John Hughes Clarke
Prof. John Hughes-Clarke joined the departments of Earth Sciences and Mechanical Engineering in the Fall of 2015. His primary fascination is with marine sediment transport, particularly in deep water. His original exposure to swath sonar systems was in 1984 looking at the record of the 1929 turbidity current. Since that time he has increasingly focused on the information content available from those systems. Since 1991, he was part of, and for the last nine years the chair of, the Ocean Mapping Group at the University of New Brunswick in Canada. He is also a professor in the department of Earth Sciences and is a member of the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping.
Courses Taught
- ESCI 874: Seabed Mapping
- ESCI 896: Top/Geol Oce Hydro Surveyors
- OE 774: Seabed Mapping
Selected Publications
Stacey, C. D., Hill, P. R., Talling, P. J., Enkin, R. J., Hughes Clarke, J., & Lintern, D. G. (2019). How turbidity current frequency and character varies down a fjord-delta system: Combining direct monitoring, deposits and seismic data. Sedimentology, 66(1), 1-31. doi:10.1111/sed.12488
Hizzett, J. L., Hughes Clarke, J. E., Sumner, E. J., Cartigny, M. J. B., Talling, P. J., & Clare, M. A. (2018). Which Triggers Produce the Most Erosive, Frequent, and Longest Runout Turbidity Currents on Deltas?. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(2), 855-863. doi:10.1002/2017gl075751
Hage, S., Cartigny, M. J. B., Clare, M. A., Sumner, E. J., Vendettuoli, D., Hughes Clarke, J. E., . . . Vellinga, A. J. (2018). How to recognize crescentic bedforms formed by supercritical turbidity currents in the geologic record: insights from active submarine channels. Geology. Retrieved from https://scholars.unh.edu/ccom/1301
MacLean, B., Blasco, S., Bennett, R., Lakeman, T., Pieńkowski, A. J., Furze, M. F. A., . . . Patton, E. (2017). Seafloor features delineate Late Wisconsinan ice stream configurations in eastern Parry Channel, Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Quaternary Science Reviews, 160, 67-84. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.02.001
Hughes Clarke, J. E. (2017). Multibeam Echosounders. In Submarine Geomorphology. Retrieved from https://scholars.unh.edu/ccom/1370
Goff, J. A., Swift, D. J. P., Duncan, C. S., Mayer, L. A., & Hughes-Clarke, J. (1999). High-resolution swath sonar investigation of sand ridge, dune and ribbon morphology in the offshore environment of the New Jersey margin. Marine Geology, 161(2-4), 307-337. doi:10.1016/s0025-3227(99)00073-0
Goff, J. A., Orange, D. L., Mayer, L. A., & Hughes Clarke, J. E. (1999). Detailed investigation of continental shelf morphology using a high-resolution swath sonar survey: the Eel margin, northern California. Marine Geology, 154(1-4), 255-269. doi:10.1016/s0025-3227(98)00117-0
Hughes Clarke, J. E., Mayer, L. A., & Wells, D. E. (1996). Shallow-water imaging multibeam sonars: A new tool for investigating seafloor processes in the coastal zone and on the continental shelf. Marine Geophysical Researches, 18(6), 607-629. doi:10.1007/bf00313877
CLARKE, J. E. H., SHOR, A. N., PIPER, D. J. W., & MAYER, L. A. (1990). LARGE-SCALE CURRENT-INDUCED EROSION AND DEPOSITION IN THE PATH OF THE 1929 GRAND-BANKS TURBIDITY-CURRENT. SEDIMENTOLOGY, 37(4), 613-629. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3091.1990.tb00625.x
Mayer, L. A., Shor, A. N., Hughes Clarke, J., & Piper, D. J. W. (1988). Dense biological communities at 3850 m on the Laurentian Fan and their relationship to the deposits of the 1929 Grand Banks earthquake. Deep Sea Research Part A. Oceanographic Research Papers, 35(8), 1235-1246. doi:10.1016/0198-0149(88)90079-9
Most Cited Publications