Ancient Climates and Ecosystems Research Group
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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
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Tripti Bhattacharya
Thonis Family Professor: Paleoclimate Dynamics. Associate Professor.
Email: trbhatta@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.7075
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Melissa Chipman [Cherokee descent]
Assistant Professor: Arctic Paleoecology & Paleoclimate
Email: mlchipma@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.2489
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Gregory Hoke
Jessie Page Heroy Professor and Department Chair: Earth Surface & Tectonics
Email: gdhoke@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.1903
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Linda Ivany
Professor: Evolutionary Paleoecology and Paleoclimate
Email: lcivany@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.3626
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Christopher Junium
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies: Geobiology, Astrobiology, Paleoclimate, Paleoceanography
Email: ckjunium@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.8969
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Zunli Lu
Thonis Family Professor: Low-Temperature Geochemistry and Earth System Evolution
Email: zunlilu@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.0281
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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
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Christopher A. Scholz
Professor: Paleolimnology and Rift Basin Evolution
Email: cascholz@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.4673