Marine Sediments Research Lab Personnel

The following people say they are currently involved with the Marine Sediments Lab in research, graduate studies, undergraduate studies or something that gets them a check! 

	Michelle Hardee - Michelle began her Ph.D. here at USC in the fall of 2002. Michelle is a former Aggie, receiving her B.S. in Zoology at Texas A&M University. She received her M.S. in Marine Biology from the College of Charleston’s Grice Marine Lab, where she worked on pteropod shell flux and oxygen isotopes with Dr. Leslie R. Sautter, a former alumnus of Bob’s Babes. For the past 3 years she has been an Instructor at Coastal Carolina University, where she taught introductory oceanography, introductory science and environmental geology lectures and labs. Michelle is “mom” to an 8-yr-old Labrador retriever named Daisy.
	Stephanie Healey - Stephanie comes to us from Salem State College where she worked in a marine sediments lab studying rapid climate variability in the North Atlantic.  She completed her Masters here idoing Stage 11/12 isotopic studies on ODP Leg 172 cores from the Carolina Slope (Sites 1054 and 1055), the Blake-Bahama Outer Ridge (Sites 1056-1062) and the northeast Bermuda Rise (Site 1063) and has been working on her PhD since May 2002.
	Martha McConnell - Martha finished her Masters degree with us in 2004 and is now pursuing her PhD, working to further calibrate the Mg/Ca paleothermometer using sediment trap samples from the Cariaco and Guaymas Basins.  Prior to joining us, Martha logged several cruises as an Assistant Scientist with the Sea Education Association and has also spent two seasons in Antarctica as a Research Assistant with the Support Office for Aerogeophysical Research. Martha earned her Bachelor's Degree in Geology from Colgate University in 1997.  She is currently a fellow in DC working for Senator Lautenburgh.
	Alicia Newton - Alicia is a third year PhD student who will be studying Holocene climate variability in the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool. Her previous research was in the fun and exciting field of Silurian calcareous microfossils. She comes to us from Colgate University, where she received her Bachelors in geology in 2002.
	Aimee Pusz – Aimee comes to us from Rutgers University, where she received her B.S. in evolutionary anthropology. She completed her Masters in Geological Sciences at Rutgers in 2007 with Dr. Kenneth G. Miller working on the stable isotopic response to the late Eocene extraterrestrial impact events using benthic foraminifera from ODP Site 1090. Her Ph.D. at USC will explore the major causes of Cenozoic deep-water temperature change, specifically at the Eocene-Oligocene and Oligocene-Miocene boundaries, and during the mid-Miocene climate transition using stable isotope and Mg/Ca data from benthic foraminifera.
	Eric Tappa - has been attempting to keep things in order for the past 24 (yes, really) years.  And yes, the mustache is gone.
	Bob Thunell - El Jefe, The Big Cheese, The Chairman of the Board,  The man who pays the bills...you get the idea.

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