Recent (late Quaternary to modern) environmental change in the marine environment, utilizing the geochemistry of microfossils and corals to understand:
rates and magnitude of climate change,
response and adaptation of marine species to environmental change
role of methane emissions in climate change and marine geological processes
impact of climate change on carbon cycling and oceanic anoxia
connections between climate change in marine and terrestrial environments
anthropogenic impacts on the ocean system, including ocean acidification and anoxia
Research utilizes several proxies in the paleoceanographic record as indicators of temperature and environmental change, such as:
L-R: Sarah Myhre, Tessa Hill and Sarah Flores enjoying sediment coring aboard the R/V Melville, 2008
Hill lab "family" 2008: Clockwise around Tessa and Mac: Sarah Myhre, Ph.D. student, Kari McLaughlin, REU student, Sverre Leroy, REU student, Chris Myrvold, Ph.D. student, Bart Critser, M.S. student. (missing Sarah Flores, M.S. student, and Anne Fisher, REU student).
