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John Behrendt
Fellow
of INSTAAR.
Ph.D. 1961 Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
John.Behrendt@Colorado.EDU
(303) 492-3733
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Specialty: Antarctic and marine geophysics,
glaciology.
Research Interests: Presently studying lithospheric controls on the behavior of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Also investigating the tectonics of the West Antarctic rift system including the continental margin. Deep crustal seismic investigations of continental rifts and rifted continental margins. Charleston, S.C. earthquake studies. Atlantic continental margins of U.S. and West Africa. Use of gravity and aeromagnetic surveys to investigate continental tectonics.
Principal Investigator on National Science Foundation Grants (with Co-P.I.'s at Univ. of Texas, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, and U.S. Geological Survey Lithospheric Controls on the Behavior of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet; also Interpretation of an Aeromagnetic Survey over the Butcher Ridge Igneous Complex, Transantarctic Mountains. The aerogeophysical surveys have been completed and include aeromagnetic, gravity, radar ice sounding, and laser surface altimeter profiling. Principal Investigator on a cooperative agreement with U.S. Geological Survey on Geophysical Investigations over the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Ross Ice Shelf, and Ross Sea Continental Shelf.
Outstanding Awards: Department of Interior Meritorious Service Award, Department of Defense Antarctic Service Medal with Winter Over Bar, First International Filice Ippilito Gold Medal for contributions to Antarctic Research. Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for 2002. He was cited for his distinguished contributions to the understanding of crustal controls in the Antarctic Ice Sheet and for efforts to protect and manage Antarctica for the scientific benefit of all nations.
Selected Publications:
- Behrendt, J.C., Finn, C.A., Blankenship, D., and Bell, R.E., 1998, Aeromagnetic evidence for a volcanic caldera(?) complex beneath the divide of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Geophys. Res. Lett., v. 25, 23, p. 4385-4388.
- Behrendt, J. C. 1998, Innocents on the Ice, a Memoir of Antarctic Exploration, 1957, University Press of Colorado, book, 6 maps, 50 photographs, index, 428p.
- Behrendt, J.C. 1999, Antarctic Science then and now, Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, v. 31, 1, iv.
- Behrendt, J.C. 1999, Crustal and Lithospheric Structure of the West Antarctic Rift System from Geophysical Investigations-A Review, in, Van Der Wateren, F.M. and Cloetingh, S.A.P.L., eds., Lithosphere dynamics and environmental change of the Cenozoic West Antarctic Rift System, Global and Planetary Change, v. 23,1-4, p.25-44.
- Behrendt, J.C., 2000, Geophysical Evidence for Greater Than 50m Thinning of the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf Since 1957, EOS Trans. AGU, Abstracts of Fall Meeting
- Behrendt, J.C., Blankenship, D.D., Morse, D. L., Finn, C.A., and Bell, R. E., 2001, Removal of subglacially erupted volcanic edifices beneath the divide of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet interpreted from aeromagnetic and radar ice sounding surveys, Proceedings of 8th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Wellington. Gamble, J.A., Skinner, D.N.B., Henrys, S., and Lynch, R., eds, in press.
- Behrendt, J.C., Blankenship, D.D., Morse, D.L., Finn, C.A., and Bell, R.E., 2002, Subglacial volcanic features beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet interpreted from aeromagnetic and radar ice sounding. in J. Smellie ed, Geological Society, London, Special Publication on Volcano-Ice Interaction on Earth and Mars, pp. 337-355.
- Behrendt, J.C., Damaske, D, Finn, C.A., Kyle, P., and Wilson, T.J., 2002, Draped aeromagnetic survey in Transantarctic Mountains over the area of the Butcher Ridge Igneous Complex showing great extent of underlying mafic (?) intrusion, J. Geophys. Res., v. pp .EPM 3 1-10.
- Behrendt, J.C., Blankenship, D.D., Morse, D. L., Finn, C.A., & Bell, R. E., 2002, Removal of subglacially erupted volcanic edifices beneath the divide of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet interpreted from aeromagnetic and radar ice sounding surveys. In: Gamble, J.A., Skinner, D.N.B., Henrys, S., & Lynch, R. (eds), Antarctica at the close of a Millennium, Proceedings Volume 8th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Royal Society of New Zealand Bulletin, 35, pp 579-588.
- Behrendt, J.C., Blankenship, D.D. Morse, D.L. and Bell, R.E., 2004, Shallow source aeromagnetic anomalies observed over the West Antarctic Ice Sheet compared with coincident bed topography from radar ice sounding - New evidence for glacial "removal" of subglacially erupted Late Cenozoic rift related volcanic edifices, Global and Planetary Change, v 42/1-4, pp 177-193.
- Behrendt, J.C., 2005, The Ninth Circle; a Memoir of Life and Death in Antarctica, 1960-62, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 255 p.
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