TROPIC Students shine at GSA NE Section Meeting

 Undergraduate TROPIC researchers Emma Rosenheim and Kate Van Pelt presented research at the GSA NE / SE Combined Section Meeting in Reston, VA.

Kate and Emma presented work supported by NSF OCE 2202939, our ENSO flavors project. Kate and Emma are working on modern (Kate) and Holocene (Emma) comparison intervals for our spatial reconstructions of tropical variability during the LGM. Their research is showing how thermocline conditions relate to tropical variability. In the case of the modern record, it looks like Sarah White was right, and it's the thermocline! The mid-Holocene remains a bit trickier, but we continue to work on that and on getting the LGM sediments processed.