D. Clay Kelly

Research

Application of marine microfossils (planktonic foraminifera) to studies in biostratigraphy, paleoceanography, and biotic evolution. My research interests span a broad spectrum of spatiotemporal scales ranging from global patterns of deep-sea sedimentation over the past 150 million years down to micrometer-sized geochemical measurements within an individual microfossil. The overarching goal is to develop a clearer picture of how ocean-climate change relates to evolution of marine ecosystems, with particular emphasis on past global warming events and carbon cycle perturbations that have occurred over the course of Earth history.

Publications

Teaching

• GEOSCI 105: Oceanography
• GEOSCI 110: Evolution and Extinction
• GEOSCI 204: Geologic Evolution of the Earth
• GEOSCI 304: Geobiology
• GEOSCI 551: Paleoceanography
• GEOS 740: Marine Micropaleontology

Current Graduate Students

• Thaïs Altenberg-Vaz
• Cheyanne Koran
• Seth Sutton