Welcome,
Seth Sutton (University of Wisconsin- Madison) with his project entitled “The Mid-Paleocene Biotic Event and Its Impact on Neritic Benthic Foraminiferal Communities from the U.S. Atlantic Coastal Plain”
Giulia Amaglio (University of Milano) with her project entitled “Population dynamics and geochemistry of benthic and planktonic foraminifera to interpret the paleoceanographic changes across the Cenomanian-Turonian Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 at low and high latitudes”
Dhanushka Devendra (Institute of Oceanology) with his project entitled “Reconstruction of post-glacial changes in oceanographic conditions in the Nordic Seas based on benthic and planktonic foraminiferal assemblages”
Jamie Suarez-Ibarra of Charles University / Univerzita Karlova, Manuel Weinkauf, advisor) for “Reading between the lines: Ecological and taphonomical signals in late Quaternary planktonic Foraminifera test size variation”
Tommaso Paoloni of Heriot-Watt University, Babette Hoogakker, advisor, for “Composition of the organic carbon bound within planktonic foraminifera calcite and creating the first record of δ13CForam_OM”
Chloe Jones of University of Southampton, Tom Ezard, advisor, for “Do biotic factors buffer against climate-driven extinction threats?”
Amanda Andreas, “Cytological and physiological impacts of toxic metals on an agglutinated Antarctic foraminifer”. University at Albany, State University of New York.
Anya Hess, “Calibrating the I/Ca proxy in modern planktonic foraminifera in different oxygen settings using core tops from a transect across the equatorial Pacific”. Rutgers University.
Shawn Taylor, “Using planktic foraminiferal assemblages to reconstruct the Pleistocene behavior of the Kuroshio Current Extension and infer paleobiogeographic patterns across glacial-interglacial cycles”. Binghamton University, State University of New York.
Lloyd Anderson, “Reconstructing Paleogene atmospheric CO2 by cross-calibrating the boron isotope geochemistry and paleoecologies of Paleocene to Oligocene planktic foraminifera”. Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
Yuxin Zhou, “First stable isotope and Mg/Ca measurements on sessile benthic foraminifera Rupertina stabilis”. Lamont Doherty / Columbia University.
Vandana Gupta Kumari, “Modern benthic foraminiferal assemblage in response to environmental parameters in the Indian Sundarbans mangrove ecosystem”. University of Calcutta.
Lorna Kearns, “A multi-scale investigation into the impact of abiotic changes on ecological communities”. University of Southampton.
Caitlin Livsey, “Assessing the geochemical variability in Neogloboquadrina pachyderma calcite and the implications for high-latitude paleoceanography”. University of California, Davis.
Brittany Hupp, “Stable Isotopes as a Taphonomic Filter: Deconvolving the Effects of Sediment Mixing on Planktic Foraminiferal Assemblages of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum”. University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Adriane Lam, “Testing plankton speciation and dispersal dynamics in Western Boundary Currents and across ocean basins: Paleoceanographic study of the Globoconella lineage”. University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Trine Edvardsen, “Foraminiferal studies of the Cretaceous-Palaeogene succession – from the chalks of NW Europe to IODP-recovered samples of the Australian western margin”. The Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen.
Anieke Brombacher, "Disentangling synergistic climate drivers on the evolution of planktonic foraminifera". National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK.
Elizabeth Brown, “Morphological variability in the Globigerinoides ruber-elongatus plexus and its implications.” University of South Florida, USA.
Emily Osborne, "Development and Application of Foraminiferal Carbonate System Proxies to Quantify Ocean Acidification within the California Current System." University of South Carolina, USA.
Catherine Davis, "Planktic Foraminifera of the Central California Margin: Seasonality and Laboratory Culture for applications in Paleothermometry and Paleoceanography," University of California, Davis, USA.
Natasha Mendez-Ferrer, "Characterizing photic stress in Amphistegina gibbosa d’Orbigny," University of South Florida, USA.
Kate Salmon, "How has recent ocean acidification affected the biocalcification and ecology of planktonic foraminifera?” Open University, United Kingdom.
Roberto Sierra, "Phylogenomics of Foraminifera," University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Jennifer Hertzberg, “Mg/Ca Paleothermometry in Planktonic Foraminifera: Proxy Refinement and Applications in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific,” Texas A&M University, USA.
Claudio Stalder, "Benthic foraminifera assemblages from cold-water coral ecosystems: comparing active, declining, buried modern and fossil analogues, "University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Kate Leigh Strachan," Reconstructing sea-level change along the east and south coast of South Africa," University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Manuel Weinkauf, "Morphological variability and symmetry of foraminiferal shells in response to rapid environmental change," University of Bremen, Germany.
The purpose of the fellowship is to recognize and forward the careers of outstanding doctoral candidates committed to the advancement of foraminiferal research. This fellowship is made possible by a gift from the estate of Johanna M. Resig, a lifelong specialist on Foraminifera and former editor of the Journal of Foraminiferal Research.
The fellowship will be awarded to an advanced doctoral candidate.
The fellowship application must include the following:
All application materials must be received by March 1. Letters or supporting materials sent separately should clearly state their purpose in support of the applicant. All application materials should be sent to the Cushman Foundation’s Secretary/Treasurer in hard copy or by email. The preferred format for electronic submission is pdf. Other acceptable formats are MSWord and Wordperfect.
Submit items to: cushmanfoundation@gmail.com.