Past Schlanger Fellows
2022-2023 Schlanger Fellows
Isabel Dove
University of Rhode Island
Tracking oceanographic changes and climate implications in Holocene Antarctic coastal zones
Anya Hess
Rutgers University
Evolution of the Arabian Sea Oxygen Deficient Zone following the Middle Miocene Climate Optimum: Global and Regional Drivers
Kayla Hollister
University of Notre Dame
Investigating the influence of sea surface temperatures on Southeastern African hydroclimate during the mid-Pleistocene Transition
2021-2022 Schlanger Fellows
Peter Davidson
Oregon State University
Re-examining the temporal history of the Ontong Java Nui Large Igneous Province and its causal relations to OAE1A
Mohammed Hashim
Western Michigan University
Parsing the diagenetic pathways of carbonate metastable sediments on the slope of the Great Bahama Bank
Basia Marcks
University of Rhode Island
Did iron fertilization increase biogenic sediment accumulation in the subantarctic across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition?
Ronnakrit Rattanasriampaipong
Texas A&M University
Long-term continuous sea surface temperature record of tropical Atlantic across the Cenozoic era
Anna Schartman
University of California, Santa Cruz
The origins of an ecosystem: Rooting the African Savanna in the middle Miocene
Rebecca Stout
University of Washington
Fingerprinting low-frequency Holocene climate variability across spatial scales
Hannah Tandy
University of California, Los Angeles
Novel constraints on pole-to-equator temperature gradients over the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
2020-2021 Schlanger Fellows
Sarah McGrath
Brown University
What drives the Indian Summer Monsoon? New perspectives from the Bay of Bengal
Nicolette Meyer
Stanford University
Fire and famine: Controls on microbial activity in the deep hydrothermal subsurface of the Guaymas Basin
Nicholas Sullivan
University of Wisconsin-Madison
The integration of astrochronology and constrained optimization (CONOP) to resolve the history of the Southern Ocean during the neogene
Courtney Wagner
University of Utah
Quantifying magnetofossil assemblages: Implications for paleoecology, diagenesis, and past, present, and future global change
Yuxin Zhou
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Heinrich Event ocean circulation and iceberg melting in the North Atlantic during the last glacial period
2019-2020 Schlanger Fellows
Kimberly Beryl deLong
University of California, Santa Cruz
Reconstructing Nitrogen Cycling and Ecosystem Structure in the Bering Sea Through the Anomalously Warm, High- Productivity, Hypoxic Bolling-Allerod Event
Kyle Metcalfe
California Institute of Technology
Mineral-Associated Microbial Ecology of the Deep Subsurface, Nankai Trough, Japan
Kelli Mulane
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Investigating the Piezophilic Microbial Communities of Mariana Forearc Serpentinite Mud Volcanoes
Samuel Phelps
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
The Role of Atmospheric CO2 in Late Miocene Environmental Change: A Multi-Proxy Study
Shrisharan Shreedharan
Pennsylvania State University
Fault Healing and Shallow Slow Slip at the Hikurangi Subduction Margin: The Impact of Normal Stress and Loading-Rate on Friction
2018-2019 Schlanger Fellows
Allison Cluett
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Hydroclimate of Southern Greenland during interglacials of the past 600,000 years based on terrestrial leaf wax biomarker isotopes preserved in ocean sediments
Colin Jones
University of Rhode Island
Oceanographic controls on mid-Holocene nutrient consumption at Palmer Deep, West Antarctic Peninsula
Megan Mullis
Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi
Active microbial community survival in Mariana Forarc sediments
Sarah Trubovitz
University of Nevada
What drives plankton evolution? : An investigation of the paleoenvironmental impacts on radiolarian macroevolution using the contrasting histories of tropical and polar Neogene oceans
2017-2018 Schlanger Fellows
Laura Haynes
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Assessing Deep Pacific Carbon Storage Across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition
Heather Jones
Pennsylvania State University
Survivorship and recovery of calcareous nannoplankton following the K/Pg mass extinction at “ground zero”
Amy Kuzminov
Rutgers University
Uranium isotope ratios: a proxy to understand carbon burial in varying redox environments in Ocean Anoxic Event 2
Sarah White
University of California, Santa Cruz
Constraining the effect of dissolution on Pliocene West Pacific Warm Pool SSTs and the “permanent El Nino-like state”
2016-2017 Schlanger Fellows
Richard Berg
University of Washington
Quantifying Global Rates of Magnesium Uptake into Marine Sediments
Robert Poirier
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Assessing Millennial-Scale Variability in the Densest Limb of Meridional Overturning Circulation During the Prism Timeslice
Philip Staudigel
University of Miami
The Application of Clumped Isotopes in Studying the Post-Depositional Alternation of Marine Carbonates
Jody Wycech
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Evaluating the Impact of Central American Seaway Closure on Pliocene Walker Circulation
Laura Zinke
University of Southern California
Active Microbial Carbon Cycling in Baltic Sea Basin Sediments
2014-2015 Schlanger Fellows
Xingchen Wang
Princeton University
Exploring the Late Pleistocene Marine Nitrogen Cycle in the South Pacific using Nitrogen Isotopes from Fossil Corals from Tahiti
Justine Sauvage
University of Rhode Island
Global Estimate of Radiolytic Hydrogren Production in Subseafloor Sediment: Importance of Nuclear-Fueled Life in the Deep Seafloor?
Dalton Hardisty
University of California – Riverside
A Holocene Record of Temporal and Spatial Variability in Oxygen Deficiency in the Baltic Sea
Alan Foreman
University of California – San Diego
Evolution of Deep Ocean Temperature Across the Mid-Pleistocene in a South Atlantic Depth Transect
Michelle Drake
University of California – Santa Cruz
A Record of Ice-Rafting in the Bering Sea 1.3-1.6 Ma: Exploring the Influence of Obliquity and Precession on Ice-Sheet Behavior
2013-2014 Schlanger Fellows
Hannah Liddy
University of Southern California
Pliocene Northeast African Vegetation Change: Implications for Hominin Evolution and Climate During a Mild Greenhouse
Elizabeth Trembath-Reichert
California Institute of Technology
Characterizing Microbial Transformations of Carbon and Nitrogen in Reducing Subseafloor Coal and Shale Environments
Susan Schnur
Oregon State University
A Synthesis of the Volcanostratigraphy and Porosity of Pacific Intra-plate Seamounts
Hannah Rabinowitz
Columbia University
Determining the Frictional Temperature Rise During the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake
WeiLi Hong
Oregon State University
Constraining the Environmental Forcing of Methane Flux Along the Cascadia Margin
2012-2013 Schlanger Fellows
Yi Ge Zhang
Yale University
Late Miocene–Pliocene Evolution of the Pacific Warm Pool and Cold Tongue: Implications for El Niño
Tasha Snow
University of South Florida
Early Circum-Arctic Glacial Decay During Major Deglaciations of the Past 500 kyr
Karla Knudson
University of California – Santa Cruz
Abrupt Changes in Oxygen Recorded in New Laminated Sediments from the Bering Sea (1.2-0 Ma)
Joseph Russell
University of Delaware
Genomic Analyses of Microbial Cultivations in Unexplored Sub-seafloor Ridge Flank and Continental Margin Environments
2011-2012 Schlanger Fellows
Huapei Wang
Rutgers – The State University of New Jersey
Paleomagnetic Inclination Flattening Corrections of IODP/ODP/DSDP Cores by Comparing Inclination Distributions to the TK03.GAD Model: Implications for Paleo-latitudes and Plate Tectonics
Amanda Oehlert
University of Miami
Decoupling of Organic and Inorganic δ13C Records in Periplatform Sediments: A global phenomenon
Fabian Batista
University of California – Santa Cruz
Nitrogen Dynamics of the Western Pacific from the Warm Pliocene and into the Ice Ages
Tali Babila
Rutgers – The State University of New Jersey
Assessing the Phase Relationship of Temperature and pCO2 during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
2010-2011 Schlanger Fellows
Julia Schneider
University of Texas at Austin
Resedimentation of Nankai Mudstones to Illuminate Lithologic Control on Permeability and Compressibility
Sean Jungbluth
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Application of Environmental Genomics to Understanding the Potential Impact of Microorganisms on the Biogeochemistry of the Sediment-Covered Oceanic Basement
Young Ji Joo
Northwestern University
Relative Roles of Carbon, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Sulfur During Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Events’s
Gretchen Gehrke
University of Michigan
Mercury Deposition and Cycling During the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: An Investigation Using Mercury Stable Isotopes
Kelsey Dyck
University of California – Santa Cruz
Western Pacific Warm Pool Sensitivity to Climate Change
2009-2010 Schlanger Fellows
Stella Woodard
Texas A&M University
Early Paleogene Eolian Dust in the Pacific Ocean: Is There a Connection Between Dust Flux and Orbitally Paced Lithologic Cycles?
Leah Schneider
Pennsylvania State University
The Influence of Nannoplankton and the Oceanic Biological Pump on Eocene Climate Change
Francois Paquay
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Marine Osmium and Molybdenum Isotopes as Proxies for the Late Paleocence-Early Eocene Arctic Ventilation and Paleo-Redox Changes
Matthew Knuth
University of Wisconsin – Madison
Dynamic Velocity Under Stress During Shear: A New Technique Using P and S-Waves to Study the Frictional Mechanics of the Upper Nankai Trough Accretionary Prism
Heather Ford
University of California – Santa Cruz
Investigating ENSO Variability Over the Past 5 Million Years
2008-2009 Schlanger Fellows
Robert Viesca
Harvard University
Fundamental Modeling of the Initiation and Propagation of Submarine Sediment Failure
Haojia (Abby) Ren
Princeton University
Study of Ocean Nitrate δ15N Changes over Glacial Cycles at ODP Site 999 Using Foraminifera Bound Nitrogen
Srinath Krishnan
Yale University
Investigation of the Global Hydrological Cycle During Greenhouse-Gas Induced Warming
Greg Horn
University of Southern California
Encouraging Life in the Slow Lane: Development of Solid-Substrate Coninuous Culture Techniques for the Enrichment of Deep-Biosphere Organisms
Andrea Erhardt
Stanford University
Using Molybdenum Isotopes and Concentrations in Marine Barite to Document Changes in Ocean Anoxia
2007-2008 Schlanger Fellows
Masako Tominaga
Texas A&M University
Determination of Volcanostratigraphy of ODP/IODP Hole 1256D: Core-log Integration of Oceanic Crust Formed at a Superfast Spreading Rate
Sindia Sosdian
Rutgers University
The Mid-Pleistocene Transition: Deep Sea Temperature and Global Ice Volume from Mg/Ca and δ18O in Benthic Foraminifera
Heather Schrum
University of Rhode Island
Quantification of Low Rates of Metabolic Activity in the Deep Subseafloor Using Sulfate Oxygen Isotopic Compositions
Daniel Murphy
Texas A&M University
North Pacific Intermediate Water Circulation Over the Last 60 kyr: Southern California Margin
Benjamin Harrison
California Institute of Technology
Novel Methods for Characterizing Microbe Mineral Colonization Patterns in Deep Subsurface Marine Sediments
2006-2007 Schlanger Fellows
Heather McCarren
University of California – Santa Cruz
Depth Dependent Variations in Deep Water Chemistry & Temperature Across the P/E Boundary
Sam VanLaningham
Oregon State University
Documenting the Source of the Meiji Toungue Over the Last 200,000 Years: Implications for Deep Water Dynamics in the North Pacific
Patrick Rafter
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Tropical Pacific Nutrient Dynamics Over the Past 1 Million Years: Mechanistic Insight to the Origin of the 100 Kyr Climate Cycle
Micah Nicolo
Rice University
Eolian Grain-Size Records Across the Paleocene-Eocene Transition: Constraints on Atmospheric Circulation During Global Climate Change
Mark Lever
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Community Composition, Metabolism and Activity of Methanogens at Two Ocean Drilling Program Sites
Hiroko Kitajima
Texas A&M University
Sediment Consolidation State and Fluid Flow Properties of Nankai Trough and Cascadia Margin Accretionary Zones
Paul Craddock
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Using New In Situ Laser-Ablation ICP-MS Techniques to Examine Geochemical Heterogeneity Within Hydrothermal Vent Deposits
Alexandra Abrajevitch
University of Michigan
Rock Magnetic Record of the Asian Monsoon Preserved in Bengal Fan Sediment: A New Look at an Old Problem
2005-2006 Schlanger Fellows
Heather McCarren
University of California – Santa Cruz
Depth Dependent Variations in Deep Water Chemistry & Temperature Across the P/E Boundary
Samuel Hulme
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Lateral and Vertical Biogeochemical Fluxes in a Juan de Fuca Ridge Flank Hydrothermal Reservoir: Minor and Trace Element Systematics
Graham Baines
University of Wyoming
Thermal and Tectonic Evolution of Lower Oceanic Crust at an Ultra-Slow Spreading Ridge
2004-2005 Schlanger Fellows
Xiaoli Liu
Pennsylvania State University
Multiphase Flow Modeling of Gas Hydrate systems at Hydrate Ridge and Blake Ridge
Jennifer Biddle
Pennsylvania State University
Exploration of Subsurface Microorganisms: FISH-SIMS and Cultivation Studies of Sediment Gathered on ODP Leg 201
Sharon Hoffman
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Pa/Th and Stable Isotopic Records of Deep Water Circulation During the Last Interglacial
Alexandra Turchyn
Harvard University
Oxygen Isotopes in Marine Sulfate Over the Cenozoic
2003-2004 Schlanger Fellows
Ivan Savov
University of South Florida
The Role of Forearc in Subduction Zone Chemical Cycles: Elemental and Light Isotope Signatures for Serpentinites from South Chamorro and Conical Seamount
Stephanie Healey
University of South Carolina
A 500,000 Year Record of Deep Sea Temperature and Ice Volume Based on Benthic Foraminiferal Mg/Ca and d18O
Matthew O’Regan
University of Rhode Island
Lateral Fluid Flow in the Nankai Trough Study Area
Joshua Feinberg
University of California – Berkeley
Magnetization of Seafloor Gabbros: Characterization of Crystallographically Oriented Magnetite Inclusions
Kristina Dahl
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Holocene Reconstruction of the Summer and Winter South Asian Monsoon
Anna Cipriani
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Space/Time Mantle Heterogeneity Below the Mid Atlantic Ridge: an Isotopic Study of Peridotites and Gabbros Drilled during Leg 209
2002-2003 Schlanger Fellows
Kristen Averyt
Stanford University
Marine Barite as a Monitor of Seawater Sr/Ca Ratios
Matthew Schmidt
University of California – Davis
Temperature and Hydrological Changes in the Western Caribbean and the Tropical Pacific During the Last 750 kyr
Matthew Makowski
MIT/WHOI Joint Program
Characteristics of Aeolian Organic Matter in a Terrestrial-to-Marine Depositional Transect and Impliations for Millennial-Scale Tropical Climate Change
Michael Hutnak
University of California – Santa Cruz
The Thermal and Hydrothermal State of Subducting Lithosphere: Costa Rica Margin” ODP Leg 205
Heather Benway
Oregon State University
Reconstructing Pycnocline Intensity in the Gulf of Panama to Monitor Low-Latitude Response to Neogene Closure of the Panama Isthmus
Lorraine Lisiecki
Brown University
Faster and More Accurate Construction of Composite Depth Sections Using Dynamic Programming
Nicholas Drenzek
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Spatial and Temporal Variations in the Mixed Layer Radiocarbon Reservoir Age Through the Last Glacial Maximum
2001-2002 Schlanger Fellows
Matthew Schmidt
University of California – Davis
Temperature and Hydrological Changes in the Western Caribbean and the Tropical Pacific During the Last 750 kyr
Cara Santelli
MIT/WHOI Joint Program
The Role of Microorganisms in Alteration of Basaltic Glass in Deep Oceanic Subsurface Environments
Maria Prokopenko
University of Southern California
Fractionation of Nitrogen Isotopes During Early Diagenesis in the Sediments of Peru Margin
Benjamin Cramer
Rutgers University
Evolution of a Warm Climate: Long-Term Paleoceanographic Trends and Short-Term Orbital Forcing of Climate in the Late Paleocene-Early Eocene
2000-2001 Schlanger Fellows
Jennifer Latimer
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
The Influence of Dust Inputs on Biogeochemical Cycles in the Southern Ocean
Aradhna Tripati
University of California – Santa Cruz
Tropical Sea Surface Temperature Reconstruction for the Early Paleogene Using Mg/Ca Ratios of Planktonic Foraminifera
Joan Steurer
University of Missouri-Columbia
Composition, Intrinsic Shear Strength, Physical Properties, and Texture of Sediment at the Nankai Trough, Leg 190: An Integrated Approach
Thomas Werth
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Hunting the Geomagnetic Field
Kevin Theissen
Stanford University
A Quaternary-Pliocene Foraminifera Stable Istope Record for Prydz Bay, Antarctica
Karen McClaughlin
Stanford University
d18O of Phosphate in Organic Matter from Marine Sediments: A Tracer for Paleoenvironmental Conditions
1999-2000 Schlanger Fellows
Robert Valentine
Washington University – St. Louis
Crustal Recycling at the Izu-Bonin-Mariana Convergent Margin: Constraints from B-, Li-, Be-, and Pb- Isotopes and Trace Element Systematics
Brandon Dugan
Pennsylvania State University
Sediment Loading, Lateral Fluid Flow, and Erosion of the Continental Slope in Offshore New Jersey
Michelle Shearer
Rice University
Quaternary Carbonate Preservation and Dissolution in the Caribbean Sea
1998-1999 Schlanger Fellows
Michael Wara
University of California – Santa Cruz
Boron Isotopes in Foraminifera as Tracers of Ocean pH: ODP Site 803D
Deborah Thomas
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Reconstruction of Latest Paleocene Thermal Maximum Deep-water Circulation from Neodymian Isotope Records
Peter Selkin
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Magnetization and Remagnetization of Seafloor Extrusives: Paleointensity, CRM and VRM Experiments
1997-1998 Schlanger Fellows
Katherine McIntyre
University of California – Santa Cruz
Early Pleistocene Climate Change: The 1.6 Ma Transition
Mark Pagani
Pennsylvania State University
The Carbon Cycle and its Relationship to Climatic Variability in the North Atlantic
Helen Perks
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Oxygen Demand Analysis as a Tool for Measuring the Organic Matter Content in Carbonate-rich Sediments
Thomas Marchitto
MIT/WHOI Joint Program
Development and Application of Zinc as a Paleoceanographic Tracer
Stephen Schellenberg
University of Southern California
Geochemical and Faunal Analyses of Ddeep-ocean Ostracodes During Two Transient Climate Extrema of the Paleogene: A Test of Benthic Foram O-based Climate Reconstructions Using Ostracode Mg:Ca Ratios
Michael Helgerud
Stanford University
Experimental Measurement and Theoretical Modeling of the Physical Properties of Sediments Containing Gas Hydrate
Stefanie Brachfeld
University of Minnesota
Rock-magnetic and Paleomagnetic Techniques for the Examination, Correlation, and Dating of Holocene Paleoclimate Signals in Antarctic Glacial-marine Sediments
1996-1997 Schlanger Fellows
Daniel Sigman
MIT/WHOI Joint Program
Tracking the History of Nutrient Conditions in Southern Ocean Surface Waters Using the Nitrogen Isotopic Composition of Sediments and Sediment Fractions
Katharina Billups
University of California – Santa Cruz
Reconstructing Pliocene Equatorial Atlantic Surface Water Hydrography
Mark Pagani
Pennsylvania State University
The Carbon Cycle and its Relationship to Climatic Variability in the North Atlantic
Philip Stauffer
University of California – Santa Cruz
Modeling Deformation and Dewatering in the Barbados Accretionary Complex: Implications for Proto-decollement Evolution
1995-1996 Schlanger Fellows
Roisin Lakings
Duke University
Paleomagnetic and Rock Magnetic Constraints on Large-Scale Normal Faults on the MAR: Gabbros and Serpentinites from ODP Leg 153
Daniel Sigman
MIT/WHOI Joint Program
Tracking the History of Nutrient Conditions in Southern Ocean Surface Waters Using the Nitrogen Isotopic Composition of Sediments and Sediment Fractions
Karin Bernet
University of Miami
The Record of Hierarchies of Sea Level Fluctuations in Cores, Logs, and Seismic Data Along the Great Bahama Bank Transect