Research Interests

Paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental reconstruction, and stratigraphic study via palynology.

Example of ongoing research projects:

Cataloguing and digitizing the CENEX pollen collections using SPECIFY to support future forensic and environmental studies.
Cataloguing and digitizing the CENEX dinoflagellate cysts collections using SPECIFY to support biostratigraphic studies.
Palynological reconstruction of last glacial cycle palaeo-environments of the Gulf of Papua-New Guinea.
Influence of climate and eustacy on Gulf of Mexico sediment yield during the Last Glacial Cycle based on palynological analysis.
Paleoclimate of Okak Bay, Labrador, Canada: the intersection of marine, terrestrial, and anthropogenic influences on paleoenvironment.
Using palynological and isotopic analyses to develop a proxy for aridity in Antarctic paleoenvironments.
Deciphering Antarctic climate variability during the temperate/polar transition in the Victoria Land region (funded by NSF CAREER program).
Past environmental conditions on the Antarctic Peninsula: a palynological characterization of in-situ sediments recovered during the 2006 SHALDRIL campaign.

Palynological and paleoenvironmental characterization of ANDRILL’s Southern McMurdo Sound project
Building high-resolution biostratigraphic zonation to improve biosteering of oil-producing deep-wells in Colombia (funded by ECOPETROL)
Building high-resolution biostratigraphic zonation to improve biosteering of oil-producing deep-wells in the Gulf of Mexico (funded by BP)
Feasibility study of Eocene to Pliocene palynological reconstruction of the Antarctic Peninsula margin climate evolution
Understanding the influence of climate and eustasy on sediment yield during the last glacioeustatic cycle: a palynological and seismic approach
Mio-Pliocene palynology of the Gibraltar Arc: A new perspective on the Messinian Salinity Crisis