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Thomas, Ellen

Research Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Earth and Environmental Sciences Department
2238





EMAIL:

ethomas@wesleyan.edu

PERSONAL HOME PAGE:

 http://ethomas.web.wesleyan.edu

COURSES TAUGHT:

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Paleoceanography/paleoclimate/micropaleontology

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Paleoceanography - reconstruction of climates of the past; influence of greenhouse climates on ocean circulation and biots - interaction between life and climate

ACADEMIC ASSOCIATIONS:

American Geophysical Union, British Micropalaeontological Society, Cushman Association for Foraminiferal Research, Geological Society of America, Oceanography Society

AWARDS WON:

2007: exceptional reviewer, Geology
2004-2005: President Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research
2004-2005 Distinguished Lecturer, Joint Oceanographic Institutions ( http://www.usssp-iodp.org/Education/DLS/2004_2005.html)
1996 W. Storrs Cole Memorial Research Award, Geological Society of America: $10,000.-
1995 Editor's Citation for Excellence in Refereeing, Paleoceanography

PUBLICATIONS:

http://ethomas.web.wesleyan.edu/publications.htm

GRANTS:

Keck Consortium (2008, with J.C. Varekamp): Block Island Holocene environments, $38,000.-
NSF:2007-2009, Oceanic productivity and the carbon cycle during the end Cretaceous mass extinction, $200.000.-
USSAC/NSF: Participation in ODP Leg 208, cruise salary and postcruise funding, $50,109.-, 2003-2005
NSF: Consequences of Greenhouse Warming for Biocomplexity and Biogeochemical Cycles: a multidisciplinary case study across the Paleocene/Eocene boundary, PIs J. Zachos, G. Dickens, P. Koch, E. Thomas, P. Delaney, L. Sloan, T. Bralower, J. Meng, S. Wing, L. Kump, $2,500,000.-; Wesleyan subcontract $216,710.-; 2001-2006.