POSITIONS

2005-present: Senior Research Scientist, Center for Study of Global Change, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven CT, USA

Spring 2005: Visiting Professor, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e Geologico- Ambientali, Universita' di Bologna, Bologna, ITALY

2000-present: Curatorial Affiliate (Foraminifera), Peabody Museum, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

1997-present: Research Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA

1991-2005: Research Affiliate, Center for Study of Global Change, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven CT, USA

1994-1995: Faculty Fellow, Associated Kyoto Program, Doshisha University, Kyoto, JAPAN

1992-1997: Research Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA

1990-1992: Senior Lecturer in Marine Micropalaeontology, Department of Earth Sciences and Sub-department of Quaternary Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

1985-1990: Associate Research Scientist, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA

1989-1990: Chief Scientist, Thames Science Center, New London, CT, USA

1984-1989: Adjunct Associate Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, USA

1982-1984: Assistant Research Geologist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

1979-1982: Faculty Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

1975-1979: Instructor and Curator of Micropaleontological Collections, University of Utrecht, Netherlands

EDUCATION

Ph.D. 1979: University of Utrecht, Netherlands. Thesis: The development of Uvigerina in the Cretan Mio-Pliocene, Utrecht Micropaleontological Bulletins, vol. 23, 168 pp.

M.Sc. 1975: University of Utrecht, cum laude. Stratigraphy-micropaleontology, sedimentology, geochemistry, structural geology

B.Sc. 1971: University of Utrecht, cum laude. Earth Sciences (with biology and chemistry)

PERSONAL DATA

Citizenship: Dutch (USA resident alien); married to J. C. Varekamp, two children

Office address: Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, 210 Whitney Avenue, P. O. Box 208109, New Haven, CT 06520-8109, USA; Telephone office: 1- (203) 432-5928 , lab: 1-(203) 432-3177; Fax: 1- (203) 432-3134; e-mail: ellen.thomas@yale.edu. Or: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Wesleyan University, 265 Church Street, Middletown, CT, 06459-0139, USA; Telephone: (860) 685-2238; Fax: (860) 685-3651; e-mail: ethomas@wesleyan.edu; Web: http://ethomas.web.wesleyan.edu. Home address: 764 Haddam Quarter Road, Durham, CT 06422-1802, USA; Telephone: (860) 349-6937.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

American Geophysical Union, British Micropalaeontological Society, Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research, Geological Society of America, Grzybowski Foundation, National Center for Science Education, The Oceanography Society

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Quantitative studies of ecology and evolution of benthic foraminifera (deep-sea, marginal marine environments), as indicators of global, regional and local environmental changes, in combination with chemical/isotopic proxies and climate modeling.