- Assistant Professor, Geology and Geophysics, College of Arts and Sciences
Identifying how organisms respond, why they respond, and to which environmental factors they are primarily responding is integral to understanding how future climate change will affect the modern biota as well as to inform efforts to sustain biodiversity and economically important fisheries.
Shelled organisms, such as molluscs and foraminifera, are abundant and well-preserved in the fossil record and in museum collections of modern specimens. These preserved assemblages allow longer-term perspectives on biotic response and climate change - millennia to millions of years - than is possible in exclusively present-day ecological studies. The fossil record also allows trends in these natural communities to be analyzed before, during, and after changes in climate without needing to wait for the events to occur in real time.
- Ph.D. in Paleoecology, University of Chicago - (Chicago, Illinois, United States) 2011
- B.A. in Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara - (Santa Barbara, California, United States) 2005
Academic Articles27
- Bryant, R., Meehan, K. C., & Belanger, C. L. (2023). Are ancient seep environments distinguishable by benthic foraminiferal assemblages? A case study of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway. Cretaceous Research. 146, 105476-105476.
- Bryant, R., & Belanger, C. L. (2023). Spatial heterogeneity in benthic foraminiferal assemblages tracks regional impacts of paleoenvironmental change across Cretaceous OAE2. Paleobiology. 1-23.
- Velle, J. H., Walczak, M. H., Reilly, B., St-Onge, G., Stoner, J. S., Fallon, S., ... Forwick, M. (2022). High resolution inclination records from the Gulf of Alaska, IODP Expedition 341 Sites U1418 and U1419. 229(1), 345-358.
- Sharon, S., & Belanger, C. L. (2022). Placing North Pacific paleo-oxygenation records on a common scale using multivariate analysis of benthic foraminiferal assemblages. Quaternary Science Reviews. 280, 107412-107412.
- Du, J., Mix, A. C., Haley, B. A., Belanger, C. L., & Sharon. (2022). Volcanic trigger of ocean deoxygenation during Cordilleran ice sheet retreat.. Nature. 611(7934), 74-80.
Conference Papers2
- Sims, E. R., & Belanger, C. (2020). MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF BIOSTRATIGRAPHICALLY SIGNIFICANT FUSULINID FORAMINIFERAN GENUS TRITICITES ACROSS THE PENNSYLVANIAN-PERMIAN BOUNDARY IN THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES. 54th Annual GSA South-Central Section Meeting 2020.
- Belanger, C., Sharon, S., Payne, C., Du, J., & Mix, A. (2018). BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA RECORD THE REPEATED EXPANSION AND INTENSIFICATION OF THE OXYGEN MINIMUM ZONE IN THE GULF OF ALASKA AND ASSOCIATED INCREASES IN PHYTODETRIUS. GSA Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA - 2018.
Principal Investigator2
Co-Principal Investigator1
- GEOL152 History Of The Earth Instructor
- GEOL208 Life On A Dynamic Planet Instructor
- GEOL289 Sptp: Life On A Dynamic Planet Instructor
- GEOL305 Paleobiology Instructor
- GEOL314 Paleontology And Geobiology Instructor
- Sims, Eileah Renee (2020-07). Morphometric Analysis of Biostratigraphically Significant Fusulinid Foraminiferan Genus Triticites across the Pennsylvanian-Permian Boundary in the Central and Southwestern United States. (Master's Thesis)