Research Interests

• Earth system history and paleoceanography, with a particular emphasis on biosphere response to changes in the ocean-climate system
• Planktic and benthic foraminifera of Cretaceous and Cenozoic age
• Mid-Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Events and plankton community evolution
• Late Cretaceous paleoceanography and sequence stratigraphy of the Western Interior Sea
• Campanian-Maastrichtian paleoceanography of the tropical Pacific
• Middle to late Miocene constriction of the Indonesian Seaway and paleoceanography of the western tropical Pacific

Contact Information

University of Massachussetts
Department of Geosciences
611 N. Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01003

http://www.geo.umass.edu/faculty/leckie/

mleckie@geo.umass.edu