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Past Fellows

2014-2015 Schlanger Fellows

  • Wang_Tony_Schlanger Xingchen Wang
    Princeton University

    " Exploring the Late Pleistocene Marine Nitrogen Cycle in the South Pacific using Nitrogen Isotopes from Fossil Corals from Tahiti "

  • Sauvage_Schlanger2 Justine Sauvage
    University of Rhode Island

    " Global Estimate of Radiolytic Hydrogren Production in Subseafloor Sediment: Importance of Nuclear-Fueled Life in the Deep Seafloor? "

  • Hardisty_Schlanger Dalton Hardisty
    University of California - Riverside

    " A Holocene Record of Temporal and Spatial Variability in Oxygen Deficiency in the Baltic Sea "

  • Foreman_Schlanger Alan Foreman
    University of California - San Diego

    " Evolution of Deep Ocean Temperature Across the Mid-Pleistocene in a South Atlantic Depth Transect "

  • Drake_Schlanger 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

  • Liddy-Schlanger Hannah Liddy
    University of Southern California

    " Pliocene Northeast African Vegetation Change: Implications for Hominin Evolution and Climate During a Mild Greenhouse "

  • SONY DSC Elizabeth Trembath-Reichert
    California Institute of Technology

    " Characterizing Microbial Transformations of Carbon and Nitrogen in Reducing Subseafloor Coal and Shale Environments "

  • Schnur-Schlanger Susan Schnur
    Oregon State University

    " A Synthesis of the Volcanostratigraphy and Porosity of Pacific Intra-plate Seamounts "

  • Rabinowitz-Schlanger Hannah Rabinowitz
    Columbia University

    " Determining the Frictional Temperature Rise During the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake "

  • Hong-Schlanger WeiLi Hong
    Oregon State University

    " Constraining the Environmental Forcing of Methane Flux Along the Cascadia Margin "

2012-2013 Schlanger Fellows

  • Zhang_Schlanger Yi Ge Zhang
    Yale University

    " Late Miocene–Pliocene Evolution of the Pacific Warm Pool and Cold Tongue: Implications for El Niño "

  • Snow_Schlanger Tasha Snow
    University of South Florida

    " Early Circum-Arctic Glacial Decay During Major Deglaciations of the Past 500 kyr "

  • Knudson_Schlanger Karla Knudson
    University of California - Santa Cruz

    " Abrupt Changes in Oxygen Recorded in New Laminated Sediments from the Bering Sea (1.2-0 Ma) "

  • Russell_Schlanger Joseph Russell
    University of Delaware

    " Genomic Analyses of Microbial Cultivations in Unexplored Sub-seafloor Ridge Flank and Continental Margin Environments "

  • Childress_Schlanger Laurel Childress
    Northwestern University

    " Tracking Multicycle Carbon in Active Margin Environments "

2011-2012 Schlanger Fellows

  • Wang2 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 "

  • Oehlert_Schlanger Amanda Oehlert
    University of Miami

    " Decoupling of Organic and Inorganic δ13C Records in Periplatform Sediments: A global phenomenon "

  • Batista_Schlanger Fabian Batista
    University of California - Santa Cruz

    " Nitrogen Dynamics of the Western Pacific from the Warm Pliocene and into the Ice Ages "

  • Babila_Schlanger 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

  • Schneider_Schlanger Julia Schneider
    University of Texas at Austin

    " Resedimentation of Nankai Mudstones to Illuminate Lithologic Control on Permeability and Compressibility "

  • Jungbluth_Schlanger 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 "

  • Joo_Schlanger Young Ji Joo
    Northwestern University

    " Relative Roles of Carbon, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Sulfur During Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Events’s "

  • Gehrke_Schlanger Gretchen Gehrke
    University of Michigan

    " Mercury Deposition and Cycling During the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: An Investigation Using Mercury Stable Isotopes "

  • Dyck_Schlanger Kelsey Dyck
    University of California - Santa Cruz

    " Western Pacific Warm Pool Sensitivity to Climate Change "

2009-2010 Schlanger Fellows

  • Woodard_Schlanger 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? "

  • Schneider_Leah_Schlanger Leah Schneider
    Pennsylvania State University

    " The Influence of Nannoplankton and the Oceanic Biological Pump on Eocene Climate Change "

  • Paquay_Schlanger 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 "

  • Knuth_Schlanger 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 "

  • Ford_Schlanger Heather Ford
    University of California - Santa Cruz

    " Investigating ENSO Variability Over the Past 5 Million Years "

2008-2009 Schlanger Fellows

  • Viesca_Schlanger Robert Viesca
    Harvard University

    " Fundamental Modeling of the Initiation and Propagation of Submarine Sediment Failure "

  • Ren_Schlanger Haojia (Abby) Ren
    Princeton University

    " Study of Ocean Nitrate δ15N Changes over Glacial Cycles at ODP Site 999 Using Foraminifera Bound Nitrogen "

  • Krishnan_Schlanger Srinath Krishnan
    Yale University

    " Investigation of the Global Hydrological Cycle During Greenhouse-Gas Induced Warming "

  • Horn_Schlanger 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 "

  • Erhardt_Schlanger Andrea Erhardt
    Stanford University

    " Using Molybdenum Isotopes and Concentrations in Marine Barite to Document Changes in Ocean Anoxia "

2007-2008 Schlanger Fellows

  • fellow-tominaga 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 "

  • fewllow-schrum Heather Schrum
    University of Rhode Island

    " Quantification of Low Rates of Metabolic Activity in the Deep Subseafloor Using Sulfate Oxygen Isotopic Compositions "

  • fellow-murphy Daniel Murphy
    Texas A&M University

    " North Pacific Intermediate Water Circulation Over the Last 60 kyr: Southern California Margin "

  • fellow-harrison Benjamin Harrison
    California Institute of Technology

    " Novel Methods for Characterizing Microbe Mineral Colonization Patterns in Deep Subsurface Marine Sediments "

2006-2007 Schlanger Fellows

  • 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 "

2004-2005 Schlanger Fellows

  • 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 "

  • 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

  • Matthew O'Regan
    University of Rhode Island

    " Lateral Fluid Flow in the Nankai Trough Study Area "

  • Kristina Dahl
    Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

    " Holocene Reconstruction of the Summer and Winter South Asian Monsoon "

  • 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 "

2002-2003 Schlanger Fellows

  • Matthew Schmidt
    University of California - Davis

    " Temperature and Hydrological Changes in the Western Caribbean and the Central North Atlantic During the Last 450 kyr "

  • 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 "

  • 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 "

  • Joshua Feinberg
    University of California - Berkeley

    " Magnetization of Seafloor Gabbros: Characterization of Crystallographically Oriented Magnetite Inclusions "

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 "

  • Matthew Makowski
    MIT/WHOI Joint Program

    " Characteristics of Aeloian Organic Matter in a Terrestrial-to-Marine Depositional Transect and Impliations for Millennial-Scale Tropical Climate Change "

  • Michael Hutnak
    University of California - Santa Cruz

    " Michael Hutnak, University of California, Santa Cruz “The Thermal and Hydrothermal State of Subducting Lithosphere: Costa Rica Margin” ODP Leg 205 "

  • 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 "

  • 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 "

2000-2001 Schlanger Fellows

  • 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 "

  • Kristen Averyt
    Stanford University

    " Marine Barite as a Monitor of Seawater Sr/Ca Ratios "

1999-2000 Schlanger Fellows

  • Michelle Shearer
    Rice University

    " Quaternary Carbonate Preservation and Dissolution in the Caribbean Sea "

  • 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 "

1998-1999 Schlanger Fellows

  • 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 "

  • 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 "

1997-1998 Schlanger Fellows

  • Michael Wara
    University of California - Santa Cruz

    " Boron Isotopes in Foraminifera as Tracers of Ocean pH: ODP Site 803D "

  • 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

  • Philip Stauffer
    University of California - Santa Cruz

    " Modeling Deformation and Dewatering in the Barbados Accretionary Complex: Implications for Proto-decollement Evolution "

  • 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 "

1995-1996 Schlanger Fellows

  • Katherine McIntyre
    University of California - Santa Cruz

    " Early Pleistocene Climate Change: The 1.6 Ma Transition "

  • 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 "

  • 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 "