David Black - Dave is still reconstructing the Holocene (and other intervals) one millimeter at a time …  1,023,727 foraminifera have been counted thus far!

Jennifer Hertzberg - Jen completed a B.S. in Geology at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst, and started working on in our lab in 2007.  Her Ph.D. work will explore ultra high-resolution tropical Atlantic climate variability during Interstadial-12, a time when global boundary conditions (e.g., sea level, ice volume, etc.) were very different from today.  Jen will be counting lots and lots of forams!

Brittany Mauer - Brit started working in the lab in her freshman year, and has been doing everything from basic sample processing, to picking individual forams for geochemical analyses, to performing foraminiferal census counts.  She recently returned from 6 weeks at sea in the Pacific as part of the SEA Semester.  Brit is double majoring in Marine Science and Chemistry.

Shaily Rahman - Shaily joined SoMAS in 2007 as a Ph.D. student after finishing her M.S. at McGill University.  She is particularly interested in trace metal biogeochemistry in marine sediments.  She is currently performing Mg/Ca analyses on planktic foraminifera to reconstruct seasonal sea surface temperatures.

Jennifer Wurtzel - Jen started at SoMAS in 2008 after spending four winters at the University of Michigan (they don’t really have years in Michigan - just winter).  Jen’s thesis study will create über-high resolution tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures spanning the last 2000 years.