In January, Dr. Al Wanamaker joined collaborator, Dr. Rhawn Denniston (Cornell College), and several Portuguese collaborators to visit four caves in central and southern Portugal. Two of these caves are the subject of current research and two new caves were visited for potential future research. Al and Rhawn were tasked with reading loggers, collecting drip … Continue reading SIPERG returns to Portugal
SIPERG would like to extend a hearty congratulations to SIPERG member, Jared Ballew, who recently sucessfully defended his Master’s thesis. Jared’s thesis was entitled “Refinement and utilization of the marine climate proxy Arctica islandica: An ideal replication strategy for stable isotope studies and an investigation into the shell growth and hydrographic variability of Georges Bank … Continue reading Congratulations to SIPERG’s Jared Ballew for earning his Master of Science degree
SIPERG member, Madelyn Mette, recently successfully defended her PhD. Her thesis was titled “Arctica islandica shell growth and geochemical records from northern Norway as North Atlantic marine climate proxies for the last millennium.” Maddie earned a PhD in Geology with a co-major in Environmental Science at Iowa State University under Dr. Alan Wanamaker. She will … Continue reading Congrats to Maddie Mette for earning her PhD!
We have been trying to do some work (shell collecting and lake coring) but the weather has been pretty lousy. Today we cored “isolation basin” in 0-1°C temperatures, steady rain, and strong winds. Mike and Sam managed to get about 1.5 m of lake sediment and maybe reached the marine transition. One of the major … Continue reading SIPERG in the Arctic 2017 (Ingoya, northern Finnmark)
Dr. Rhawn Denniston (Cornell College), Dr. Al Wanamaker, and colleagues recently published new geochemical data from Caribbean corals in the journal, Geology. The records provide insight into El Nino dynamics across the late Miocene. Click here for the NSF Press Release Weiss, T.L., Denniston, R.F., Wanamaker, A.D., Villarini, G., and von der Heydt, A.S., (2017) … Continue reading New publication from SIPERG collaborators