Title
Associate Professor

Department
Dept of Integrative Biology


Faculty URL
http://ib.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/looyc

Research Group
http://ib.berkeley.edu/labs/looy/

Email
looy@berkeley.edu

Phone
(510) 642-1607


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Research Expertise and Interest
paleoecology, paleobotany, palynology

Research Description
Cindy Looy is an associate professor in the Department of Integrative Biology.? She is a plant ecologist who investigates the response of Paleozoic plants and plant communities to environmental change during periods of mass extinction and deglaciation, and the possible evolutionary consequences. Her primary research is focused on several aspects of the end-Permian biotic crisis and its aftermath, and the transition from a glacial-dominated world to an ice-free one during the Late Carboniferous to the Middle Permian. Her studies strongly rely on an interdisciplinary approach combining quantitative palynological and paleobotanical data with organic geochemistry, isotope analysis, marine paleontology, biostratigraphy, ecology and plant physiology.