Ellen Thomas (scientist)

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Ellen Thomas (born 1950, Hengelo) [1] 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.

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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 to 2019, published by the American Geophysical Union. [5]

Awards and honors

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. 1 2 "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. ↑ "Fellowship - Current Fellows". www.geosociety.org. Retrieved 2025-08-18.
  9. ↑ Laia Alegret, Bruce W. Hayward, R. Mark Leckie, Paul N. Pearson; 2020 Joseph A. Cushman Award to Ellen Thomas. Journal of Foraminiferal Research 2021;; 51 (1): 1–3. doi: https://doi.org/10.2113/gsjfr.51.1.1
  10. ↑ "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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