Research Interests

• Geology of coastal environments and continental margins; causes and effects of sea-level change; Quaternary geology and geochronology; environmental geology; contaminants in sediments.

Selected Publications

• Donoghue, J.F., 2006, Geography and geomorphology of the Aucilla River region, p. 31-47, in Webb, S.D. (ed.), First Floridians and Last Mastodons: The Page-Ladsen Site on the Aucilla River. Springer Publ., .


• Niedoroda, A.W., Reed, C.W., Das, H., Fagherazzi, S., Donoghue, J.F., and Cattaneo, A., 2005, Analysis of a large-scale depositional clinoformal wedge along the Italian Adriatic coast, Marine Geology, v. 222, p. 179-192.


• Balsillie, J.H., Donoghue, J.F., 2004, High resolution sea-level history for the Gulf of Mexico since the last glacial maximum, Florida Geological Survey Report of Investigations No. 103, 65 p., .


• Van Es, H.J., Vainshtein, D.I., de Meijer, R.J., den Hartog, H.W., Donoghue, J.F.,and Rozendaal, A., 2002, Mineral zircon: a novel thermoluminescence geochronometer, Radiation Effects & Defects in Solids, v. 157, p. 1063-1070.


• Balsillie, J.H., Donoghue, J.F., Butler , K.M., and Koch, J.L., 2002, Plotting equation for Gaussian percentiles and a spreadsheet program for generating probability plots, Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 72, p. 929-933.


• VanEs, H.J., Vainshtein, D.I., Rozendaal, A., Donoghue, J.F., DeMeijer, R.J., and DenHartog, H.W., 2002, Thermoluminescence of ZrSiO4 (zircon): A new dating method, Nuclear Instr. and Meth. in Physics Research, v. 191, p. 649-652.