Leadership

Officers

Richard Fluegeman

President

Research Interests

Paleogene Biostratigraphy
Paleogene Benthic Foraminifera
Applied Micropaleontology

Contact Information

Environment, Geology, and Natural Resources
Ball State University
2000 West University Ave.
Muncie, IN 47306-2554
USA

Joan Bernhard

President-Elect

Research Interests

Benthic foraminiferal ecology and cell biology.
Protistan-prokaryote symbioses.
Microaerophilic and anaerobic protists from Oxygen Minimum Zones and methane and cold seeps.
Biogeochemistry of redox boundary sediments in both modern and ancient environments.
Culturing of deep-sea benthic foraminifera to ground truth paleoceanographic proxies and environmental impacts.
Microbial communities of laminated sediments
Sub-millimeter life positions of microorganisms in sediments.
Application of various microscopic techniques (TEM, SEM, LSCM, NanoSIMS) to marine microbial ecology

Contact Information

266 Woods Hole Road, MS #52
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543
508-289-3480
jbernhard@whoi.edu
www2.whoi.edu/staff/jbernhard

Scott Ishman

Past President

Research Interests

Benthic foraminiferal ecology and paleoecology.
Foraminifera as paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic indicators.
High-latitude Cenozoic benthic foraminifera.

Contact Information

Kansas Geological Survey
University of Kansas
1930 Constant Avenue
Lawrence, KS 66047
785-864-1791
sishman@ku.edu

Crystal Pletka

Secretary

Research Interests

Biostratigraphy and Paleoenvironment of the Gulf of Mexico and surrounding regions.
Cenozoic foraminiferal evolution, paleobiogeography, and diversity.

Contact Information

Ellington Geological Services
1414 Lumpkin Rd
Houston, TX 77077
cpletka@gmail.com

R. Mark Leckie

Treasurer

Research Interests

Earth system history and paleoceanography, with a particular emphasis on biosphere response to changes in the ocean-climate system.
Planktic and benthic foraminifera of Cretaceous and Cenozoic age.
Mid-Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Events and plankton community evolution.
Late Cretaceous paleoceanography and sequence stratigraphy of the Western Interior Sea.
Campanian-Maastrichtian paleoceanography of the tropical Pacific.
Miocene paleoceanography and sea level of the western tropical-subtropical Pacific.
Oligocene and Miocene planktic foram taxonomy

Contact Information

University of Massachusetts
Department of Geosciences
611 N. Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01003
www.geo.umass.edu/people/r-mark-leckie
mleckie@geo.umass.edu

Board of Directors

Pamela Buzas Stephens

Board Member

Research Interests

Living/Dead benthic estuarin foramimifera, especailly Texas coast
Estuarine environmental assessment: salinity, oxygen, heavy metals, population dynamics
Holocene climate change as recorded by benthic foraminiferia
Macroevolution

Contact Information

University of Colorado

Department of Geological Sciences

Museum of Natural History

UCB 399

Boulder, CO 80309-0399

Web: www.colorado.edu/geologicalsciences/pamela-stephens

Email.pamela.stephens@colorado.edu

Laurel Collins

Board Member

Research Interests

Benthic foraminifera paleoecology, paleobiogeography and evolution.
Rise of the Isthmus of Panama: timing, rates of uplift, and biotic effects.
Effects of deep sea oil spill on benthic foraminifera.
Paleoenvironmental change in South Florida.

Contact Information

Professor Emerita
Department of Earth and Environment
Florida International University
Miami, FL 33199 USA
collinsl@fiu.edu

Megan Fung

Board Member

Research Interests

Benthic Foraminifera.
Integrating micropaleontological and geochemical data.
Hyperthermal events.

Contact Information

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
California Lutheran University
60 West Olsen Road #3700
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
mkfung@callutheran.edu

Brian T. Huber

Board Member

Research Interests

Planktonic foraminiferal evolution, diversity, species turnover events
Foraminiferal and geochemical evidence for long- and short-term climate, ocean, and biotic change principally during the Cretaceous and Paleogene
Mid-Cretaceous oceanic anoxic events

Contact Information

Department of Paleobiology, MRC NHB-121
PO Box 37012
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
10th and Constitution Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20013-7012
huberb@si.edu

Lizette Leon-Rodriguez

Board Member

Research Interests

Cretaceous and Cenozoic planktonic foraminifera biostratigraphy and the application of benthic foraminifers as indicators of paleoenvironments. I am particularly interested in using microfossils and biofacies to evaluate projects for CCS (Reservoir and Seal facies)
Ocean acidification. I have used the combination of geochemical (13Cbulk, 18Obulk, and carbonate content) and micropaleontological tools (preferential dissolution of planktonic foraminifers) to estimate short-term CCD fluctuations in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean before, during, and after four hyperthermal events of the Early Eocene.
Benthic foraminifers as paleobathymetric indicators. Evaluation of the Pleistocene uplift occurred in sedimentary deposits in the Burica Peninsula (Panama and Costa Rica) as a result of the Cocos Ridge subduction beneath the Central American Arc.
Planktonic foraminifera biostratigraphy of mid to upper Albian sedimentary rocks in the Upper Magdalena Valley Basin, Colombia

Contact Information

Senior Stratigrapher and Biostratigraphic Consultant
Ellington Geological Services
Lizette.LR@ellingtongeo.com

Miriam Katz

Board Member

Research Interests

Benthic foraminifera.
Assemblages, stable isotopes and trace elements in paleoceanography.
Paleobathymetric calibrations and reconstructions.
Sequence stratigraphy.

Contact Information

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY 12180
katzm@rpi.edu

Peter McLaughlin

Board Member

Research Interests

Applied micropaleontology (palynology, foraminifera)
Sequence stratigraphy and aquifer/reservoir characterization
Cretaceous and Neogene palynology of the eastern USA
Miocene foraminifera of the Caribbean and eastern USA

Contact Information

Delaware Geological Survey
University of Delaware
DGS Building, 257 Academy Street
Newark, DE 19716-7501
www.dgs.udel.edu/profile/peter-p-mclaughlin
ppmclau@udel.edu

Ken Miller

Board Member

Research Interests

Global sea-level change
Cenozoic oxygen isotopes
Neogene stratigraphy

Contact Information

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences + Institute of Earth, Oceans, and Atmospheric Sciences
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
610 Taylor Rd.
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8066
ph: 848-445-3622
cell: 609-507-3297
kgm@rutgers.edu

Maria Rose Petrizzo

Board Member

Research Interests

Cretaceous planktonic foraminifera taxonomy, biostratigraphy and biozonation
Evolutionary trends in Cretaceous and Paleogene planktonic foraminifera and biological response to short and long term paleoceanographic changes
Foraminiferal stable isotope paleoecology and species depth ranking during the Cretaceous
Reconstruction of Cretaceous ocean paleotemperature through stable isotopes on foraminifera to document the global climatic warming and cooling transitions from low to southern high latitudes
Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Events (OAEs)

Contact Information

Università degli Studi di Milano
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra "A. Desio"
via Mangiagalli 34,
20133 Milano, Italy
mrose.petrizzo@unimi.it
unimi.it/it/ugov/person/mrose-petrizzo

Lisa White

Board Member

Research Interests

Miocene paleoceanography of the northeastern Pacific Ocean
Diatom biostratigraphy and biosiliceous sedimentation
Calcareous-siliceous bedding cycles in the Monterey Formation of California
Accessible educational materials design in paleontology, evolution, and field geoscience to reach broad and diverse audiences

Contact Information

University of California Museum of Paleontology
1101 Valley Life Sciences Bldg. #4780
Berkeley, CA 94720-4780
ldwhite@berkeley.edu
510-664-4966
ucmp.berkeley.edu/people/lisa-white/

Fabiana K. Almeida

Student/Early Career Board Member

Research Interests

Application of benthic foraminiferal species distributions in the study of Quaternary slope and submarine canyon environments.
Integrating deep-sea benthic foraminifera and geochemical data as paleoproductivity indicators.
Benthic foraminifera assemblages as paleobathymetric indicators.

Contact Information

Federal University of Espírito Santo
Department of Oceanography and Ecology
Vitória, ES, Brazil, 29075-910
fkalmeida@gmail.com

Natalia Szymanska

Student/Early Career Board Member

Research Interests

Benthic foraminifera from the Arctic Ocean
Foraminifera and the carbon cycle
Holocene history of the Nordic Seas

Contact Information

Department of Paleoceanography

Institute of Oceanology

Polish Academy of Sciences

Powstancow Warszawy 55

81-712 Sopot, Poland

Email: natalia@iopan.pl

Publication Leadership

Marci Robinson

Chief Editor, JFR

Research Interests

Planktic foraminifera from warm climates of the Cenozoic
Paleoenvironmental reconstruction
Biostratigraphy and stratigraphic correlation
Coastal geomorphology

Contact Information

Research Geologist, US Geological Survey
Florence Bascom Geoscience Center
MS 926A National Center
12201 Sunrise Valley Drive
Reston, VA 20192
jfreditorinchief@gmail.com or
mmrobinson@usgs.gov

Pamela Buzas Stephens

Special Publications Editor

Research Interests

Living/Dead benthic estuarin foramimifera, especailly Texas coast
Estuarine environmental assessment: salinity, oxygen, heavy metals, population dynamics
Holocene climate change as recorded by benthic foraminiferia
Macroevolution

Contact Information

University of Colorado

Department of Geological Sciences

Museum of Natural History

UCB 399

Boulder, CO 80309-0399

Web: www.colorado.edu/geologicalsciences/pamela-stephens

Email.pamela.stephens@colorado.edu

Honorary Directors

Paul Brenckle
Martha T. Collier
Stephen Culver
Don Eicher
Susan T. Goldstein
Eduardo Koutsoukous
Paul Loubere
Pamela Hallock Muller
Emile Pessagno
Charles Ross
Barun Sen Gupta
Scott W. Snyder
Ellen Thomas
Kenneth M. Towe

Student/Early Career Director

Vanessa Londono
Natalia Szymanska

Leadership

Officers

Richard Fluegeman

Joan Bernhard

Scott Ishman

Crystal Pletka

R. Mark Leckie

Board of Directors

Pamela Buzas Stephens

Laurel Collins

Megan Fung

Brian T. Huber

Lizette Leon-Rodriguez

Miriam Katz

Peter McLaughlin

Ken Miller

Maria Rose Petrizzo

Lisa White

Fabiana K. Almeida

Natalia Szymanska

Publication Leadership

Marci Robinson

Pamela Buzas Stephens

Honorary Directors

Student/Early Career Director

Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research Inc.

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