Rhodes Fairbridge

Rhodes Whitmore Fairbridge (21 May 1914 – 8 November 2006) was an Australian geologist and expert on climate change. His father was Kingsley Fairbridge.^[1]

He taught at Columbia University from 1955 until his 1982 retirement. While there, he was supervising editor for the Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences. In the early 1960s, he developed the so-called "Fairbridge Curve",^[2]^[3] a record of changes in sea levels over the last 10,000 years.^[4] In the 1980s Fairbridge wrote about climate's impact on the long-term evolution of shields and peneplains.^[5]^[6]

^ Mackey, Richard. "Rhodes Fairbridge and the idea that the solar system regulates the Earth's climate" (PDF). Journal of Coastal Research. SI 50 (Proceedings of the 9th International Coastal Symposium): 955–968. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 July 2008.
^ "Fairbridge sealevel curve". www.unc.edu. Archived from the original on 15 June 2017.
^ 15 October 2003 Classification of Coasts. Journal of Coastal Research pp. 155–165
^ The “Solar Jerk”, The King-Hele Cycle, and the Challenge to Climate Science
^ Fairbridge, Rhodes W.; Finkl Jr., Charles W. (1980). "Cratonic erosion unconformities and peneplains". The Journal of Geology. 88 (1): 69–86. Bibcode:1980JG.....88...69F. doi:10.1086/628474. S2CID 129231129.
^ Fairbridge, Rhodes W. (1988). "Cyclical patterns of exposure, weathering and burial of cratonic surfaces, with some examples from North America and Australia". Geografiska Annaler. 70 A (4): 277–283. doi:10.1080/04353676.1988.11880257.
^ Pearce, Jeremy ( 27 November 2006). Rhodes W. Fairbridge, 92, Early Expert on Climate Change, Dies. New York Times
^ "Earth scientist's early climate change indicator lives on". The Sydney Morning Herald. 6 January 2007.