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David M. Harwood is affiliated with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the United States. Their academic work spans the Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science fields, with a focus on several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Geophysics, Paleontology, and Ocean Engineering.

The research topics covered by Harwood include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Cryospheric studies and observations, Polar Research and Ecology, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques, and Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Harwood include:

  • Scientific access into Mercer Subglacial Lake: scientific objectives, drilling operations and initial observations (2021, Annals of Glaciology)
  • A large West Antarctic Ice Sheet explains early Neogene sea-level amplitude (2021, Nature)
  • Early and middle Miocene ice sheet dynamics in the Ross Sea: Results from integrated core-log-seismic interpretation (2021, Geological Society of America Bulletin)
  • Late Miocene onset of the modern Antarctic Circumpolar Current (2024, Nature Geoscience)
  • Climate-controlled submarine landslides on the Antarctic continental margin (2023, Nature Communications)

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Molly O. Patterson
  • Tina van de Flierdt
  • Laura De Santis
  • Robert M. McKay
  • Amelia Shevenell

The venues where Harwood commonly publishes are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Journal of Micropalaeontology
  • Annals of Glaciology

Best Publications

  • Obliquity-paced Pliocene West Antarctic ice sheet oscillations

    T. Naish;T. Naish;R. Powell;R. Levy;R. Levy;G. Wilson

  • Cenozoic marine sedimentation and ice-volume variation on the East Antarctic craton

    P. N. Webb;D. M. Harwood;B. C. McKelvey;J. H. Mercer

  • Orbitally induced oscillations in the East Antarctic ice sheet at the Oligocene/Miocene boundary

    Tim R. Naish;Ken J. Woolfe;Peter J. Barrett;Gary S. Wilson

  • Late Cenozoic glacial history of the Ross embayment, Antarctica

    Peter-Noel Webb;David M. Harwood

  • Middle Eocene to Pleistocene Diatom Biostratigraphy of Southern Ocean Sediments from the Kerguelen Plateau, Leg 120

    D.M. Harwood;T. Maruyama

  • Antarctic ice sheet sensitivity to atmospheric CO2 variations in the early to mid-Miocene.

    Richard Levy;David Harwood;Fabio Florindo;Francesca Sangiorgi

  • Palynomorphs from a sediment core reveal a sudden remarkably warm Antarctica during the middle Miocene

    Sophie Warny;Rosemary A. Askin;Michael J. Hannah;Barbara A.R. Mohr

  • Upper Cretaceous and lower Paleocene diatom and silicoflagellate biostratigraphy of Seymour Island, eastern Antarctic Peninsula

    David M. Harwood

  • Sea ice feedback and Cenozoic evolution of Antarctic climate and ice sheets

    Robert M Deconto;David Pollard;David Harwood

  • Thinking outside the zone: High-resolution quantitative diatom biochronology for the Antarctic Neogene

    Rosemary D. Cody;Richard H. Levy;David M. Harwood;Peter M. Sadler

  • Resolving a late Oligocene conundrum: Deep-sea warming and Antarctic glaciation

    Stephen F. Pekar;Stephen F. Pekar;Robert M. DeConto;David M. Harwood

  • Antarctic ice-sheet sensitivity to obliquity forcing enhanced through ocean connections

    R. H. Levy;R. H. Levy;S. R. Meyers;T. R. Naish;N. R. Golledge;N. R. Golledge

  • Lower Cretaceous diatoms from ODP Leg 113 Site 693 (Weddell Sea). Part 1. Vegetative cells

    Rainer Gersonde;D. M. Harwood

  • Antarctic records of precession-paced insolation-driven warming during early Pleistocene Marine Isotope Stage 31

    R. P. Scherer;S. M. Bohaty;R. B. Dunbar;Oliver Esper

  • Mid-Cenozoic record of glaciation and sea-level change on the margin of the Victoria Land basin, Antarctica

    P. J. Barrett;D. P. Elston;D. M. Harwood;B. C. McKelvey

  • Lower Cretaceous diatoms from ODP Leg 113 Site 693 (Weddell Sea) Part 2: Resting spores, chrysophycean cysts, an endoskeletal dinoflagellate, and notes on the origin of diatoms

    D. M. Harwood;Rainer Gersonde

  • Cretaceous Diatoms: Morphology, Taxonomy, Biostratigraphy

    David M. Harwood;Vladimir A. Nikolaev

  • Early Pliocene marine sediments, coastline, and climate of East Antarctica

    J. Pickard;D. A. Adamson;D. M. Harwood;G. H. Miller

  • Scientific access into Mercer Subglacial Lake: scientific objectives, drilling operations and initial observations

    John C. Priscu;Jonas Kalin;John Winans;Timothy Campbell

  • A marine and terrestrial Sirius Group succession, middle Beardmore Glacier-Queen Alexandra Range, Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica

    P.-N. Webb;D.M. Harwood;M.G.C. Mabin;B.C. McKelvey

  • Sequence stratigraphy of the ANDRILL AND-2A drillcore, Antarctica: A long-term, ice-proximal record of Early to Mid-Miocene climate, sea-level and glacial dynamism

    Christopher R. Fielding;Greg H. Browne;Brad Field;Fabio Florindo

  • Upper Cretaceous diatom biostratigraphy of the Arctic archipelago and northern continental margin, Canada

    Pedro M. Tapia;David M. Harwood

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard H. Levy
Richard H. Levy GNS Science
Fabio Florindo
Fabio Florindo National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Steven M Bohaty
Steven M Bohaty University of Southampton
Tim R Naish
Tim R Naish Victoria University of Wellington
Christopher R. Fielding
Christopher R. Fielding University of Connecticut
Ross D. Powell
Ross D. Powell Northern Illinois University
Reed P. Scherer
Reed P. Scherer Northern Illinois University
Robert M. McKay
Robert M. McKay Victoria University of Wellington
Frank Niessen
Frank Niessen Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Stuart Henrys
Stuart Henrys University of Auckland

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