Brendan Reilly is an Assistant Research Professor at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO). He is Director of the Lamont-Doherty Core Repository (LDCR), one of the largest collections of seafloor samples in the world. In this role, he helps care for and make accessible a globally important archive of marine sediments used by researchers studying Earth’s climate and ocean history. He also leads LDEO's Paleomagnetics and Stratigraphy (PAST) Group and Paleomagnetics Laboratory.
As a seagoing geological oceanographer, he studies how seafloor landscapes and marine sediments record Earth's history. Much of his work focuses on reconstructing past changes in ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica using marine sediment cores. He specializes in paleomagnetism, the study of Earth’s ancient magnetic field preserved in rocks and sediments, which provides a powerful framework for dating sediments and linking climate records from different parts of the world.
Education and Background
Postdoc/Assistant Project Scientist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography - 2019-2022
Postdoc, Oregon State University - 2018-2019
PhD, Oregon State University - 2018
MS, Montclair State University - 2013
BS, Boston College - 2008