President 2004/2005

Research Interests

• Impact of changes in environment and climate on living organisms on various time scales, from millions of years to decades, with the common focal point of benthic foraminifera.
• Understanding the development of high-diversity deep-sea faunas through periods of major climate change and mass extinction, such as the mass extinction caused by meteorite impact at the end of the Cretaceous (65 million years ago).

Honors and Awards

• 1996 W. Storrs Cole Memorial Research Award, Geological Society of America
• 1995 Editor's Citation for Excellence in Refereeing, Paleoceanography
• 2004-2005 JOI-USSAC Distinghuished Lecturer
  

Contact Information

Yale University
Dept. of Geology & Geophysics
P. O. Box 208109
New Haven, CT 06520-8109 USA

http://ethomas.web.wesleyan.edu

ethomas@mail.wesleyan.edu