Ellen Thomas Senior Research Scientist and Editor of Marine Micropaleontology Email Me Office: 336 KGL Phone: (203)432-5928 Fax: (203)432-3134 More Information Research Interests: Late-Cretaceous Recent paleoceanography (especially periods of extreme warm climate) using benthic foraminifera and stable isotopes; deep-sea research using samples from the Ocean Drilling Program, coastal studies in Long Island Sound and Block Island (Holocene) and in coastal salt marshes (last 2 millennia) Selected Publication(s): Griffith, E. M., Paytan, A., Caldeira, K., Bullen, T. D., and Thomas, E., 2008. A dynamic marine calcium cycle during the past 28 million years. Science, 322: 1671-1674; DOI: 10.1126/science.1163614 McCarren, H., Thomas, E., Hasegawa, T., Roehl, U., and Zachos, J. C., 2008. Depth-dependency of the Paleocene-Eocene Carbon Isotope Excursion: paired benthic and terrestrial biomarker records (ODP Leg 208, Walvis Ridge). Geochem., Geophys., Geosyst., 9 (10): Q10008, doi: 10.1029/2008GC002116 Darling, K. F., Thomas, E., Kasemann, S., Smart, C. W., Seears, H. A., and Wade, C. M., 2009. Surviving mass extinction by bridging the benthic/planktic divide. Proceedings National Academy of Sciences, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0902827106 Stap, L., Lourens, L., Sluijs, A., and Thomas, E., 2009. Patterns and magnitude of deep sea carbonate dissolution during Eocene Thermal Maximum 2 and H2, Walvis Ridge, southeastern Atlantic Ocean. Paleoceanography, doi:10.1029/2008PA001655 Thomas, E., 2007. Cenozoic mass extinctions in the deep sea; what disturbs the largest habitat on Earth? S. Monechi, R. Coccioni, and M. Rampino, eds., Large Ecosystem Perturbations: Causes and Consequences, Geological Society of America Special Paper, 424: 1-24.