About

Ellen Thomas

Senior Research Scientist

Phone: 203 432 5928
Email: ellen.thomas@yale.edu

Office: 336 KGL

Mailing Address

Mailing address: Geology & Geophysics Department, Yale University, P. O. Box 208109, New Haven CT 06520-8109

Street address: Kline Geology Laboratory, 210 Whitney Avenue, New Haven CT 06511

Bio/Research:

Research Interests: 

Late-Cretaceous Recent paleoclimate and paleoceanography using benthic foraminifera and stable isotopes. Topics include deep-sea research using samples from the Ocean Drilling Program to study the asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous, early Cenozoic extreme warm climates (including effects of ocean acidification and deoxygenation), establishment of the Antarctic ice sheet at the end of the Eocene and the beginning of the Oligocene, increased glaciation in the middle Miocene, and the effects of these events on deep-sea biota. In addition, foraminifera are the tools used to study anthropogenic eutrophication, recent climate change and acidification Long Island Sound and Great Salt Pond, Block Island,  and rates of recent sea level rise and ecological changes in coastal salt marshes (in cooperation with faculty in EEB and FES and the Peabody Museum).

Awards/Honors:

  • 2013: Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Bristol University, UK
  • 2012: Recipient of the Maurice Ewing Medal, AGU/ONR (see award ceremony)
  • 2012: Fellow of AGU
  • 2011: Fellow of AAAS
  • 2007: Exceptional Reviewer, Geology
  • 2004-2005: JOI Distinguished Lecturer
  • 1996: W. Storrs Cole Award
  • 1995: Excellence in reviewing, Paleoceanography

Editorial Activity:

  • Editor of Geology, 2012-2016
  • Editor of Marine Micropaleontology, 2003-2010
  • Editorial Boards  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, and Marine Micropaleontology
  • Editorial Board Paleoceanography, 1996-2002; Geology 2000-2002