Harold W. Borns, Jr.
Climate Change Institute
University of Maine
Bryand Global Sciences Center
Orono, ME 04469-5790
207-581-2196 Ph
207-581-1203 Fax
borns at maine.edu
My research interests are in the fields of glacial and Quaternary geology with applications to determining paleoclimate history in various parts of the world, glacial-marine sedimentation, sea-level changes and the ice-margin environments of Paleoindians.
Recent and ongoing projects focus on definition of a late Pleistocene ice cap on the continental shelf off western Ireland, changing surface levels of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum, definition of Younger Dryas-age environments in northern New England, deglacial history of the Northeast and the environments of Paleoindian sites in northern Maine.
Borns, H.W., Jr., Dorion C., Calkin, P.E., Wiles G. and Barclay D.J., 1996, Evidence for Thicker Ice in Interior West Antarctica, Ant. J. of the U.S. 30, (5), p. 100-101
Ackert, R.P., Jr., Barclay, D.J., Borns, H.W., Jr., Calkin P.E., Kury, M.D., Fastook, J.H., and Steig, E.J., 1999, Measurements of Post Ice Sheet Elemations in Interior West Antarctica , Science, 286, p. 276-280
Borns, H.W., Jr., Doner, L., Dorion, C.C., Jacobson, G.L. Jr., Kaplan, M.R., Kreutz, K.J., Lowell, T.V., Thompson, W.G., and Weddle, T.K., 2004. Quaternary Glaciations - Extant and Chronology, Part II, Elsevier, BV, pp. 89-109.
Borns, H.W., Jr., Doner, L., Dorion, C.C., Jacobson, G.L. Jr., Kaplan, M.R., and Kreutz, K.J., The Deglaciation of Maine. 2004, The Deglaciation of the Northern Hemisphere, INQUA.
Borns H.W., Jr., and Warren, W.P. , 1990, New Evidence for Ice-Flow Directions over Connemara, Ireland (Abst.) Abstract Volume of " Connemara, 1990" conf., Unin. College, Galway, Ireland.
Borns, H. W., Jr., 2001, Changing Paradigms of Surficial Geology: from the Biblical Flood to Glaciation, in Weddle T. K. and Retelle M. J., eds., Geol. Soc. Am. Spec. Paper 351, p. 1-7.
Hoyle, B.G., Fisher, D.,C Borns, H.W., Jr., Churchill,-Dickenson, L. L., Dorion, C. C., and Weddle, T.K., 2004, Late Pleistoncene Mammoth Remains from Coastal, Maine,USA, Quaternary Research, Vol. 6, p. 227-288.
Smith D.C. and Borns H.W., Jr., 2001, Louis Agassiz and the State of Maine - a Scientific Alliance, Northeast Naturalist, 7(2) p. 157-177.