Dr. David B. Scott
- Ph.D., Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1977
- M.S., Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, U.S.A., 1973
- B.S., University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., 1971
Dr. David Scott is Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences at Dalhousie University.
Current Research:
-Deep-sea paleo-oceanography in the Arctic, Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Microfossils for use in environmental geology of coastal areas, focusing on coastal evolution, sea level and aquaculture.
-Micropaleontology - Particularly Recent and Pleistocene Foraminifera and Ostracoda, and their use as environmental indicators and coastal zone management tools, Thecamoebians, their present distribution and usefulness in paleo-ecology.
-Quaternary Geology - Sea-level changes and environmental changes related to glacial periods, Quaternary paleoceanography, stable isotopes in the Quaternary, global climate change, most recently using deep sea corals as a climate archive
Relevant to the biota of the Gulf of Mexico, Dr. Scott has published the following:
Scott, D. B., J. R. Suter, E. C. Kosters. 1991. Marsh foraminifera and arcellaceans of the lower Mississippi Delta: controls on spatial distributions. Micropaleontology 37: 373–392.