Stephen Pekar Email & Phone Number

I am a geologist with research interests that encompass a wide variety of problems related to Cenozoic climatic change. To tackle these problems, I develop sedimentological, microfossil, and geochemical data obtained from cores that were taken from estuaries, near-shore, and deep-sea. These are used to extract climatic, oceanographic, and global sea-level signals at the decadal- to million-year scale. My research can be broadly divided into three groups. The first group combines projects that use a new method to constrain global sea-level amplitudes that I developed and then implemented for pre-Pleistocene records. This involves an integrated approach using lithofacies, age control, foraminiferal biofacies, and two-dimensional backstripping.The second group focuses on developing a better understanding of the Cenozoic climatic history of Antarctica. To this end, I am now a member of the ANDRILL (ANtarctic DRILLing) Program, which "is a multinational initiative that aims to recover stratigraphic core records for interpreting Antarctic's climatic, glacial, and tectonic history for the past 50 Ma". In the 2007, I will be part of the Southern McMurdo Sound Drilling Project, which will recover sedimentary cores ranging in age from 2 to 17 million years ago. I am also a team leader of the Offshore New Harbor Project, which will image sedimentary archives that extend to when Antarctica was mainly ice free (50-35 million years ago) in 2008.A third set of projects are aimed at gaining greater insights into paleoceanographic and climatic changes during important warm periods in Earth's history: the early Miocene (21-16 Ma) and late Paleocene (59-55 Ma). These projects use stable isotopes and trace metals to reconstruct climatic and paleoceanographic changes.Specialties: Sequence stratigraphyPaleoceanography2-D flexural backstrippingAntarctic climate change

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  Rutgers University

  Geology