Research Team

 

Joshua Deen

Josh is working on the most recent benthic foraminiferal extinction in samples collected during IODP 344 off Costa Rica.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nic De Los Santos

Nic is working on foraminiferal ultrastructure with TEM, morphology with MicroCT, and geochemistry of the tests. He had the chance to go to sea in the Fall of 2023.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trenty Ford

Trenity is a Ph.D. student expected to graduate in 2024. His focus is on foraminifera morphometrics and geochemistry.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amanda Harding

Amanda is a new M.S. student who worked with me as an undergrad. She was an essential component to the creation and functioning of the VBM Microfossil Archive! In the collection there are an estimated 25,338 sediment packets of of residuals and at least 93,300 microfossil slides! Once online we hope this will be an AMAZING teaching and research resource.

 

 

Oghale Ononeme

Oghale, or OG, is a Ph.D. student set to graduate in 2025. His research uses modern and fossil foraminifera in past environmental reconstructions and in comparison with modern conditions and environmental reactions.

 

 

 

 

 

Debarpita Paul

Debarpita is the most recent Ph.D. student addition to the lab! She is interested in how foraminifera are influenced by pollution and oxygen limitations. She will likely graduate in 2026.

 

 

 

 

 

Jessica Whitesell

Jessica is an undergrad considering an accelerated masters at OSU or other micropaleo related masters projects. She is set to graduate in 2024. Her present projects involve OOI SEA3s, foraminifera SSUrDNA, and mutated foraminifera from the Puget Sound.

 

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Research Team Alumni

• Joshua Anadu
• Lisa Lipscomb, M.S. Student, 2023
• Melissa Perkins, M.S. Student, 2023
• Erin Roark, M.S. Student, 2022