Current and Past Fellows


2008 - 2009 Schlanger Fellows

  • Andrea Erhardt, Stanford University
    "Using Molybdenum Isotopes and Concentrations in Marine Barite to Document Changes in Ocean Anoxia"
    ODP Legs 159 and 198 and IODP Expedition 319

  • Greg Horn, University of Southern California
    "Encouraging Life in the Slow Lane: Development of Solid-Substrate Coninuous Culture Techniques for the Enrichment of Deep-Biosphere Organisms"
    Multiple ODP Legs and IODP Expeditions

  • Srinath Krishnan , Yale University
    "Investigation of the Global Hydrological Cycle During Greenhouse-Gas Induced Warming"
    DSDP Legs 80 and 86, ODP Legs 143, 154, 171, 198, 207, and 208, and IODP Expediton 302

  • Haojia (Abby) Ren, Princeton Universiy
    "Study of Ocean Nitrate δ15N Changes over Glacial Cycles at ODP Site 999 Using Foraminifera Bound Nitrogen"
    ODP Leg 165

  • Robert Viesca, Harvard University
    "Fundamental Modeling of the Initiation and Propagation of Submarine Sediment Failure"
    ODP Legs 150 and 174A and IODP Expediton 308

2007 - 2008 Schlanger Fellows

 

2006 - 2007 Schlanger Fellows

  • Alexandra Abrajevitch, University of Michigan
    "Rock Magnetic Record of the Asian Monsoon Preserved in Bengal Fan Sediment: A New Look at an Old Problem"
    ODP Leg 116

  • Paul Craddock, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
    "Using New In Situ Laser-Ablation ICP-MS Techniques to Examine Geochemical Heterogeneity Within Hydrothermal Vent Deposits"
    ODP Legs 193 and 158

  • Hiroko Kitajima, Texas A&M University
    "Sediment Consolidation State and Fluid Flow Properties of Nankai Trough and Cascadia Margin Accretionary Zones"
    ODP Legs 190 and 196 and IODP Expedition 311

  • Mark Lever, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    "Community Composition, Metabolism and Activity of Methanogens at Two Ocean Drilling Program Sites"
    ODP Leg 201 and IODP Expedition 301

  • Micah Nicolo, Rice University
    "Eolian Grain-Size Records Across the Paleocene-Eocene Transition: Constraints on Atmospheric Circulation During Global Climate Change"
    ODP Legs 198 and 208

  • Patrick Rafter, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
    "Tropical Pacific Nutrient Dynamics Over the Past 1 Million Years: Mechanistic Insight to the Origin of the 100 Kyr Climate Cycle"
    ODP Legs 130, 138, and 202

  • Sam VanLaningham, Oregon State University
    "Documenting the Source of the Meiji Toungue Over the Last 200,000 Years: Implications for Deep Water Dynamics in the North Pacific"
    DSDP Leg 19 and ODP Leg 145

 

2004 - 2005 Schlanger Fellows

  • Alexandra Turchyn, Harvard University
    "Oxygen Isotopes in Marine Sulfate over the Cenozoic"
    DSDP, ODP Legs 85, 86, 198, 199

  • Sharon Hoffman, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
    "Pa/Th and Stable Isotopic Records of Deep Water Circulation During the Last Interglacial"
    ODP Legs 154, 162, 172, 177, 202

  • Graham Baines, University of Wyoming
    "Thermal and Tectonic Evolution of Lower Oceanic Crust at an Ultra-Slow Spreading Ridge"
    ODP legs 118, 176, and 179

  • Samuel Hulme, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
    "Lateral and Vertical Biogeochemical Fluxes in a Juan de Fuca ridge flank hydrothermal reservoir: Minor and trace element systematics"
    ODP Leg 168 and IODP Expedition 301

  • Heather McCarren, University of California, Santa Cruz
    "Depth Dependent Variations in Deep Water Chemistry & Temperature Across the P/E Boundary"
    ODP Leg 208

 

2003 - 2004 Schlanger Fellows

  • Jennifer Biddle, Pennsylvania State University
    "Exploration of Subsurface Microorganisms: FISH-SIMS and Cultivation Studies of Sediment Gathered on ODP Leg 201"
    ODP Leg 201

  • Xiaoli Liu, Pennsylvania State University
    "Multiphase Flow Modeling of Gas Hydrate systems at Hydrate Ridge and Blake Ridge"
    ODP Legs 204 and 164

  • Anna Cipriani, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
    "Space/Time Mantle Heterogeneity Below the Mid Atlantic Ridge: an Isotopic Study of Peridotites and Gabbros Drilled during Leg 209"
    ODP Leg 209

  • Kristina Dahl, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
    "Holocene Reconstruction of the Summer and Winter South Asian Monsoon"
    ODP Leg 117

  • Matthew O’Regan, University of Rhode Island
    "Lateral Fluid Flow in the Nankai Trough Study Area"
    ODP Legs 181, 190, and 196

 

2002 - 2003 Schlanger Fellows

  • Joshua Feinberg, University of California, Berkeley
    "Magnetization of Seafloor Gabbros: Characterization of Crystallographically Oriented Magnetite Inclusions"
    ODP Legs 118 and 176

  • Stephanie Healey, University of South Carolina
    "A 500,000 Year Record of Deep Sea Temperature and Ice Volume Based on Benthic Foraminiferal Mg/Ca and d18O"
    ODP Legs 138 and 172

  • Ivan Savov, University of South Florida
    "The Role of Forearc in Subduction Zone Chemical Cycles: Elemental and Light Isotope Signatures for Serpentinites from South Chamorro and Conical Seamount"
    ODP Legs 125 and 195

  • Nicholas Drenzek, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
    "Spatial and Temporal Variations in the Mixed Layer Radiocarbon Reservoir Age Through the Last Glacial Maximum"
    ODP Leg 165

  • Lorraine Lisiecki, Brown University
    "Faster and More Accurate Construction of Composite Depth Sections Using Dynamic Programming"
    ODP Legs 108, 138, and 154

  • Matthew Schmidt, University of California, Davis
    "Temperature and Hydrological Changes in the Western Caribbean and the Central North Atlantic During the Last 450 kyr"
    DSDP Leg 94 and ODP Leg 165

 

2001 - 2002 Schlanger Fellows

  • Heather Benway, Oregon State University
    "Reconstructing Pycnocline Intensity in the Gulf of Panama to Monitor Low-Latitude Response to Neogene Closure of the Panama Isthmus"
    ODP Legs 202, 138, and 165

  • Benjamin Cramer, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    "Evolution of a Warm Climate: Long-Term Paleoceanographic Trends and Short-Term Orbital Forcing of Climate in the Late Paleocene-Early Eocene"
    DSDP Leg 22 and ODP Legs 113, 143, and 171B

  • Michael Hutnak, University of California, Santa Cruz
    "The Thermal and Hydrothermal State of Subducting Lithosphere: Costa Rica Margin"
    ODP Leg 205

  • Matthew Makowski, MIT/WHOI Joint Program
    "Characteristics of Aeloian Organic Matter in a Terrestrial-to-Marine Depositional Transect and Impliations for Millennial-Scale Tropical Climate Change"
    ODP Legs 112 and 201

  • Maria Prokopenko, University of Southern California
    "Fractionation of Nitrogen Isotopes During Early Diagenesis in the Sediments of Peru Margin"
    ODP Leg 201

  • Cara Santelli, MIT/WHOI Joint Program
    "The Role of Microorganisms in Alteration of Basaltic Glass in Deep Oceanic Subsurface Environments"
    ODP Leg 205

  • Matthew Schmidt, University of California, Davis
    "Temperature and Hydrological Changes in the Western Caribbean and the Tropical Pacific During the Last 750 kyr"
    ODP Legs 138 and 165

 

2000- 2001 Schlanger Fellows

  • Kristen Averyt, Stanford University
    "Marine Barite as a Monitor of Seawater Sr/Ca Ratios"
    Multiple DSDP and ODP legs

  • Karen McClaughlin, Stanford University
    "d18O of Phosphate in Organic Matter from Marine Sediments: A Tracer for Paleoenvironmental Conditions"
    ODP Legs 100 and 167

  • Kevin Theissen, Stanford University
    "A Quaternary-Pliocene Foraminifera Stable Istope Record for Prydz Bay, Antarctica"
    ODP Leg 188

  • Thomas Werth, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
    "Hunting the Geomagnetic Field"
    ODP Legs 138 and 162

 

1999 - 2000 Schlanger Fellows

  • Joan Steurer, University of Missouri, Columbia
    "Composition, Intrinsic Shear Strength, Physical Properties, and Texture of Sediment at the Nankai Trough, Leg 190: An Integrated Approach"
    ODP Leg 190

  • Aradhna Tripati, University of California, Santa Cruz
    "Tropical Sea Surface Temperature Reconstruction for the Early Paleogene Using Mg/Ca Ratios of Planktonic Foraminifera"
    Multiple DSDP and ODP legs

  • Jennifer Latimer, Indiana University/Purdue University, Indianapolis
    "TheInfluence of Dust Inputs on Biogeochemical Cycles in the Southern Ocean"
    ODP Leg 177

  • Michelle Shearer, Rice University
    "Quaternary Carbonate Preservation and Dissolution in the Caribbean Sea"
    ODP Leg 165

 

1998 - 1999 Schlanger Fellows

  • Brandon Dugan, The Pennsylvania State University
    "Sediment Loading, Lateral Fluid Flow, and Erosion of the Continental Slope in Offshore New Jersey"
    ODP Leg 174A

  • Robert Valentine, Washington University, St. Louis
    "Crustal Recycling at the Izu-Bonin-Mariana Convergent Margin: Constraints from B-, Li-, Be-, and Pb- Isotopes and Trace Element Systematics"
    ODP Leg 185

  • Peter Selkin, Scripps Institution
    "Magnetization and Remagnetization of Seafloor Extrusives: Paleointensity, CRM and VRM Experiments"
    Multiple ODP and DSDP legs

  • Deborah Thomas, UNC, Chapel Hill
    "Reconstruction of Latest Paleocene Thermal Maximum Deep-water Circulation from Neodymian Isotope Records"
    Multiple ODP and DSDP legs

 

1997 - 1998 Schlanger Fellows

  • Stefanie Brachfeld, University of Minnesota
    "Rock-magnetic and Paleomagnetic Techniques for the Examination, Correlation, and Dating of Holocene Paleoclimate Signals in Antarctic Glacial-marine Sediments"
    ODP Leg 178

  • Michael Helgerud, Stanford University
    "Experimental Measurement and Theoretical Modeling of the Physical Properties of Sediments Containing Gas Hydrate"
    DSDP Leg 84 and ODP Legs 112, 146, and 164

  • Stephen Schellenberg, University of Southern California
    "Geochemical and Faunal Analyses of Ddeep-ocean Ostracodes During Two Transient Climate Extrema of the Paleogene: A Test of Benthic Foram O-based Climate Reconstructions Using Ostracode Mg:Ca Ratios"
    DSDP Leg 86 and ODP Legs 113 and 120

  • Michael Wara, University of California, Santa Cruz
    "Boron Isotopes in Foraminifera as Tracers of Ocean pH: ODP Site 803D"
    ODP Site 803D

 

1996 - 1997 Schlanger Fellows

  • Thomas Marchitto, MIT/WHOI Joint Program
    "Development and Application of Zinc as a Paleoceanographic Tracer"
    ODP Leg 112

  • Helen Perks, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
    "Oxygen Demand Analysis as a Tool for Measuring the Organic Matter Content in Carbonate-rich Sediments"
    ODP Legs 130, 138, and 154

  • Philip Stauffer, University of California, Santa Cruz
    "Modeling Deformation and Dewatering in the Barbados Accretionary Complex: Implications for Proto-decollement Evolution"
    ODP Leg 171

 

1995 - 1996 Schlanger Fellows

  • Karin Bernet, RSMAS, University of Miami
    "The Record of Hierarchies of Sea Level Fluctuations in Cores, Logs, and Seismic Data Along the Great Bahama Bank Transect"
    ODP Leg 166

  • Mark Pagani, The Pennsylvania State University
    "The Carbon Cycle and its Relationship to Climatic Variability in the North Atlantic"
    DSDP Legs 74, 94, and 90 and ODP Legs 120 and 130

  • Katharina Billups, University of California, Santa Cruz
    "Reconstructing Pliocene Equatorial Atlantic Surface Water Hydrography"
    ODP Leg 154

  • Katherine McIntyre, University of California, Santa Cruz
    "Early Pleistocene Climate Change: the 1.6 Ma Transition"
    ODP Legs 154 and 162