John Imbrie (born July 4, 1925) is an American Paleoceanographer.
Imbrie received a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1951. He was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship in 1981. He was awarded the William H. Twenhofel Medal by the Society for Sedimentary Geology in 1991. Imbrie has been on the faculty of the Geological Sciences Department at Brown University since 1977[1], where he has held the Henry L. Doherty chair of Oceanography. He now serves as Professor Emeritus at Brown.[2]
Imbrie is probably best known as a co-author of the "Hays, Imbrie and Shackleton" paper in Science[3] in 1976, 'Variations in the Earth's orbit: Pacemaker of the ice ages'. Using ocean sediment cores, the Science paper verified the theories of Milutin Milanković that oscillations in climate over the past few million years could be correlated with Earth's orbital variations of eccentricity, axial tilt, and precession around the Sun (see Milankovitch cycles).
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- ^ Yale Science and Engineering Alumni Hall of Achievement web page, accessed April 9, 2008
- ^ Emeritus Faculty Roster web page, Geological Sciences Department, Brown University, accessed April 9, 2008
- ^ Hays, J.D.; Imbrie, J.; Shackleton, N.J. (1976). "Variations in the Earth's Orbit: Pacemaker of the Ice Ages". Science 194 (4270): 1121–1132. doi:.
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