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Dutch-born environmental scientist

Ellen Thomas (born 1950, Hengelo) 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). 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, 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.

Thomas was editor-in-chief of the journal Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology from 2015 to 2019, published by the American Geophysical Union.

Awards and honors

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

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: 2012 Maurice Ewing Medal Winner". agu.org.
  5. "Editorial Board". agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/. doi:10.1002/(ISSN)1944-9186.
  6. Allen, Summer (December 12, 2014). "5 Things About Me: Micropaleontologist/Paleoceanographer Ellen Thomas". aaas.org.
  7. Brady Medal 2016
  8. "Paleoclimatologists James Zachos and Ellen Thomas win the Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change for identifying a "greenhouse effect" 56 million years ago that serves to predict the destructive impacts of today's human-induced global warming".
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