Helen Coxall Professor of Marine micropaleontology
Contact
Name and title: Helen CoxallProfessor of Marine micropaleontology
Workplace: Department of Geological Sciences Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Room R 233Svante Arrheniusväg 8 C, Geohuset
Postal address Institutionen för geologiska vetenskaper106 91 Stockholm
Research group
About me
BSc. Biology/Geology, University of Manchester UK
Ph.D. Department of Geology, Bristol University UK, Hantkeninid planktonic foraminifera evolution and Eocene palaeoceanographic change
Research fellowships and post doctoral positions
- Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Research Fellowship, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK, Eocene-Oligocene climate dynamics
- Postdoctoral researcher, University of Rhode Island, USA, K/Pg boundary and pelagic extinctions
- Postdoctoral researcher, Smithsonian Institution Department of Paleobiology: Eocene planktonic foraminifera taxonomy and morphometrics
- Royal Society University Research Fellowship, Oligocene climate dynamics, Cardiff University, UK
Current position: Professor in Cenozoic Marine Micropalaeontology, Head of Department
Helen is interested in the responses of marine systems to climate and environmental change with a focus on extreme events in the last 65 million years when Earth’s climate system was developing to its modern state. To do this she uses geological data from marine sediment cores, aiming to document changes in parameters such as ocean temperature, ice volume, ocean productivity and marine plankton biodiversity using a variety of geological and micropaleontological indicator techniques. She is an expert on living and fossilized foraminifera, microscopic shell-building marine organisms that are abundant in deep-sea sediments. These fossils provide vital information about conditions in the surface layers of the ocean, which are in contact with the atmosphere (planktonic foraminifera), and the deep ocean (benthic foraminifera), recording trends in global ocean circulation.
Undergraduate teaching
- First year Introduction to Geology and Geophysics: Sedimentology, Earth time, and palaeontology(co-teach)
Geological excursion to Gotland (leader)
- Second Year‘Sedimentary Systems’ (co-teach)
Geological excursion to Västergötland(leader)
- Third-year course Palaeoceanography and Marine Geology
Geological excursion to the IODP Core Repository, Bremen (leader)
- Second year ‘Sedimentary Systems’ (co-teach)
Bachelors research project in marine geology (projects available!)
Distance learning and Orientation courses
- Critical Events in the evolution of Earth and life(leader)
- Snowball Earth(co-teach)
Post graduate-level teaching
- Isotopes in Geology(co-teach)
- Urbino Palaeoclimatology summer school, micropalaeontology
- Masters research project in marine geology (projects available!)