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Dr. Easterbrook is Professor Emeritus of Geology at Western Washington University where he was department chair for 12 years. He was educated at the University of Washington, where he received his BS, MS, and PhD in geology. His doctoral dissertation was entitled Pleistocene Geology of the Northern Part of the Puget Lowland, Washington. Dr. Easterbrook has conducted geologic research in the North Cascade Range, Puget Lowland, Columbia Plateau, Rocky Mountains, New Zealand Alps, Argentine Andes, and various other parts of the world. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of the Interior, and other government agencies. He is a recipient of the National Award for ‘Distinguished Service to the Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division’ from the Geological Society of America and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Northwest Geological Society. http://myweb.wwu.edu/dbunny/index.html.

Dr. Don J. Easterbrook has done extensive research into global climate changes, global warming and cooling, as well as the cause of abrupt global climate changes at the end of the last Ice Age. He studies the relationship of 25-30 year glacial and ocean warming and cooling cycles to solar variation and global warming and cooling. Additionally, he has analyzed the correlation of Quaternary inter-hemispheric climate changes, radiocarbon marine reservoir values, Holocene glaciation of the Cascade Range, and the Holocene climate changes, otherwise known as The Little Ice Age. He has analyzed the tephra and lahar chronology of Mt. Baker, and has extensively used shorelines to determine isostatic uplift rates in the Puget Lowland.