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Meet our Executive Committee

Dr. Marion Peral

IODP-France Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bordeaux (France)

Marion's research focuses on paleoclimatic reconstructions using geochemical proxies, especially the clumped-isotope paleothermometer. She works on various types of carbonates (e.g. foraminifera, coccoliths, bivalves and speleothems) to reconstruct oceanographic and continental climatic variations in deep time. Her research mainly focuses on paleoclimatic evolution over the last 10 Ma

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Dr. Rebecca Doyle

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)

Rebecca's research uses traditional stable isotope analysis, compound-specific isotope analysis and clumped isotope analysis to reconstruct paleoenvironmental conditions during the Quaternary (2.6 mya to present). Her research primarily focuses on lake sediment archives, but recently she has started analyzing speleothem and marine records.

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Dr. Benjamin Fosu

Postdoctoral Scientist at the Geological Survey of Canada (Canada)

Benjamin's interests broadly encompass the application of stable isotope geochemistry to petrology, marine, environmental, and ore geology, focusing on carbonate archives.

He's currently working on the palaeothermometry of dolomite and siderite successions and the assessment of vital effects in biogenic carbonates.

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Dr. Bibhasvata Dasgupta

Postdoctoral Scientist at Utrecht University (The Netherlands)

Bibhas's research uses traditional, compound-specific and clumped isotopologues of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen and lithium in naturally occurring samples of water, soil organic matter and plants lipids and more recently atmospheric greenhouse gasses, to infer hydroclimate, plant biogeochemistry and atmospheric processes. He has worked extensively on the Himalayan mountains, which combines two of his main interests: mountaineering and climatology.

Minger Guo

PhD Candidate at Western University (Canada)

Minger's research generates paleoclimatic reconstructions using triple oxygen isotope values of phytoliths. She also identifies how climatic parameters, such as relative humidity, affect the triple oxygen isotope values of phytoliths.

Dr. Philip Staudigel

Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (Germany)

My research focuses on mechanistically understanding the physical and chemical processes which occur in sediments after their deposition. My current academic method applies clumped isotopes towards studying the formation and re-crystallization of carbonate minerals as sediments and cements.