Bärbel Hönisch


Assistant Professor

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences,

Columbia University


Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University

235 Comer

61 Route 9W

Palisades, NY 10964, USA


phone: + 1 845-365-8828

        + 1 845-365-8875 (TIMS lab)

fax: +1 845-365-8155

contact me by email

Education and professional career


2007-present Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences,

                       Columbia University, NY.

2005-2006    Research Scientist at Marum, Bremen University; Adjunct Associate Research

                       Scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, and Visiting

                       Scientist at SUNY Stony Brook, NY.

2003-2005   Associate Research Scientist at the School of Earth and Environmental

                       Sciences, Queens College, Flushing, NY; Adjunct Associate Research Scientist

                       at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, and Visiting Scientist

                       at SUNY Stony Brook, NY.

2002-2003    Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,

                       Palisades, NY,  and Visiting Scientist at SUNY Stony Brook, NY.

1999-2002    Ph.D. student investigating the trace elemental (Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca, Ba/Ca, U/Ca)

                       and stable isotopic composition (δ11B, δ18O, δ13C, δ44Ca) of biogenic

                       carbonate with special interest in marine carbonate chemistry, Alfred Wegener

                       Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany.

                       Advisors: Dr. J. Bijma, Prof. D.A. Wolf-Gladrow.

   1999           Diplom (masters) in Marine Biology (secondary subjects: Geology, Ecology).

                       Thesis title: Occurrence and isotopic composition of otoliths from Walvis Ridge

                       sediments, University of Bremen, Germany. Advisors: Prof. V. Smetacek,

                       Prof. G. Wefer.

   1995           Vordiplom (BA) in Biology, University of Bielefeld, Germany.



Teaching Activities


Lecturer, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, NY

  1.   EESC W4926 Chemical Oceanography

  2.   EESC W4920 Paleoceanography

•   EESC V1030 Introduction to Oceanography

•   EESC G9802 Seminar in Geochemistry: Paleoproxies