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Details for Professor Daniela Schmidt

Personal details
Name Professor Daniela Schmidt
Job title Professor in Palaeobiology
Department School of Earth Sciences University of Bristol
Personal web page http://www.bristol.ac.uk/earthsciences/people/daniela-n-schmidt/index.html
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Qualifications Ph.D. (E.T.H.Zurich)
Professional details
Membership of professional bodies American Geophysical Union
Geochemical Society
Geological Society of America
The Micropalaeontological Society
Palaeontological Association
Keywords ocean acidification
climate change
evolution
palaeoceanography
Areas of expertise My research primarily employs marine microfossils to study the interrelationships between palaeoclimatic changes and the ecology and evolution of marine plankton.

My main research themes are geological examples of ocean acidification. Human emissions are making the oceans more acidic. Therefore I use the geological record to determine how long the Earth's system takes to neutralise this change and how the marine plankton reacts to these environmental changes to better inform what might happen in the future.

To use the geological record to derive this information, we have to have a precise understanding of the biology of the organisms and see how the environmental information is stored in the shells of marine organisms.

Another important part of my research focusses on the time scales of recovery after mass extinctions. All of these questions address the main question the link between abrupt climate change on the extinction and evolution of marine organisms.
Languages (other than English)
German spoken    written
French written
Media experience BBC radio

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