David Jorgensen Harbor
Professor, Department of
Geology
Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA 24450
(540)
458-8871, harbord@wlu.edu
Contents:
- Education
- Positions
- Teaching
- Journal articles
and book chapters
- Abstracts from
meetings
- Reports
- Student
Research
- Research
Funding
- Campus/town
activities
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Earth Resources, 1990, Colorado State University, Advisor: Stanley A.
Schumm
Dissertation: Adjustment of alluvial river
morphology and process to localized active tectonics
M.S. Geology, 1985,
Pennsylvania State University, Advisor: Thomas W. Gardner
Thesis: Hydrology of surface-mined land: A determination of minesoil control on
infiltration capacity and runoff modeling of disturbed watersheds
B.A.
Geology, with honors, 1981, Earlham College, Richmond, IndianaPOSITIONS
Professor 2004-present Geology Department, Washington and Lee University
Department Head 2003-2009 Geology Department, Washington and Lee Unviersity
Associate Professor 1998-2004 Geology Department, Washington and Lee
University
Assistant Professor 1992-1998. Geology Department, Washington and Lee
University
Adjunct Assistant Professor 1992 Introductory Geology and Hydrology, University of
North Carolina at Charlotte, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences.
Postdocotral Research Associate 1990-1991. Geomorphic and hydraulic control of
Mississippi River bed topography, Colorado State University, U.S. Army Research
Office & Corps of Engineers, Dr. Stanley A. Schumm, PI.
Instructor 1989. Geomorphology, Earth Resources Department, Colorado State
University. Also lectured in Riparian Ecosystem Management course.
Research Assistant 1987. Geomorphological investigation of the Indus River
and Plain, Colorado State University, Dr. Stanley A. Schumm, PI.
Research Assistant 1986-87, Response of alluvial rivers to active tectonics,
Colorado State University, Dr. Stanley A. Schumm, PI.
Invited Lecturer 1984. "The use of landform analysis to reduce erosion and
increase reclamation stability" Short Course, Pennsylvania State University,
Mining Engineering Program.
Teaching Assistant 1983-84. Introductory Geology and Geomorphology,
laboratory and field instruction, Pennsylvania State University.
TEACHING
- Geomorphology - the study of erosional or depositional processes
and landforms at the Earth’s surface from maps, air photos, numerical experiments, and field
investigations.
- Intro Physical
Geology - I have taught both lecture/lab and field emphasis sections. In the
field course, I have developed a sequence of "learning by seeing and doing"
activities that introduce students to a range of geologic phenomena and
processes.
- GIS & Remote Sensing - technological advances in spatial
data and methodsrequire students going on to graduate
school or entering the workforce to be literate in geospatial data analysis and
management. Exposes students to some ArcGIS analyses and remote sensing techniques.
- SAND! A journey from mountains to beaches and western deserts - first-year seminar teaching some basic principles of geology using sand as the foil. We study sand in the Appalachian rocks and rivers, in barrier islands and at the Eastern Shore, and in dunes and eolian rocks of southern Utah and Zion Canyon.
- Glaciology & Glacial Geology - seminar first taught in Winter 2014 that examines glacier/meltwater dynamics, erosion and deposition, and glacial landforms
- Geological Field Methods - Spring mapping class held
in Lexington, but in Pyrenees and New Zealand in the past.
- Regional Geology- Eastern US, Pyrenees, New Zealand, and Iceland in 2017 & 2019.
- Environmental Field Methods - exploring the data and methods of environmental earth science (spring).
- Environmental Studies "Capstone Experience" in Environmental Design - In its first year (winter 2000), Jim Casey and I
helped students to explore a "green design" for the University Commons. In 2002,
with Jim Kahn, on Riparian Buffers in Rockbridge County. (not taught anymore- replaced by individual student capstone projects)
- Retired
(for me at least) Courses: Coastal Geology, Water Resources, Computer Applications in Geology, Geology of National Parks, Geology of Natural Hazards, Global Climate Change, Hydrology
(21 different courses or topics total? That's ridiculous. Planning #22 for winter 2020; regenerative agrictulture/carbon farming)
JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS (W&L undergraduate student coauthors
underlined)
- Rahl, J.M., Harbor, D.J. and Galli C., 2018, Foreland basin record of uplift and exhumation of the Cordillera Oriental, northwest Argentina. Tectonics 37(11): 4173-4193. DOI:10.1029/2017TC004955
- Wilkinson, C., Harbor, D.J., Helgans, E., and Kuehner, J.P., 2018, Plucking phenomena in nonuniform flow: Geosphere, v. 14, no. 5, p. 1–4, DOI: 10.1130 /GES01623.11
- Busch, J., Greer, L., Harbor, D., Wirth, K., Lescinsky, H., Curran, H.A. and de Beurs, K., 2016. Quantifying exceptionally large populations of Acropora spp. corals off Belize using sub-meter satellite imagery classification. Bulletin of Marine Science, 92(2), pp.265-283. DOI: 10.5343/bms.2015.1038
- Pazzaglia, F. J., Carter, M., Berti, C., Counts, R., Hancock, G., Harbor, D., Harrison, R., Heller, M., Mahan, S., Malenda, H., McKeon, R., Nelson, M., Prince, P., Rittenour, T., Spotila, J., and Whittecar, R., 2015, Geomorphology, active tectonics, and landscape evolution in the Mid-Atlantic region: Field Guides, v. 40, p. 109-169., DOI: 10.1130/2015.0040(06)
- Marshall, J., Barnhart, A., Butcher, A., Freimuth, C., Khaw, F., LaFromboise, E., Landeros,, M., Morrish, S., Olson, E., Ritzinger, B., Stewart, D., Utick, J., Wellington, K., Wenceslao, L., Gardner, T., Harbor, D., Osborn, S., 2015, Beachrock horizons of the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica: Geomorphology, petrology, and neotectonic significance, in Wang, P., Rosati, J.D., Cheng, J., (eds.), Proceedings of the Coastal Sediments (2015), v. 8, World Scientific, Singapore, p. 2984-3003. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814689977_0252
- Garcez, R., Humston, R., Harbor, D., Freitas, C., 2014, Otolith geochemistry in young-of-the-year peacock bass Cichla temensis for investigating natal dispersal in the Rio Negro (Amazon - Brazil) river system, Ecology of Freshwater Fish, DOI: 10.1111/eff.12142
- Val, P., Silva, C., Harbor, D., Morales, N., Amaral, F., and Maia, T., 2013, Erosion of an active fault scarp leads to drainage capture in the Amazon region, Brazil: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 39:1062-74. DOI: 10.1002/esp.3507
- Gonga-Saholiariliva N., Gunnell, Y., Harbor, D., Mering, C., 2011, An automated method for producing synoptic regional maps of river gradient variation: Procedure, accuracy tests, and comparison with other knickpoint mapping methods. Geomorphology. (view at publisher) doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.07.013
- Gunnell, Y. and Harbor, D., 2010, Butte detachment: where pre-rift geologic structure and drainage integration drive escarpment evolution at rifted continental margins. Earth
Surface Processes and Landforms.Vol. 35(12), p. 1373–1385. View at publisher
- Gunnell, Y. and Harbor, D.,2008, Structural Underprint
and Tectonic Overprint in the Angavo (Madagascar) and Western Ghats (India) — Implications
for Understanding Scarp Evolution at Passive Margins, Journal Geological
Society of India Jubilee Edition, Vol.71, June 2008, pp.763-779. low-res
pdf 900k
- Harbor, D. and Gunnell, Y.,2007, Along-strike Escarpment Heterogeneity
of the Western Ghats: A Synthesis of Drainage and Topography Using Digital
Morphometric Tools, Journal Geological Society of India (special
issue on Western Ghats?) Vol.70, September 2007, pp.411-426. high-res
pdf 4.5 Mb low-res
pdf 700k
- Humston, Robert and Harbor, David, 2006, Geologic Analyses for Evaluating
Watershed Heterogeneity: Implications for Otolith Chemistry Studies. Proc.
Annu. Conf. Southeast. Assoc. Fish and Wildl. Agencies. 60:132–139 pdf
copy
- Knapp, E.P., Greer, L. G., Connors, C. D., and Harbor, D.,J., 2006, Field-Based
Instruction As Part Of A Balanced Geoscience Curriculum At Washington And Lee
University, Journal of Geoscience Education.Vol 54, Issue
2, March 2006, Pages 103-108
- Harbor, D., Bacastow, A., Heath, A., Rogers, J., 2005,
Capturing variable knickpoint retreat in the central Appalachians, USA, Geographia
Fisica E Dinamica Quaternaria. v 28, p 23-36. (PDF)
- Knapp, E.P. D.O. Terry, and D.J. Harbor. 2004. Reading Virginia's paleoclimate
from the geochemistry and sedimentology of clastic cave sediments. In Sasowsky,
I.D. and J. Mylroie eds., Studies of Cave Sediments: Physical and Chemical
Records of Paleoclimate. Klewer Academic / Plenum Publishing, p. 95-106.
- Knapp, E. P., Harbor, D. J., Ginwalla, Z., 2003, Testing the waters:
Can you involve community action in your college curriculum? Journal
of Geoscience Education, v. 51, n.3, May 2003, p. 294-298.
- Bank, G., Harbor, D. J., and
Morriss, D.W., 1999, Erosion history of the St. Marys River,
Banisteria (Virginia Journal of Natural History), Number 13, p. 161-169.
- Harbor, D. J.,1998, Dynamics of sandy bedforms in the Lower
Mississippi River, Journal of Sedimentary Research, vol. 68, p. 750-762.
- Harbor, D. J., 1998, Dynamic equilibrium between an active uplift and
the Sevier River, Utah. Journal of Geology, v. 106, p. 181-194.
- Harbor, D. J., 1997, Landscape evolution at the margin of the Basin
and Range. Geology, v. 25, p. 1111-1114.
- Harbor, D. J., Schumm, S. A. and Harvey, M D., 1994, Tectonic control of the
Indus River, p. 161-176 in Schumm, S.A. and Winkley, B. (eds), The
Variability of Large Alluvial Rivers. American Society of Civil
Engineers, New York.
- Jorgensen, D. W., Harvey, M.D., Schumm, S.A., and Flam, L., 1993, Hydrology
and geomorphology of the Indus River in Sindh: Implications for the Mohen jo
Daro site, in J. Shroder and A. Kazmi, eds., Himalayas to the Sea: Geology,
Geomorphology and the Quaternary, Routledge, London.
- **Jorgensen, D. W., 1992, Use of soils to differentiate dune age and
to document spatial variation in eolian activity, northeast Colorado, U.S.
Journal of Arid Environments 23: 19-34.
- Gardner, T. W., Jorgensen, D.W. , Shuman, C. and Lemieux, C.R., 1987,
Geomorphic process rates: Effects of measured time interval. Geology 15:
259-261.
- Jorgensen, D. W. and Gardner, T. W., 1987, Infiltration capacity of
disturbed soils: Temporal change and lithologic control. Water Resources
Bulletin 23(6): 1161-1171.
- Gardner, T. W., Gryta, J. J., Lemieux, C. R., Jorgensen, D. W., and
Touysinhthiphonexay, K., 1985, Geomorphology and hydrology of surface-mined
watersheds, bituminous coal fields, central Pennsylvania. Pages 263-273 in
50th Annual Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists, Bureau of
Topographic and Geologic Survey, Harrisburg.
- Jorgensen, D. W. and Gardner, T. W., 1985, An analysis of soil and surface
properties which affect infiltration and runoff on mined lands, Centre County,
Pennsylvania. Pages 83-106 in R. Brooks, D. Samuel, and J. Hill (eds..),
Wetlands and Water Management on Mined Lands, Pennsylvania State
University, 303 p.
In progress :
Fox, N., Harbor, D., Telfeyan, K., in prep, Grain weathering indices in river terrace studies. For submission to Southeastern Geology.
Harbor, D., Erickson, P., Rittenhouse, D., Carlson, M, Ries, J., Easthouse, D, Gardner, T., Merritts, D., in sepulturam, Rapid incision of the upper James River, Virginia; conceptual model and evidence of late erosional history. for submission to Geomorphology
Elliot, C, Harbor, D., Chow, B., Dodoye-Alai, B, Linney, D, Bank, G., Gardner, T., Merritts, D., in sepulturam, Weathering and soil development in terraces of the upper James River, Valley and Ridge, Virginia. for submission to Southeastern Geology
Harbor, D. J., in revision for a decade or two, now three? , Selective transport,
channel pattern change and channel migration in three rivers disturbed by localized
active
tectonics.
**my maiden name is Jorgensen; Cathryn and I changed our names to
Harbor when we married. Scopus and Google have linked the two names.
Presentations at
meetings (undergraduate student co-authors underlined, present and former)
- Monson, Ryan, Landry, Kameko, Harbor, David, 2018, Hyporheic flow during plucking of fractured bedrock. Paper EP53E-1945, presented at 2018 AGU Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C., 10-14 Dec.
- Bent, Catalena, Messerich, Christopher, Morgan, Izsak, Harbor, David J., Barnhart, William D., 2018, Geomorphic evidence of spatial and temporal changes of slip sense along a reverse fault: the Hoshab Fault of the Makran accretionary prism, southern Pakistan. Paper EP51D-1846, presented at 2018 AGU Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C., 10-14 Dec.
- Barnhart, William D., Shea, Hannah N., Peterson, Katherine E., Gold, Ryan, Briggs, Richard W., Harbor, David J., 2018, Co-seismic Vertical Offset Retrieval From High-Resolution, Stereogrammetric DEMs: Examples from the 2013 Baluchistan, Pakistan Earthquake. Paper G54A-01, presented at 2018 AGU Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C., 10-14 Dec.
- Harbor, David J., Barnhart, William D., 2017, Geomorphic Evidence of a Complex late-Cenozoic Uplift and Lateral Displacement History Along the 2013 M7.7 Baluchistan, Pakistan Strike-slip Rupture, American Geophysical Union, New Orleans, T31A-0615, https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/289879
- Landry, Kameko R., Harbor, David. J., 2017, Flow in fractured bedrock crack network and its role in plucking, Geological Society of America (Annual Meeting) Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 49, No. 6 https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2017AM/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/306653
- Harbor, David, Wilkinson, Clare, Kuehner, Joel P., 2017 Initiation of plucking in rapidly varied flow: results of flume experiments, Canadian Geophysical Union, Vancouver, ES01A (invited).
- Wilkinson, Clare , David Harbor, and Simon D. Levy, 2017,
Sensing fluid pressure during plucking events in a natural bedrock channel, Canadian Geophysical Union, Vancouver, P01-ES01.
- Wilkinson, Clare; Harbor, David; Keel, Daniel; Levy, Simon; Kuehner, Joel P., 2016, Sensing fluid pressure during plucking events in a natural bedrock channel and experimental flume, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, EP33D-1011, https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/176196
- Cuilik, Michael, Helgans, Elliott, Harbor, David J., Barnhart, William D., 2016, Quaternary geomorphic history of the Hoshab fault, southwestern Pakistan, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. September, paper 347-13, https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2016AM/webprogram/Paper287620.html.
- Harbor, David; Wilkinson, Clare; Helgans, Elliott; Kuehner, Joel P., 2015, Mechanisms and Rates of Plucking of Experimental Bedrock Blocks, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, EP21A-0888. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm15/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/80875
- Harbor, David, 2015, invited, Delayed and Episodic Erosional Dissection of an Uplifted Appalachian Margin, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD. Paper No. 9-5. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2015AM/webprogram/Paper267517.html
- Wilkinson, Clare; Helgans, Elliott; Harbor, David; Kuehner, Joel P., 2015, Flume Investigation of Channel Bedrock Erosion by Plucking, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, Paper No. 291-2, https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2015AM/webprogram/Paper263882.html
- Elium, E., Freeman, J, Kapasi, M, Wilbur, J, Biemiller, J, and Harbor, D, 2014, Field and Flume Exploration of Channel Bedrock Erosion by Plucking, Geological Society of America National Meeting, Vancouver, BC, https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2014AM/webprogram/Paper250264.html
- Biemiller, J, Harbor, D, Kraal, E, 2014, Imbricated boulders in Athabasca Vallis: were they quarried by megafloods or lava flows? 45th Annual Binghampton Geomorphology Symposium, Knoxville.
- Val, P., Silva, C, Harbor, D., Morales, N., Maia, T., and Aamaral, F., 2013, Erosion of an active fault scarp leads to drainage capture in the Amazon region, Brazil. Geological Society of America, National Meeting Denver.
- Wnuk, K., Harbor, D., Rahl, J., and Biemiller, J., 2013, Episodic erosion dynamics affecting depositional basins of northwest Argentina, Geological Society of America, National Meeting Denver.
- Harbor, D., Meyer, R., Connors, C., 2013, Constraining Cenozoic uplift of the central Appalachians using river profiles and relict surfaces. 8th International Conference on Geomorphology (IAG), Paris.
- Harbor D., Rahl J., Bovay C., Galli, C., Sberna, D., Hartman, R., 2013, Drainage rearrangement and sediment production in response to uplift of the Andean Eastern Cordillera, NW Argentina . 8th International Conference on Geomorphology (IAG), Paris.
- Harbor, D., 2012, Do river profiles reveal the recent history of the Central Appalachians? Geological Society of Washington, 1462nd Meeting, May 9, 2012.
- Harbor, D., Gunnell, Y., Hancock, G., 2011 Episodic and long-lived river incision along geologically heterogeneous passive margins (Invited). AGU Annual Meeting, EP53C-06.
- Harbor, David J., Rahl, Jeffrey M., Bovay, A. Caroline, Galli, Claudia, Sberna, Doug, and Hartman, Ryan. 2011 Geomorphic change and sediment production in response to uplift of the Andean Eastern Cordillera, NW Argentina. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 43, No. 5, p. 283
- Rahl, Jeffrey M., Harbor, David, Galli, C.I., Staffo, Kristin, Hartman, Ryan, Sberna, Doug. 2011. Using sedimentary provenance to reconstruct the rise of the Eastern Cordillera, NW Argentina. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 43, No. 5, p. 49.
- Meyer, R., Schultz, L., Hendriks, B. W., Harbor, D. J., and Connors, C. D., 2011, Central Appalachian Valley and Ridge Province Cenozoic igneous activity and its relation in space and time with the Late Jurassic rift-to-drift-related alkalic dikes: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, v. 2011, T24A-04.
- C. Bovay; D. J. Harbor; J. M. Rahl; K. Staffo; C. Gall. 2010. Valley fill in the Andean Eastern Cordillera: a response to transient incision of the Río Iruya, NW Argentina, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, EP53D-0644.
- K. Staffo; J. M. Rahl; D. J. Harbor; C. Galli; C. Bovay. 2010. Do Neogene foreland basin sediments of the Orán Group, northwestern Argentina record changing conditions in the Eastern Cordillera? American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, EP53D-0643.
- Dere, A., White, T., Brantley, S. L., Jin, L., Harbor, D., Townsend, M., 2010, Shale weathering rates across a continental-scale climosequence. World Congress of Soil Science, Soil Solutions for a Changing World 19: D1.2, 25.
- Harbor, D., Gunnell, Y., & Braucher, R., 2008, Rate and style of canyon
incision and knickzone retreat in South India. European Geophysical Union General
Assembly, Vienna, April 2008.
- Gunnell, Y., Harbor, D., 2008, Structural underprint, tectonic overprint
and drainage integration — do escarpments at passive margins persist
or reform? European Geophysical Union General Assembly, Vienna, April 2008.
- Harbor, David J., Salisbury, Barrett, Braunscheidel, Michael, Barnhart,
William, and Tainer, Erin, 2006, High Resolution Channel Surveying
to Evaluate the Hydraulic and Erosional Characteristics of a Bedrock Knickpoint
In an Appalachian River. Geological Society of America meeting, Philadelphia
(22-25 October 200
- Harbor, D. J., and Gunnell, Y., ;Escarpment Retreat in South India:
River Erosion of Continental Margins , Presentation at the Institut Français
de Pondichéry Golden Jubilee Conference and Celebration. February,
2005
- Harbor, David J, Bacastow, Amy, Heath, Andrew, and, Rogers, Jackson 2004, Variable Knickpoint Retreat in Folded Sedimentary Rocks of the Central Appalachians, International Geological Congress, Florence, Italy, August 2004
- Harbor, David J, Rogers, Jackson,
Heath, Andrew, and Bacastow, Amy, 2004, Erosion By Knickpoint Retreat
In The Upper James River Basin, presented at the
Symposium
entitled
"New approaches to the study of Appalachian landscapes", SE Geological Society
of America, GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 36, No. 2, March 2004.
- Hancock, Gregory S., Harbor, David J., Felis, Jonathan, and
Turcotte, John, 2004, 10Be Dating Of River Terraces Reveals Piedmont
Landscape Disequilibrium in the Central James River Basin, Virginia, SE
Geological Society of America, GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 36, No. 2, March
2004
- Hancock, Greg, and Harbor, David, Felis, Jonathan, 2003, Knickpoint
retreat and landscape disequilibrium on the James River from the Piedmont
through the Valley and Ridge, central Virginia, USA, Eos Trans. AGU, 84(46),
Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H52A-1141.
- Harbor, David J., Bacastow, Amy,
Heath, Andrew, and Rogers, Jackson, 2003, Drainage Basin Incision
By Knickpoint Retreat Across Variable Rock Types, Central Appalachians,
Virginia, Geological Society of America, Fall, Denver.
- Felis, Jonathan, Hancock, Greg, and Harbor, David, 2003, Rapid river
incision and knickpoint migration inferred from terraces data using
10Be, James River, Central Virginia, USA, SE section Geological
Society of America Meeting, Memphis TN, (GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 35,
No. 1, February 2003)
- Turner, Benjamin F., Knapp, Elizabeth P., and Harbor, David J., 2002,
Climatic factors limiting limestone dissolutoin at the soil-bedrock interface,
Geological Society of America Meeting, Denver, October 27-30, 2002.
- Knapp, E., Harbor, D., and Ginwalla, Z., 2002.
Maury River Alliance: Citizen monitoring of the effect of land use on water
quality. Environment Virginia, VMI, April 2002 (Harbor also had a section of the
meeting field trip).
- Hancock, Greg, and Harbor, David, 2002, Cosmogenic isotope dating of rapid,
disequilibrium incision of the James River in Central Virginia, Geological
Society of America Joint SE and NC Sections Meeting, (April 3–5, 2002)
- Harbor, David J., Collier, Krista L.,
and Laucks, Jeremy W., 2001, Terraces and incision history of the James
River near the Blue Ridge of Virginia, Geological Society of America, November,
2001, Boston.
- Knapp, E. P., Harbor, D. J., and Ginwalla, Z., 2001, The Maury River
Alliance: A model for undergraduate research, service learning, and curricular
enhancement, Geological Society of America, November, 2001, Boston.
- Harbor, D. J., Knapp, E. P., and Ginwalla,
Z., 2001, The Maury River Alliance: a university-community joint effort, 8th
Annual Virginia Watershed Management conference, September, Virginia Beach.
- Terry, Dennis O., Knapp, Elizabeth P., Harbor, David J., Thren, Robert C.
1999. Clastic sediment of Bathers Cave: A potential record of Quaternary climate
change in west-central Virginia. Geol. Soc. Am. Meeting, Denver, October.
- Knapp, Elizabeth P., Harbor, David J., Terry, Dennis O, 1999. Geochemical
signatures in clastic cave sediments: Implications for Quaternary
paleoclaimes in west-central Virginia. Geol. Soc. Am. Meeting, Denver, October.
- Harbor, D. J., Panuska, Bruce C., Terry, Dennis O., Knapp, Elizabeth P.,
1999, River incision and climate history revealed in cave stratigraphy, Maury
River basin, Virginia. EOS (American Geophysical Union Meeting, Boston,
June 1999)
- Harbor, D. J., Bank, G., Morriss, D., 1998, Erosion history of
the St Mary’s River. Symposium on the Natural History of the Big Levels Area,
VA: Maple Flats Sinkhole Ponds and the St. Mary’s River, Va Dept of Conservation
& Recreation: Natural Heritage, October, 1998.
- Bank, G., and Harbor, 1998,
Headward advance of the James River basin by capture of the St Marys River from
the Shenandoah River basin, Virginia, Geological Society of America National
Meeting, Toronto October 1998
- Erickson, P.A., Harbor, D.
J., 1998, Bringing down Floyd: Incision by the James River in the Valley and
Ridge of Virginia, Geological Society of America National Meeting, Toronto
October 1998.
- Ries, J., Merritts, D., Harbor, D. J.,Gardner, T.W., Erickson, P.
A., Carlson, M., 1998, Increased Rates of Fluvial Bedrock Incision in
the Central Appalachian Mountains, Virginia, Geological Society of America
National Meeting, Toronto October 1998.
- Harbor, D. J., Merritts, D., and Gardner, T. W., 1998, Cenozoic landscape
evolution in the souther Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. Pages 222-225 in Eleventh
Keck Research Symposium in Geoogy Proceedings, Amherst MA, April, 1998.
- Bank, G., and Harbor, D., 1998,
Mineral weathering characteristics of Maury River terraces, Rockbridge
Co.,Virginia Academy of Science, May 1998, George Mason Univ.
- Ledlie, D., and Harbor, D., 1998,
Channel management history and implications for channel stability, South River,
Rockbridge Co., Virginia Academy of Science, May 1998, George Mason Univ.
- Benazzi, J., and
Harbor, D., 1998, Floodplain stratigraphy of the Maury River, Rockbridge Co..,
Virginia Academy of Science, May 1998, George Mason Univ.
- Harbor, D. J., 1996, "Nonuniform erosion patterns in the Appalachian
Mountains of Virginia.’" Presented at the Geological Society of America National
Meeting, November 1996, Denver, CO.
- Harbor, D. J., 1994 "Straightening and Incision of the
Upper James River associated with river capture ." Presented at the Geological
Society of America, Southeastern Section, April, 1994, Blacksburg, VA
- Harbor, D. J., 1994 "Erosion of extensional mountain uplifts." Presented at
the Geological Society of America National Meeting, November 1994, Seattle, WA.
- Kiley, Q. K., and Harbor, D. J., 1994
"Land classification of the James River Face reveals the effects of past
climates on the Blue Ridge" Presented at VA Academy of Science Meeting, May
1994, Harrisonburg, VA (VA Journal of Science Vol. 45, no. 2, p. 87)
- Jorgensen, D. W., Ethridge, F.G., and Schumm, S. A., 1992, Patterns of
sedimentation in rivers disturbed by active tectonics. American Association of
Petroleum Geologists, Calgary, June, 1992.
- Jorgensen, D. W., 1989, Style and rate of river erosion of uplifts.
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 21(6): A40. Presented in
technical session "Geomorphic Processes and Landform Evolution," National
Meeting, St. Louis, MO, Nov.,1989.
REPORTS
(informally published, or unpublished)
Knapp, E. P., Harbor, D. J., Ginwalla, Z., Defining basin water quality: Land use, tributary input and downstream dynamics, unrevised manuscript.
Harbor, D. J., 2000, Late Cenozoic landform evolution in the upper James
River basin, SE Friends of the Pleistocene Fieldtrip Guidebook.
Harbor, D. J., 1998, River incision produced by punctuated landscape
evolution in the Valley and Ridge of Virginia. Pages 21-29 in Evans, N. H. (ed.)
Geology of Eastern Rockbridge County, 28th Annual Virginia Geologic
Field Conference, October 17, 1998.
Harbor, D. J. and Framptom, J. D.,
1996, Classification and mapping of geomorphology in the Peters Mountain, Laurel
Fork and upper Piney River areas, George Washington National Forest. Final grant
report submitted to the George Washington National Forest, US Forest Service,
Sept. 1996, 55 p & 4 maps, 1:24,000.
Harbor, D. J., Dunlevy, C., and
Kiley, Q., 1993, Geomorphology of the James River Face Wilderness, Jefferson
National Forest: Classification and Mapping. Final grant report submitted to the
Jefferson National Forest, US Forest Service, Roanoke, VA, Oct. 1993, 34 p &
2 maps, 1:24,000.
Jorgensen, D. W., 1990, Hydraulic adjustment of the Jefferson River, MT to
Uplift, in R. D. Hall, ed. , Quaternary Geology of the Western Madison Range,
Madison Valley, Tobacco Root Range, and Jefferson Valley, Rocky Mtn Friends of
the Pleistocene Fieldtrip Guidebook, August 1990, Southwest Montana, p. 245-257.
INVOLVING STUDENTS IN
RESEARCH
see separate file
EXTERNAL RESEARCH FUNDING (does not
include W&L RE Lee & Summer Research Scholars and W&L Glenn or Lenfest Faculty
Grants, nor unfunded submissions)
2016-2019 Bill Barnhart (U Iowa), David Harbor (W&L), Richard Briggs (USGS), Distributed Strain in Southern Pakistan – How and Why do Single Faults Slip in Multiple Directions?, NASA, $385k.
2014-2015 Chris Connors PI, "Structure from Motion (SfM) Geological Modeling using Terrestrial and Aerial Imagery from a Vertical Take Off and Landing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (VTOL UAV), Virginia Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund (CRCF)
2009-2012 “Susquehanna/Shale Hills Critical Zone
Observatory” W&L faculty and students will participate in a multi-institution
weathering/erosion/geochemistry study with PI's at Penn State.
2004-2005 "Escarpment Retreat in South India: River Erosion
of Continental Margins" American Institute for Indian Studies, $17,000
2000-2002 "Multidisciplinary Applications of ICP-OES in
support of Undergraduate Education and Research" National Science Foundation
DUE-CCLI, $57,000 (as Co_PI with PI, Elizabeth Knapp and Co-PI, Frank Settle)
2000-2001 "Maury River Alliance: Water Quality Studies in the
Upper James River Watershed" (with Elizabeth Knapp, VMI, Rockbridge County, and
local citizens/environmental organizations) National Fish and Wildlife
Foundation, $23,125.
1999 Support for establishing the "Citizen Monitors Mapping Program"
at the Washington and Lee Geology Department GIS Lab from the Virginia Izaak
Walton League Save Our Streams Program (with money from the Virginia DEQ and
DCR), $5000.
1998-2001 "Can drainage basin expansion produce episodic passive
margin deposition? A test of the James River, Virginia" American Chemical
Society, Petroleum Research Fund, $29,990 including support for 4 summer
students.
1999 Supplemental grant from the PRF to support Dr. Greg
Hancock, College of William and Mary, for the summer of 1999 for research
examining channel erosion processes in the James River, $6500.
1998 Keck Geology Consortium project workshop following
up our summer 1997 research. Attended by all participants and two Virginia
geomorphologists as guest speakers. W&L Univ., Jan 29-Feb 1, 1998. $10,000
1997 "Landscape Evolution in the Valley and Ridge of Virginia," Keck
Geology Consortium Junior Research Project, $53,426. Involved 9 students from 6
colleges and universities, two additional faculty members from consortium
colleges, and 5 visiting geologists in a 4-week field research program. The
project produced 9 student theses and two abstracts, GSA, Fall 1998.
1994-1996 "Geomorphology and Erosion of Extensional Mountain Blocks,"
National Science Foundation, $64,198. Involved six students and one technical
assistant and has resulted so far in one talk at GSA, one paper, two student
independent projects, one senior thesis, and the development of a new course in
GIS and Remote Sensing.
1994-1995 "Classification and mapping of geomorphology in the Peters
Mountain, Laurel Fork and upper Piney River areas, George Washington National
Forest," US Forest Service Challenge Grant, $10,753. Involved one student, and
one GIS/Computing assistant, and resulted in one talk at GSA.
1993 "Classification and Mapping of Geomorphology in the James River
Face Wilderness," US Forest Service Challenge Grant, $5,143. Involved two
students, one R. E. Lee Scholarship and one technical assistant and resulted in
one talk at VA Acad. Sci. and one independent study.
CAMPUS/TOWN INVOLVEMENT
- RACC (Rockbridge Area Conservation Council) board member
- past Vice-chair Natural Bridge Soil and Water Conservation District, &
Chair of the Easement Committee
- founding member of the Environmental Studies Committee - a
committee brought together to study, and then bring about a campus-wide
interdisciplinary program in environmental studies. I teach one foundation and one seminar
course, and have twice co-taught in the"capstone" experience, once in winter
2000 focused on "Environmental Design" of the University Commons, and a second
in 2002 on a "Riparian Buffers" in Rockbridge County.
- Past or present member of Environmental Studies Committee, University Lecture, Faculty Executive, Registration and Class Scheduling, Library, Environmental
Planning and Managment, and University Sustainability Committees.
- Supporter of and participant in outing club activities and FOC
trips.
THE OTHER LIFE
Home:
9 Sellers Ave, Lex VA 24450
Married to Cathryn Kaylor Harbor
and Dad to Erin, Kaia, and Thomas
We like creeks, hikes, bikes, canoes, cooking, and organic gardening.