W.; Parker, William G. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (2019)

Empirical evidence for stability of the 405-kiloyear Jupiter-Venus eccentricity cycle over hundreds of millions of years Kent, D.V.; Olsen, P.E.; Rasmussen, C.; Lepre, C.; Mundil, R.; Irmis, R.B.; Gehrels, G.E.; Giesler, D.; Geissman, J.W.; Parker, W.G. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Volume: 115 p.: 6153-6158 (2018)

Enhanced magnetization of the Marlboro clay as a product of soil pyrogenesis at the paleocene-eocene boundary? Kent, D. V.; Lanci, L.; Wang, H.; Wright, J. D. (2017)

Astrochronostratigraphic polarity time scale (APTS) for the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic from continental sediments and correlation with standard marine stages Kent, Dennis V.; Olsen, Paul E.; Muttoni, Giovanni Earth Science Reviews (2017)

Early hominins in Europe: The Galerian migration hypothesis Muttoni, Giovanni; Scaardia, Giancarlo; Kent, Dennis V. Quaternary Science Reviews (2017)

A novel plate tectonic scenario for the genesis and sealing of some major Mesozoic oil fields Muttoni, Giovanni; Kent, Dennis V. GSA Today (2016)

Impact ejecta at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary Schaller, Morgan F.; Fung,Megan K.; Wright, James, D.; Katz, Miriam E.; Kent, Dennis V. Science (2016)