Dr. Jon Harbor

Professor and Assoc. Vice Pres. for Research

E-mail: jharbor@purdue.edu

Associated Website(s): Atmosphere-Surface Interactions (ASI)

Curriculum Vita

Education

Ph.D. 1990, University of Washington (Seattle), Department of Geological Sciences and Quaternary Research Center.
Dissertation: Numerical modeling of the development of glacial-valley cross sections.

M.A. 1984, University of Colorado, Department of Geography and Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research.
Thesis: Terrestrial and lacustrine evidence for Holocene climatic/geomorphic change in the Blue Lake and Green Lakes Valleys of the Colorado Front Range.

B.A. 1982, University of Cambridge (U.K.), Department of Geography and Girton College. 1st Class Honours.
Thesis: Glacial deposits and debris transport paths, Bara Shigri Glacier, Himachal Pradesh, Indian Himalaya.

Research Interests

Hydrologic and Geomorphic Impacts of Land Use and Climate Change; Glacial Geomorphology; Environmental Education Research

Teaching Interests

Undergraduate courses in environmental sciences and applied geomorphology, graduate courses in hydrology/geomorphology, applied environmental geosciences, and glacial geomorphology, and pre-service and in-service programs on inquiry science for K-12 teachers.

Awards and Honors

  • Purdue University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Outstanding Graduate Student Advisor, 2005.

  • Distinguished Overseas Visitor, 2003-4, Department of Geography, University of Durham, U.K.

  • Fulbright Senior Scholar, 2000-2001, New Zealand. Departments of Geography, University of Canterbury and University of Auckland.

  • Purdue University, Murphy Teaching Award, 2000 (top university award for teaching); Elected Fellow of the Purdue University Teaching Academy.

  • Horwood Critique Prize, Urban and Regional Information Systems Association, Honorable Mention, 2002, 2001 and 1999 (jointly with Pandey, Engel and Lim).

Professional Experience

  • Purdue University: Associate Vice President for Research, Interim Director of the Discovery Learning Center and Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (2007-present)

  • University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Professor of Geography and Environmental Sciences (2006-2007)

  • Association of American Geographers, Chair of the Geomorphology Specialty Group (2007-08)

  • Earth Science Reviews, Editor for Earth Surface Processes

  • Geomorphology and Journal of Terrestrial Observation , Editorial Board member

  • Purdue University: Head of the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (2005-2006)

  • Purdue Universitiy: Founding Co-Director, Discovery Learning Center (2003-2005)

  • Purdue University: Associate Dean for Research, College of Science (2003-2004)

  • Purdue University: Interim Associate Dean for Graduate Education, College of Science (2003-2004)

  • Purdue University: Professor of Environmental Geosciences with a courtesy appointment in Curriculum and Instruction (2001-2006). Associate Professor (1994-2001)

  • Purdue University: Acting (Fall 2002) and Associate (2001-2003) Department Head

  • Member of the Environmental Sciences and Engineering Institute, Center for Advanced Applications of GIS, Water Resources Research Center, and Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing.

  • Kent State University : Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Geography (1990-1994)

  • Senior Associate Scientist (1989-1990), Ebasco Environmental, Bellevue , Washington

Selected Publications

2000 - present

Accepted / In Press

  • Darmody, R., Thorn, C., Seppälä, M., Campbell, S., Li, Y.K. and Harbor, J. (in press). Age and weathering status of granite tors in Arctic Finland (~68 N.) Geomorphology.

  • Li, Y.K., Fabel, D., Stroeven, A. and Harbor, J., (in press) Unraveling complex exposure-burial histories of bedrock surfaces under ice sheets by integrating cosmogenic nuclide concentrations with climate proxy records. Geomorphology.

  • Shepardson, D., Wee, B., Fast, J., & Harbor, J. (in press). Eliciting students' ideas about geoenvironmental science: Techniques and implications. Journal of Geoscience Education.

  • Stroeven, A., Hättestrand, C., Heyman, J., Harbor, J., Li, Y.K., Zhou, L.P., Caffee, M., Alexanderson, H., Kleman, J., Ma, H.Z., Liu, G.N (accepted) Landscape analysis of the Huang He headwaters, NE Tibetan Plateau - glacial and fluvial erosion patterns. Geomorphology.

Published

  • Davis Todd, C., Goss, A., Tripathy, D., and Harbor, J., 2007. The effects of landscape transformation in a changing climate on local water resources. Physical Geography, 28, p.21-36.

  • Napieralski, J., Harbor, J., and Li, Y.K., 2007. Glacial Geomorphology and Geographic Information Systems. Earth Science Reviews, 85, p.1-22.

  • Shepardson, D., Wee, B., Priddy, M., Schellenberger, L. and Harbor, J. 2007. What is a Watershed? Implications of Student Conceptions for Environmental Science Education and the National Science Education Standards. Science Education. DOI 10.1002/sce p.554-578.

  • Dalzell, B., Filley, T. and Harbor, J. 2007. The role of hydrology in annual organic carbon loads and terrestrial organic matter export from a Midwestern agricultural watershed. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 71, p. 1448-1462. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2006.12.009.

  • Li, Y.K., Napieralski, J., Harbor, J. and Hubbard, A., 2007. Identifying patterns of correspondence between modeled flow directions and field evidence: an automated flow direction analysis. Computers and Geosciences, 33(2), p.141-150. doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2006.06.016.

  • Napieralski, J. Hubbard, A., Li, Y.K., Harbor, J., Stroeven, A., Kleman, J, Alm, G. and Jansson, K., 2007. Towards a GIS assessment of numerical ice sheet model performance using geomorphological data. Journal of Glaciology, 53 (180), p.71-83.

  • Shepardson, D., Wee, B., Priddy, M., and Harbor, J. 2007. Students' Mental Models of the Environment. Journal of Research in Science Teaching. 44 (2), p.327-348. DOI: 10.1002/tea.20161

  • Wee, B., Shepardson, D. P., Fast, J., & Harbor, J., 2007. Teaching and learning about inquiry: Insights and challenges in professional development. Journal of Science Teacher Education, 18, p.63-89.

  • Davis-Todd, C., Harbor, J. and Tyner, B. 2006. Increasing magnitudes and frequencies of extreme precipitation events used for engineering design in the Midwestern United States. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 61 (4), p.179-185.

  • Fabel, D , Fink, D., Fredin, O., Harbor, J., Land, M. Stroeven, A. 2006. Cosmogenic exposure ages from relict lateral moraines overridden by the Fennoscandian ice-sheet in northern Sweden. Quaternary Research, 65, p.136-46.

  • Harbor, J., Stroeven, A., Fabel, D., Clarhäll, A., Kleman, J., Li, Y.K., Elmore, D. and Fink, D. 2006. Cosmogenic nuclide evidence for minimal erosion across two subglacial sliding boundaries of the late glacial Fennoscandian ice sheet. Geomorphology, 75, p.90-99.. Harbor, J., Stroeven, A., Fabel, D., Clarhäll, A., Kleman, J., Li, Y.K., Elmore, D. and Fink, D. 2006. Cosmogenic nuclide evidence for minimal erosion across two subglacial sliding boundaries of the late glacial Fennoscandian ice sheet. Geomorphology, 75, p.90-99.

  • Lim, K., Engel, B., Muthukrishnan, S., and Harbor, J. 2006. Effects of Initial Abstraction and Urbanization on Estimated Runoff using CN Technology. The Journal of the American Waters Resources Association 42(3), p. 629-643.

  • Muthukrishnan, S., Harbor, J., Lim, K. and Engel, B. 2006. Calibration of a simple rainfall-runoff model for long-term hydrological impact evaluation. Urban and Regional Information Systems Association Journal, 18 (2), p.35-42.

  • Napieralski, J., Li., Y., and Harbor, J. 2006. Comparing predicted and observed spatial boundaries of geologic phenomena: Automated Proximity and Conformity Analysis applied to ice sheet reconstructions. Computers and Geosciences 32(1), p.124-134.

  • Stroeven, A., Harbor, J., Fabel, D., Kleman, J., Hättestrand, C., Elmore, D., and Fink, D., 2006. Characteristic cosmogenic nuclide concentrations in relict surfaces of formerly glaciated regions. In Knight, P. (Ed.), Glaciers and Earth's Changing Environment, p.447-449.

  • Stroeven, A., Harbor, J., Fabel, D., Kleman, J., Hattestrand, C., Elmore, D., Fink, D., and Fredin, O., 2006. Slow, patchy landscape evolution in northern Sweden despite repeated ice-sheet glaciation, in Willett, S., Hovius, N., Brandon, M., and Fisher, D., eds., Tectonics, Climate, and Landscape Evolution: Geological Society of America Special Paper 398, Penrose Conference Series, p. 387-396.

  • Wee, B., Harbor, J., & Shepardson, D. 2006. Multiculturalism in environmental science: A snapshot from Singapore. Multicultural Perspectives 8(2), p.10-17.

  • Choi, J-Y., Engel, B., Theller, L., Harbor, J., 2005. Utilizing Web-Based GIS and SDSS for Hydrological Land Use Change Impact Assessment. Transactions of the ASAE 48(2), p. 815-822.

  • Dalzell, B., Filley, T., Harbor, J., 2005. Flood pulse influences on terrestrial organic matter export from an agricultural watershed. Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, Go2o11, doi:10.1029/2005JG000043

  • Doyle, M., Stanley, E., Orr, C., Selle, A., Sethi, S, and Harbor, J. 2005. Stream ecosystem response to small dam removal: Lessons from the heartland. Geomorphology, 71, p. 227-244.

  • Li, Y.K., Harbor, J., Stroeven, A., Fabel, D., Kleman, J. and Fink D., 2005. Ice sheet erosion patterns in valley systems in northern Sweden investigated using cosmogenic nuclides. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 30(8), p. 1039-1049.

  • Patterson, L. and Harbor, J. 2005. Using assessment to evaluate and improve inquiry-based geoenvironmental science activities: Case study of a middle school watershed E. coli investigation. Journal of Geoscience Education, 53(2) p. 204-214.

  • Shepardson, D., Harbor, J. and Wee, B. 2005. Water Towers, Pump Houses and Mountain Streams: Students' Ideas about Watersheds. Journal of Geoscience Education, 53(4), 381-386.

  • Tang, Z., Engel, B., Lim, K., Pijanowski, B., and Harbor, J., 2005. Minimizing the impact of urbanization on long term runoff. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. Vol 41(6), p.1347-59.

  • Fabel, D., Harbor, J., Dahms, D., James, A., Elmore, D., Horn, L., Daley, K. and Steele, C., 2004, Spatial patterns of glacial erosion at a valley scale derived from terrestrial cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al concentrations in rock. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 94(2), p.241-255.

  • Shepardson, D. and Harbor, J., 2004, ENVISION: the effectiveness of a dual-level professional development model for changing teacher practice. Environmental Education Research, 10(4), p.471-492.

  • Wee, B., Fast, J., Shepardson, D. P., Harbor, J., & Boone, B., 2004, Students' perceptions of environmental-based inquiry experiences. School Science and Mathematics, 104 (3), p.112-118.

  • Bell, C., Shepardson, D., Harbor, J., Klagges, H., Burgess, W., Meyer, J., and Leuenberger, T., 2003, Enhancing Teachers' Knowledge and Use of Inquiry Through Environmental Science Education. Journal of Science Teacher Education, 14 (1), p.49-71.

  • Choi, J., Engel, B. Muthukrishnan, S. and Harbor, J., 2003, GIS-Based Long-term Hydrologic Impact Evaluation for Watershed Urbanization. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 39(3), p.623-635.

  • Doyle, M., and Harbor, J., 2003, A scaling approximation of equilibrium time-scales for sand-bed and gravel-bed rivers responding to base-level lowering. Geomorphology, 54, p.217-224.

  • Doyle, M., and Harbor, J., 2003, Modeling the effect of form and profile adjustments on channel equilibrium timescales. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 28, p. 1271-1287.

  • Doyle, M., Harbor, J., and Stanley, E., 2003, Toward policies and decision-making for dam removal. Environmental Management, 31, p. 453-465.

  • Doyle, M., Stanley, E., Harbor, J. and Grant, G., 2003, Dam removal: the need for science and policy, EOS. Vol. 84, No. 4, 28 January 2003, p.29, 32-33.

  • Doyle, M., Stanley, E. and Harbor, J., 2003, Channel adjustments following two dam removals in Wisconsin. Water Resources Research, 39 (1), 1011-26, doi:10.1029/2002WR001714.

  • Doyle, M., Stanley, E. and Harbor, J., 2003, Hydrogeomorphic controls on phosphorus retention in streams, Water Resources Research., 39(6), 1147-64, doi:10.1029/2003WR002038.

  • Doyle, M., Stanley, E., Selle, A., Stofleth, J. and Harbor, J., 2003, Predicting the depth of erosion in reservoirs following dam removal using bank stability analysis. International Journal of Sediment Research, 18(2), p.115-121.

  • Engel, B., Choi, J., Harbor, J. and Pandey, S., 2003, Web-Based DSS for Hydrologic Impact Evaluation of Small Watershed Land Use Changes. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 39(3), p.241-249.

  • Rochon, G., Johannsen, C., Landgrebe, D., Engel, B., Harbor, J., Majumder, S. and Biehl, L. 2003, Remote sensing as a tool for achieving and monitoring progress toward sustainability. Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy 5, p.310-316.

  • Shepardson, D., Harbor, J., Bell, C., Meyer, J., Luenberger, T., Klagges, H., and Burgess, W., 2003, ENVISION: Teachers as Environmental Scientists. The Journal of Environmental Education, 34(2) p.8-11.

  • Bhaduri, B., Minner, M., Tatalovich, S. and Harbor, J. 2002, Reply to Lantz and Hawkins' discussion of 'Long-term hydrologic impact of land use change: A tale of two models.' Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 128, p.463-4.

  • Cooper, B., Shepardson, D., and Harbor, J. 2002, Assessments as Teaching and Research Tools in an Environmental Problem-Solving Program for In-Service Teachers. Journal of Geoscience Education, 50, p.64-71.

  • Doyle, M., Stanley, E. and Harbor, J. 2002, Predicting channel response to dam removal using geomorphic analogies. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 38(6), 1567-1579.

  • Fabel, D., Stroeven, A., Harbor, J., Kleman, J, Elmore, D. and Fink, D. 2002, Landscape preservation under Fennoscandian ice sheets determined from in situ produced 10Be and 26Al. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 201, p. 397-406.

  • James, A., Harbor, J., Fabel, D., Dahms, D. and Elmore, D. 2002, Late Quaternary Glacial Advances in Northwestern Sierra Nevada, California. Quaternary Research, 57, p.409-419.

  • Klagges, H., Harbor, J., Shepardson, D., Bell, C., Meyer, J., Luenberger, T., and Burgess, W. 2002, Developing Learners' Perspectives of a Changing Earth: Using Aerial Photographs and Remote Sensing Images to Examine Land Use Change in the Local Environment. Journal of Geography. 101, p.137-143.

  • Renschler, C. and Harbor, J. 2002, Soil erosion assessment tools from point to regional scales -The role of geomorphologists in land management research and implementation. Geomorphology. 47, p.189-209.

  • Shepardson, D., Harbor, J., Bell, C., Meyer, J., Luenberger, T., Klagges, H., and Burgess, W. 2002, ENVISION: Inquiry-based environmental science. Science Scope 26(2), p.28-31

  • Shepardson, D., Harbor, J., Cooper, B. and McDonald, J. 2002, The impact of a professional development program on teachers' understandings about watersheds, water quality, and stream monitoring. The Journal of Environmental Education, 33(3,) p.34-40.

  • Shepardson, D., Harbor, J., Bell, C., Meyer, J., Luenberger, T., Klagges, H., and Burgess, W. 2002, ENVISION: Teachers as scientists. The Hoosier Science Teacher 27, p.86-91.

  • Stroeven, A., Fabel, D., Harbor, J., Hättestrand, C., Kleman, J., 2002, Quantifying the erosional impact of the Fennoscandian ice sheet in the Torneträsk-Narvik corridor, northern Sweden. Geografiska Annaler 84A(3-4): 275-287

  • Stroeven, A., Fabel, D., Hattestrand, C. and Harbor, J. 2002, A relict landscape in the centre of Fennoscandian glaciation: cosmogenic radionuclide evidence of tors preserved through multiple glacial cycles. Geomorphology, 44, p.145-54.

  • Stroeven, A., Fabel, D., Harbor, J., Hattestrand, C. and Kleman, J., 2002, Reconstructing the erosion history of glaciated passive margins: Applications of in-situ produced cosmogenic nuclide techniques. In Doré, A.G., Cartwright, J., Stoker, M. S., Turner, J. P. & White, N. (Eds.) Exhumation of the North Atlantic Margin: Timing, Mechanisms and Implications for Petroleum Exploration. Geological Society, London, Special Publication 196, p. 153-168

  • Bhaduri, B., Minner, M., Tatalovich, S. and Harbor, J. 2001, Long-term hydrologic impact of land use change: A tale of two models. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 127(1), p.13-19.

  • Doyle. M., and Harbor, J. 2001, A discussion of "Rapid Assessment of Channel Stability in Vicinity of Road Crossings" by Johnson et al., Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 126, p.85-87.

  • Gordon, S., Sharp, M., Hubbard, B., Willis, I., Smart, C., Copland, L., Harbor, J., and Ketterling, B. 2001, Borehole drainage and its implications for the investigation of glacier hydrology: experiences from Haut Glacier d'Arolla, Switzerland. Hydrological Processes 15, p.797-813.

  • Grove, M., Harbor, J., Engel, B. and Muthukrishnan, S. 2001, Impacts of Urbanization on Surface Hydrology, Little Eagle Creek, Indiana, and Analysis of LTHIA Model Sensitivity to Data Resolution. Physical Geography, 22, p.135-153.

  • Harbor, J., Bhaduri, B., Minner. M., Jaganapathy, S., Herzog, M., and Teufert, J., 2001, Urbanization and Environment. In: Orme, A. (Ed.), The Physical Geography of North America (Oxford Regional Environments Series) p.501-515.

  • Luenberger, T., Shepardson, D., Harbor, J., Bell, C., Meyer, J., Klagges, H., and Burgess, W. 2001, Inquiry and Aquifers: Developing an Understanding of Groundwater, Aquifers, and Water Supply Using Inquiry-Based Activities. Science Scope 25, p.20-26.

  • Pandey S., Lim K.J., Harbor, J., Engel B., 2001, Assessing the long-term hydrologic impact of land use change - A practical Geographic Information System (GIS) based approach . In: Singh, R. (Ed.), Urban sustainability in the context of Global Change. Science Publishers, Inc., Enfield, New Hampshire. p. 247-259.

  • Bhaduri, B., Harbor, J., Engel, B. and Grove, M., 2000, Assessing watershed-scale, long-term hydrologic impacts of land use change using a GIS-NPS model. Environmental Management, 26(6), p. 643-658.

  • Doyle, M. and Harbor, J. 2000, Discussion of 'Evaluation of Rosgen's Streambank Erosion Potential Assessment in Northeast Oklahoma' by Harmel, et al. The Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 36, p.1191.

  • Doyle, M., Harbor, J., Rich, C., and Spacie, A. 2000, Examining the effects of urbanization on streams using indicators of geomorphic stability. Physical Geography, 21, p.155-181.

  • Harbor, J. 2000, A Capstone Course in Environmental Geosciences. Journal of Geoscience Education, 48, p. 617-23.

  • Herzog, M., Harbor, J., McClintock, K., Law, J., and Goranson, K. 2000, Reducing erosion problems from land development: An economic incentive for erosion control. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 55, p.43-49.

  • Pandey, S., Harbor, J., and Engel, B., 2000, Internet based geographic information systems and decision support tools. Urban and Regional Information Systems, Park Ridge, Illinois. 36pp.

  • Pandey, S., Gunn, R., Lim, K., Engel, B. and Harbor, J. 2000, Developing a web-enabled tool to assess long-term hydrologic impact of land use change: Information Technology Issues and a Case Study. Urban and Regional Information Systems Journal. 12(4), p.5-17.