Belanger, Christina individual record
Assistant Professor
overview

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.

selected publications
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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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Conference Papers2
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  • 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.
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Email
christina.belanger@tamu.edu
First Name
Christina
Last Name
Belanger
mailing address
Texas A&M University; Geology; 3115 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3115
USA