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Dr Thomas Weiss

MA, MPhil, PhD

Contact Details

Post Doctoral Researcher
College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies
University of Galway
E: thomas.weiss@universityofgalway.ie

Biography

Education

2022 PhD in Earth and Environmental Science, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
2019 Master of Philosophy in Earth and Environmental Science, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
2018 Master of Arts in Earth and Environmental Science, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
2016 Bachelor of Arts in Geology (Honors), Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa, USA

Professional Employment

2023 - Present Post-Doctoral Researcher, School of Geography and Archaeology, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
2016 - 2022 Graduate Research Assistant/Graduate Teaching Assistant, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
2013 - 2015 Undergraduate Summer Research Assistant, Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa, USA

Research Interests

My research is centered on generating geochemical records (stable isotope and trace metal) of past ocean temperature and salinity using foraminifera and corals from sediment cores to improve our understanding of past regional and global ocean circulation, glacial-interglacial cycles, and sea level variability. My research during my PhD focused on the Western Tropical Pacific over the last four glacial cycles (~500 thousand years). As a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Galway I am investigating how dissolution of the shells of the polar foraminifera Neogloboquadrina pachyderma impacts their shell chemistry as they sink to the ocean floor and how that is impacting our climate records we generate from that chemistry.

Peer Reviewed Journals

	Year	Publication
	(2023)	'Obliquity-driven subtropical forcing of the thermocline after 240 ka in the southern sector of the Western Pacific Warm Pool' Lambert, Jonathan E. and Linsley, Braddock K. and Abell, Jordan T. and Bova, Samantha C. and Winckler, Gisela and Rosenthal, Yair and Weiss, Thomas L. and Huang, Wei (2023) 'Obliquity-driven subtropical forcing of the thermocline after 240 ka in the southern sector of the Western Pacific Warm Pool'. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 621 [DOI] [Details]
	(2022)	'Constraints on Marine Isotope Stage 3 and 5 Sea Level From the Flooding History of the Karimata Strait in Indonesia' Weiss, Thomas L. and Linsley, Braddock K. and Gordon, Arnold L. and Rosenthal, Yair and Dannenmann-Di Palma, Stefanie (2022) 'Constraints on Marine Isotope Stage 3 and 5 Sea Level From the Flooding History of the Karimata Strait in Indonesia'. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 37 (9) [DOI] [Details]
	(2021)	'Pacific North Equatorial Current bifurcation latitude and Kuroshio Current shifts since the Last Glacial Maximum inferred from a Sulu Sea thermocline reconstruction' Weiss, Thomas L. and Linsley, Braddock K. and Gordon, Arnold L. (2021) 'Pacific North Equatorial Current bifurcation latitude and Kuroshio Current shifts since the Last Glacial Maximum inferred from a Sulu Sea thermocline reconstruction'. Quaternary Science Reviews, 264 [DOI] [Details]
	(2017)	'El Niño-Southern Oscillation-like variability in a late Miocene Caribbean coral' Weiss, Thomas L. and Denniston, Rhawn F. and Wanamaker, Alan D. and Villarini, Gabriele and von der Heydt, Anna S. (2017) 'El Niño-Southern Oscillation-like variability in a late Miocene Caribbean coral'. Geology, 45 (7):643-646 [DOI] [Details]

Education

Year	Institution	Qualification	Subject
2022	Columbia University	PhD	Earth and Environmental Science
2019	Columbia University	MPhil	Earth and Environmental Science
2018	Columbia University	MA	Earth and Environmental Science
2016	Cornell College	BA	Geology

Modules Taught

Term/Year	Module Title	Module Code	Subject / Desc
Spring/2024	Principles of Physical Geography	TI151	Co-Instructor
Fall/2023	Reconstructing Marine Environments	TI6107	Teaching Cruise Instructor
Fall/2023	Paleoceanography	TI3128	Guest Lecturer
Spring 2020	Field Geology of Barbados	UN3010	Teaching Assistant
Fall/2019	Earth's Environmental Systems: The Climate System	UN2100	Teaching Assistant
Spring 2019	Cenezoic Paleoceanography	GU4937	Teaching Assistant
Spring 2018	Earth: Origin, Evolution, Processes, Future	UN10011	Teaching Assistant