Ellen Thomas (scientist) explained

Ellen Thomas (born 1950, Hengelo)^[1] is a Dutch-born environmental scientist and geologist specializing in marine micropaleontology and paleoceanography. She is the emerita Harold T Stearns Professor and the Smith Curator of Paleontology of the Joe Webb Peoples Museum of Natural History at Wesleyan University, and a senior research scientist at Yale University.

Academic career and research

Thomas attended the University of Utrecht (BSc, 1971; MSc 1975; and PhD, 1979).^[2] Thomas studies environmental and climate change over geologic timescales, specializing in the study of benthic foraminifera. Thomas was the first scientist to discover a mass extinction in benthic foraminifera close to the Paleocene-Eocene boundary,^[3] now recognized as a result of the climate event known as the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum, for which she received the 2012 Maurice Ewing medal of the American Geophysical Union and Ocean Naval Research.^[4]

Thomas was editor-in-chief of the journal Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology from 2015 to 2019, published by the American Geophysical Union.^[5]

Awards and honors

• 2011 - Fellow AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science).^[6]
• 2012 - Maurice Ewing Medal of the American Geophysical Union.^[4]
• 2016 - Brady Medal of The Micropalaeontological Society.^[7]
• 2019 - Fellow GSA (Geological Society of America)
• 2020 - Joseph A. Cushman Medal for Excellence in Foraminiferal Research
• 2022 - BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award.^[8] in Climate Change, shared with J. C. Zachos

Notes and References

1. http://dap.library.uu.nl/frames.html?zoeken Digitaal Album Promotorum
2. Web site: Career Profile, Ellen Thomas, Micropaleontologist. awg.org.
3. Web site: Development of Cenozoic deep-sea benthic foraminiferal faunas in Antarctic waters. Geological Society, London, Special Publications.
4. Web site: Ellen Thomas: 2012 Maurice Ewing Medal Winner. agu.org.
5. Web site: Editorial Board. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/. 10.1002/(ISSN)1944-9186.
6. Web site: Summer . Allen . 5 Things About Me: Micropaleontologist/Paleoceanographer Ellen Thomas . aaas.org . December 12, 2014 .
7. https://www.tmsoc.org/awards/ Brady Medal 2016
8. Web site: Paleoclimatologists James Zachos and Ellen Thomas win the Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change for identifying a "greenhouse effect" 56 million years ago that serves to predict the destructive impacts of today's human-induced global warming .