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Gavin B. Dunbar is affiliated with Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a substantial output in Atmospheric Science and Ocean Engineering as notable subfields.

Their work spans various main topics including Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Cryospheric studies and observations, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods, Drilling and Well Engineering, Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis, and Winter Sports Injuries and Performance.

Recent papers authored by Dunbar include the following:

  • Retreat of the Antarctic Ice Sheet During the Last Interglaciation and Implications for Future Change, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • A Comparison of Methods for Identifying and Quantifying Ice Rafted Debris on the Antarctic Margin, 2022, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Crevasse refreezing and signatures of retreat observed at Kamb Ice Stream grounding zone, 2023, Nature Geoscience
  • Sea ice changes in the southwest Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean during the last 140,000 years, 2022, Climate of the past
  • Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to +2 °C (SWAIS 2C), 2022, Scientific Drilling

Frequent co-authors with whom Dunbar has collaborated include:

  • Richard Levy
  • Robert M. McKay
  • Kyu-Cheul Yoo
  • Huw Horgan
  • Jae Il Lee

Publication venues where Dunbar's work appears repeatedly include:

  • Nature Geoscience
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Dunbar's expertise crosses interdisciplinary domains blending atmospheric sciences with ocean engineering and environmental chemistry. Their research includes observational and modeling approaches related to ice sheet dynamics, paleoclimatology, and related cryospheric processes.

Best Publications

  • Obliquity-paced Pliocene West Antarctic ice sheet oscillations

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

  • 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

  • Palaeoenvironmental change in tropical Australasia over the last 30,000 years: a synthesis by the OZ-INTIMATE group

    Jessica M. Reeves;Helen C. Bostock;Linda K. Ayliffe;Timothy T. Barrows

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

    Richard Levy;David Harwood;Fabio Florindo;Francesca Sangiorgi

  • Heavy metal history from cores in Wellington Harbour, New Zealand

    W. W. Dickinson;G. B. Dunbar;H. McLeod

  • The stratigraphic signature of the late Cenozoic Antarctic Ice Sheets in the Ross Embayment

    Robert McKay;Greg Browne;Lionel Carter;Ellen Cowan

  • The effect of skeletal mass accumulation in Porites on coral Sr/Ca and δ18O paleothermometry

    Michael K. Gagan;Gavin B. Dunbar;Gavin B. Dunbar;Atsushi Suzuki

  • A review of the Australian-New Zealand sector of the Southern Ocean over the last 30ka (Aus-INTIMATE project)

    Helen C. Bostock;Timothy T. Barrows;L Carter;Zanna Chase

  • Sediment flux across the Great Barrier Reef Shelf to the Queensland Trough over the last 300 ky

    G.B. Dunbar;G.R. Dickens;R.M. Carter

  • Retreat history of the Ross Ice Sheet (Shelf) since the Last Glacial Maximum from deep-basin sediment cores around Ross Island

    R.M. McKay;G.B. Dunbar;T.R. Naish;T.R. Naish;P.J. Barrett

  • The amplitude and origin of sea-level variability during the Pliocene epoch

    G. R. Grant;G. R. Grant;T. R. Naish;G. B. Dunbar;P. Stocchi

  • Antarctic marine ice-sheet retreat in the Ross Sea during the early Holocene

    Robert McKay;Nicholas R. Golledge;Nicholas R. Golledge;Sanne Maas;Tim Naish

  • Estimating palaeobathymetry of wave‐graded continental shelves from sediment texture

    G. B. Dunbar;P. J. Barrett

  • Aeolian sediment flux from sea ice into Southern McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

    C.B. Atkins;G.B. Dunbar

  • Deep-water carbonate concentrations in the southwest Pacific

    Helen C. Bostock;Bruce W. Hayward;Helen L. Neil;Kim I. Currie

  • Massive siliciclastic discharge to slopes of the Great Barrier Reef Platform during sea-level transgression: constraints from sediment cores between 15°S and 16°S latitude and possible explanations

    Gavin B Dunbar;Gavin B Dunbar;Gerald R Dickens

  • Retreat of the Antarctic Ice Sheet During the Last Interglaciation and Implications for Future Change

    Nicholas R. Golledge;Peter U Clark;Peter U Clark;Feng He;Andrea Dutton

  • Environmental versus biological controls on Mg/Ca variability in Globigerinoides ruber (white) from core top and plankton tow samples in the southwest Pacific Ocean

    Annette Bolton;Joel A. Baker;Gavin B. Dunbar;Lionel Carter

  • Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of the AND-2A Core, ANDRILL Southern McMurdo Sound Project, Antarctica

    Christopher R. Fielding;C. B. Atkins;K. N. Bassett;G. H. Browne

  • Late Quaternary shedding of shallow‐marine carbonate along a tropical mixed siliciclastic–carbonate shelf: Great Barrier Reef, Australia

    Gavin B. Dunbar;Gavin B. Dunbar;Gerald R. Dickens;Gerald R. Dickens

  • Siliciclastic Sediment Across the North Queensland Margin (Australia): A Holocene Perspective on Reciprocal Versus Coeval Deposition in Tropical Mixed Siliciclastic–Carbonate Systems

    Jason M. Francis;Gavin B. Dunbar;Gerald R. Dickens;Ian A. Sutherland

  • Tropical view of Quaternary sequence stratigraphy: Siliciclastic accumulation on slopes east of the Great Barrier Reef since the Last Glacial Maximum

    Michael C. Page;Gerald R. Dickens;Gavin B. Dunbar

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim R Naish
Tim R Naish Victoria University of Wellington
Richard H. Levy
Richard H. Levy GNS Science
Lionel Carter
Lionel Carter Victoria University of Wellington
Robert M. McKay
Robert M. McKay Victoria University of Wellington
Helen C. Bostock
Helen C. Bostock University of Queensland
Peter Barrett
Peter Barrett Victoria University of Wellington
Michael K. Gagan
Michael K. Gagan Australian National University
Gerald R. Dickens
Gerald R. Dickens Trinity College Dublin
Ross D. Powell
Ross D. Powell Northern Illinois University

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