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Timothy James Bralower is an American micropaleontologist and professor of Geosciences at Pennsylvania State University. His research focuses on abrupt climate change and mass extinction[1]. He has authored or co-authored over 150 scientific publications. He has participated in five expeditions with the International Ocean Discovery Program to the Caribbean Sea, Indian and Pacific Oceans, and served as co-chief scientist of Leg 198 in the Pacific.
Academic Background
[edit]Bralower received a BA in Geology from the University of Oxford in 1980, an MS in Oceanography (1982), and a PhD in Earth Science (1986) from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. He joined the faculty of Florida International University in 1987, then the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1990. Bralower served as Department Chair of Geological Sciences from 1998-2002 before joining the Department of Geosciences at The Pennsylvania State University where he served as Department Head from 2003-2011. In 2011-2012 Bralower was a Visiting Professor at the University of New South Wales.[2]
Honors
[edit]- Hettelman Junior Faculty Research Prize, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (1995)
- Joseph Soane Professor of Geological and Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1998-2002)
- Fulbright Senior Scholarship, University of New South Wales (2011-12)
- Fellow Geological Society of America (2017)
- George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching, The Pennsylvania State University (2020)
References
[edit]Selected Publications
[edit]1. Kaplan, S. (2016, December 13). "Right after an asteroid killed the dinosaurs, life returned to the scene of the crime". Washington Post.
2. Kump, Lee; Bralower, Timothy; Ridgwell, Andy (December 1, 2009). "Ocean Acidification in Deep Time". Oceanography, 22 (4): 94–107. doi:10.5670/oceanog.2009.100.
3. Lowery, C. M., Bralower, T. J., et al.(2018). Rapid recovery of life at ground zero of the end-cretaceous mass extinction. Nature (London), 558(7709), 288-291. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0163-6
4. Bowen, G. J., Bralower, T. J., et al.(2006). Eocene hyperthermal event offers insight into greenhouse warming. Eos (Washington, D.C.), 87(17), 165-169. https://doi.org/10.1029/2006EO170002
5. Bralower, T. J., Premoli Silva, I., Malone, M. J., Thomas, D. J., Anonymous, & Ocean Drilling Program, Leg 198, Shipboard Scientific Party. (2002). New evidence for abrupt climate change in the cretaceous and paleogene; ocean drilling program leg 198 to shatsky rise, northwest pacific. Eos (Washington, D.C.), 83(47), F945.
6. Gosselin, D. C., Manduca, C., Bralower, T., & Mogk, D. (2013). Transforming the teaching of geoscience and sustainability. Eos (Washington, D.C.), 94(25), 221-222. https://doi.org/10.1002/2013EO250002
7. Rodríguez-Tovar, F. J., Kaskes, P., et al. (2022). Life before impact in the chicxulub area: Unique marine ichnological signatures preserved in crater suevite. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 11376-11376. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-15566-z
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