Ellen_Thomas_(scientist)

Ellen Thomas (scientist)

Ellen Thomas (scientist)

Dutch-born environmental scientist

Ellen Thomas (born 1950, Hengelo)[1] is a Dutch-born environmental scientist and geologist specializing in marine micropaleontology and paleoceanography. She is the emerita 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 to 2019, published by the American Geophysical Union.[5]

Awards and honors

  • 2011 - Fellow AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science).[6]
  • 2012 - Maurice Ewing Medal of the American Geophysical Union.[4]
  • 2016 - Brady Medal of The Micropalaeontological Society.[7]
  • 2019 - Fellow GSA (Geological Society of America)
  • 2020 - Joseph A. Cushman Medal for Excellence in Foraminiferal Research
  • 2022 - BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award.[8] in Climate Change, shared with J. C. Zachos

References

  1. [1]
    Digitaal Album Promotorum Archived 2018-03-15 at the Wayback Machine at Utrecht University.
  2. [2]
    "Career Profile, Ellen Thomas, Micropaleontologist". awg.org.
  3. [3]
    "Development of Cenozoic deep-sea benthic foraminiferal faunas in Antarctic waters" (PDF). Geological Society, London, Special Publications.
  4. [4]
    "Ellen Thomas: 2012 Maurice Ewing Medal Winner". agu.org.
  5. [5]
    "Editorial Board". agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/. doi:10.1002/(ISSN)1944-9186.
  6. [6]
    Allen, Summer (December 12, 2014). "5 Things About Me: Micropaleontologist/Paleoceanographer Ellen Thomas". aaas.org.
  7. [7]
    Brady Medal 2016
  8. [8]
    https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/976295
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