Research Interests

• Geology and geomorphology of coastal environments and continental margins, causes and effects of sea-level change, environmental geology, Quaternary geology and geochronology, 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., .


• Niedoroda, A.W., Reed, C.W., Das, H. ,Koch, J., Donoghue., J.F., Wang, Z.B., and Stive, M.J.F., 2003, Modeling large-scale morphodynamics of complex coastal systems, Proceedings, Coastal Sediments 2003, Fifth International Symposium on Coastal Engineering and Science of Coastal Sediment Processes, St. Petersburg, FL., .


• Donoghue, J.F., Niedoroda, A.W., Hatchett, L. , Locker, S. , Clark, R., Koch, J. , and Butler, K., 2003, Model for identifying and characterizing offshore sand sources using an interactive GIS, Proceedings, Coastal Sediments 2003, Fifth International Symposium on Coastal Engineering and Science of Coastal Sediment Processes, St. Petersburg, FL., .


• 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.