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Kathleen W. Gilbert |
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Degrees:
B.A. Smith College, Northampton, MA
M.S. RSMAS, University of Miami, Miami, FL
Interests:
My main interests in geology are stable isotope geochemistry and physical geology. Some of the research projects I have conducted include; determining the effectiveness of African corals as proxy indicators of climate change in Subsaharan Africa, and identifying diagenetic imprints of Holocene sea level rise on Quaternary carbonate eolianites in The Bahamas.
I am an avid SCUBA diver and have conduced an Aquanaut mission surveying coral reefs while living underwater for 10 days on the Aquarius Habitat in the Florida Keys.
Although I am technically a geochemist, I love field work, geological or otherwise. I have worked in the field on non-geology projects such as a nautical archeology project searching for evidence of dhows in the Straits of Hormuz off the coast of Oman and studying the capacity of wildlife reserves protecting the highly endangered Black Rhino in Kenya.
Publications:
Swart, Peter, K., White, Kathy, S., Enfield, David, Dodge, Richard, E., Milne, Peter. 1998. Stable oxygen isotopic composition of corals from the Gulf of Guinea as indicators of periods of extreme precipitation conditions in the sub-Sahara. Journal of Geophysical Research, C, Oceans. 103; 12, Pages 27,885-27,891.
White, K.S., Swart, P.K., Dodge, R.E., and Enfield, D. 1995. Climate Records in Corals from the Gulf of Guinea: Proxy Indicators of Drought Anomalies in the Sahel Region of West Africa, Abstract SEPM Meeting, St. Petersburg, FL, p. 128
Swart, P.K., White, K.S., and Dodge, R.E. 1993. Climate Records from the
Eastern Atlantic: Possible Indicators of Upwelling, Sahel Drought, and Hurricane
Frequency. Abstracts AGU Fall Meeting 1993. p. 363.
White, K.S. 1995. An imprint for the Holocene transgression found as the marine
cement aragonite in Quaternary carbonate eolianites on San Salvador Island,
Bahamas. In Curran, H.A. and White, B. (eds), Terrestrial and Shallow Marine
Geology of the Bahamas and Bermuda, GSA Special Paper 300, p. 125-138.
White, K.S. and White, B. 1991. The effects of Holocene sea-level rise on
the diagenesis of Quaternary carbonate eolianites, San Salvador Island, Bahamas.
In Bain, R.J. (Ed) Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on the geology of the
Bahamas: San Salvador, Bahamas, Bahamian Field Station. p. 235-247.
White, K.S. 1991. An imprint for the Holocene transgression found as the marine
cement aragonite in Quaternary carbonate eolianites on San Salvador Island,
Bahamas. GSA, Abstracts with Programs, v. 23(1):A138.
White, K.S. and White, B. 1990. The effects of Holocene sea-level rise on
the diagenesis of carbonate eolianites, San Salvador, Bahamas. AAPG Bull.
74:789-790.
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