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‘Oceans, Extinctions, and Climate Change’ is Topic of Presentation

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Pincelli Hull

On Wednesday, May 1 at 7 p.m. in the Cole Auditorium, Greenwich Library partners with the Yale Alumni Association of Greenwich to present Pincelli Hull, Assistant Professor of Geology and Geophysics at Yale University, to speak on “Oceans, Extinctions, and Climate Change: How They’re Related and Why They Matter.” Admission to the event will be free.

This presentation is part of the ongoing annual Yale Speakers Series, sponsored as a public service by the Yale Alumni Association of Greenwich in cooperation with Yale University. This is the fourth year of this successful series, which has featured leading Yale faculty members from areas as diverse as art history, politics, urban planning, constitutional history, medical research, and water policy.

Hull’s research focuses on the evolution and ecology of open ocean ecosystems and species, including the causes and consequences of mass extinctions and community responses to global climate change. Her talk will address the issues raised by climate change, the importance of understanding the dynamic nature of ocean ecosystems, and the effect of extinctions occurring in oceans during our time.

Hull received her Ph.D. from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 2010 and joined the faculty at Yale in 2013 after postdoctoral research at Yale University and the University of Konstanz. She received B.S. degrees at Duke University in the earth and ocean sciences from the Nicholas School of the Environment and in biology with a concentration in marine biology.

Hull’s research focuses on the relationship between open ocean life and the environment during mass extinctions, abrupt climatic events, and changes in background climate state. Her published work covers topics that span from the late Cretaceous to the modern-day periods, and typically focus on the fossil record of plankton, particularly planktonic foraminifera. She has recently been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship in Ocean Science for her work.

Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. Remarks will run from 7 to 8 p.m., followed by a Q&A and refreshments. Registration, using the Library’s online calendar, greenwichlibrary.org, is suggested.

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