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Developing the Next Generation of Female Environmentalists

PAUSE Webinar – January 9th

January 3, 2023

 

Speaker: Dr. Catherine Davis
North Carolina State University
Title: Big stories in tiny shells: Using microfossils to understand long-term climate change
Abstract: To understand climate dynamics on timescales longer than we can observe in a human lifespan, we must turn to proxy records. The shells of planktic foraminifera, single-celled marine calcifiers, are the basis for many of these proxies. I will discuss how the morphology and chemistry of shells of planktic foraminifera can be used to extend records of climate change into the past. I will then focus on a recent example and discuss how proxy records demonstrate that the structure of the Eastern Equatorial Pacific water column shifted along with rapid warming during the last deglaciation.
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXJmuUbD9e0

 

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