T223 Cushman Foundation Symposium: Addressing Coastal Concerns with Micropaleontological Applications to Environmental Proxies, Reconstructions, and Deep-Time Analogs

Tuesday, 24 September 2019
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room 228AB, North Building

Presentations

• 1:40 PM
  SHELF FORAMINIFERA AS INDICATORS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES IN COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS: LINKAGES BETWEEN PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE?
  Ellen Thomas, Yale University, New Haven, CT
  337966 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:55 PM
  INCORPORATION OF HEAVY METALS IN EXPERIMENTALLY GROWN FORAMINIFERA FROM SAPELO ISLAND, GEORGIA AND LITTLE DUCK KEY, FLORIDA, USA
  Christopher W. Smith, University of Georgia, Athens, GA and Jennifer S. Fehrenbacher, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR and Susan Goldstein, Univ Georgia Dept Geology, Athens, GA
  331649 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:10 PM
  PRISTINE TO MODERN: A COMPARISON OF SHALLOW-WATER MODERN AND MID-HOLOCENE BENTHIC FORAMINIFERAL ASSEMBLAGES FROM COASTAL BOCAS DEL TORO, PANAMA
  Maria N. Gudnitz Sider, Florida International University, Miami, FL and Laurel Collins, Florida International University, Miami, FL
  339802 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:25 PM
  ON REPLICATES FOR COMPARING SPECIES DENSITIES IN SPACE AND TIME
  Martin A. Buzas, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and Pamela Buzas-Stephens, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO and Lee-Ann C. Hayek, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and Jeffrey S. Buzas, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
  334199 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:40 PM
  WHAT EXACTLY ARE LARGER BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA? WHY DEFINITIONS MATTER
  Pamela Hallock, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL
  336796 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:55 PM
  CALIBRATING LIVE-DEAD MISMATCH IN EPIPHYTIC FORAMINIFERAL ASSEMBLAGES
  Susan Richardson, Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University, Jupiter, FL
  337235 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:25 PM
  MICROPALEONTOLOGIC INDICATORS OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND GEOMORPHOLOGIC CHANGE ON THE MID-ATLANTIC SHELF ACROSS THE PALEOCENE-EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUM
  Marci M. Robinson, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and Jean Self-Trail, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and Timothy Bralower, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA and Whittney E. Spivey, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA
  338909 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:40 PM
  SHIFTING DOMINANT BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA IN GRAND BAY, MISSISSIPPI OVER THE LAST 100 YEARS INDICATES ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  Alisha M. Ellis, U.S. Geological Survey, St. Petersburg, FL and Christopher G. Smith, U.S. Geological Survey, St. Petersburg, FL
  335348 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:55 PM
  THE HISTORY AND PROSPECTS OF HABITAT CHANGE DUE TO SEA LEVEL RISE FOR FLORIDA’S COASTAL EVERGLADES USING BENTHIC FORAMINIFERAL ASSEMBLAGES
  Zoë R.F. Verlaak, Florida International University, Miami, FL and Laurel Collins, Florida International University, Miami, FL
  335746 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:10 PM
  QUANTIFYING THE IMPACTS OF THE MID-MIOCENE CLIMATE OPTIMUM AND MID-MIOCENE CLIMATE TRANSITION ON THE BENTHIC FORAMINIFERAL COMMUNITIES OF THE CHESAPEAKE GROUP, CALVERT CLIFFS, MD
  Seth R. Sutton, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC and Stephen Culver, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC and David Mallinson, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC and Marci M. Robinson, Florence Bascom Geoscience Center, Reston, VA and Harry J. Dowsett, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and Martin A. Buzas, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
  340472 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:25 PM
  TRANSFORMATION IN PHYTOPLANKTON ECOSYSTEMS CAUSED BY RAPID WARMING AND SEA LEVEL RISE IN THE PLEISTOCENE CARIACO BASIN (MIS 9-7)
  Adriana I. Rizzo, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA and Adriana I. Rizzo, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA and Timothy J. Bralower, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA and Richard S. Vachula, Brown University, Providence, RI and Yongsong Huang, Brown University, Providence, RI and Katherine Freeman, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
  339871 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:40 PM
  COASTAL AND NERITIC FORAMINIFERA OF UTAH: A RECORD OF OCEANIC ANOXIC EVENT 2 (~94-93 MA) IN THE US WESTERN INTERIOR SEA
  R. Mark Leckie, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA and Amanda L. Parker, Department of Geosciences UMass, Amherst, MA and F. Garrett Boudinot, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO and Julio Sepúlveda, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO and Matthew M. Jones, University of Michigan, NA and Bradley Sageman, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL and Timothy J. Bralower, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA and Rosie Oakes, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
  340448 (Technical Sessions)