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- ↑ "Career Profile, Ellen Thomas, Micropaleontologist". awg.org.
- ↑ "Development of Cenozoic deep-sea benthic foraminiferal faunas in Antarctic waters" (PDF). Geological Society, London, Special Publications.
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- ↑ Allen, Summer (December 12, 2014). "5 Things About Me: Micropaleontologist/Paleoceanographer Ellen Thomas". aaas.org.
- ↑ Brady Medal 2016
- ↑ https://www.geosociety.org/GSA/GSA/Awards/Fellows.aspx
- ↑ 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
- ↑ "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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