Dr. Charlotte Brunner
Geological oceanography; biostratigraphy; paleoceanography; taphonomy of foraminifers
Professor
Department of Marine Science
1020 Balch Blvd.
Stennis Space Center, MS 39529-9904
phone: 228-688-3402
fax: 228-688-1121
charlotte.brunner@usm.edu
Education
- Ph.D. Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, 1978
- B.A. Geology, University of Rhode Island, 1970
Research Interests
Dr. Brunner is a paleoceanographer and biostratigrapher who uses fossil planktonic and benthic foraminifers and other proxies of the ocean environment to infer the environmental history of the oceans over the past 5 million years. She has participated in research cruises all over the world, including a series of dives on board the DSRV Alvin, and has taken part in five Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) cruises on board the drilling ship JOIDES Resolution. She is presently studying present and past hypoxic events in the Mississippi Sound using foraminifers as a proxy of oxygenation. She is also investigating the growth and loss of coastal marshes of MS and LA over the last 6 thousand years and she collaborates on a methane vent monitoring site on the northern Gulf of Mexico.
Courses
- Marine Micropaleontology (MAR 684 -Special Topics)
Survey of the biology, distribution, deposition, evolution, paleoceanography and biostratigraphy of benthic and planktonic foraminifers, radiolarians, calcareous nannofossils, and marine diatoms. - Foraminiferida (MAR 684 -Special Topics)
Survey of foraminifers based on the classification system of Loeblich and Tappan (1987)and more recent systems. Detailed review of morphology, biology, and genetics of foraminifers. Detailed review of suborders and selected superfamilies, families, and genera important in clastic and carbonate environments. - Paleoceanography (MAR 684 -Special Topics)
Methods and approaches used in the study of history of the oceans, detailed exploration of selected critical events in ocean history during the Cenozoic and Mesozoic Periods. - Geological Oceanography (MAR581)
- Geological Oceanography Laboratory (MAR581L)
Selected Publications
Brunner, C. A., Beall, J., Bentley, S., and Furukawa, Y., 2006. Hypoxia hotspots in the Mississippi Bight, Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 36(2): 95-107.
Lutken, C., McGee, T., Lowrie, A., Brunner, C., Rogers, R., Macelloni, L., Bosman, A., Sleeper, K., Dearman, J., Woolsey, J. R., Lynch, L., 2006. Comparison of two gas-hydrate sites for sea-floor monitoring, Transactions of the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, Vol. 56, pp. 515-526.
Dreher, C. A., Brunner, C. A., Kulp, M. A., Totten, M. W., 2006. Classification of Holocene Foraminifera bio-facies within the transgressive lower Lafourche headland, Louisiana, Transactions of the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, Vol. 56, pp.161.
Brunner, C. A., and Biscaye, P. E., 2003. Production and resuspension of planktonic foraminifers at the shelf break of the southern Middle Atlantic Bight. Deep-Sea Research, Part I, 50:247-268.