Research Interests

• Application of physical and thermodynamics principles to problems relating to the structure and dynamics of Earth's interior
• Structure of Earth's inner core
• Dynamics of karstic aquifers

Selected Publications

• Rogers, K., and Wang, Y., 2002, Late Matuyama Climate Shift in the Southern Rocky Mountains: Evidence from Carbon and Oxygen Stable Isotope Ratios in Pleistocene Pocket Gopher Teeth (Colorado, New Mexico), Quaternary Research, 57: 200-207.


• D. E. Loper, 1999, A model of the dynamical structure of Earth's core, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, .


• D. E. Loper, 1998, Mantle plumes and their effect on the Earth's surface: a review and synthesis, Dynamics of Oceans and Atmospheres, 27, 35-54.


• I. A. Eltayeb and D. E. Loper , 1997, On the stability of vertically oriented double diffusive interfaces. Part 3. Cylindrical interface, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 353,45-66.


• H. Shimizu and D. E. Loper, 1997, Time and Length Scales of Buoyancy-Driven Flow Structures in a Rotating Hydromagnetic Fluid, Physics of the Earth andPlanetary Interiors, 104, 307 - 329.


• D. Coulliette and D. E. Loper, 1995, Experimental, numerical and analytical models of mantle starting plumes, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 92, 143-168.