Personal Information
Dennis McCarthy has published papers on a
wide variety of subjects, including geophysics,
biogeography, and English literature. In a
2007 paper in The Journal of Geophysical
Research, McCarthy became the first to
provide the correct explanation for the lopsided
ocean-continent distribution of the Earth.
Specifically, the paper explained why the
Southern Hemisphere is so oceanic while the
Northern Hemisphere is crowded with
continental crust. This became the subject of
a number of news reports throughout the
world, and Der Spiegel, the largest news
magazine in Europe, has devoted a large
article ( English translation) to this JGR paper.
McCarthy is currently a research associate at
the Buffalo Museum of Science and is on the
editorial board of Biogeography & Systematics,
a journal that will be launched by the
Systematic & Evolutionary Biogeographical
Association (SEBA) in late 2008.
Dennis McCarthy has published papers on a
wide variety of subjects, including geophysics,
biogeography, and English literature. In a
2007 paper in The Journal of Geophysical
Research, McCarthy became the first to
provide the correct explanation for the lopsided
ocean-continent distribution of the Earth.
Specifically, the paper explained why the
Southern Hemisphere is so oceanic while the
Northern Hemisphere is crowded with
continental crust. This became the subject of
a number of news reports throughout the
world, and Der Spiegel, the largest news
magazine in Europe, has devoted a large
article ( English translation) to this JGR paper.
McCarthy is currently a research associate at
the Buffalo Museum of Science and is on the
editorial board of Biogeography & Systematics,
a journal that will be launched by the
Systematic & Evolutionary Biogeographical
Association (SEBA) in late 2008.
The Fourth Revolt
Papers
Dennis McCarthy, D. A ‘Sea of Troubles’ and a ‘Pilgrimage Uncertain’ / Dial of Princes as
the Source for Hamlet's Soliloquy, Notes and Queries, Advance Access published on March
13, 2009. doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn242
McCarthy, D. (2007) Geophysical explanation for the disparity in spreading rates between
the Northern and Southern hemispheres, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, B03410,
doi:10.1029/2006JB004535. The paper also includes a brief and
simple video that helps summarize the basic points of the paper .
McCarthy, D. (2007) Sir Thomas North as Sir John Daw, Notes & Queries, 54(3), 321-4.
McCarthy, D. (2007) Thomas North was the "T.N." who prefaced Belleforest's "Tragical
Hystories," Notes & Queries, 54(3), 244-8.
McCarthy, D. (2005) Biogeographical and geological evidence for a smaller, completely-
enclosed Pacific Basin in the Late Cretaceous. Journal of Biogeography, 32, 2161-2177.
McCarthy, D. (2005) Biogeography and scientific revolutions. The Systematist, 25, 3-12.
McCarthy, D. (2003) The trans-Pacific zipper effect: disjunct sister taxa and matching
geological outlines that link the Pacific margins. Journal of Biogeography, 30, 1545-1561.
Book Chapters
McCarthy, D. (2006), Are plate tectonic explanations for trans-Pacific disjunctions
plausible? Empirical tests of radical dispersalist theories, in Biogeography in a Changing
World, edited by Ebach, M.C. and Tangney, R., Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, Florida.
Lectures
McCarthy, D. (2005) "Vicariance in the Pacific." Fifth biennial conference of the Systematics
Association, presented by Cardiff University and the National Museum and Gallery of Wales.
Email Address: DennisMcCarthy@4threvolt.com
Dennis McCarthy, D. A ‘Sea of Troubles’ and a ‘Pilgrimage Uncertain’ / Dial of Princes as
the Source for Hamlet's Soliloquy, Notes and Queries, Advance Access published on March
13, 2009. doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn242
McCarthy, D. (2007) Geophysical explanation for the disparity in spreading rates between
the Northern and Southern hemispheres, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, B03410,
doi:10.1029/2006JB004535. The paper also includes a brief and
simple video that helps summarize the basic points of the paper .
McCarthy, D. (2007) Sir Thomas North as Sir John Daw, Notes & Queries, 54(3), 321-4.
McCarthy, D. (2007) Thomas North was the "T.N." who prefaced Belleforest's "Tragical
Hystories," Notes & Queries, 54(3), 244-8.
McCarthy, D. (2005) Biogeographical and geological evidence for a smaller, completely-
enclosed Pacific Basin in the Late Cretaceous. Journal of Biogeography, 32, 2161-2177.
McCarthy, D. (2005) Biogeography and scientific revolutions. The Systematist, 25, 3-12.
McCarthy, D. (2003) The trans-Pacific zipper effect: disjunct sister taxa and matching
geological outlines that link the Pacific margins. Journal of Biogeography, 30, 1545-1561.
Book Chapters
McCarthy, D. (2006), Are plate tectonic explanations for trans-Pacific disjunctions
plausible? Empirical tests of radical dispersalist theories, in Biogeography in a Changing
World, edited by Ebach, M.C. and Tangney, R., Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, Florida.
Lectures
McCarthy, D. (2005) "Vicariance in the Pacific." Fifth biennial conference of the Systematics
Association, presented by Cardiff University and the National Museum and Gallery of Wales.
Email Address: DennisMcCarthy@4threvolt.com
Latest News: Dennis McCarthy's book, Here
Be Dragons -- [How the study of animal and
plant distributions revolutionized our views of
life and Earth] will be published by Oxford
University Press in October, 2009 (cover art
below.) McCarthy has also recently completed
a revolutionary work on Shakespeare, which will
soon be submitted for representation and
publication. In his most recent paper for
Oxford's journal of literary scholarship, Notes
and Queries, McCarthy became the first
recearcher to find the long-sought source for
Hamlet's famous "To Be or Not to Be" Soliloquy.
Be Dragons -- [How the study of animal and
plant distributions revolutionized our views of
life and Earth] will be published by Oxford
University Press in October, 2009 (cover art
below.) McCarthy has also recently completed
a revolutionary work on Shakespeare, which will
soon be submitted for representation and
publication. In his most recent paper for
Oxford's journal of literary scholarship, Notes
and Queries, McCarthy became the first
recearcher to find the long-sought source for
Hamlet's famous "To Be or Not to Be" Soliloquy.
