Doug MacAyeal
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
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Douglas R. MacayealBirth Date: December 8, 1954
Birth Place: Boston, Massachusetts
Marital Status: Divorced
Children: Leigh C., Hannah R. and Evan C. MacAyeal
Educational History
1983
Phd, Princeton University, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (Kirk Bryan, principal advisor)
MS, University of Maine, Institute for Quaternary Studies, Physics/Glaciology (R. H. Thomas, principal advisor)
ScB, Brown University, Physics (Magna cum Laude, Honors in Physics)Theses:
MacAyeal, D. R., 1983. Rectified Tidal Currents and Tidal-Mixing Fronts: Controls on the Ross-Ice Shelf Flow and Mass Balance. PhD Dissertation, Princeton University, 287 pp., June 1983.
MacAyeal, D. R., 1979. Transient Temperature-Depth Profiles of the Ross Ice Shelf, MS Thesis, University of Maine at Orono, May 1979.
Employment:
from 1983 - present at the University of Chicago.
Scientific Committees and Activities:
-Chief Editor, Journal of Glaciology (1991 - 1998)
-Member, Committee of Advisors, Office of Polar Programs, NSF (1999 - 2002)
Awards and Honors
1988 James Macelwane Medal of the American Geophysical Union
1988 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union 1997 Richardson Medal of the International Glaciological Society 2002 Quantrell Award of the University of Chicago for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
Students Advised:
Dean R. Lindstrom, Phd 1989 (Thesis title: Study of the Eruasian ice sheet using a combined grounded ice flow - ice shelf numerical model)
Robert W. Grumbine, Phd 1989 (Thesis topic: Effect of coastal polynyas on thermohaline circulation of the Antarctic continental shelves)
Shinya Kakuta, MS 1992 (Thesis topic: Surface temperature history of Prudhoe Bay derived from borehole temperature profiles using control methods)
Hailing Wang, MS 1993 (Thesis topic: Ice-Sheet thermodynamics)
Katsumi Matsumoto, MS 1996 (Thesis topic: Ice Rafted Debris in North Atlantic)
Charles S. Jackson, Phd 1998 (Thesis topic: Ice-sheet topography effects on atmospheric circulation)
Christina L. Hulbe, Phd 1998 (Thesis topic: West Antarctic ice sheet modelling)
Theodore L. Gotis, MS 1999 (Thesis topic: Normal Modes of the World Ocean)Current Students Advised:
Young-Jin Kim (thesis topic: sea ice around icebergs)
Olga Sergienko (thesis topic: TBD)
Visiting Students Advised:
Richard Froelich, Phd expected 1997 (Visited for two quarters from British Antarctic Survey/NERC, Cambridge)
John Firestone, PhD 1992 (Visited for two quarters from University of Washington, Seattle)
John W. Jenson, Phd 1993 (Visited for 4 quarters from Oregon State University, Corvalis)
Vincent Rommelaere, Phd 1997 (Visited for two quarters from Fourier University in Grenoble, France)
Ralf Greve, Phd 1996 (Visited for two quarters from Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany)
Byron Parizek, MS 1999 (Visited for two quarters from Pennsylvania State University)
Todd Dupont, Jr., MS 1996 (Visited for several summers from University of Maine, Orono. Currently is a Phd student at Pennsylvania State University)
Courses Taught:
Oceanic and Atmospheric Waves
Granular Fluid Mechanics
Glacial Isostacy
The Earth (Introductory Physical Science)
Viscous Fluid Dynamics
Introduction to Inverse Methods in the Geophysical Sciences
Glaciology
Physical Oceanography
Glacial Geology
Ice Age Earth (Introductory Physical Science)
The Dynamic Environment (introductory meteorology)
Settlement Systems in a Dynamic Environment (introductory geo-archaeology)
Field Experience:
1976 Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica (4 months)
1977 Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica (4 months)
1983 Ice Stream B, Antarctica (2 months)
1984 Ross Sea Oceanographic Cruise, Antarctica (1 month)
1985 Crary Ice Rise, Antarctica (1.5 months)
1986 Crary Ice Rise, Antarctica (1.5 months)
2001 Iceberg B15, Antarctica (1.5 months)
2002 Iceberg B15, Antarctica (1.5 months)
