{"id":6,"date":"2018-05-16T20:35:41","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T20:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/barclay\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2025-06-08T11:48:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T11:48:38","slug":"david-barclay","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/barclay\/","title":{"rendered":"David Barclay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-95 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/barclay\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2024\/08\/W10_Dave-300x253.jpg\" alt=\"David Barclay coring a tree\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/barclay\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2024\/08\/W10_Dave-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/barclay\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2024\/08\/W10_Dave.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am a geomorphologist and paleoclimatologist with specific interests in glaciers and tree-rings. \u00a0Much of my research has focused on reconstructing climate change over the past 2000 years in southern Alaska using fluctuations of valley glaciers and tree-ring data. \u00a0I have also worked in West Antarctica on ice sheet changes and in the Adirondack and Finger Lakes regions of New York on glacial deposits, landscape history, flooding hazards and tree-ring records from old forests and historical buildings.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Appointments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Professor (2014 to present), SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Associate Professor (2005 to 2014), SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Assistant Professor (1999 to 2005), SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Visiting Assistant Professor (1998 to 1999), Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Education:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Ph.D. (1998), Geological Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. \u00a0Dissertation: Tree-ring and glacial records of Holocene climate change, northern Gulf of Alaska region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">B.Sc. (1993), Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K. \u00a0Honors program with concentration in geosciences, exchange year spent at SUNY Plattsburgh, NY.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_92\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-92 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/barclay\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2024\/08\/DisBay1996-300x284.jpg\" alt=\"David Barclay on a boat with Hubbard Glacier in the background\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/barclay\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2024\/08\/DisBay1996-300x284.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/barclay\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2024\/08\/DisBay1996.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-92\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Studying the history of Hubbard Glacier near Yakutat in Alaska<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a geomorphologist and paleoclimatologist with specific interests in glaciers and tree-rings. \u00a0Much of my research has focused on reconstructing climate change over the past 2000 years in southern Alaska using fluctuations of valley glaciers and tree-ring data. \u00a0I have also worked in West Antarctica on ice sheet changes and in the Adirondack and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-6","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/barclay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/barclay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/barclay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/barclay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/barclay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/barclay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/barclay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}