{"id":30,"date":"2018-05-22T14:27:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T14:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/barclay\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2024-08-24T12:20:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T12:20:51","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/barclay\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have ongoing interests in a range of research topics in Alaska and New York. \u00a0Please see Publications for finished papers\/reports and contact me for reprints or further information.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Glacier and tree-ring studies in Alaska:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reconstructing valley glacier histories as a proxy record of late Holocene climate change<\/li>\n<li>Building long tree-ring chronologies for dating earthquakes and glacier fluctuations<\/li>\n<li>Using paleorecords to understand tidewater glacier behavior over decades to millennia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_59\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-59 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/barclay\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2020\/01\/Jim-w-LC23-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"Person coring a dead tree\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/barclay\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2020\/01\/Jim-w-LC23-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/barclay\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2020\/01\/Jim-w-LC23-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/barclay\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2020\/01\/Jim-w-LC23.jpg 915w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-59\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Milligan &#8217;01 coring a subfossil tree at Nellie Juan Glacier in Alaska<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Landscape studies in New York:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Evidence (or lack thereof) for local valley glaciers in the Adirondack Mountains during the late glacial period<\/li>\n<li>Deglacial history of the Finger Lakes region based on lidar-derived geospatial imagery<\/li>\n<li>Migrating river channels and groundwater-induced flooding in central New York<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_91\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-91 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/barclay\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2024\/08\/20240709_USGS_PilotStudy_Dalaba-4sc-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Five people on a boat with a sediment core\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/barclay\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2024\/08\/20240709_USGS_PilotStudy_Dalaba-4sc-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/barclay\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2024\/08\/20240709_USGS_PilotStudy_Dalaba-4sc.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Collecting a sediment core at the Salmon River with Makiah Poli &#8217;25, Jim McKenna (USGS), and Tiernan Smith and Spencer Alascio (SRMT). Image courtesy of Justin Dalaba.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Old trees and forests in New York:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dating historical buildings in Willsboro and elsewhere in the Adirondacks<\/li>\n<li>Extending living tree chronologies back in time for paleohydrologic reconstructions<\/li>\n<li>Locating old forest remnants for their scientific and aesthetic values<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_90\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-90 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/barclay\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2024\/08\/13_Kiersten_sc-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Person coring a tree\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/barclay\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2024\/08\/13_Kiersten_sc-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/barclay\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2024\/08\/13_Kiersten_sc.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-90\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kiersten Duroe &#8217;15 coring a hemlock at Hoxie Gorge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Geospatial imagery for teaching and recreation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Smartphone Digital Elevation Model (DEM) and hillshade images with real-time location for teaching geomorphology and landforms in the field<\/li>\n<li>Smartphone trail maps for Lime Hollow Nature Center with real-time location on lidar-derived geospatial imagery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_94\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-94\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/barclay\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2024\/08\/LHtrails_1908relief-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/barclay\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2024\/08\/LHtrails_1908relief-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/barclay\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2024\/08\/LHtrails_1908relief.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-94\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trail map for Lime Hollow Nature Center on digital elevation background<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Data sets:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Completed tree-ring chronologies are publicly available at the International Tree-Ring Data Bank at NOAA [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/data-access\/paleoclimatology-data\">link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Trail maps for Lime Hollow are publicly available in the map store of the free Avenza Maps app [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.avenzamaps.com\">link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have ongoing interests in a range of research topics in Alaska and New York. \u00a0Please see Publications for finished papers\/reports and contact me for reprints or further information. 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