Graduate Students

Wes Myers running the XRD.

Wes Myers, Ph.D. Candidate

w.b.myers002@gmail.com

Graduate Research Assistant

Research Interests

• Mineralogy of Arctic Sediments and their use as proxies for provenance and chronostratigraphy
• Clay Mineralogy
• Central Arctic Ocean chronostratigraphy
• Arctic Ocean surface currents through glacial/interglacial transitions

Publications

Myers, W. B. and Darby D. A., 2015, A new age model for the Central Arctic reveals brief intervals of extreme sedimentation rates over the last 140 kyr. Arktos, 10.1007/s41063-015-0009-5

Darby, D. A., Myers, W., Herman, S., and Nicholson, B., 2015, Chemical fingerprinting, a precise and efficient method to determine the source of sediments. Jour. Sed. Res., v. 85, 247–253.

Darby, D.A., W. B. Myers, M. Jakobsson, and I. Rigor, 2011, Modern dirty sea ice characteristics and sources: The a. role of anchor ice, J. Geophys. Res., 116, C09008, doi:10.1029/2010JC006675.

Courses Taught

• Physical Geology
• Historical Geology

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Shannon Cofield aboard the R/V Atlantis off the northern coast of Chile.

Shannon Cofield, Ph.D. Candidate

scofi002@odu.edu

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/shannonmcofield

Publications

Cofield, S., Darby, D., St. John, K. (2016). History of ice-rafting in the Arctic Ocean during Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 2 and MIS 4, AGU 49, Abstract 190176, C31B-0750.

Cofield, S., Darby, D., St. John, K. (2015). History of ice-rafting in the Arctic Ocean during the last glacial maximum, GSA, Abstract 269702.

Research Interests

• History of ice rafting in Arctic Ocean during glacial maxima
• Mineralogy of iron-oxide grains and their use as proxies for provenance

Courses Taught

• Earth Science
• Historical Geology
• Sedimentology Stratigraphy
• Paleontology
• Oceanography