MOLLY O. PATTERSON, PH.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Earth Sciences
Binghamton University, SUNY
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Co-Chief Scientist SWAIS 2C
LAB GROUP MEMBERS
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Graduate Students
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Shawn Taylor (M.S. expected spring 2023)
Thesis Title: Expanded North Pacific subtropical gyre and heterodyne expression during the mid-Pleistocene
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Olivia Cashimere (M.S. expected spring 2023)
Thesis Title: Examining the mid-Pliocene variability of the deep western North Pacific
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Rachel Meyne (M.S. expected spring 2024)
Halima Ibrahim (Ph.D. commenced Fall 2022)
Undergraduate Students
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Thea Barbalet (BA Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies expected Spring 2023)
Project Title: Pliocene deep ocean circulation in the Southwest Pacific
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Kniya Duncan (BS Environmental Geology expected Spring 2024)
Project Title: Late Miocene to Pleistocene lithostratigraphic changes from IODP Site U1522 on the Ross Sea Continental Shelf
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PAST POST-DOCS
Dr. Adriane Lam (Binghamton University Presidential Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow)
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PAST GRADUATE STUDENTS
Christiana Rosenberg, M.S. Geological Sciences 2020, Thesis Title: An expanded view of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet response to orbital forcing during the mid- to Late Pliocene
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Bethany Royce, M.S. Geological Sciences 2019, Thesis Title: Late Pliocene depositional history and paleoclimate reconstructions of the southwest Pacific