# overview
Identifying how organisms respond, why they respond, and to which environmental factors they are primarily responding is integral to understanding how future climate change will affect the modern biota as well as to inform efforts to sustain biodiversity and economically important fisheries.

Shelled organisms, such as molluscs and foraminifera, are abundant and well-preserved in the fossil record and in museum collections of modern specimens. These preserved assemblages allow longer-term perspectives on biotic response and climate change - millennia to millions of years - than is possible in exclusively present-day ecological studies. The fossil record also allows trends in these natural communities to be analyzed before, during, and after changes in climate without needing to wait for the events to occur in real time.

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3709 Physical Geography And Environmental Geoscience

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3709 Physical Geography And Environmental Geoscience

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Geochemistry : Major And Trace Element Geochemistry

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University of California, Santa Barbara - (Santa Barbara, California, United States)

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University of Chicago - (Chicago, Illinois, United States)

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Spatial and temporal variation in benthic foraminiferal assemblages record history of human activities within the Matagorda Bay system

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Placing North Pacific paleo-oxygenation records on a common scale using multivariate analysis of benthic foraminiferal assemblages

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Volcanic trigger of ocean deoxygenation during Cordilleran ice sheet retreat.

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MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF BIOSTRATIGRAPHICALLY SIGNIFICANT FUSULINID FORAMINIFERAN GENUS                    TRITICITES                    ACROSS THE PENNSYLVANIAN-PERMIAN BOUNDARY IN THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES

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Spatial heterogeneity in benthic foraminiferal assemblages tracks regional impacts of paleoenvironmental change across Cretaceous OAE2

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QUANTIFYING LATE PENNSYLVANIAN MULTIVARIATE MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGE IN THE FUSULINID GENUS TRITICITES FROM THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES

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Are ancient seep environments distinguishable by benthic foraminiferal assemblages? A case study of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway

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Individual to community-level faunal responses to environmental change from a marine fossil record of Early Miocene global warming.

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Benthic foraminiferal faunas reveal transport dynamics and no-analog environments on a glaciated margin (Gulf of Alaska)

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North Pacific deep-sea ecosystem responses reflect post-glacial switch to pulsed export productivity, deoxygenation, and destratification

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Out of the tropics, but how? Fossils, bridge species, and thermal ranges in the dynamics of the marine latitudinal diversity gradient.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Paleoclimate history of Galapagos surface waters over the last 135,000 yr

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Coastal dysoxia accompanies Early Miocene warming based on benthic foraminiferal and sedimentary records from Oregon

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Reconstructing Paleo-oxygenation for the Last 54,000 Years in the Gulf of Alaska Using Cross-validated Benthic Foraminiferal and Geochemical Records

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BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA RECORD THE REPEATED EXPANSION AND INTENSIFICATION OF THE OXYGEN MINIMUM ZONE IN THE GULF OF ALASKA AND ASSOCIATED INCREASES IN PHYTODETRIUS

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High resolution inclination records from the Gulf of Alaska, IODP Expedition 341 Sites U1418 and U1419

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Quantifying successional change and ecological similarity among Cretaceous and modern cold-seep faunas

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Enhanced Carbonate Dissolution Associated With Deglacial Dysoxic Events in the Subpolar North Pacific

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Volumetric analysis of benthic foraminifera: Intraspecific test size and growth patterns related to embryonic size and food resources

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Mid-Pleistocene climate transition drives net mass loss from rapidly uplifting St. Elias Mountains, Alaska.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Has the Gulf of Alaska been the diatom-rich ocean since Plio-Pleistocene?-IODP 341 Alaska cruise microfossil report

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Southern alaska margin interactions of tectonics, climate, and sedimentation

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Global environmental predictors of benthic marine biogeographic structure.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Differential drivers of benthic foraminiferal and molluscan community composition from a multivariate record of early Miocene environmental change

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Looking forward through the past: identification of 50 priority research questions in palaeoecology

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EVALUATING TAPHONOMIC BIAS OF PALEOECOLOGICAL DATA IN FOSSIL BENTHIC FORAMINIFERAL ASSEMBLAGES

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New spatial Mg/Ca-temperature calibrations for three Arctic, benthic foraminifera and reconstruction of north Iceland shelf temperature for the past 4000 years

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Using the interactive software FossilSketch to teach micropaleontology to undergraduate students

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Has the Gulf of Alaska been the diatom-rich ocean since Plio-Pleistocene ? : IODP 341 Alaska cruise microfossil report

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Palaeontological Society of Japan/Nihon Koseibutsu Gakkai

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Collaborative Research: Distinguishing the drivers of benthic foraminiferal faunal change to improve mechanistic interpretations of abrupt hypoxic events in the North Pacific

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National Science Board - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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CAREER: Leveraging benthic foraminiferal biogeography to recognize ecosystem responses to climate change and engage first-generation students in scientific inquiry

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Developing a Digital Sketching Application That
Delivers Personalized Feedback to Improve Student Learning and Engagement in
Micropaleontology

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Texas A&M University; Geology; 3115 TAMU

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Sims, Eileah Renee (2020-08). Morphometric Analysis of Biostratigraphically Significant Fusulinid Foraminiferan Genus Triticites across the Pennsylvanian-Permian Boundary in the Central and Southwestern United States. Master's Thesis.