Dr. Brad Clement

Research Interests

My research focuses on polarity reversals of Earth's magnetic field. By collecting paleomagnetic records of the geomagnetic field as it undergoes polarity reversal, we hope to document how the field behaves during the polarity transition. This in turn will help us understand what causes the field to change polarity.

Other areas of active research in the FIU paleomagnetism group include, Caribbean tectonics, magnetic properties of ferromagnetic minerals at high pressure, and environmental magnetism.
 

Experience

• Professor and Chair, Department of Earth and Environment, Florida International University, Miami
• 2001-2003:  Associate Program Director, Ocean Drilling Program, Ocean Sciences Division, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA
• 1984-1988:  Staff Scientist, Ocean Drilling Program and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Geophysics, Texas A&M University

Awards and Honors

• 2005 FIU Excellence in Research Award
• 2000 FIU Outstanding Teaching Award
• 1994 FIU Teaching Incentive Program Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching
• Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi
• Graduated Magna Cum Laude with honors in Geology
• Faculty Felow of Columbia University

Professional Affiliations

• Member of the American Geophysical Union & Geological Society of America
• Chair of the Ocean Leadership/U.S. Advisory Committee, 2008 - present
• Member of the Ocean Leadership/U.S. Advisory Committee, 2006 - present
• Member of the AGU GP Section Exec. Committee, 2003
• Member of the AGU Index Committee, 2003 - 2005
• German-American Frontiers of Science Meeting (NAS), Potsdam, Germany, Organizing Committee, Chair, 1999
• German-American Frontiers of Science Meeting (NAS), Irvine, CA, Organizing Committee, member, 1998
• Member of the JOIDES Ocean History Panel, 1994 - 1997
• Member of the JOI/U.S. Science Advisory Committee, 1992 - 1994
• Member of the AGU committee on Paleoceanography, 1989 - 1991
• Associate Editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research. 1990 - 1992

Recent Publications

• Clement, B.M. 2000. Comment on the Lau Basin Cobb Mountain records by Abrahamsen and Sager, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 119, 173-184.
   
• Clement, B.M. 2000. Assessing the fidelity of palaeomagnetic records of geomagnetic reversal. Philosophical Transactions - Royal Society of London 358, 1049-1064.
   
• Clement, B.M., Poetisi, E., Bralower, T.J., CoBabe, E., Longoria, J. 2000. Magnetostratigraphy of Mid- Cretaceous limestones from the Sierra Madre of northeastern Mexico. Geophysical Journal International 143, 219-229.
   
• Lund, S.P., Williams, T., Acton, G., Clement, B., and Okada, M. 2001. Brunhes Chron magneticfield excursions recovered from Leg 172 sediments. In Keigwin, L.D., Rio, D., Acton, G.D., and Arnold, E. (Eds.), Proc. ODP Sci. Results 172 [Online]. Available from World Wide Web: <http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/172_SR/chap_10/chap_10.htm>.
   
• Lund, S.P., Acton, G., Clement, B., Okada, M., Williams, T. 2001. Paleomagnetic records of Stage 3 excursions, Leg 172. In Keigwin, L.D., Rio, D., Acton, G.D., and Arnold, E. (Eds.), Proc. ODP Sci. Results 172 [Online]. Available from World Wide Web: <http://wwwodp.tamu.edu/publications/172_SR/chap_11/chap_11.htm>.
   
• Yang, Z., Clement, B.M., Acton, G.D., Lund, S.P., Okada, M., Williams, T. 2001. Records of the Cobb Mountain Subchron from the Bermuda Rise (ODP Leg 172). Earth and Planetary Science Letters 193, 303-313.
   
• Acton, G.D., Okada, M., Clement, B.M., Lund, S.P., and T. Williams. 2002. Paleomagnetic overprints in ocean cores and their relationship to shear deformation caused by piston coring. J. Geophys. Res. 107, 10,1029.
   
• Clement, B.M. 2004. The dependence of geomagnetic polarity reversal durations on site latitude. Nature, 428 ,637-639.
   
• Clement, B.M. 2007. Geomagnetic polarity reversals, Observations. In Encyclopedia of Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism, Gubbins, D., Herrero-Bervera, E. (eds.). Springer, The Netherlands,  p. 324-328.
   
• Clement, B.M., S. Haggerty, J. Harris. 2007. Magnetic Inclusions. In Diamonds, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 267, 333-340, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2007.11.052.