Paul Baker
Geology, geochemistry, paleoclimate, paleoceanography
I am interested in how the physical environment (mountains, climate, river, etc) has evolved through time and how that history has affected the biogeographic origins of tropical biota. I am also interested in how the DNA of extant organisms encodes this environmental history and how we can use genetic sequencing to reconstruct environmental history.
Ultimately, I am interested in the biotic and geologic history of the neotropical forest.
Paul A. Baker
Duke University
Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences
Box 90227
Durham, NC 27708 USA
pbaker@duke.edu, 919-684-6450
Catherine Rigsby
Sedimentology, stratigraphy, landscape evolution
Rigsby is a sedimentologist with interests in the broad field of Quaternary environmental history. She and her students do extensive field work (and/or core analysis) relating sedimentology to paleoclimatology, landscape and land-use change.
Most recently, that work has been in tropical South America (the Andes and the Amazon Basin) where her group is examining fluvial, lacustrine, and shallow marine sediments with the aim of reconstructing past environments and the response of those environments it climate change, the evolution of the Amazon/Andes system.
Catherine A. Rigsby
Department of Geological Sciences
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 27858
Wout Salenbien
Geology, paleontology, geochemistry, paleoclimatology
My main interest is how climate, the physical environment, biota and thus ultimately system Earth has changed through time and what these observed changes can tell us. Currently I am focusing on the neotropical forests of Peru & Brazil and Lake Titicaca.
Duke University
Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences
Box 90227
Durham, NC 27708 USA
Allan Sandes De Oliveira (UFF)
Paleoclimatology, paleoceanography
Paleoclimatological/paleoceanographical reconstructions using isotopes (Ca/Mg) as main tool. Dynamics of the Amazon Basin, north of Brazil. Focusing on the geology, morphology, biodiversity and pollen distribution.
+55(21) 98740-2915
+1(919) 592-6017
Mauro B. de Toledo (UFF)
Palynology, Paleoecology, Paleoclimate, Paleoceanography
I study the impacts of climate changes on plant communities in tropical South America. I am also interested on how human populations have shaped vegetation through changes in land-use. Using pollen and charcoal analysis I am able to investigate how vegetation communities have changed through time and infer fire dynamics as well, and relate those changes to climate and environmental changes.
Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)
Departamento de Geologia
(55-21) 2629-5977
