The Epic of Paleobotany-440

哈佛1993年博士毕业生-Nan Crystal Arens

Dr. Nan Crystal Arens graduated from Harvard University and got her Ph.D. degree in 1993. She worked as assistant Professor of Integrative Biology and curator of fossil plants in the Museum of Paleontology, University of California at Berkeley from 1993 to 2002. At present, Dr. Nan Crystal Arens is Professor of Geoscience, Hobart &William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York, USA.

∮1 Education Background  

B.S., The Pennsylvania State University, 1987;  

M.S., Geology, The Pennsylvania StateUniversity, 1988;  

M.A., Biology, Harvard University, 1991;  

Ph.D.,  in Biology, Harvard University, 1993.  

The basic information of Nan Crystal Arens’  Ph.D. thesis is as follows:

·        Title: Reconstructing     community dynamics in aPennsylvanian floodplain forest

·        Attribution:by Nan Crystal Arens.

·        Author:Arens, Nan Crystal.

·        Subject:Paleobotany --Pennsylvanian;
Paleobotany -- NovaScotia.;
Paleoecology -- NovaScotia.

·        Published: 1993.

·        Description:ix, 312 leaves :    ill., maps ; 29 cm.

·        Language: English

·        Notes: Includes     bibliographical references (leaves[264]-302).
Thesis note: Thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 1993.

·        HOLLISNumber: 003980412

·        CreationDate: 1993

·        Source: HVD ALEPH

∮2 Employment history

1993—2002: Assistant Professor of IntegrativeBiology, University of California at Berkeley;

1993—2002: Curator of Fossil Plants in theMuseum of Paleontology, University of California at Berkeley;

2001—2005: Assistant Professor of Geosciences,Hobart & William Smith Colleges;

2005—2015: Associate Professor of Geoscience,Hobart & William Smith Colleges;

2015—present: Professor of Geoscience, Hobart& William Smith Colleges

∮3Research interests

(1) The evolution of terrestrial environmentsand the interplay between physical environmental change (e.g., climate andatmosphere) and changes in community composition and structure.

(2) Evolution of plant autecology andeco-morphology.

(3) Early angiosperm ecology andevolution.  

(4) Extinction mechanisms.

(5) CLAMP climate reconstruction and the roleof phylogeny and biogeography.

Courses taught:

GEO 142—Earth System Science;

GEO 143—Earth & Life ThroughTime;

GEO 184—Introduction to Geology;

GEO 230—Earth History.

∮4 Recent publications (see Appendix I)

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Appendix: Some recent publications of Dr.Nan Crystal  Arens----

Arens, Nan Crystal and Elisha B. Harris* 2015Palaeoclimatic reconstruction for the

Albian–Cenomanian transition based on adominantly angiosperm flora from the Cedar

Mountain Formation, Utah, USA. CretaceousResearch 53:140-152.

Kennedy, Elizabeth M., Nan Crystal Arens,Tammo Reichgelt, Robert A. Spicer, Teresa, E.V. Spicer, Lena Stranks and JianYang. 2014. Deriving temperature estimates from Southern Hemisphere leaves. Palaeogeography,Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 412: 80-90.

Arens, Nan Crystal and Sarah E. Allen*. 2014. Aflorule from the base of the Hell CreekFormation in the type area of easternMontana: Implications for vegetation and climate. G.P. Wilson, W.A. Clemens, J.Horner and J. Hartman (eds.) Through the End of the Cretaceous in the TypeLocality of the Hell Creek Formation in Montana and Adjacent Areas. GeologicalSociety of America Special Publication 503: 173-207.

Arens, Nan Crystal, Anna Thompson and A. Hope Jahren.2014. Vegetation indicators of environmental change preceding theCretaceous/Paleogene boundary: Implications for the press/pulse model of massextinction. G.P. Wilson, W.A. Clemens, J. Horner and J. Hartman (eds.) Throughthe End of the Cretaceous in the Type Locality of the Hell Creek Formation inMontana and Adjacent Areas. Geological Society of America SpecialPublication 503:209-227.

Arens, Nan Crystal, A. Hope Jahren and David C.Kendrick. 2014. Carbon isotope

stratigraphy and correlation of plantmegafossil localities in the Hell Creek Formation of eastern Montana, U.S.A.G.P. Wilson, W.A. Clemens, J. Horner and J. Hartman (eds.) Through the End ofthe Cretaceous in the Type Locality of the Hell Creek Formation in Montana andAdjacent Areas. Geological Society of America Special Publication 503:149-171.

Jahren, A. Hope and Nan Crystal Arens.2009. Prediction of atmospheric δ13CO2 using

plant cuticle isolated from fluvial sediment:Tests across a gradient in salt content. Palaios 24:394-401.

Arens, Nan Crystal and Ian D. West*. 2008.Press-Pulse: A general theory of mass

extinction? Paleobiology:34:456-471.

Jahren, A. Hope, Nan CrystalArens, and Stephanie A. Harbeson. 2008. Prediction of atmospheric δ13CO2using fossil plant tissues. Reviews of Geophysics 46: RG1002,doi:10.1029/2006RG000219. [electronic journal]

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