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Paul E. Olsen

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Earth and Environmental Sciences Columbia University, New York, NY 
Area:
Paleontology, Paleoclimatology, Stratigraphy
Website:
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~polsen/nbcp/peo.cv1.html
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Paul E. Olsen has a B.A. in Geology and a Ph.D. in Biology both from Yale University. He is currently the Storke Memorial Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University at Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory. Olsen’s overall research foci are on the evolution of continental ecosystems, especially the pattern, causes and effects of climate change on geological time scales, mass extinctions, the effects of evolutionary innovations on biogeochemical cycles, and evolution of the Solar System as revealed by geological records. Projects include: 1) drilling and study of 22,600 feet of core from 210 million-year-old lake beds to understand the influence of variations of the earth's orbit on climate; 2) analysis of the mass extinction 202 million years ago that set up dinosaurian dominance; 3) excavations at major fossil vertebrate sites throughout North America and Morocco; 4) the evolutionary events mediating the carbon cycle and climate change and 5) understanding the evolution of the history of the behavior of the Solar System through cores of the Earth’s crust. He is the author of over 170 publications and has appeared in numerous documentaries on the history of life and climate.
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Keith S. Thomson grad student 1984 Yale
 (Comparative paleolimnology of the Newark Supergroup : a study of ecosystem evolution.)

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Sterling J. Nesbitt grad student
Roy Walter Schlische grad student 1990 Columbia (Geotree)
MaryAnn L. Malinconico grad student 2002 Columbia
Malka L. Machlus grad student 2005 Columbia
Emma C. Rainforth grad student 2005 Columbia
Jessica H. Whiteside grad student 2006 Columbia
Jun Liu grad student 2007 Columbia

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Hans-Dieter Sues collaborator Columbia
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MacLennan SA, Sha J, Olsen PE, et al. (2024) Extremely rapid, yet noncatastrophic, preservation of the flattened-feathered and 3D dinosaurs of the Early Cretaceous of China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 121: e2322875121
Kent DV, Olsen PE, Wang H, et al. (2024) Correlation of sub-centennial-scale pulses of initial Central Atlantic Magmatic Province lavas and the end-Triassic extinctions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 121: e2415486121
Landwehrs J, Feulner G, Willeit M, et al. (2022) Modes of Pangean lake level cyclicity driven by astronomical climate pacing modulated by continental position and pCO[Formula: see text]. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 119: e2203818119
Olsen P, Sha J, Fang Y, et al. (2022) Arctic ice and the ecological rise of the dinosaurs. Science Advances. 8: eabo6342
Fox CP, Cui X, Whiteside JH, et al. (2020) Molecular and isotopic evidence reveals the end-Triassic carbon isotope excursion is not from massive exogenous light carbon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Rasmussen C, Mundil R, Irmis RB, et al. (2020) U-Pb zircon geochronology and depositional age models for the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation (Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, USA): implications for Late Triassic paleoecological and paleoenvironmental change Geological Society of America Bulletin
Zakharova N, Goldberg DS, Olsen PE, et al. (2020) Reservoir and sealing properties of the Newark rift basin formations: Implications for carbon sequestration Geophysics. 39: 38-46
Olsen PE, Laskar J, Kent DV, et al. (2019) Mapping Solar System chaos with the Geological Orrery. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Kent DV, Olsen PE, Lepre C, et al. (2019) Magnetochronology of the Entire Chinle Formation (Norian Age) in a Scientific Drill Core From Petrified Forest National Park (Arizona, USA) and Implications for Regional and Global Correlations in the Late Triassic Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 20: 4654-4664
Stüeken EE, Martinez A, Love G, et al. (2019) Effects of pH on redox proxies in a Jurassic rift lake: Implications for interpreting environmental records in deep time Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta. 252: 240-267
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