Harold W. Borns Jr.
Professor Emeritus
PhD, Boston University, Quaternary and glacial geology
Address:
5790 Bryand Global Sciences Center
Room: 224
Tel: (207) 581 2196
Fax: (207) 581 2202
E-Mail: borns@maine.edu
Research Interests:
My research interests are in the fields of glacial and Quaternary geology with applications to determining paleoclimate history in various parts of the world, glacial-marine sedimentation, sea-level changes and the ice-margin environments of Paleoindians.
Recent and ongoing projects focus on definition of a late Pleistocene ice cap on the continental shelf off western Ireland, changing surface levels of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum, definition of Younger Dryas-age environments in northern New England, deglacial history of the Northeast and the environments of Paleoindian sites in northern Maine.
Publications:
Borns, H.W., Jr., Dorion C., Calkin, P.E., Wiles G. and Barclay D.J., 1996, Evidence for Thicker Ice in Interior West Antarctica, Ant. J. of the U.S. 30, (5), p. 100-101
Ackert, R.P., Jr., Barclay, D.J., Borns, H.W., Jr., Calkin P.E., Kury, M.D., Fastook, J.H., and Steig, E.J., 1999, Measurements of Post Ice Sheet Elemations in Interior West Antarctica , Science, 286, p. 276-280
Borns, H.W., Jr., Doner, L., Dorion, C.C., Jacobson, G.L. Jr., Kaplan, M.R., Kreutz, K.J., Lowell, T.V., Thompson, W.G., and Weddle, T.K., 2004. Quaternary Glaciations - Extant and Chronology, Part II, Elsevier, BV, pp. 89-109.
Borns, H.W., Jr., Doner, L., Dorion, C.C., Jacobson, G.L. Jr., Kaplan, M.R., and Kreutz, K.J., The Deglaciation of Maine. 2004, The Deglaciation of the Northern Hemisphere, INQUA.
Borns H.W., Jr., and Warren, W.P. , 1990, New Evidence for Ice-Flow Directions over Connemara, Ireland (Abst.) Abstract Volume of " Connemara, 1990" conf., Unin. College, Galway, Ireland.
Borns, H. W., Jr., 2001, Changing Paradigms of Surficial Geology: from the Biblical Flood to Glaciation, in Weddle T. K. and Retelle M. J., eds., Geol. Soc. Am. Spec. Paper 351, p. 1-7.
Hoyle, B.G., Fisher, D.,C Borns, H.W., Jr., Churchill,-Dickenson, L. L., Dorion, C. C., and Weddle, T.K., 2004, Late Pleistoncene Mammoth Remains from Coastal, Maine,USA, Quaternary Research, Vol. 6, p. 227-288.
Smith D.C. and Borns H.W., Jr., 2001, Louis Agassiz and the State of Maine - a Scientific Alliance, Northeast Naturalist, 7(2) p. 157-177.
