Muddy bottoms:
response of Jurassic seafloors to palaeoenvironmental change
Webinar by
Dr Bryony Caswell, University of Hull.
29th September 2022, 4:00 pm
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Abstract
This talk will consider changes on Jurassic seafloors, during the Toarcian and Kimmeridgian stages. In this talk, Dr Bryony Caswell will present on her previous and new work asking how macrofaunal communities responded to palaeoenvironmental changes, including warming and deoxygenation, in the Cleveland and Wessex basins. This will be compared to the changes occurring in the present-day and what it can teach us about how marine communities and ecosystems might respond in the future ocean.
Biography
Bryony Caswell is a Lecturer in geology at the University of Hull, she co-chairs the international working group on the History of fish and fisheries (for the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea) and QMARE (Disentangling climate and pre-industrial human impacts on marine ecosystems) for Past Global Changes.
Bryony is both palaeontologist and marine ecologist by training, previously lecturer and research fellow in marine ecology and ecotoxicology (at Rothamsted Research, Kings College London, The Open University, the Universities of Reading and Liverpool, and Griffith University, Brisbane). Her research addresses seafloor communities, and the dynamics of past marine ecosystems and how they respond to both natural and anthropogenic change. She is particularly interested in long term change, whether that be over decades, centuries or millennia and so is now also heavily involved in using marine historical ecology (the last few thousand years of human history) to understand past, present and future marine ecosystem dynamics.
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