[1] His approach to glaciology has been described as "stabilism", the belief that the East Antarctic Ice Sheet has remained cold and generally stable for the past 15 million years.
[3] In 2017, a Boston University investigation concluded that he had violated Title IX regulations by sexually harassing several of his female graduate students.
[4][5][6][7] After receiving tenure at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (at UC San Diego) in July 2016, Jane Willenbring filed a Title IX complaint with Boston University in which she stated that on her 1999 Antarctic expedition with Marchant, he repeatedly pushed her down a steep slope, threw stones at her while she was urinating outside, blew shards of volcanic ash into her eyes, and called her a "slut" and a "whore".
[11] Marchant was fired by Boston University in 2019, where he was a faculty member in the Department of Earth & Environment in the College of Arts & Sciences.
[12][13] While a five-member BU faculty panel recommended that Marchant be suspended for three years without pay, the university president, Robert A.