Dr Daniela Schmidt

Summary

My research focuses on the effect of climate change and ocean acidification on ecology and evolution of marine organisms, focussing on critical transitions in Earth history e.g. the KPg, the PETM and the Pliocene.Our assessment of historical and geological records of ocean acidification covers a range of organisms from bryozoans, bivalves to marine plankton. We use traditional methods such as taxonomy and stratigraphy but also novel approaches such as the ion probe [SIMS], electron probe [EMPA] for in-situ analysis of isotopes and trace elements in foraminifers, minerological methods such as TEM and EBSD, synchrotron scanning [SRXTM] and work in collaboration with the paleoclimate modelling group BRIDGE and the Bristol Isotope Group.

Biography

Royal Society University Research Fellowship, University of Bristol

NERC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Bristol

Dr. sc. nat., Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland,
Diplom in Geology/Palaeontology, Dep. of Geosciences, University Bremen.

HONOURS AND Awards
2012     Lyell Fund (The Geological Society)
2005     W. Storrs Cole Award  (GSA)
2005     Charles Downie Award (TMS)
2003     Silver medal              (ETH Zurich)

Intergovernmental Panal for Climate Change WGII, Chapter 6 Ocean Systems

Editorial Board EPSL
Editorial Board Geology (GSA)
Associated Editor Paleoceanography

Teaching

The Microfossil Evidence of Climate change (M level course)

Scotland Easter Field Class                      (level 3 geology)

Keywords

• Ocean acidification
• climate change
• foraminifers
• biomineralisation

Memberships

Organisations

School of Earth Sciences

Academic staff

• Earth Sciences academic staff

Research groups

• Palaeobiology and Biodiversity
• Climate and Environmental Change

Research themes

• Evolution of Biodiversity and Morphology
• Environmental Change: past and present

Links

• Cabot Institute
• Palaeobiology Reserach Group

Selected publications

• Hönisch, B, Ridgwell, A, Schmidt, D, Thomas, E, Gibbs, S, Sluijs, A, Zeebe, R, Kump, L, Martindale, R, Greene, S, Kiessling, W, Ries, J, Zachos, J, Royer, D, Barker, S, Marchitto, T, Moyer, R, Pelejero, C, Ziveri, P, Foster, G & Williams, B 2012, ‘The Geological Record of Ocean Acidification’. Science, vol 335., pp. 1058 - 1063
• Seki, O, Foster, G, Schmidt, D, Mackensen, A, Kawamura, K & Pancost, R 2010, ‘Alkenone and boron based Pliocene pCO2 records’. Earth Planetary Science Letters, vol 292(1-2)., pp. 201 - 211
• Ridgwell, A & Schmidt, D 2010, ‘Past constraints on the vulnerability of marine calcifiers to massive CO2 release’. Nature Geoscience, vol 3., pp. 196 - 200

Read more >

Recent publications

• Davis, C, Badger, MPS, Bown, P & Schmidt, DN 2013, ‘Calcification response to climate change in the Pliocene?’. Biogeosciences Discussions., pp. 6839-6860
• Badger, MPS, Schmidt, DN, Mackensen, A & Pancost, RD 2013, ‘High resolution alkenone palaeobarometry indicates relatively stable pCO₂ during the Pliocene (3.3 to 2.8 Ma)’. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences.
• Uenzelmann-Neben, G, Schmidt, D, Niessen, F & Stein, R 2012, ‘Glacial rebound causes intraplate volcanism off South Greenland’. Geophysical Journal International.
• Rae, J, Foster, G, Schmidt, D & Elliott, T 2011, ‘Boron isotopes and B/Ca in benthic foraminifera: proxies for the deep ocean carbonate system’. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol 302., pp. 403 - 413
• Smyth, H, Crowley, Q, Hall, R, Kinny, P, Hamilton, P & Schmidt, D 2011, ‘A Toba-scale eruption in the Early Miocene: The Semilir eruption, East Java, Indonesia’. Lithos, vol 126(3-4)., pp. 198 - 211
• Martinez-Botí, M, Mortyn, P, Schmidt, D, Vance, D & Field, D 2011, ‘Mg/Ca in foraminfera from plankton tows: evaluation of proxy controls and comparison with core-tops’. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol 307., pp. 113 - 125
• Ramalho, R, Helffrich, G, Cosca, M, Vance, D, Hoffmann, D & Schmidt, D 2010, ‘Episodic swell growth inferred from variable uplift of the Cape Verde hotspot islands’. Nature Geosci, vol 3., pp. 774 - 777

View complete publications list in the University of Bristol publications system

Courses

Dr Schmidt currently teaches 2 courses: