Dennis Kent

Kent received a bachelor's degree in geology from the City College of New York, N.Y. in 1968 and a doctorate degree in marine geology and geophysics from Columbia University, N.Y in 1974, where he studied magnetism in deep-sea sediments.[1]

Kent joined at the Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory as a research scientist in 1974 and adjunct faculty at Columbia University in 1981. He joined the faculty at Rutgers University in 1998. Kent and his co-authors constructed a magnetic polarity time scale developed chronostratigraphy for the Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Cenozoic time based on magnetochronology.[2][3] He has authored or co-authored more than 300 publications in the field of paleomagnetism, paleogeography, and paleoclimatology.

• 2003 Arthur L. Day Medal, Geological Society of America[4]
• 2004 Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences[5]
• 2006 Petrus Peregrinus Medal, European Geosciences Union[6]
• 2009 William Gilbert Award, American Geophysical Union[7]
• 2012 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[8]

• Cande, S. C., and Kent, D. V. (1992), A new geomagnetic polarity time scale for the Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic, J. Geophys. Res., 97( B10), 13917– 13951, doi:10.1029/92JB01202[9]
• Berggren, W. A., Kent, D. V., Flynn, J. J., and Van Couvering, J. A. (1985) Cenozoic geochronology. GSA Bulletin., 96 (11), 1407–1418. doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1985)96<1407:CG>2.0.CO;2[10]
• Kent, D. V., and Olsen, P. E. (1999), Astronomically tuned geomagnetic polarity timescale for the Late Triassic, J. Geophys. Res., 104( B6), 12831– 12841, doi:10.1029/1999JB900076.[11]
• Kent, D. V. (1973), Post-depositional Remanent Magnetisation in Deep-sea Sediment, Nature 246, 32–34, doi:10.1038/246032a0[12]
• Kent, D. V. (1982), Apparent correlation of palaeomagnetic intensity and climatic records in deep-sea sediments, Nature 299, 538–539, doi:10.1038/299538a0[13]