Sibert_CV_October2021 (updated October 2021)
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EDUCATION
2016 |
PhD, Oceanography
Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
2013 |
MS, Oceanography
Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
2011 |
BS, Biology (summa cum laude), Marine Sciences minor
University of California, San Diego |
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2020-Present |
Huchinson Fellow
Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies (YIBS)
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Yale University, New Haven, CT
|
2016-2020 |
Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Museum of Natural History, Museum of Comparative Zoology
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences |
2019 |
Visiting Fellow
Visiting Researcher, Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA)
Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain |
2011-2016 |
PhD Student and NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA |
2015 |
Peter Buck Predoctoral Fellow
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC |
2015 |
Visiting PhD Student
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK |
PUBLICATIONS
Published
- Sibert, E. C. and Rubin, L. D. (2021) An early Miocene extinction in pelagic sharks. Science 372(6546): 1105-1107. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaz3549
- Whitenack, L. B., Kim, S. L., and Sibert, E. C. Bridging the Gap Between Chondrichthyan Paleobiology and Biology in The Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives (3rd ed), edited by Carrier, J. et al. (Accepted for publication in 2022)
- Britten, G. L.,^ and Sibert, E. C.^ (2020) Enhanced fish production during a period of extreme global warmth. Nature Communications 11, 5636. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19462-w (^co-first authorship)
- Sibert, E.C., Zill, M.E., Frigyik, E.T. et al. No state change in pelagic fish production and biodiversity during the Eocene–Oligocene transition. Nature Geoscience (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-0540-2
- Bralower, T. J, Cosmidis, J, Fantle, M. S., Lowery, C. M., Passey, B. H., Gulick, S. P. S., Morgan, J. V., Vajda, V., Whalen, M. T., Wittmann, A., Artemieva, N., Farley, K., Goderis, S., Hajek, E., Kring, D. A., Lyons, S. L., Rasmussen, C., Sibert, E. C., Rodríguez Tovar, F. J., Turner-Walker, G., Zachos, J. C., Carte, J., Chen, S. A., Cockell, C., Coolen, M., Freeman, K. H., Garber, J., Gonzalez, M., Grice, K., Heaney, P. J., Jones, H. L., Schaefer, B., Smit, J., Tikoo, S. M. The habitat of the nascent Chicxulub crater (In Press, AGU Advances)
- Hull, P. M., Bornemann, A., Penman, D. E., Henehan, M. J., Norris, R. D., Wilson, P. A., Blum, P., Alegret, L., Batenburg, S. J., Bown, P. R., Bralower, T. J., Cournede, C., Deutsch, A., Donner, B., Friedrich, O., Jehle, S., Kim, H., Kroon, D., Lippert, P. C., Loroch, D., Moebius, I., Moriya, K., Peppe, D. J., Ravizza, G. E., Röhl, U., Schueth, J. D., Sepúlveda, J., Sexton, P. F., Sibert, E. C., Śliwińska, K. K., Summons, R. E., Thomas, E., Westerhold, T., Whiteside, J. H., Yamaguchi , T. and Zachos , J. C. (2020). On impact and volcanism across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. Science 367(6475): 266-272. http://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay5055
- Kingsbury, C. G., Sibert, E. C., Killingback, Z, Atchison, C. L. (2020) “Nothing about us without us:” The perspectives of Autistic geoscientists on inclusive instructional practices in geoscience education. Journal of Geoscience Educationhttps://doi.org/10.1080/10899995.2020.1768017
- Sibert, E. C., Friedman, M., Hull, P. M., Hunt, G., and Norris, R. D.. Two pulses of morphological diversification in Pacific pelagic fish following the Cretaceous-Palaeogene Mass Extinction (2018) Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 285 20181194; https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1194
- Hsiang, A.Y., Nelson, K., Elder, L.E., Sibert, E.C., Kahanamoku, S.S., Burke, J.E., Kelly, A., Liu, Y., Hull, P.M. (2017) AutoMorph: Accelerating morphometrics with automated 2D and 3D image processing and shape extraction. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 2017;00:1–8. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12915
- Sibert, E.C., Cramer, K.L., Hastings, P.A, and Norris, R.D. (2017) Methods for isolation and quantification of microfossil fish teeth and elasmobranch dermal denticles (ichthyoliths) from marine sediments. Palaeontologia Electronica 20.1.2T:1-14. http://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2017/1800-quantifying-ichthyoliths
- Sibert, E.C., Norris, R.D., Cuevas, J.M., and Graves, L.G. (2016) Eighty-five million years of Pacific Ocean gyre ecosystem structure: long-term stability marked by punctuated change.. 283: 20160189. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.0189
- Sibert, E.C., and Norris, R.D. (2015) New Age of Fishes initiated by the Cretaceous− Paleogene mass extinction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(28):8537-8542. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1504985112
- Sibert, E.C., Hull, P.M., & Norris, R.D. (2014) Resilience of Pacific pelagic fish across the Cretaceous/Palaeogene mass extinction. Nature Geosci 7(9): 667-670 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2227
- Bagulayan, A., J.N. Bartlett-Roa, A.L. Carter, B.G. Inman, E.M. Keen, E.C. Orenstein, N.V. Patin, K.N.S. Sato, E.C. Sibert, A.E. Simonis, A.M. Van Cise, and P.J.S. Franks. (2012) Journey to the center of the gyre: The fate of the Tohoku Tsunami debris field. Oceanography 25(2):200–207, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2012.55
Non-peer-reviewed Articles
- Sibert, E.C. (2017) Evolution of the pelagic ecosystem: a history written in tiny teeth. The Marine Biologist Issue 8, April 2017. http://www.mba.ac.uk/evolution-pelagic-ecosystem-history-written-tiny-teeth
- Cooke, M., C. R. Child, E. C. Sibert, C. von Hagke, and S. G. Zihms (2020), Caption this! Best practices for live captioning presentations, Eos, 101, Published on 09 October 2020. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EO150246
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND SHORT COURSES
Federal Funding/Sponsored Projects as PI
2021 |
NSF IntBIO “Collaborative Research: Deep Time, Development, and Design: Evolution of shark skin teeth from genotype to phenotype to prototype”. |
2021 |
Post-Expedition Award, US Science Support Program: “Marine consumers and Paleogene environmental change at Campbell Plateau, IODP Expedition 378.” |
2020 |
International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition Participant |
Fellowships and Research Grants
2020 |
Yale Teaching Innovation Project Grant |
2020 |
Yale Institute for Biospheric Sciences Hutchinson Fellowship |
2019 |
Visiting Researcher Grant – ICTA, Autonomous University of Barcelona |
2018 |
Project COD-REMAP (collaborator), SPG grant from NSERC-Canada |
2017 |
Harvard University Milton Fund |
2016 |
Harvard Society of Fellows (3 year postdoctoral fellowship) |
2016 |
NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (declined) |
2016 |
University of Michigan Society of Fellows postdoctoral fellowship (declined) |
2015 |
Smithsonian Institution Peter Buck Predoctoral Fellowship |
2015 |
NSF Graduate Research Internship Program (GRIP) Award |
2012 |
American Philosophical Society Lewis and Clark Scholar in Astrobiology |
2011 |
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship |
2010 |
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Summer Student Fellow |
Awards and Travel/Workshop grants
2021 |
Journal of Geoscience Education Outstanding Paper Award |
2018 |
USSSP Scholarship to attend the Petrophysics Summer School, University of Leicester, UK |
2017 |
Chancellor’s Dissertation Medal, UC San Diego |
2014 |
NSF Scholarship to attend IsoAstro workshop at University of Wisconsin, Madison |
2014 |
Student travel grant to North American Paleontology Convention |
2013 |
Student travel grant to 11th International Conference on Paleoceanography |
2012 |
Outstanding Student Paper Award at AGU Fall Meeting |
2012 |
NSF Scholarship to attend the Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimateology |
2012 |
Poster Award, Cioppino Conference at Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimateology |
2010 |
Travel grant to attend the 10th International Conference on Paleoceanography |
2010 |
Class of 2010 NOAA Hollings Scholar |
2010 |
William H. Stout Merit Scholarship
UC San Diego |
Research travel, Short Courses, and Field Experience
2020 |
Physical Properties Specialist IODP Expedition 378: South Pacific Paleogene Climate |
2018 |
Petrophysics Summer School, University of Leicester, UK (July 2018) |
2017 |
Agouron Institute Advanced Geobiology Field School,
Little Ambegris Cay, Turks and Caicos, B.W.I. (August 2017) |
2017 |
IODP Early Career Researcher Workshop, Austin TX (Jan 2017) |
2015 |
Visiting Graduate Student, University of Oxford Department of Earth Sciences |
2014 |
The College Classroom: teaching pedagogy through the Center for Teaching Development at UCSD |
2014 |
IsoAstro Workshop
University of Wisconsin Madison (August 2014) |
2012 |
Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimateology, Urbino, Italy (July 2012) |
2012 |
Field work in central Italy |
2010 |
Research assistant, CalEchoes Cruise (9 days), sediment, fish, and plankton sampling |
TEACHING AND MENTORING
Teaching
2021 |
Co-instructor, developer, The Changing Oceans, Wesleyan University (Visiting Assistant Professor) |
2016-2020 |
Guest lectures in various university courses. (Harvard Society of Fellows does not allow Junior Fellows to teach courses) |
2011-2015 |
Laboratory Instructor for Paleobiology and the History of Life (upper division and graduate-level)
Develop, organize, teach, and grade twice-weekly labs, write and administer midterm and final laboratory exams
Organize and assist with field trips to accompany lecture course (5 years, annually) |
2013 |
Instructor of record, Academic Connections Introduction to Paleontology course |
2011 |
Co-instructor of record, Academic Connections Evolution of a Planet course |
2011 |
Teaching Assistant: BILD 3: Ecology and Evolution (introductory level) |
2010 |
Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Biological Oceanography (upper division) |
2009-2011 |
Reader, UCSD Mathematics Department
Math 20C: Multivariable Calculus for Scientists and Engineers |
Mentoring
Key: SIO: Scripps Institution of Oceanography; UCSD: Univ. of Calif. San Diego; USD = Univ. of San Diego; SURF: Scripps Undergraduate Research Fellowship summer program
2017-Present |
Leah Rubin
Shark denticle morphometrics |
College of the Atlantic Undergraduate Intern |
2018-2019 |
Ella Frigyik
Eocene-Oligocene Fish diversification |
Harvard Undergraduate Student |
2018-2019 |
Jenn Greiner
Scotia Shelf Fish communities |
Harvard Undergraduate Student |
2018 |
Jacob Licht
Anglerfish tooth morphology and their microfossil record |
Harvard Undergraduate Student |
2018 |
Greta Wong
Record of marine productivity and fish abundance in the middle Miocene |
Harvard Undergraduate Student |
2017-2019 |
Monica Marion
Survey of Modern Fish Tooth Morphology |
Recent Harvard Graduate |
2017-2018 |
Raashid Chowdhury
Fish skull database and tooth functional morphology |
Northeastern Undergraduate Student |
2017 |
Matthew Moody
OAE1a Phosphate/Oxygen Isotopes |
Harvard Undergraduate Student |
2015-2016 |
Kimberly McComas
Sapropel fish productivity |
SIO Masters Student |
2016 |
Betty Foreman
Fish at Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 |
UCSD Undergraduate Independent Study |
2016 |
Jacques Lyakov
Fish Tooth Taphonomy |
UCSD Undergraduate Independent Study |
2016 |
Teng Gao
Fish tooth method testing |
UCSD Undergraduate Volunteer |
2014-2016 |
Michelle Zill
Eocene-Oligocene Fish Production |
SIO Masters Student 2015-2016
Undergraduate Independent Study 2014-2015 |
2014-2016 |
Jose Cuevas
Fish productivity in Oligocene and Miocene Pacific Gyres |
University of San Diego Undergraduate Intern |
2012-2015 |
Douglas Tomczik
Fish Production and Diversity across the
Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum |
SIO Masters Student |
2014-2015 |
Raquel Bryant
Paleocene-Eocene Ichthyoliths from Demerera Rise Site 1258 |
SURF Summer Fellow 2014
Brown University Undergraduate Senior Thesis 2015 |
2014 |
Eric Schwab
Miocene Ichthyoliths |
UCSD Undergraduate volunteer |
2013-2014 |
Lana Graves
Eocene-Oligocene Ichthyoliths from the North Pacific |
UCSD Undergraduate Independent Study |
2013 |
Matthew Howard
Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 Ichthyoliths |
UCSD Undergraduate Independent Study |
2013 |
Tiffany Horiguchi
Modern Shark Denticle Catalog |
UCSD Undergraduate Volunteer |
2013 |
Monica Krach
Sapropel Fish Teeth |
Scripps MAS Student and Volunteer |
2012 |
Matthias Scheer
Modern Clupeiform Ichthyolith Taxonomy |
UCSD Undergraduate Independent Study |
2012 |
Christopher Ladwig
Modern Mesopelagic Ichthyoliths |
UCSD Undergraduate Volunteer |
PRESENTATIONS
Conference Presentations (*undergraduate mentee)
- Sibert, E. C. (2021) Capturing functional ecology from ichthyoliths: what isolated microfossil fish teeth and dermal scales can reveal about ancient vertebrate ecology, Closing the Paleontological-Ecological Gap, virtual, Sept 6-9, 2021 (Lightning Talk)
- Sibert, E. C. and Rubin, L. D.* (2021) An Early Miocene extinction in pelagic sharks, Northeast Geobiology Symposium, virtual, April 10, 2021 (Poster Presentation)
- Sibert, E. C. (2020) The Missing Early Miocene: Evidence for a major hiatus in the Early Miocene marine sedimentary record, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, virtual, December 1-17, 2020 (Oral Presentation)
- Sibert, E.C., Bhatia, R, Davis, C. V., Fraass, A. J., and Hall, C (2020) Pal(a)eo PERCS: A virtual, international seminar featuring Early Career Researchers in Palaeo-sciences, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, virtual, December 1-17, 2020 (Poster Presentation)
- Sibert, E. C., and Britten, G.L. (2020) Do fish like it hot? Enhance fish production during a period of extreme global warmth, Geological Society of America Meeting, Virtual, Oct 26-30, 2020 (Oral presentation)
- Sibert, E. C., and Rubin, L. R*., (2019) A 19-million year old pelagic ecosystem state change revealed by mass extinction of sharks. Geological Society of America Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, Sept 22-25, 2019 (Oral presentation)
- Sibert, E. C., and Marion, M. M., (2019) Untangling fish taxonomy and ecology from isolated microfossil ichthyoliths: A perspective from modern fish morphology, International Conference on Paleoceanography, Sydney, Australia, Sept 1-6, 2019 (Poster presentation)
- Sibert, E. C., and Rubin, L.R*.* (2019) A Mass Extinction of Sharks 19 Million Years Ago, North American Paleontological Convention, Riverside, CA, June 23-27, 2019 (Oral Presentation)
- Sibert, E. C., Zill, M. E., Frigyk, E. T., and Norris R. D (2019) A fishy perspective on the Eocene-Oligocene Transition. Amherst, MA, March 30, 2019 (Oral presentation)
- Sibert, E. C. (2018) Using microfossil ichthyoliths to unravel the connection between climate, fish abundance, and marine ecosystem productivity in deep time, Ocean Sciences Meetings, Portland OR, Feb 11-16, 2018 (Oral presentation).
- Sibert, E. C. (2018) Rapid diversification of open ocean fish and marine communities following the K/Pg mass extinction. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Jan 3-7 2018 (Oral presentation).
- Sibert, E. C. (2017) Investigating the link between fish community structure and environmental state in deep-time. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Dec 11-15, 2017 (invited oral presentation).
- Sibert, E. C. (2017) Sequential shifts in fish community structure and ecological role following the K/Pg mass extinction. Geological Society of America Meeting, Seattle, WA, Oct 22-25, 2017 (Oral Presentation).
- Sibert, E. C. and R. D. Norris (2017) Fish productivity, community structure and evolution decoupled following the Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction. Climatic and Biotic Events of the Paleogene meeting, Snowbird, UT, Sept 4-7, 2017 (Oral Presentation).
- Sibert, E. C., M. Friedman, P. M. Hull, G. Hunt, and R. D. Norris. (2016) Evidence for disaster fauna, two phases of diversification of pelagic fish in the aftermath of the K/Pg mass extinction. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, Sep 25-28, 2016 (Oral Presentation)
- Sibert, E. C. and R. D. Norris. (2016) Ecosystem evolution in a greenhouse world: fish evolution and community structure is decoupled from fish production in the Paleogene. International Conference on Paleoceanogrpahy, Utrecht, the Netherlands, Aug. 29-Sep. 2, 2016 (Poster presentation).
- Sibert, E. C., M. S. Friedman, P. M. Hull, G. Hunt, and R. D. Norris. (2016) Stable pelagic vertebrate community structure through extreme Paleogene greenhouse conditions. Ocean Sciences Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Feb. 21-26, 2016 (Oral Presentation).
- Sibert, E. C. (2015), Norris, R. D., Cuevas, J. M.*, Graves, L. G.* 85 million years of pelagic ecosystem evolution: Pacific Ocean deep-sea ichthyolith records reveal fish community dynamics and a long-term decline in sharks. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 14-18, 2015 (Oral presentation)
- Sibert, E. C., Zill, M. E.*, Bryant, R. M.*, Graves, L. G.*, and Norris, R. D. (2014) Fish like it Hot? The response of ichthyolith accumulation to changing climates of the Paleogene. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Dec 15-19, 2014 (Oral Presentation)
- Sibert, E. C. and Norris, R. D. (2014) The Cretaceous-Paleogene Mass Extinction: Beginning in a new Age of Fishes? Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC. October 19-22, 2014 (Oral Presentation)
- Sibert, E. C. and Norris, R. D. (2014) The Cretaceous-Paleogene Mass Extinction: Beginning in a new Age of Fishes? Inaugural Scripps Student Symposium, La Jolla, CA. September 16, 2014 (Poster)
- Sibert, E. C. and Norris, R. D. (2014) The Cretaceous-Paleogene Mass Extinction: Ringing in a new Age of Fishes? Southern California Geobiology Symposium, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. April 5, 2014 (Poster Preentation)
- Sibert, E. C. and Norris, R. D. (2014) An increase in complexity of pelagic fish community structure following the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction. North American Paleontological Convention, Gainesville, Florida. February 15-18, 2014. (Oral Presentation)
- Sibert, E. C., Franks, P. J. S., and Norris, R. D. (2013) Pelagic ecosystem recovery after the Cretaceous-Paleogene Mass Extinction: insights from ichthyoliths and a trophic transfer model. International Conference on Paleoceanography, Sitges, Spain, Sept 1-6 2013. (Poster)
- Sibert, E. C. and Norris, R. D. (2013) Using Ichthyoliths as a proxy for upper trophic level dynamics through Earth History. Southern California Geobiology Symposium, CalTech, Los Angeles, CA, April 2013. (Oral Presentation)
- Sibert, E. C., Hull, P. M., and Norris, R. D. (2012) Using Ichthyoliths to Determine the Fish Response to the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction, AGU Fall Meeting, San Fransisco, December, 2012. (Poster)
- Sibert, E. C., Hull, P. M., and Norris, R. D. (2012) Ichthyoliths: Development of a novel proxy for upper trophic levels of oceanic food webs, Cioppino Conference, Urbino, Italy. July 22, 2012. (Poster)
- Sibert, E. C., Hull, P. M., and Norris, R. D. (2010) A high-resolution record of the flux of fish teeth and other ichthyoliths across the Cretaceous – Paleogene Boundary in the North Pacific (ODP Site 1209, Shatsky Rise). International Conference on Paleoceanography, San Diego, CA. August 29-September 3, 2010. (Poster)
Conference Abstracts (contributor, *undergraduate mentee,
+ masters student mentee)
- Davis, C. V., and Sibert, E.C. (2020) Geographic extent and drivers of Pliocene Oxygen Minimum Zones, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, virtual, December 1-17, 2020
- Rubin, L. D*., and Sibert, E. C. (2020) Determining ancient shark diversity: using dermal denticles preserved in deep-sea sediments to study Cenozoic marine predator dynamics, Geological Society of America Meeting, Virtual, Oct 26-30, 2020
- Gomes, M., Howard, C., Trower, E. J., Sibert, E. C., Present, T. M., and Lingappa, U. (2020) Carbon isotope signatures in microbial mat carbonates – how do different carbonate components record information about local versus global carbon cycling? Geological Society of America Meeting, Virtual, Oct 26-30, 2020
- Lowrey, C. M., and Sibert, E. C., (2019) A Comprehensive Biological Oceanographic Expedition to Determine the True Ecological Change at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Mass Extinction, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 9-14, 2019
- Trower, E., Mahseredjian , T., Overeem, I., Gomes, M., Howard, C., Lingappa, U., Present, T., Sibert, E. (2019) Grain-Trapping by Microbial Mats—A Key Mechanism of Sediment Accumulation in Mangroves? American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 9-14, 2019
- Hsiang, A. Y, Field, D. J., Nelson, K., Elder, L. E., Sibert, E. C., Hull, P. M. High-throughput 2D and 3D morphological data acquisition using AutoMorph: vertebrate and invertebrate case studies. Society for Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, Oct 17-20, 2018 (Oral Presentation).
- Rubin, L.*, and Sibert, E. C., Evidence for a Selective Shark Extinction 20 Ma using Morphometric Analysis of Dermal Denticles. Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Rochester, NY, July 8-15, 2018 (poster).
- Present, T. M., Trower, L., Stein, N., Alleon, J., Bahniuk, A., Gomes, M. L., Lingappa, U., Metcalfe, K., Orzechowski, E. A., Riedman, L. A., Sanders, C. B., Morris, D. K., O’Reilly, S., Sibert, E. C., Thorpe, M., Tarika, M., Fischer, W. W.,, Knoll, A. H. and Grotzinger, J. P. Context, Biogeochemistry, and Morphology of Diverse and Spatially Extensive Microbial Mats, Little Ambergris Cay, Turks and Caicos Islands, B.W.I. AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Dec 11-15, 2017 (Poster).
- Foreman, B.*, Gao, T.*, Lyakov, J.*, and Sibert, E.C. (2016) Methods for isolation and quantification of ichthyoliths from marine sediments. Southern California Geobiology Symposium, Caltech, Pasadena, CA (Poster)
- Zill, M. E.+, Sibert, E. C., and Norris, R. D. (2015) Decreased temperate but not polar fish productivity across the Eocene-Oligocene Transition: insights from ichthyoliths. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 14-18, 2015 (Poster)
- Cuevas, J. M.*, Sibert, E. C., and Norris, R. D. (2015) Fish productivity in open-ocean gyre systems in the Late Oligocene and Miocene. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 14-18, 2015 (Poster)
- Zill, M. E.*, Sibert, E. C, and Norris, R. D. (2015) Using Ichthyoliths to Understand Fish Production During the Eocene-Oligocene Transition. Southern California Geobiology Symposium, Riverside, CA. April 11, 2015 (poster)
- Bryant, R. M.*, Sibert, E. C., and Norris, R. D. (2014) An Early Cenozoic Ichthyolith Record from Demerara Rise (ODP Site 1258: Equatorial Atlantic Ocean). American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Dec 15-19, 2014 (Poster Presentation)
- Graves, L. G.*, Sibert, E. C., and Norris, R. D. (2014) An Eocene-Oligocene Record of Ichthyoliths from the North Pacific. North American Paleontological Convention, Gainesville, Florida, February 15-18, 2014. (Oral Presentation)
- Herrera, S.; Munro, C.; Nganro, N.; Tunnicliffe, V.; Wirasantosa, S.; Sibert, E.; Hammond, S. R.; Bors, E.; Butterfield, D.; Holden, J. F.; Baker, E. T.; Sherrin, J.; Makarim, S.; Troa, R.; Shank, T. M. (2010). Biodiversity of the Deep-Sea Benthic Fauna in the Sangihe-Talaud Region, Indonesia: Observations from the INDEX-SATAL 2010 Expedition. Conference Abstract for American Geophysical Union Fall 2010 Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Dec 13-17, 2010.
- Shank, T. M.; Herrera, S.; Bors, E.; Munro, C.; Sibert, E.; Nganro, N.; Makarim, S.; Wirasantosa, S.; Tunnicliffe, V.; Baker, E. T.; Butterfield, D. A.; Holden, J. F.; Hammond, S. R. (2010). Hydrothermal Vents and Organic Falls in the Heart of the Coral Triangle: Chemosynthetic Communities Discovered via Telepresence in the Sangihe-Talaud Region, Northern Sulawesi, Indonesia. Conference Abstract for American Geophysical Union Fall 2010 Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Dec 13-17, 2010.
Departmental Seminars
2021 |
Queen’s University, Canada, Department of Geological Sciences Seminar |
2020 |
University of California Santa Cruz Earth Science Seminar |
2020 |
Yale Institute of Biospheric Sciences Seminar |
2020 |
University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) Seminar |
2020 |
University of Kentucky Earth System Seminar |
2020 |
University of Victoria, SEOS Seminar |
2019 |
Fredrich Alexander University Erlangen, Germany, Paleobiology Seminar |
2019 |
Dalhousie University Biology Seminar |
2019 |
Institute of Natural Sciences and Technology, Barcelona Spain, Seminar |
2019 |
Institute of Natural Sciences and Technology, Barcelona Spain 2-day Workshop |
2019 |
Scripps Institution of Oceanography Ecology Seminar |
2019 |
University of Basel, Zoological Sciences Seminar |
2019 |
Eawag, University of Bern, Switzerland, Evolution Seminar |
2019 |
Yale University Geology and Geophysics Department Seminar |
2019 |
Kent State University Department of Geology Seminar |
2018 |
MIT Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Seminar |
2018 |
University of Connecticut Department of Geosciences |
2018 |
University of Arizona Geosciences Seminar |
2017 |
College of the Atlantic, Climate Change Seminar Series Speaker |
2017 |
University of Massachusetts, Lowell Biology seminar |
2017 |
McGill University Earth and Planetary Sciences Seminar |
2017 |
University of Utah Geology and Geophysics Seminar |
2016 |
Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology Seminar |
2016 |
Scripps Institution of Oceanography Institutional Seminar |
2015 |
Yale Department of Geology and Geophysics Paleo group seminar |
2015 |
Oxford University Palaeo group Seminar |
2015 |
National Oceanographic Center, University of Southampton invited seminar |
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- American Geophysical Union (2012-present)
- Geological Society of America (2012-present)
- The Oceanography Society (2015-prsent)
- International Association for Geoscience Diversity (2016-present)
- The Paleontology Society (2018-present)
OUTREACH, SERVICE, AND OTHER SKILLS
Journal Reviewer: Geology, GSA Today, Nature, Nature Communications, Nature Ecology and Evolution, Paleobiology, Paleoceanography, PLoS ONE, PLOS Biology, Science Advances, Systemic Biology
Service
2021 |
Contributor to update of 500 Women Sciences Guide to Planning Inclusive Scientific Meetings |
2020-present |
Founder, Co-Organizer, Pal(a)eo PERCS: Virtual Paleo-seminar featuring Early Career Researchers |
2020-present |
Conservation Paleobiology Research Coordination Network Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee |
2020 |
Reviewer, YIBS Small Grants Program, Yale |
2018-2019 |
Organizer, Harvard University Geobiology and Earth History Seminar Series |
2014-2016 |
Scripps Oceanographic Collections Committee, graduate student representative |
2014 |
Convener for AGU Fall Meeting 2014 session “A Living Planet: Biotic Responses to Earth’s Changing Climate” |
2014 |
Founding member and organizer of the Scripps Student Symposium |
Outreach
2019 |
Various outreach and presentations at Boston’s Museum of Science |
2018-2019 |
Skype a Scientist participant for multiple classrooms across the US |
2017 |
Ask a Paleontologist volunteer, I [heart] Science Festival, Harvard Museum of Natural History |
2012-Present |
National Ocean Sciences Bowl Moderator, Science Judge, Question Reviewer |
2011-2016 |
Short outreach presentations for local groups in San Diego and visitors to Scripps |
2014-2016 |
BEWiSE San Diego (middle school girls in science) presenter |
2013 |
Expand Your Horizons Conference for young women (grades 6-9), Workshop Presenter |
2003-2008 |
Volunteer in Visitor Education, New England Aquarium in Boston, MA |
2008 |
Girl Scout Gold Award for science outreach programs for middle school girls |
Other skills
- Skilled circus coach, performer, show coordinator, and aerial acrobat, 2001 – present. Instructor and performer at Esh Circus Arts (2017-present); Gravity Alternative Movement (2018-2020), Aircraft Aerial Arts (2017-2018); Aerial Revolution (2009-2016); silks program director and lead instructor, UCSD (2012-2016). Have also helped to run summer camps and volunteer circus outreach programs (2007-2011)
- Language skills: Proficient in French, basic American Sign Language (ASL)