David H. Douglass Professor of Physics Experimental Condensed Matter Physics office: phone: Bausch & Lomb 156 (585) 275-4573 fax: email: (585) 273-3237 douglass@pas.rochester.edu home page: http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~douglass

Biographical Sketch

Prof. Douglass received his B.S. in Physics from the University of Maine and his Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After a positions at MIT Lincoln Laboratories and MIT, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago. At Chicago he was promoted to Associate Professor and Professor. Prof. Douglass joined the University of Rochester as a Professor of Physics in 1968.

Prof. Douglass was a recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Award (junior) for 4 years, the Alfred P. Sloan Award (senior), and the University of Rochester's Bridging Fellowship to the Eastman School of Music. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Research

Prof. Douglass interests have been in the general area of Experimental Condensed Matter Physics. His work has involved experiments in the areas of liquid helium and superconductivity (both low temperature and high temperature). Significant contributions have also been made in the field of gravitational wave detectors. Prof. Douglass hase also worked on chaos and frequency drifts of spectral lines of extended sources. His interests for the last several years are on climate change, in particular with the fundamental science issues underlying "global warming".

Recent Publications

1. Thermocline flux exchange during the Pinatubo event
   Douglass D. H., R. S. Knox, B. D. Pearson, A. Clark Jr.
   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 33, L19711 (2006)
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2. Climate forcing by the volcanic eruption of Mount Pinatubo
   Douglass D. H., R. S. Knox
   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 32, L05710 (2005)
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3. Iceland as a heat island
   Douglass D. H., V. Patel, R. S. Knox
   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 32, L03709 (2005)
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4. Altitude dependence of atmospheric temperature trends: Climate models versus observation
   Douglass D. H., B. D. Pearson, S. F. Singer
   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 31, L13208 (2004)
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5. Temperature response of Earth to the annual solar irradiance cycl
   Douglass DH. Blackman EG. Knox RS
   Physics Letters A 323, 315-22 (2004)
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For further details, go to Prof. Douglass' home page at: http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~douglass

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