Teaching
Undergraduate courses
| Mineralogy |
| Petrology (team taught) |
| Earth and Its Environments (introductory physical geology) |
| Geology & Civilization (freshman seminar) |
| Others: Tectonics, Earth-Climate-Life, Field Camp, Field Methods/Geology of North America |
Graduate courses/seminars
| Geo-modeling: Geodynamics, Phase Equilibria, Thermal Modeling (with Patrice Rey, Annia Fayon) |
| Pressure-temperature-crystallization |
| Interactions of tectonics, metamorphism, and surface processes (with Christian Teyssier, Chris Paola) |
| Orogeny (with Christian Teyssier) |
| The Continental Lower Crust (with Marc Hirschmann) |
| Metamorphic Geology of Mountains |
| Metamorphic Minerals and Petrogenesis |
| Theoretical Metamorphism (thermodynamics for petrologists) |
| Thermobarometric Methods and Applications |
Geoscience education publications
Whitney, D.L., Fayon, A.K., Broz, M.E., and Cook, R.F. (2007) The Mohs scale revisited: exploring the relationship of scratch resistance, hardness, and other physical properties of minerals. Journal of Geoscience Education, 55, 54-59. |
Fayon, A.K., Duranczyk, I.M., and Whitney, D.L. (2007) Doing Time: Incorporating fission track analysis in undergraduate science curriculum. Journal of Geoscience Education, 55 (3). |
| Chernicoff, S.E. and Whitney, D.L. (2006) Geology. Fourth Edition. Pearson Prentice-Hall, NJ. |
| Chernicoff, S.E. and Whitney, D.L. (2001) Geology. Third Edition. Houghton-Mifflin, Boston. |
| Crum, E., Bralower, T.J., and Whitney, D.L. (2000) Earth, Climate, and Life. Kendall-Hunt Publishing, Iowa. |
| Bralower, T.J., Whitney, D.L., Kogan, I., and Campbell, D. (1998) A new interactive class and lab for undergraduate non-geology majors on Earth, climate, and life through time. Journal of Geoscience Education, 46, 24-27. |
| Dilek, Y., Thomas, R.C., and Whitney, D.L. (1994) Team-teaching petrology in a tectonic context. Journal of Geological Education, 42, 25-31. |