Paul E. Olsen
Arthur D. Storke Memorial Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

My Contact Info

206 Geoscience, Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades NY 10964, United States

845-365-8491
[email protected]
https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~polsen/nbcp/peo.cv1.html

Paul E. Olsen

Research Interest

Biogeoscience
Geochemistry
Geology
Paleontology
Geophysics
Paleoclimate
Basin Evolution
Biogeochemistry
Biostratigraphy
Invertebrate Paleontology
Paleobotany
Paleoclimatology
Paleoecology
Palynology
Sedimentary Geology
Stratigraphy
Structural Geology
Volcanology

Biography

I am a broadly trained paleontologist and stratigrapher. My interests, research projects, and teaching involve macroevolutionary patterns of evolution and extinction responding to and causing climate change over geological time, especially in continental ecosystems, and also patterns of orbitally paced climate change and how that informs the chaotic history of the Solar System. My research methods include structural geology, paleontology, palynology, geochemistry, and geophysics and frequently employ scientific drilling and field studies.

Education

BA in Geology, with honors, Yale University 1978
M. Phil. and Ph.D. in Biology, Yale University 1984.?Ph.D. thesis was on evolution of lake ecosystems
Miller Postdoctoral Fellow in Basic Research, Berkeley 1983-1984