Ancient Climates and Ecosystems Research Group
The Ancient Climates and Ecosystems research group in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences focuses on understanding the patterns and mechanisms behind changes in past climate and ecosystems. Our collective work spans timescales from a few thousand to several billions of years, settings from terrestrial to aquatic to marine, and illustrates how the Earth system works over the range of extremes in Earth surface evolution. Insights contribute to an improved understanding of processes relevant to current rates of global environmental and biospheric change.
Our faculty and graduate students hold a regular weekly seminar, known as ‘PaleoX’, where we discuss ongoing research by group members and guests, and newly published papers, across the range of paleoclimatology, -ecology, -limnology, -oceanography, -biology... Discussions, like our group, are highly interdisciplinary, wide-ranging in scope, and bring together many different perspectives. We meet regularly on Thursdays at 11 AM in rm 333C, and interested participants are welcome to join us.
Group Principal Investigators
Tripti Bhattacharya
Thonis Family Professor: Paleoclimate Dynamics. Associate Professor.
Email: trbhatta@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.7075
Melissa Chipman [Cherokee descent]
Assistant Professor: Arctic Paleoecology & Paleoclimate
Email: mlchipma@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.2489
Gregory Hoke
Jessie Page Heroy Professor and Department Chair: Earth Surface & Tectonics
Email: gdhoke@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.1903
Linda Ivany
Professor: Evolutionary Paleoecology and Paleoclimate
Email: lcivany@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.3626
Christopher Junium
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies: Geobiology, Astrobiology, Paleoclimate, Paleoceanography
Email: ckjunium@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.8969
Zunli Lu
Thonis Family Professor: Low-Temperature Geochemistry and Earth System Evolution
Email: zunlilu@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.0281
Cathryn R. Newton
Professor; Dean Emerita, College of Arts and Sciences; Senior Advisor to Chancellor and Provost for Faculty Engagement : Marine Paleoecology; Modern and Ancient Extinctions
Email: crnewton@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.3487
Christopher A. Scholz
Professor: Paleolimnology and Rift Basin Evolution
Email: cascholz@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.4673