Ellen Thomas (scientist)
Ellen Thomas (born 1950, Hengelo)[1] is a Dutch-born environmental scientist and geologist specializing in marine micropaleontology and paleoceanography. She is the Harold T Stearns Professor and the Smith Curator of Paleontology of the Joe Webb Peoples Museum of Natural History at Wesleyan University, and a senior research scientist at Yale University.
Academic career and research[]
Thomas attended the University of Utrecht (BSc, 1971; MSc 1975; and PhD, 1979).[2] Thomas studies environmental and climate change over geologic timescales, specializing in the study of benthic foraminifera. Thomas was the first scientist to discover a mass extinction in benthic foraminifera close to the Paleocene-Eocene boundary,[3] now recognized as a result of the climate event known as the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum, for which she received the 2012 Maurice Ewing medal of the American Geophysical Union and Ocean Naval Research.[4]
Thomas was editor-in-chief of the journal Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology from 2015-2019, published by the American Geophysical Union.[5]
Awards and honors[]
The Micropalaeontological Society - 2016 . American Geophysical Union - 2012 Maurice Ewing Medal.[6] Fellow AAAS, 2011.[7] Fellow AGU, 2012; Fellow GSA, 2019.
References[]
- ^ Digitaal Album Promotorum Archived 2018-03-15 at the Wayback Machine at Utrecht University.
- ^ "Career Profile, Ellen Thomas, Micropaleontologist". awg.org.
- ^ "Development of Cenozoic deep-sea benthic foraminiferal faunas in Antarctic waters" (PDF). Geological Society, London, Special Publications.
- ^ "Ellen Thomas". agu.org.
- ^ "Editorial Board". agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/. doi:10.1002/(ISSN)1944-9186.
- ^ "Ellen Thomas". agu.org.
- ^ https://www.aaas.org/blog/member-spotlight/5-things-about-me-micropaleontologistpaleoceanographer-ellen-thomas. Missing or empty
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- 1950 births
- Living people
- American climatologists
- Women climatologists
- Dutch climatologists
- 20th-century American geologists
- 20th-century Dutch geologists
- Environmental scientists
- People from Hengelo
- Dutch emigrants to the United States
- Utrecht University alumni
- Wesleyan University faculty