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Associate Scientist
Geology & Geophysics
Contact Information:
Work: 508 289 2994
jdonnelly@whoi.edu
Building: Clark 253
http://www.whoi.edu/science/GG/coastal/index.html
Mailing Address:
Mailstop 22
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543
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Research Interests
The overarching goal of my research program is to understand how changes in climate have altered terrestrial and coastal systems in the recent geological past, to explore how landscape changes may have in turn impacted the climate system, and through this understanding improve our ability to project how coastal landforms and embayments will respond to future changes in these forcings. Primarily I use sedimentary and other natural archives to reconstruct past environmental conditions in order to develop a process oriented understanding of the causes and consequences of environmental change. For example, sea-level fluctuations, storms, and changing freshwater inputs play key roles in driving changes in many coastal systems, yet we know very little about how these environments respond to these multi-variant forcing mechanisms. Fortunately, all of these phenomena leave markers in the sedimentary record that we can sample and use to understand their impact through the late Holocene.
Education
B.S. Earth Science, University of Massachusetts
M.E.S. Coastal and Watershed Systems, Yale University
Ph.D. Geological Sciences, Brown University
Publications
(*
denotes student or postdoc first authored publication)
Mann, M.E., J.D. Woodruff
, J.P. Donnelly, and Z. Zhang,
submitted, El Nino, Tropical Atlantic Warmth, and Hurricanes Over the Past 1500
Years, Nature.
*Boldt,
K.V., P. Lane, J.D. Woodruff, and J.P. Donnelly, submitted, Sedimentary evidence of hurricane-induced coastal
flooding in southeastern New England over the
last two millennia: Geophysical Research Letters.
*Newby, P., J.P. Donnelly, and B.N. Shuman, 2009,
Evidence of centennial-scale drought from southeastern Massachusetts during the
Pleistocene/Holocene transition: Quaternary Science Reviews (in press).
Shuman, B.N.,
P. Newby, and J.P. Donnelly, 2009, Abrupt
Climate Change as a Catalyst of Ecological Change in the Northeast
U.S. throughout the Past 15,000 Years: Quaternary Science Reviews
(in press).
Madsen A.T., G.A.T. Duller, J.P. Donnelly, H.M. Roberts, and A.G. Wintle, 2009, A chronology of
hurricane landfalls at Little Sippewissett Marsh, Massachusetts, USA, using
optical dating: Geomorphology (in press).
*Woodruff, J.D., J.P. Donnelly, and A. Okusu, 2009,
Exploring typhoon variability over the mid-to-late Holocene: Evidence of
extreme coastal flooding from Kamikoshiki,
Japan:
Quaternary Science Reviews (in press).
*Woodruff, J.D., J.P.
Donnelly, K. Emanuel, and P. Lane, 2008, Assessing sedimentary records of
paleo-hurricane activity using modeled hurricane climatology: Geochemistry,
Geophysics, Geosystems v. 9, Q09V10, doi:10.1029/2008GC002043.
Donnelly, J.P.,
and L. Giosan, 2008, Tempestuous Highs and Lows in the Gulf
of Mexico: Geology, v. 36, p. 751-752.
*Woodruff, J.D., J.P. Donnelly, D. Mohrig, and W. R.
Geyer, 2008, Reconstructing relative flooding intensities responsible for
hurricane-induced deposits from Laguna Playa Grande, Vieques, Puerto
Rico: Geology, v. 36, p. 391-394.
*Carlson, A., J. Stoner, J.P. Donnelly, and C. Hillaire-Marcel,
2008, Response of the southern Greenland Ice Sheet during the last two
deglaciations: Geology, v. 3 6, p. 359-362.
*Ashton, A.,
J.P. Donnelly, and R. Evans, 2008, A discussion
of the potential impacts of climate change on the shorelines of the
Northeastern USA: Mitigation
and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, doi: 10.1007/S11027-007-9124-3.
Cheung, K. F., L. Tang, J.P. Donnelly, E. Scileppi, K. Liu, X.
Mao, S.H. Houston, and R.J. Murnane, 2007, Coastal Overwash Modeling in Paleotempestology: Journal of
Geophysical Research, v. 112, F03024, doi:10.1029/2006JF000612.
Donnelly, J.P., and J.D. Woodruff, 2007, Intense hurricane activity over the past 5,000 years controlled
by El Nino and the West African monsoon: Nature, v. 447, p. 465-468.
Hill, J.C., N.W. Driscoll, J.
Brigham-Grette, J.P. Donnelly, P.T.
Gayes, and L. Keigwin, 2007, New evidence of very high discharge to the Chukchi
shelf since the Last Glacial Maximum: Quaternary Research, v. 68, p. 271-279.
*Scileppi, E., and J.P. Donnelly, 2007, Sedimentary
Evidence of Hurricane Strikes in Western Long Island, New York: Geochemistry,
Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 8, Q06011, doi:10.1029/2006GC001463.
Thieler, E.R., B. Butman,
W.C. Schwab, M.A. Allison, N.W. Driscoll, J.P.
Donnelly, and E. Uchupi, 2007, A catastrophic meltwater flood event and the
formation of the Hudson
Shelf Valley:
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology and Palaeoecology, v. 246, p. 120-136.
Keigwin, L., J.P. Donnelly, M.S. Cook, N. Driscoll,
J. Brigham-Grette, 2006, Rapid Sea-Level Rise and Holocene Climate in the
Chukchi Sea: Geology v. 34, p. 861-864.
Donnelly,
J.P., 2006, A Revised Late Holocene
Sea-Level Record for Northern Massachusetts, USA: Journal of Coastal Research,
v. 22, p. 1051-1061.
Giosan, L., J.P. Donnelly, S. Constantinescu, F.
Filip, I. Ovejanu, A. Vespremeanu-Stroe,
E.Vespremeanu, G.A.T. Duller,
2006, Young Danube delta documents stable Black Sea
level since the middle Holocene: Morphodynamic, paleogeographic, and
archaeological implications: Geology, v. 34, p. 757-760.
Shuman, B., and J.P. Donnelly, 2006, The Influence of
Seasonal Precipitation and Temperature Regimes on Lake
Levels in the Northeastern
United States during the Holocene: Quaternary Research, v. 65, p.
44-56.
Donnelly, J.P.,
2005, Evidence of Past Intense Tropical Cyclones from Backbarrier Salt Pond
Sediments: A Case Study from Isla de Culebrita, Puerto Rico, USA:
Journal of Coastal Research, SI42, p. 201-210.
Giosan, L., E.
Vespremeanu, J.P. Donnelly, J.
Bhattacharya, and F. Buonaiuto, 2005, Morphodynamics and evolution of Danube
delta: Journal of Sedimentary Research, SP 83, p. 391-410.
Shuman,
B., P. Newby, J.P. Donnelly, A.
Tarbox, and T. Webb III, 2005, A Record of Late-Quaternary Moisture-Balance
Change and Vegetation Response from the White Mountains, New Hampshire: Annals
of American Association of Geographers, v. 95, p. 237-248.
Donnelly, J.P., Driscoll, N., Uchupi, E., Keigwin, L.,
Schwab, W., Thieler, E.R., Swift, S., 2005, Catastrophic Meltwater Discharge
down the Hudson River
Valley: A Potential
Trigger for the Intra-AllerØd Cold Period: Geology v. 33, p. 89-92. (Research Highlight: Nature 17 February 2005 433: 702)
Donnelly, J.P.,
and Webb III, T., 2004, Backbarrier sedimentary records of intense hurricane
landfalls in the northeastern United
States. In:
Murnane, R. and Liu, K. (eds.), Hurricanes
and Typhoons: Past Present and Potential, New York:
Columbia Press,
pp. 58-96.
Donnelly,
J.P., J. Butler, S. Roll, Micah Wengren, and T. Webb III, 2004, A backbarrier
overwash record of intense storms from Brigantine, New Jersey: Marine Geology, v.
210, p. 107-121.
Donnelly, J.P.,
Cleary, P., Newby, P., and Ettinger, R., 2004, Coupling
Instrumental and Geological Records of Sea-Level Change: Evidence from southern
New England of an increase in the rate of sea-level rise in
the late 19th century: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 31
L05203 doi:10.1029/2003GL018933.
Donnelly, J.P., and M.D. Bertness, 2001, Rapid shoreward
encroachment of salt marsh cordgrass in response to accelerated sea-level rise:
Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., v. 98, p. 14218-14223.
Donnelly, J.P., S. Roll, M. Wengren, J. Butler, R. Lederer, and T. Webb III, 2001,
Sedimentary evidence of intense hurricane strikes from New Jersey: Geology, v. 29, p. 615-618.
Donnelly, J.P.,
S. S. Bryant, J. Butler, J. Dowling, L. Fan, N. Hausmann, P. Newby, B. Shuman,
J. Stern, K. Westover, and T. Webb III,
2001, A 700-Year sedimentary record of intense hurricane landfalls in southern New England: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.
113, p. 714-727. (editors’ choice: Science 8 June 2001 292: 1801)
Donnelly, J.P.,
T. Webb III, and W.L. Prell, 1999, The influence of accelerated sea-level rise,
human modification and storms on a New England
salt marsh: Current Topics in Wetland Biogeochemistry v. 3, p.152-160.
Donnelly, J.P.,
1998, Evidence of late Holocene post-glacial isostatic adjustment in coastal
wetland deposits of eastern North America:
Georesearch Forum, v. 3-4, p. 393-400.
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