Principal Investigator: Ingrid Hendy, Ph.D.
Dr. Hendy’s research group studies past changes in global climate and regional environments using geochemical proxies from microfossils (foraminifera, diatoms, pollen, etc) and sediment characteristics and geochemistry. Past projects have reconstructed paleoenvironmental records of ocean circulation, marine productivity, sediment transport, and hydroclimate.
Research Areas
- Ocean and atmospheric circulation patterns on millennial-to-annual timescales to understand responses in marine biology, ocean chemistry, and sediment transport and deposition to climate and weather forcing.
- The paleoenvironmental history of the Southern California Bight across the Quaternary.
- The reconstruction (growth and collapse) of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet in the North Pacific on millennial timescales, and the ice sheet’s impact on the marine ecosystem and on outburst flooding (Missoula Floods).
- The marine response to the shift from a Greenhouse World to an Ice Box World (the Eocene-Oligocene Transition), with a focus on the Southern Ocean.
- The Great Lakes’ biogeochemical response to post-glacial changes and climate forcing as lake levels fluctuated and lake circulation was rerouted.
- Developing paleoenvironmental reconstruction of coastal ecosystems in West Africa (Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Benin, and Nigeria) through the Coastal and Marine Sedimentary Systems Research Group (CoMaS).
- Participating in the instruction of Sediment Biogeochemistry in the Coastal Ocean Environment Summer School in Nigeria and Ghana (COESSING).
- Planning accessible science and capacity building in West Africa.
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