Earth Science & Geography

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Brian G. McAdoo

Associate Professor of Earth Science

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B.S., Geology, Duke University, 1991.
Dip. Sci., Geology, University of Otago, New Zealand, 1992.
Ph.D., Geology, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1999.

Brian McAdoo earned his bachelor of science in Geology from Duke University in 1991. After completing undergraduate studies at Duke University, McAdoo spent time in New Zealand on a Fulbright Scholarship studying the Alpine fault, the plate boundary fault between the Indo-Australian and Pacific plates. While in New Zealand, he developed an interest in the role of fluids and faults. In 1994, he started his Ph.D. research at the University of California, Santa Cruz by going on a month-long research cruise to the Cascadia accretionary prism, where he went to the bottom of the ocean in the research submarine Alvin. The course of his research brought him back to the seafloor six more times, offshore Costa Rica, and on the Mid-Atlantic ridge. His current research involves studying the role of landslides in seafloor landscape evolution, and tsunami sedimentation. McAdoo presently teaches Oceanography, Global Geophysics and Tectonics, Carbon Conflicts: Coal, Oil and Diamonds and the Making of the Modern World (with Joe Nevins), Oil, the Environmental Science Field Course (Sumatra in 2008), and Applied Geophysics, where the class investigates the African-American history of the Mid-Hudson Valley through its graveyards.

Publications

  • Yalciner, A. C., D. Perincek, S. Ersoy, G. Prasetya, R. Hidayat, and B. McAdoo, December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami field survey (Jan. 21-31, 2005) at north of Sumatra Island., UNESCO IOC Report, 2005.
  • Gieskes, j., C. Mahn, S. Day, J. Martin, J. Greinert, T. Rathburn, and B. McAdoo, A study of the chemistry of pore fluids and authigenic carbonates in methan seep environments: Kodiak Trench, Hydrate Ridge, Monterey Bay, and Eel River Basin, Chemical Geology 220, p. 329-345, 2005.
  • McAdoo, B. G., M. Capone, and J. Minder, Seafloor geomorphology of convergent margins: Implications for Cascadia seismic hazard, Tectonics 23, 2004
  • McAdoo, B. G., and P. Watts, Tsunami hazard from submarine landslides on the Oregon continental slope. Marine Geology 203, p. 235-245, 2004.
  • McAdoo, B. G., L. Pratson, and D. L. Orange, Submarine landslide geomorphology, US continental slope, Marine Geology, 169, p. 103-136, 2000.
  • McAdoo, B. G., L. Pratson, and D. L. Orange, 2000, Submarine landslide geomorphology, US continental slope, Marine Geology, 169, p. 103-136.
  • McAdoo, B. G., Mapping Submarine Landslides, in Marine and Coastal Geographic Information Systems, edited by Dawn Wright and Darius Bartlett, part of the Research Monographs in Geographic Information Systems series, edited by Peter Fisher, Taylor and Francis, Publishers, 1999.
  • McAdoo, B. G.,1999, Mapping submarine landslides, in Marine and Coastal Geographic Information Systems, edited by Dawn Wright and Darius Bartlett, part of the Research Monographs in Geographic Information Systems series, edited by Peter Fisher, Taylor and Francis, Publishers.
  • Densmore, A. L., R. S. Anderson, B. G. McAdoo, and M. A. Ellis, Hillslope evolution by bedrock landslides, 1997, Science, 275, no. 5298, p. 369-372.
  • Orange, D. L., B. G. McAdoo, E. Screaton, H. Chezar, H. Lee, M. Reid, R. Vail, 1997, Headless submarine canyons and fluid flow on the toe of the Cascadia accretionary complex. Basin Research, 9, p. 313-324.
  • McAdoo, B. G., D. L. Orange, E. Screaton, H. Lee, and R. Kayen, 1997, Slope basins, headless canyons, and submarine paleoseismology of the Cascadia accretionary prism. Basin Research, 9, p. 313-324.
  • Kahn, L. M., E. A. Silver, D. Orange, R. Kochevar, B. G. McAdoo, 1996, Surficial evidence of fluid expulsion from the Costa Rica accretionary prism, Geophysical Research Letters, 23, no. 8, 887-890, April 15, 1996.
  • McAdoo, B. G., D. O. Orange, E. A. Silver, K. McIntosh, L. Abbott, J. Galewsky. L. Kahn, and M. Protti, 1996, Structural Observations, Costa Rica Accretionary Prism, Geophysical Research Letters, 23, no. 8, 883-886, April 15, 1996.
  • McAdoo, B. G. Havelock Geology: The Alpine Fault Between the Cook and Karangarua Rivers, South Island, New Zealand,1993, Post-Graduate Diploma in Science, Geology Thesis, University of Otago.
  • Papadopoulos, G., R. Caputo, B. McAdoo, S. Pavlides, V. Karastathis, A. Fokaefs, K. Orfanogiannaki, and S. Valkaniotis, The large tsunami of 26 December 2004: Field observations and eyewitnesses’ accounts from Sri Lanka, Maldives Is. and Thailand, Earth Planets Space 58, p. 233-241, 2006.
  • Lee, H.J., Locat, J., desgagnes, P., Parsons, J.D., McAdoo, B.G., Orange, D. L., Puig, P., Wong, F.L., Dartnell, P., and Boulanger, E. (Chapter 5). Submarine Mass Movements on Continental Margins, in: Nittrouer, C.A., Austin, J.A., Field, M.E., Kravitz, J.H., Syvitski, J.P.M., and Wiberg, P.L., eds., Continental-Margin Sedimentation: from Sediment Transport to Sequence Stratigraphy, IAS special publication 37, Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Oxford, 2007.
  • McAdoo, B. G., L. Dengler, V. Titov, and G. Prasetya, Smong: How an oral history saved thousands on Indonesia’s Simeulue Island, Earthquake Spectra 22, S3, 661-669, 2006.
  • Bruce E. Jaffe, Jose C. Borrero, Gegar S. Prasetya, Lori Dengler, Guy Gelfenbaum, Rahman Hidayat, Bretwood Higman, Ettiene Kingsley, Lukiyanto, Brian McAdoo, Andrew Moore, Robert Morton, Robert Peters, Peter Ruggiero, Vasily Titov, Widjo Kongko, and Eko Yulianto, The December 26th 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Northwest Sumatra and Offshore Islands, Earthquake Spectra 22, S3, 105-135, 2006.
  • Fritz, H., C. Synolakis, and B. McAdoo, Maldives field survey of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, Earthquake Spectra 22, S3, 137-154, 2006.
  • Fritz, H.C., C. Blount, R. Sokoloski, J. Singleton, A. Fuggle, B. McAdoo, A. Moore, C. Grass, and B. Tate, Hurricane Katrina storm surge distribution and filed observations on the Mississippi Barrier Islands, Estuarine and Coastal Shelf Science, 2007.
  • Fritz, H., W. Kongko, A. Moore, B. McAdoo et al., Extreme runup from the 17 July 2006 Java Tsunami, Geophysical Research Letters 34, L12602, 2007. Moore, A., B. McAdoo, and A. Ruffman, Landward fining from multiple sources in a sand sheet deposited by the 1929 Grand Banks tsunami, Newfoundland, Sedimentary Geology 200, 336-346, 2007.
  • McAdoo, B. G., K. Jackson, J. Kruger, M. Bonte-Grapentin, A. Moore, W. Rafiau, D. Billy, and B. Tiano, Geologic Survey of the 2 April 2007 Solomon Islands Earthquake and Tsunami, UNESCO Field Report, 2007.
  • McAdoo, B.G., N. Richardson, and J. Borrero, Inundation distances and runup measurements from ASTER, QuickBird and SRTM data, Aceh Coast, Indonesia, International Journal of Remote Sensing 28, no. 13-14, p. 2961-2975, 2007.

In Preparation

  • McAdoo, B. G., et al., Integrating archaeology and geophysics in a GIS, Marshall's Pen, Jamaica.
  • McAdoo, B. G., J. Minder, and M. Capone, Seafloor geomorphology of convergent margins: Implications for Cascadia seismic hazard, submitted to Tectonics.

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