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Overview

Donald L. Forbes is affiliated with the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on environmental and earth sciences, with a significant emphasis on climate change and permafrost dynamics. They have contributed extensively to understanding geological and environmental processes, especially in Arctic and coastal regions.

Their main fields of study include Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, encompassing several subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, and areas related to Management, Monitoring, Policy, and Law.

Key topics covered in their work are:

  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Coastal and Marine Management

Forbes has published research in frequently appearing venues including the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Scientific Reports, and the Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research.

Notable recent papers by Forbes include:

  • "Subsidence drives habitat loss in a large permafrost delta, Mackenzie River outlet to the Beaufort Sea, western Arctic Canada," 2022, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
  • "Anthropogenic, Direct Pressures on Coastal Wetlands," 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Sea level rise risks and societal adaptation benefits in low-lying coastal areas," 2022, Scientific Reports
  • "Mechanisms, volumetric assessment, and prognosis for rapid coastal erosion of Tuktoyaktuk Island, an important natural barrier for the harbour and community," 2022, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
  • "The ACD Classification of Arctic Coasts," 2020, Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)

The scientist's collaborative network includes frequent co-authors such as Dustin Whalen, T. S. James, Trevor Bell, Alice Newton, and John Icely.

Best Publications

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • The Arctic Coastal Dynamics Database: A New Classification Scheme and Statistics on Arctic Permafrost Coastlines

    Hugues Lantuit;Hugues Lantuit;Pier Paul Overduin;Nicole Couture;Sebastian Wetterich

  • Storms and shoreline retreat in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence

    Donald L. Forbes;George S. Parkes;Gavin K. Manson;Lorne A. Ketch

  • Land–Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone: Past, present & future ☆

    R. Ramesh;Z. Chen;V. Cummins;J. Day

  • Sensitivity of the coasts of Canada to sea-level rise

    J Shaw;RB Taylor;D L Forbes;M H Ruz

  • Morphodynamic evolution, self-organisation, and instability of coarse-clastic barriers on paraglacial coasts

    D.L. Forbes;J.D. Orford;R.W.G. Carter;J. Shaw

  • Approaches to defining deltaic sustainability in the 21st century

    John W. Day;Julius Agboola;Zhongyuan Chen;Christopher D’Elia

  • Organisational controls, typologies and time scales of paraglacial gravel-dominated coastal systems

    Julian D Orford;Donald L Forbes;Simon C Jennings

  • Barrier and lagoon coast evolution under differing relative sea-level regimes: examples from Ireland and Nova Scotia

    R.W.G Carter;D.L Forbes;S.C Jennings;J.D Orford

  • Ice in the shore zone and the geomorphology of cold coasts

    D.L. Forbes;R.B. Taylor

  • POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF GLOBAL SEA‐LEVEL RISE ON CANADIAN COASTS

    John Shaw;Robert B. Taylor;Steven Solomon;Harold A. Christian

  • Using topographic lidar to map flood risk from storm-surge events for Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada

    Tim L Webster;Donald L Forbes;Steve Dickie;Roger Shreenan

  • Gravel-barrier migration and overstepping

    D.L. Forbes;R.B. Taylor;J.D. Orford;R.W.G. Carter

  • Time‐sequence observations of wave‐formed sand ripples on an ocean shoreface

    R. Boyd;D. L. Forbes;D. E. Heffler

  • Coastal hazards and associated management issues on South Pacific Islands

    Steven M Solomon;Donald L Forbes

  • Sensitivity of the Canadian coast to sea-level rise

    J Shaw;RB Taylor;D L Forbes;M H Ruz

  • Flood-risk mapping for storm-surge events and sea-level rise using lidar for southeast New Brunswick

    Tim L Webster;Donald L Forbes;Edward MacKinnon;Daniel Roberts

  • Gravel Barrier Migration and Sea Level Rise: Some Observations From Story Head, Nova Scotia, Canada

    J. D. Orford;R.W.G. Carter;D.L. Forbes

  • Spatial variability of factors influencing coastal change in the Western Canadian Arctic

    G. K. Manson;S. M. Solomon;D. L. Forbes;D. E. Atkinson

  • The Influence of Coastal Morphology on Shoreface Sediment Transport under Storm Combined Flows, Canadian Beaufort Sea

    Arnaud Hequette;Marc Desrosiers;Philip R. Hill;Donald L. Forbes

  • Morphosedimentary development of drumlin-flank barriers with rapidly rising sea level, Story Head, Nova Scotia

    R.W.G. Carter;J.D. Orford;D.L. Forbes;R.B. Taylor

  • Local spring warming drives earlier river-ice breakup in a large Arctic delta

    Lance F. W. Lesack;Philip Marsh;Faye E. Hicks;Donald L. Forbes

  • The postglacial relative sea-level lowstand in Newfoundland

    John Shaw;Donald L. Forbes

  • Coastal impacts of climate change: Beaufort Sea erosion study

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  • Coastal impacts of climate change and sea-level rise on Prince Edward Island

    M M McCulloch;D L Forbes;R D Shaw

Frequent Co-Authors

John Shaw
John Shaw Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Julian D. Orford
Julian D. Orford Queen's University Belfast
Hugues Lantuit
Hugues Lantuit University of Potsdam
Mikhail N. Grigoriev
Mikhail N. Grigoriev Russian Academy of Sciences
Philip Marsh
Philip Marsh Wilfrid Laurier University
Wayne H. Pollard
Wayne H. Pollard McGill University
Lance F. W. Lesack
Lance F. W. Lesack Simon Fraser University
Alice Newton
Alice Newton University of Algarve
Ramachandran Ramesh
Ramachandran Ramesh Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change
Claudia Kuenzer
Claudia Kuenzer German Aerospace Center

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