Gerard Clark Bond was a widely published and highly respected American geologist

Geology

Geology is the science comprising the study of solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which it evolves. Geology gives insight into the history of the Earth, as it provides the primary evidence for plate tectonics, the evolutionary history of life, and past climates...

. Bond received his Bachelor of Science degree at Capital University

Capital University

Capital University is a private liberal arts university of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America located in Bexley, Ohio, founded in 1830. In addition to its rigorous liberal arts program, the university also offers a reputable adult degree program in Columbus, Ohio. It is one of the oldest...

 in Columbus, Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

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, where his father Ralph Bond was a Professor of Geology. He worked at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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 in Palisades, New York

Palisades, New York

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 as Head of the Deep-Sea Sample Repository, after teaching briefly at Williams College

Williams College

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 in Williamstown, Massachusetts

Williamstown, Massachusetts

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 and the University of California, Davis

University of California, Davis

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. Bond theorized that variations in solar activity—the appearance of sunspots and changes in the emission of solar radiation—might be driving 1,500-year-cycles of amplified variability in northern hemisphere climate during the last glaciation, resulting in increases in iceberg discharges from the Laurentide ice sheet

Laurentide ice sheet

The Laurentide Ice Sheet was a massive sheet of ice that covered hundreds of thousands of square miles, including most of Canada and a large portion of the northern United States, multiple times during Quaternary glacial epochs. It last covered most of northern North America between c. 95,000 and...

 into the North Atlantic ocean, as evidenced by changes in the petrology of grains he extracted from deep sea cores covering this period. The cyclicity is also found during the Holocene, where the events are referred to as Bond events.
Bond was awarded the Ewing Medal at the AGU Fall Meeting Honors Ceremony, December 2003.

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