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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

David Pollard is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, Engineering, and Environmental Science, with significant contributions in related subfields including Geophysics, Mechanics of Materials, Ocean Engineering, Environmental Engineering, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

Their scholarly work addresses a variety of topics with notable emphasis on Rock Mechanics and Modeling, earthquake and tectonic studies, Seismic Waves and Analysis, Drilling and Well Engineering, CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions, Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques, and Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods.

David Pollard has authored two recent papers:

  • Index, 2020, Cambridge University Press eBooks
  • A modern scientific methodology for structural geology, 2025, Journal of Structural Geology

Their publication venues mostly include Cambridge University Press eBooks and the Journal of Structural Geology.

David Pollard has contributed a book titled Structural Geology: A Quantitative Introduction, published by Cambridge University Press in 2020.

Collaboration has been a notable aspect of Pollard's research, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Stephen J. Martel
  • Stephen Pollard

In recognition of their work, David Pollard was made a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Contribution of Antarctica to past and future sea-level rise

    Robert M. DeConto;David Pollard

  • An integrated biosphere model of land surface processes, terrestrial carbon balance, and vegetation dynamics

    Jonathan A. Foley;I. Colin Prentice;Navin Ramankutty;Samuel Levis

  • Rapid Cenozoic glaciation of Antarctica induced by declining atmospheric CO2.

    Robert M. DeConto;David Pollard

  • Modelling West Antarctic ice sheet growth and collapse through the past five million years

    David Pollard;Robert M. DeConto

  • Effects of boreal forest vegetation on global climate

    Gordon B. Bonan;David Pollard;Starley L. Thompson

  • The middle Pleistocene transition: characteristics, mechanisms, and implications for long-term changes in atmospheric pCO2

    Peter U. Clark;David E. Archer;David Pollard;Joel D Blum

  • Obliquity-paced Pliocene West Antarctic ice sheet oscillations

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

  • Potential Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat driven by hydrofracturing and ice cliff failure

    David Pollard;Robert M. DeConto;Richard B. Alley

  • The Paris Climate Agreement and future sea-level rise from Antarctica

    Robert M. DeConto;David Pollard;Richard B. Alley;Isabella Velicogna

  • Thresholds for Cenozoic bipolar glaciation

    Robert M. DeConto;David Pollard;Paul A. Wilson;Heiko Pälike

  • Monsoon changes for 6000 years ago: Results of 18 simulations from the Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP)

    S. Joussaume;K. E. Taylor;P. Braconnot;J. F.B. Mitchell

  • Past extreme warming events linked to massive carbon release from thawing permafrost

    Robert M. DeConto;Simone Galeotti;Mark Pagani;David Tracy

  • Origin of the Middle Pleistocene Transition by ice sheet erosion of regolith

    Peter U. Clark;David Pollard

  • Use of a land-surface-transfer scheme (LSX) in a global climate model: the response to doubling stomatal resistance

    David Pollard;Starley L. Thompson

  • Greenland and Antarctic Mass Balances for Present and Doubled Atmospheric CO2 from the GENESIS Version-2 Global Climate Model

    Starley L. Thompson;David Pollard

  • The multimillennial sea-level commitment of global warming

    Anders Levermann;Anders Levermann;Peter U. Clark;Ben Marzeion;Glenn A. Milne

  • Coupling dynamic models of climate and vegetation

    Jonathan A. Foley;Samuel Levis;I. Colin Prentice;David Pollard

  • A Global Climate Model (GENESIS) with a Land-Surface Transfer Scheme (LSX). Part I: Present Climate Simulation.

    Starley L. Thompson;David Pollard

  • Grounding-line migration in plan-view marine ice-sheet models: results of the ice2sea MISMIP3d intercomparison

    Frank Pattyn;Laura Perichon;Gaël Durand;Lionel Favier

  • Description of a hybrid ice sheet-shelf model, and application to Antarctica

    D. Pollard;R. M. DeConto

  • Ice-sheet model sensitivities to environmental forcing and their use in projecting future sea level (the SeaRISE project)

    Robert A. Bindschadler;Sophie Nowicki;Ayako Abe-OUCHI;Andy Aschwanden

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert M. DeConto
Robert M. DeConto University of Massachusetts Amherst
Starley L. Thompson
Starley L. Thompson Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Richard B. Alley
Richard B. Alley Pennsylvania State University
Frank Pattyn
Frank Pattyn Université Libre de Bruxelles
Eric J. Barron
Eric J. Barron Pennsylvania State University
Anders Levermann
Anders Levermann Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Ralf Greve
Ralf Greve Hokkaido University
Christopher J. Poulsen
Christopher J. Poulsen University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Tim R Naish
Tim R Naish Victoria University of Wellington
Axel Timmermann
Axel Timmermann Pusan National University

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