D. Reide Corbett

 

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Dean and Professor
Integrated Coastal Programs

Department of Coastal Studies

252-475-5428

corbettd@ecu.edu

Lab Overview

Reide Corbett was born and raised in coastal North Carolina. After receiving his Ph.D. in oceanography from Florida State University and spending a short time at Tulane University in New Orleans, he returned to North Carolina to join the faculty at ECU. He is now the Dean of Integrated Coastal Programs, the executive director of the Coastal Studies Institute, and a professor in the Department of Coastal Studies at ECU. Corbett is a coastal oceanographer and geochemist with an overall scientific interest in the geochemical and geomorphic dynamics of coastal and open ocean environments. Much of his research during the last two decades has focused on the delivery of constituents by submarine groundwater discharge and sediment dynamics across the continental margin. Corbett’s research has broadened through the years to include coastal change and geomorphic evolution across telescoping timescales.

 

Education

Florida State University, Chemistry, B.S. 1994

Florida State University, Chemical Oceanography, M.Sc. 1996

Florida State University , Chemical Oceanography, M.Sc. 1999

Tulane University, Marine Geochemistry, Postdoc 2000

 

Professional Experience

2018 to Present: Dean and Executive Director, Integrated Coastal Programs, ECU

2018 to Present: Professor, Department of Coastal Studies, ECU

2012 to 2018: Program Head, Coastal Processes, Coastal Studies Institute

2011 to 2018: Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, ECU

2011 to 2012: Special Assistant for Diving and Water Safety, ECU

2007 to 2011: Assistant Chair, Department of Geological Sciences, ECU

2006 to 2011: Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, ECU

2000 to 2006: Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, ECU

 

Selected Publications

Corbett, D.R., J.P. Walsh, P. Santschi.  Radioactive Nuclides. In Chemical Oceanography of the Gulf of Mexico. Eds. T. Bianchi and H. Bustos-Serrano. Texas A&M University Press. In press.

 

Conery, I., J.P. Walsh, D.R. Corbett, 2018.  Hurricane Overwash and Decadal-Scale Evolution of a Narrowing Barrier Island, Ocracoke Island, NC.  Estuaries and Coasts.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-018-0374-y.

 

Corbett, D.R., J. Crenshaw, K. Null, R.N. Peterson, L.E. Peterson, W.R. Lyons, 2017.  Nearshore Mixing and Nutrient Delivery along the Western Antarctic Peninsula.  Antarctic Sciences.  1-13. DOI:10.1017/S095410201700013X.

 

Paris, P., J.P. Walsh, D.R. Corbett, 2017. Where the Continent Ends. Geophysical Research Letters. 43, 12208-12216. doi:10.1002/2016GL071130.

 

Eulie, D., J.P. Walsh, D.R. Corbett, R.P. Mulligan, 2017.  Temporal and Spatial Dynamics of Estuarine Shoreline Change in the Albemarle-Pamlico Estuarine System, North Carolina, USA.  Estuaries and Coasts.  DOI 10.1007/s12237-016-0143-8.

 

Kuehl, S.A., C.R. Alexander, N.E. Blair, C.K. Harris, K.M. Marsaglia, A.S. Ogston, A.R. Orpin, J.J. Roering, A. Bever, E.L. Bilderback, L. Carter, C. Cerovski-Darriau, L.B. Childress, D.R. Corbett, R. Hale, E.L. Leithold, N. Litchfield, J.M. Moriarty, M.J. Page, L.E.R. Pierce, P. Upton, J.P. Walsh, 2015. A Source to Sink Perspective of the Waipaoa River Margin. Earth-Science Reviews. DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.10.001.

 

Corbett, D.R. and J.P. Walsh, 2015.  210Lead and 137Cesium – Establishing a Chronology for the Last Century.  Handbook of Sea Level Research. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Pp. 361-372.

 

Corbett, D.R. Walsh, J.P., C. Harris, A. Ogston, A. Orpin, 2014.  Formation and Preservation of Sedimentary Strata from Coastal Events: Insights from Measurements and Modeling.  Continental Shelf Research.  86, 1-5.

 

Walsh, J.P., D.R. Corbett, J. Kiker, A. Orpin, R. Hale, A. Ogston, 2014.  Spatial and temporal variability in sediment deposition and seabed character on the Waipaoa River margin, New Zealand. Continental Shelf Research.  86, 85-102.

 

Xu, K., D. R. Corbett, J. P. Walsh, D. Young, K. B. Briggs, G. M. Cartwright, C. T. Friedrichs, C. K. Harris, R. C. Mickey, and S. Mitra, 2014. Seabed Erodibility Variations on the Louisiana Continental Shelf Before and After the 2011 Mississippi River Flood. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 149, 283-293.

 

Recent Courses Taught

  • Coastal Geoscience
  • Analysis, Techniques and Methods of Coastal Ocean Research
  • Marine Isotope Geochemistry
  • Introduction to Oceanography