Geosciences Department
Samantha Bombard
Job Title
Visiting Assistant Professor
Areas of expertise
Paleoclimatology, Micropaleontology, Sedimentology, and Paleoceanography
Research interests
Using microfossils and sediment to reconstruct ancient environments. Currently studying sediment cores from Antarctica to reconstruct what the Ross Sea area looked like from ~18-13.7 million years ago.
Teaching interests
- GEO 201: Sedimentology & Stratigraphy
- GEO 112: Environmental Geology
Publications
McKay, R., Cockrell, J., Shevenell, A. E., Laberg, J. S., Burns, J., Patterson, M., ...
Bombard, S. E., … & IODP Expedition 374 Science Team. (2024). Miocene ice sheet dynamics and sediment deposition in the central Ross Sea, Antarctica. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 137(3-4), 1267-1291.
https://doi.org/10.1130/B37613.1
Bombard, S. E., Leckie, R. M., Browne, I. M., Shevenell, A. E., McKay, R. M., & Harwood, D. M. (2024). Miocene Climatic Optimum and Middle Miocene Climate Transition: A foraminiferal record from the central Ross Sea, Antarctica. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 43(2), 383-421. https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-43-383-2024
Quinton, P. C., Rygel, M. C., & Bombard, S. (2023). Did sea level change drive carbon isotopic trends in the Madison Shelf? Sequence stratigraphy and carbon isotopes in the Mississippian Lodgepole Formation of southwest Montana. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 628, 111759.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111759
Areas of interest
Climate evolution through time from the perspective of sand sized microfossils called foraminifera! Here is my website if you would like to learn more: https://sites.google.com/umass.edu/sciencesamAcademic credentials
BS, State University of New York, Potsdam; MS, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; PhD, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
F.W. Olin Center 310
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