Professor, Marine Studies and Quaternary and Climate Studies
Daniel F. Belknap
Geologic Sciences
University of Maine
Bryand Global Sciences Center
Orono, ME 04469-5790
207-581-2159 Ph/Voicemail
207-581-2202 Fax
Belknap at maine.edu
I have been at the University of Maine since 1982. My research is interdisciplinary, combining stratigraphy, sedimentology, Quaternary paleoclimates and geoarchaeology. My main research themes have included sea-level change, coastal plan stratigraphy, deglaciation of the Gulf of Maine, and coastal geoarchaeology. Present studies include nearshore and inner shelf sedimentation and stratigraphy, coastal sediment processes and geomorphology, salt marsh environments, and effects of deglacial isostasy on coastal and lake systems. The University of Maine marine sedimentology working group has a suite of primary research tools including seismic reflection profilers, side-scan sonar, vibracorers, sedimentology laboratory, and acoustic current meters. A new departure this year will be the addition of Ground Penetrating Radar to our suite of equipment. Recent studies have concentrated on Maine and the Gulf of Maine, but other studies include Northern Ireland, Peru, the Atlantic coastal plain and shelf, the eastern Mediterranean, and the Caribbean.
Belknap, D.F., Kraft, J.C. and Dunn, R.K., 1994, Transgressive valley-fill lithosomes: Delaware and Maine: In: Boyd, R., Zaitlin, B.A. and Dalrymple, R., eds., Incised Valley Fill Systems, SEPM Special Pub. 51, p. 303-320.
Belknap, D.F., 1995, Geoarchaeology in central coastal Maine, Appendix 5, In: Bourque, B.J., Diversity and Complexity in Prehistoric Maritime Societies: A Gulf of Maine Perspective: New York, Plenum Press, p. 275-296.
Gehrels, W.R., Belknap, D.F. and Kelley, J.T., 1996, Integrated coast of Maine: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 108, p. 1073-1088.
Bacchus, T.S. and Belknap, D.F., 1997, Glacigenic features and shelf basin stratigraphy of the eastern Gulf of Maine: In: T.A. Davis et al., eds., Glaciated Continental Margins: An Atlas of Acoustic images, Chapman-Hall Pub. Co., New York, p. 213-216.
Barnhardt, W.A., Belknap, D.F. and Kelley, J.T., 1997, Stratigraphic evolution of the inner continental shelf in response to late Quaternary relative sea-level change, northwestern Gulf of Maine: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 109, p. 612-630. May.
Barnhardt, W.A., Kelley, J.T., Dickson, S.M. and Belknap, D.F., 1998, Mapping the Gulf of Maine with side-scan sonar: a new bottom-type classification for complex seafloors: Journal of Coastal Research, v. 14, p. 646-659
Balco, G., Belknap, D.F. and Kelley, J.T., 1998, Glacioisostasy and lake-level change, Moosehead Lake, Maine: Quaternary Research, v. 49, p. 157-170.