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Geoscience Graduate Student

Hi! I'm Anna Hilting and I'm a Graduate Student of Geoscience at Pennsylvania State University. I'm a paleoceanographer. I study the carbon and oxygen chemistry of fossil foraminifera shells to learn about oceanic processes during the warm Paleocene and Eocene (65 to 35 million years ago). Foraminifera are tiny zooplankton that live at different depths in the ocean. I'm trying to isolate the physical and biological signals in the fossil record to learn more about how life in the ocean responds to changes in the carbon cycle and climate. This is related to the work I did in the Southern Ocean, where I studied the productivity response to iron fertilization.

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