Patty Standring

Co-advised by Dr. Chris Lowery and Dr. Rowan Martindale for PhD. My current research is focused on paleoceanographic changes across the Eocene-Oligocene Transition (EOT), a period of prominent global climate cooling ~34 million years ago, coinciding with changes in ocean circulation, chemistry, and the first permanent glaciation of Antarctica. I am studying changes in deep ocean circulation in the southern Gulf of Mexico using the geochemistry and paleoecology of benthic foraminifera, changes in surface circulation in the western South Atlantic using the paleoecology of planktic foraminifera, and changes in carbonate preservation using Computed Tomography scanning of benthic and planktic foraminifera.