Reconstructing the temperature of Earth's past to understand future

climate change

Dr. Jamie Lucarelli, Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA Department of Earth, Planetary, and

Space Sciences

This talk will be about temperature reconstructions for particular past time intervals, including epochs that are

believed to have had CO2 concentrations equal to or greater than present.

Jamie Lucarelli is a postdoctoral fellow in the Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences Department at UCLA, and

part-time faculty in the Geological Sciences department at California State University San Bernardino. Her

research uses mass spectrometry to shed light on how Earth's temperature has changed through time, and how

marine organisms build their shells and skeletons through biomineralization.