Welcome to the webpage for Elizabeth Sibert! My research asks the question “How does the ocean, and marine life, work, in the past, present, and future?” I am broadly interested in the evolution, structure, and function of marine ecosystems, and how these ecosystems respond to global change. I use a multi-proxy approach to study how the ocean ecosystems have changed through time, with a focus on responses to climate and biotic events in Earth’s more recent history, such as global warming and mass extinctions. I specialize in using ichthyoliths, tiny fossil fish teeth and shark scales found in pelagic sediments worldwide, which I then incorporate with myriad other climate and biotic proxies to better understand the ecosystem as a whole.

I am currently a Hutchinson Fellow at Yale University, and was previously a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. I completed my PhD in Oceanography in 2016 at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

In addition to my research, I am passionate about making science and research accessible to folks with disabilities (see Kingsbury et al 2020, JGE, and Cooke et al 2020, EOS). I have also been discovering the fun of 3D printing, mostly fossils and other teaching aids.

I’ve always loved the ocean, from the moment I first learned of the creatures that could live their lives underwater. What captured my imagination at first was the animals themselves, and as I dug deeper into their biology, I learned that life in the oceans was intricately linked to the physical, geological, and chemical properties of the ocean itself, and I am fascinated by how these links work together to create the ocean world that we see today.

My CV is available here

You can contact me at elizabeth [dot] sibert [at] yale [dot] edu

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I am also a founder and co-organizer of the international virtual Early Career Seminar Series, Pal(a)eoPERCS

You can find me on Twitter @ElizabethSibert and on GitHub as esibert