Paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental reconstruction, and stratigraphic study via palynology.
Example of ongoing research projects:
– Cataloguing and digitizing the CENEX pollen collections using SPECIFY to support future forensic and environmental studies.
– Cataloguing and digitizing the CENEX dinoflagellate cysts collections using SPECIFY to support biostratigraphic studies.
– Palynological reconstruction of last glacial cycle palaeo-environments of the Gulf of Papua-New Guinea.
– Influence of climate and eustacy on Gulf of Mexico sediment yield during the Last Glacial Cycle based on palynological analysis.
– Paleoclimate of Okak Bay, Labrador, Canada: the intersection of marine, terrestrial, and anthropogenic influences on paleoenvironment.
– Using palynological and isotopic analyses to develop a proxy for aridity in Antarctic paleoenvironments.
– Deciphering Antarctic climate variability during the temperate/polar transition in the Victoria Land region (funded by NSF CAREER program).
– Past environmental conditions on the Antarctic Peninsula: a palynological characterization of in-situ sediments recovered during the 2006 SHALDRIL campaign.
Example of past research projects:
– Palynological and paleoenvironmental characterization of ANDRILL’s Southern McMurdo Sound project
– Building high-resolution biostratigraphic zonation to improve biosteering of oil-producing deep-wells in Colombia (funded by ECOPETROL)
– Building high-resolution biostratigraphic zonation to improve biosteering of oil-producing deep-wells in the Gulf of Mexico (funded by BP)
– Feasibility study of Eocene to Pliocene palynological reconstruction of the Antarctic Peninsula margin climate evolution
– Understanding the influence of climate and eustasy on sediment yield during the last glacioeustatic cycle: a palynological and seismic approach
– Mio-Pliocene palynology of the Gibraltar Arc: A new perspective on the Messinian Salinity Crisis