Education and professional career

current          Tenured Professor, Dept. of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, NY

2014-2019    Tenured Associate Professor, Dept. of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, NY

2013-2014    Associate Professor, Dept. of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, NY

2007-2013    Assistant Professor, Dept. of Earth & 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.

   2002           Dr. rer. nat. (PhD in Natural Sciences), Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research,

                      Bremerhaven, Germany. Advisors: J. Bijma, D.A. Wolf-Gladrow

   1999           Diplom (masters) in Marine Biology, University of Bremen, Germany, Advisor: J. Pätzold

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

Awards

   2018            Willi Dansgaard Award, AGU

   2018            Marie Tharp Lecturer, GEOMAR

   2016            Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award

   2015            Lehigh University Foster Hewett Speaker

   2013            LDEO Best Mentor Award

   2012            Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Distinguished Lecturer, University of Southern

                       California

2011-2012      Ocean Leadership Distinguished Lecturer

Teaching: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, NY

        EESCUN 1030 Introduction to Oceanography

        EESCUN 1003 Climate and Society

        EESC W4926 Chemical Oceanography

        EESC W4920 Paleoceanography

        EESC G9600 Seminar in Paleoclimatology: Mid-Pleistocene Transition

        EESC G9802 Seminar in Geochemistry: Paleoproxies