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Whipp, David

Orcid -palvelun logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3820-6886
Professor of Geodynamic Modelling, University of Helsinki

Description of research

I am a geodynamicist with broad interests in how mountain systems evolve in space and time. I combine field and laboratory data, such as low-temperature thermochronology, with 3D thermo-kinematic and thermo-mechanical numerical models to study actively growing mountains.

Keywords

Geodynamics, Tectonics, Geomorphology, Himalayas, Numerical Modeling

Affiliations

University of Helsinki
Unit
Geosciences and Geography
Source: ORCID
Title
Professor of Geodynamic Modelling 2021 -
Unit
Geosciences and Geography
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Title
Associate Professor of Geodynamic Modelling 2017 - 2020
Unit
Geosciences and Geography
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Title
Assistant Professor of Geodynamic Modelling 2013 - 2016
Dalhousie University
Unit
Earth Sciences
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Title
Adjunct of the Faculty of Graduate Studies 2013 -
Unit
Oceanography
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Title
Postdoctoral researcher 2009 - 2012
Université de Rennes 1
Unit
Géosciences
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Title
Postdoctoral researcher 2008 - 2009
University of Michigan
Unit
Geological Sciences
Source: ORCID
Title
Research Assistant 2003 - 2008
ExxonMobil Exploration Company
Source: ORCID
Title
Geoscientist (intern) 2007 - 2007

Education

Degrees
B.S. 1.9.1998 - 15.12.2002 / University of Michigan
Ph.D. 1.9.2003 - 2.10.2008 / University of Michigan

Publications (20)

Exploring the relationships between low-temperature thermochronometers, temperature-time histories, and geological processes using Tc1D
2023
DOI
10.5194/egusphere-egu23-12472
Records of continent-continent collisions in the Paleoproterozoic: exploring the effects of convergence obliquity and temperature on P-T-t paths
2023
DOI
10.5194/egusphere-egu23-15948
Megathrust Heterogeneity, Crustal Accretion, and a Topographic Embayment in the Western Nepal Himalaya: Insights from the Inversion of Thermochronological Data
2022
DOI
10.1002/essoar.10507987.2
Näytä kaikki

Research data (1)

Software for plotting results from "Modelling competing effects of cooling rate, grain size and radiation damage in low temperature thermochronometers" 2021

Granted funding (3)

EXploiting Thermochronometer sensitivity to RAdiation damage to quantify rates of Craton exhumation through Time (EXTRACT) Research Council of Finland2023 - 2027
What controls deformation in a ‘bent’ 3D orogen? The effects of spatially variable rock strength, erosion and mass transport on the tectonics of the Bolivian AndesResearch Council of Finland2014 - 2018
What controls strain partitioning at obliquely convergent ocean-continent margins? 3D dynamics of crustal deformation along the western Andean marginUniversity of Helsinki Research Funds2014 - 2017