Ellen Thomas (scientist)

Ellen Thomas (born 1950, Hengelo)[1] is a Dutch-born environmental scientist and geologist specializing in marine micropaleontology and paleoceanography. She is the 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 2015-2019, published by the American Geophysical Union.[5]

Awards and honors

The Micropalaeontological Society - 2016 Brady Medal. American Geophysical Union - 2012 Maurice Ewing Medal[6]. Fellow AAAS, 2011 [7]. Fellow AGU, 2012; Fellow GSA, 2019.

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References
  1. Digitaal Album Promotorum Archived 2018-03-15 at the Wayback Machine at Utrecht University.
  2. "Career Profile, Ellen Thomas, Micropaleontologist". awg.org.
  3. "Development of Cenozoic deep-sea benthic foraminiferal faunas in Antarctic waters" (PDF). Geological Society, London, Special Publications.
  4. "Ellen Thomas". agu.org.
  5. "Editorial Board". agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/. doi:10.1002/(ISSN)1944-9186.
  6. "Ellen Thomas". agu.org.
  7. https://www.aaas.org/blog/member-spotlight/5-things-about-me-micropaleontologistpaleoceanographer-ellen-thomas. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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