2006-present
and 1998–2002

Massachusetts Institute of Technology /Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography ; Ph.D.
Thesis title: Foraminiferal trace elements: uptake, diagenesis, and 100 m.y. paleochemical history

Geological Society of America

Editor, Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Guest Editor, Oceanography, Special Issue on “Women in Oceanography”

Associate Editor, Oceanography

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Presentations or Forum Participation  (2000-present)

2006  Invited speaker, 17th International Sedimentological Congress, Fukuoka, Japan (27 August-1 September), Session on "Role of Sedimentology in Earth Drilling Projects.”  Title:  Proxy Tracers in Paleoceanography.

2006  Invited speaker, Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Australian Workshop, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia (26-27 August).  Title:  U.S. SODV Refit and Improved Capabilities.

2006  Invited Keynote Lecture, EuroForum 2006:  IODP Past Achievements and Future Opportunities, Cardiff, Wales (8-9 May 2006).  Title:  What’s in a Name?  The JOIDES Resolution Refit as the IODP Riserless Vessel.

2006  Invited, speaker, Department of Geological Sciences, Arizona State University (29 March).  Title:  Ocean History:  Carbon, Nutrients, and Temperature.

2005  Invited speaker, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), October 21, 2005.  Title:  Women in Oceanography.

2005  Speaker, UCSC Ocean Sciences Seminar Series, April 6, 2005.  Title:  Women in Oceanography.

2005  Invited speaker, for Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Women’s History Month, March 8, 2005.  Title:  Women in Oceanography.

2004  Invited speaker, Eighth International Conference on Paleoceanography, Biarritz, France.  Title:  Integrated Ocean Drilling Program:  Present and Future.  Also Session Chair, Cenozoic-Mesozoic Oceans.

2004  Plenary Session Invited Speaker (one of four invited plenary speakers), American Geophysical Union Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, Oregon.  Title:  Nutrients and the Global Carbon Cycle.  See “Invited Abstracts” 

2003  Invited speaker, Union Session, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California.  Title:  Phosphorus:  Sedimentary geochemistry, mass balance, and ocean history from ODP sediments.  See “Invited Abstracts”  Also Union Session Co-Chair, The Contributions of 20 Years of Scientific Drilling III.”

2003  Speaker, XXIII General Assembly of the International Union of Geodosy and  Geophysics (IUGG), Session on Twenty Years of the Ocean Drilling Program, Sapporo, Japan, July.  Title:  Sedimentary geochemistry, mass balance, and ocean history from ODP sediments.

2003  Invited speaker, Stanford University, Oceans Seminar, May 20.  Title:  Southeast Pacific paleoceanographic transects (ODP Leg 202), Interstitial water geochemistry.

2001  Invited presentation/discussion, Seventh International Conference on Paleoceanography, Sapporo, Japan, September.  Title:  Paleoceanography in IODP and U.S. participation in IODP (one of three speakers on IODP and Paleoceanography)

2001  Invited speaker, The Oceanography Society Biennial Scientific Meeting, Miami Beach, Florida, April.  Title:  Phosphorus in ocean margin sediments:  California and Benguela Current regions

2000  Invited speaker, Presentations on “The Non-Riser Drilling Vessel for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program:  A Report from the Conceptual Design Committee” at:  JOIDES EXCOM/SCICOM Joint Meeting, Washington, D.C., February; International Working Group (IWG) for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), Washington, D.C., February; European Ocean Drilling Program Forum, La Grande-Motte, France, April; OD21/IODP Special Session, Annual Meeting of Joint Japanese Geophysical Societies/Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, June

Research Cruises

29 March– 30 May 2002  JOIDES Resolution - Ocean Drilling Program Leg 202,
Southeast Pacific Paleoceanographic Transects Valparaiso, Chile–Balboa, Panama
Inorganic geochemist for interstitial water geochemistry, Southeast Pacific sediment drilling.

20 April-16 June 1996 JOIDES Resolution (Sedco/BP471) Ocean Drilling Program Leg 130 , Acapulco, Mexico - San Francisco, California.
Inorganic geochemist on ODP Leg 167 studying sediments along the California Margin.

23 January-27 March 1990 JOIDES Resolution (Sedco/BP471) Ocean Drilling Program Leg 130, Guam - Guam.
Inorganic geochemist on ODP Leg 130 studying calcareous-rich sediments on the Ontong-Java Plateau.

1 August-7 August 1985 R/V R. G. Sproul, San Diego, California - San Diego, California.
Boxcoring sediments in Santa Barbara Basin and other California Borderlands basins; subcoring of box cores and subsampling of cores.

20 June-1 July 1982 U.S.N.S. Bartlett (T-AGOR-13), Cadiz, Spain - Rota, Spain.
Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean hydrocast and surface trace element water sampling; shipboard nutrient and salinity analyses.

8 March -9 April 1982 Caribbean Marine Biological Institute , Curacao, Netherlands Antilles.

14 January-10 February 1981 Bellairs Research Institute, Barbados, West Indies.
Culturing experiments on live planktonic foraminifera in collaboration with Dr. Allen B. of Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory. Included field capture of foraminifera from water column by SCUBA diving and laboratory observation.

9 October -4 November 1979 R/V Atlantis II, Woods Hole, MA - Fortaleza, Brazil.
Surface trace element water sampling; shipboard nutrient analyses.

Articles In Preparation (Peer-Reviewed)

Bohaty, S.M., J.C. Zachos, and M.L. Delaney, Southern Ocean cooling and Antarctic ice sheet expansion in the early Oligocene, for submission to Paleoceanography (in prep.).

Bohaty, S.M., J.C. Zachos, and M.L. Delaney, Southern Ocean temperature evolution during the MECO event from foraminiferal Mg/Ca records, for submission to Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. (in prep.).

Nilsen, E.B., D.J. Andreasen, and M.L. Delaney, Recent interdecadal variability in primary production in the California Current linked to North Pacific climate, for submission to Geology (in prep.).

Chun, C.O.J., and M.L. Delaney, Manganese enrichment factors and changes in paleo-redox associated with a sharp color change at Nazca Ridge, ODP Site 1237, for submission to Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta (in prep.).

Faul, K.L., and M.L. Delaney, A Multi-tracer Reconstruction of Early Paleogene Organic C Burial in the Indian-Atlantic Region of the Southern Ocean:  Reactive Phosphorus, Export Productivity, and RedoxIndicator Records from Maud Rise and Kerguelen Plateau, for resubmission to Paleoceanography (in revision after earlier version was reviewed and rejected with encouragement to resubmit).

Articles in Review (Peer–Reviewed)

Nilsen, E.B., and M.L. Delaney, Organic matter accumulation and sedimentary trace metal and elemental geochemistry recorded in the Santa Barbara Basin during the 19th and 20th centuries, Estuarine, Coastal, and Shelf Science (submitted 4/06, being revised after first round of review).

Articles in Press (Peer–Reviewed)

Chun, C.O.J., and M.L. Delaney, Phosphorus, barium, manganese, and uranium concentrations and geochemistry, Nazca Ridge, Site 1237 sediments.  In Tiedemann, R., Mix, A.C., Richter, C., and Ruddiman, W.F. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 202 (in press).

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Published Articles (Peer–Reviewed) 
(2000-2006)

Bowen, G.J., T.J. Bralower, M.L. Delaney, G.R. Dickens, D.C. Kelly, P.L Koch, L.R. Kump, J. Meng, L.C. Sloan, E. Thomas, S.L. Wing, and J.Z. Zachos, Eocene hyperthermal event offers insight into greenhouse warming, EOS, Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union 87(17), 165, 169 (2006).

Faul, K.L., A. Paytan, and M.L. Delaney, Phosphorus distribution in sinking oceanic particulate matter, Marine Chemistry 97 (3-4), 307-333 (2005).

Nilsen, E.B., and M.L. Delaney, Factors influencing the biogeochemistry of sedimentary carbon and phosphorus in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, Estuaries 28 (5), 653-663 (2005).

Anderson, L.D., and M.L. Delaney, Use of multiproxy records on the Agulhas Ridge, Southern Ocean (ODP Leg 177, Site 1090) to investigate sub-Antarctic hydrography from the Oligocene to the early Miocene, Paleoceanography 20, PA3011, doi:10.1029/2004PA001082 (2005b).

Anderson, L. D., and M. L. Delaney, Middle Eocene to early Oligocene paleoceanography from Agulhas Ridge, Southern Ocean (Ocean Drilling Program Leg 177, Site 1090), Paleoceanography 20, PA1013, doi:10.1029/2004PA001043 (2005a).

Wara, M.L., A.C. Ravelo, and M.L. Delaney, Permanent El Niño-like conditions during the Pliocene warm period, Science 309, 758-761 (2005).

Rosenthal, Y., S. Perron-Cashman, C.H. Lear, E. Bard, S. Barker, K. Billups, M. Bryan, M.L. Delaney, P.B. deMenocal, G.S. Dwyer, H. Elderfield, C.R. German, M. Greaves, D.W. Lea, T.M. Marchitto Jr., D.K. Pak, G.L. Paradis, A.D. Russell, R.R. Schneider, K. Scheiderich, L. Stott, K. Tachikawa, E. Tappa, R. Thunell, M. Wara, S. Wealdab, and P. Wilson, Interlaboratory comparison study of Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca measurements in planktonic foraminifera for paleoceanographic research, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 5, Q04D09, doi:10.1029/2003GC000650 (2004).

Tripati, A.K., M.L. Delaney, J.C. Zachos, L.D. Anderson, D.C. Kelly, and H. Elderfield, Tropical sea-surface temperature reconstruction for the early Paleogene using Mg/Ca ratios of planktonic foraminifera, Paleoceanography 18(4), 1101, doi:10.1029/2003PA000937 (2003).

Zachos, J.C., M.W. Wara, S. Bohaty, M.L. Delaney, M.R. Petrizzo, A. Brill, T.J. Bralower, and I. Premoli-Silva, A transient rise in tropical sea surface temperature during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Science 302 (5650), 1551-1554 (2003).

Wara, M.W., M.L. Delaney, T.D. Bullen, and A.C. Ravelo, The possible roles of pH, temperature, and partial dissolution in determining boron concentration and isotopic composition in planktonic foraminifera, Paleoceanography 18: 1100, doi:10.1029/2002PA000797 (2003).

Wara, M.W., L.D. Anderson, S.A. Schellenberg, R. Franks, A.C. Ravelo, and M.L. Delaney, Application of a radially viewed inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrophotometer to simultaneous measurement of Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca, and Mn/Ca ratios in marine biogenic carbonates, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 4(8), 8404, doi:10.1029/2003GC000525 (2003).

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Nilsen, E.B., L.D. Anderson, and M.L. Delaney, Paleoproductivity, nutrient burial, climate change and the carbon cycle in the western equatorial Atlantic across the Eocene/Oligocene boundary, Paleoceanography 18(3), 1057, doi:10.1029/2002PA000804 (2003).

Faul, K.L., L.D. Anderson, and M.L. Delaney, Late Cretaceous and early Paleogene nutrient and paleoproductivity records from Blake Nose, western North Atlantic Ocean, Paleoceanography 18(2), 1042, doi:10.1029/2001PA000722 (2003).

Mc Intyre, K., M.L. Delaney, and A.C. Ravelo, Millennial–scale climate change and oceanic processes in the late Pliocene and early Pleistocene, Paleoceanography 16, 535-543 (2001).

Anderson, L.D., M.L. Delaney, and K.L. Faul, Carbon to phosphorus ratios in sediments:  Implications for nutrient cycling, Global Biogeochem. Cycles 15, 65-79 (2001). 

Andreasen, G.H., and M.L. Delaney, Bulk calcite size fraction distribution and Sr/Ca composition for deep–sea sediments at selected age horizons, Marine Geology 169, 185–205 (2000).

Lyle, M., I. Koizumi, M.L. Delaney, and J.A. Barron, Sedimentary record of the California Current System, middle Miocene to Holocene:  A synthesis of Leg 167 results, Proc. ODP Sci. Rslts. 167, 341–376 (2000).

Faul, K.L., A.C. Ravelo, and M.L. Delaney, Reconstructions of upwelling, productivity, and photic zone depth in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean using planktonic foraminiferal stable isotopes and abundances, Jour. Foram. Research 30, 110–125 (2000).

Anderson, L.D., and M.L. Delaney, Sequential extraction and analysis of phosphorus in marine sediments:  Streamlining of the SEDEX procedure, Limnol. Oceanogr. 45, 509–515 (2000).

Faul, K.L., and M.L. Delaney, Nutrient and paleoproductivity dynamics in the early Paleogene, GFF 122, 46–47 [extended abstract] (2000).

Andreasen, G.H., and M.L. Delaney, Lithologic controls on calcite recrystallization in Cenozoic deep–sea sediments, Marine Geology 163, 109–124 (2000).

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Invited Abstracts (2003-2006)

Delaney, M.L., Proxy Tracers in Paleoceanography, 17th International Sedimentological Congress, Fukuoka, Japan (27 August-1 September), Invited talk for session on "Role of Sedimentology in Earth Drilling Projects" (2006).

Delaney, M.L., Ocean history:  Nutrients and the global carbon cycle, EOS Trans. AGU 84(52), Ocean Sci. Meet. Suppl., Abstract OS11A-01(2003b).  One of four invited plenary talks for Ocean Sciences 2004 Meeting.

Other Publications   (2000-2006)

Delaney, M.L., et. al. (nine co-authors), What’s in a name?  JOIDES Resolution re-fit as the IODP riserless vessel (The Future of Scientific Ocean Drilling), Oceanography (in review for December 2006 issue). 

M.L. Delaney, Guest Editor, Special Issue of Oceanography magazine on “Women in Oceanography,” Vol 18 (1) (2005).  (Entire issue available on-line at:  http://www.tos.org/oceanography/issues/issue_archive/18_1.html)

Delaney, M.L., Introduction to this special issue on women in oceanography, Oceanography 18 (1), 8-10 (2005a).

Delaney, M.L., Introductory letter from Peggy Delaney (introducing “Autobiographical Sketches of Women in Oceanography”), Oceanography 18 (1), 66-68 (2005b).

Grousset, F., L Peterson, P. Delaney, H. Elderfield, K. Emeis, G. Haug, T. Stocker, and P.-X. Wang, Eighth International Conference on Paleoceanography, EOS, 86 (7), 68 (2005).

Grousset, F.E., P. Delaney, H. Elderfield, K. Emeis, G. Haug, L. Peterson, T. Stocker, and P.-X. Wang, Eighth International Conference on Paleoceanography (Meeting Report), Oceanography 17 (4), 186-193 (2004).

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Mix, A.C., Tiedemann, R., Blum, P., et al., Proc. ODP, Init. Repts., 202 [Online]. Available from World Wide Web: http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/202_IR/202ir.htm (2003).  See especially Introductory Chapter section  on “Biogeochemical Constraints,” pp. 21-25, p. 145.

Prell, W., and M.L. Delaney, Support for U.S. participation in the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, Report from the Conference on U.S. Participation in IODP (CUSP), submitted to NSF and published in JOI/USSAC Newsletter 15(2): 1-13 (2002).  (See web version of report at http://www.joiscience.org/USSSP/iodp/cusp.html for appendices.)

Delaney, M.L., Conference on U.S. Participation (CUSP) in IODP held June 2002, Letter from the Chair, JOI/USSAC Newsletter 15(1): 21 (2002).

Delaney, M.L., The only constant is change…, Letter from the Chair, JOI/USSAC Newsletter 14(1), 21 (2001).

Delaney, M.L., author of letter from chair (p. 2) and primary scientific editor for brochure, United States Participation in the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, 2003-2013, glossy brochure, 8 pp. (September 2001).

Delaney, M.L., New combinations in our alphabet soup…News about the ODP and IODP, Letter from the Chair, JOI/USSAC Newsletter 13(3), 13 (2001).

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Pisias, N.G., and M.L. Delaney (editors), COMPLEX:  Conference on Multiple Platform Exploration of the Ocean, May 1999, Vancouver, British Columbia, 210 pp. (November 2000). 

Delaney, M.L., Interesting times…institutions, individuals, and change, Letter from the Chair, JOI/USSAC Newsletter 13(2), 13 (2000).

Faul, K.L., and M.L. Delaney, Phosphorus concentrations and geochemistry in Blake Nose sediments from Leg 171B (Data Report), Proc. ODP Sci. Rslts. 171B, 1-10 (online, web publication 2000).

The Non–Riser Drilling Vessel for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program:  A Report from the Conceptual Design Committee (M.L. Delaney, chair), March 2000.  (Report available on the web at http://www.joiscience.org/sodv/downloads/cdc/CDC_report.pdf)

Delaney, M.L. The greatest Earth science undertaking ever…, Letter from the Chair, JOI/USSAC Newsletter 13(1), 21 (2000).

Delaney, M.L., Nutrients in the glacial balance [News and Views article], Nature 405, 288–291 (2000).

Delaney, M.L., Perspectives on paleoceanography, the journal and the field, from a retiring editor, Paleoceanography 15, 1–3 (2000).

Delaney, M.L., and L.D. Anderson, Phosphorus concentrations and geochemistry in California Margin sediments, ODP Leg 167 (Data Report), Proc. ODP Sci. Rslts. 167, 195–202 (2000).

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Howie Scher, IMS Post-doctoral Fellow, 2006-07.

Stephen Schellenberg, NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Earth Sciences, co–advisor with J.C. Zachos, 2000–2002.  Current position:  Assistant Professor of Geology, San Diego State University.

Ellen Martin, NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Earth Sciences, 1993-1994.
Current position: assistant professor of geology, University of Florida.

Current Graduate Students

Cecily Chun              Ph.D. in Ocean Sciences              2002–
2002–07 Graduate Assistanceship in Areas of National Need Fellowship;
2006–07 Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Fellowship.

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Degrees Completed

Elena Brennan Nilsen              Ph.D. in Ocean Sciences              1999–2004
Thesis title:  Studies of carbon cycling, nutrient dynamics, and climate change in pelagic and coastal ecosystems using sediment geochemical techniques
2001–02 California Coastal Environmental Quality Graduate Fellowship; 2002–03 Graduate Assistanceship in Areas of National Need Fellowship; 2003–04 Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Fellowship. 

Michael Wara               Ph.D. in Ocean Sciences              1997–2003          (Co–Advisor with A.C. Ravelo)
Thesis title:  On the interaction between tropical and high latitude climate over the past 5 m.y.
1998–99 Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc./U.S. Science Support Program Fellowship.  2001–02 Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Fellowship.  2001–02 Ocean Sciences Outstanding Graduate Student Award.  Recently graduated from Stanford Law School.

Kristina Faul              Ph.D. in Earth Sciences              1994–2001              (Co–Advisor with A.C. Ravelo)
Thesis title:  Nutrient and paleoproductivity dynamics during the last glacial maximum and the early Paleogene
1996–99 Harvey Fellow; invited shipboard inorganic geochemist, ODP Leg 171B, Blake Nose, January–February 1997; 1997 UCSC Earth Sciences Aaron and Elizabeth Waters Award for Outstanding Thesis Proposal.  Currently Assistant Professor of Chemistry (Environmental Geology) at Mills College (Oakland, California).

Gretchen Hampt Andreasen              Ph.D. in Earth Sciences              1992–1998
1995 Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc./U.S. Science Support Program Fellowship; invited shipboard inorganic geochemist, ODP Leg 154, Ceara Rise, January–March, 1994.  Recipient of an NSF Post–doctoral Fellowship in Science, Math, Engineering, and Technology Education, 1998–2000.  Currently CalTeach Coordinator, UCSC.

Katherine McIntyre              Ph.D. in Earth Sciences              1992–1998        (Co–Advisor with A.C. Ravelo)
1992–1995 Patricia Roberts Harris Fellowship; 1995 UCSC Earth Sciences Aaron Waters Award for Outstanding Thesis Proposal; invited shipboard inorganic geochemist, ODP Leg 162, North Atlantic and Arctic Gateways II, July–September 1995; 1996–97 Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc./U.S. Science Support Program Fellowship; 1996–97 Outstanding Ocean Sciences Student Award, UCSC. 

Gabriel Filippelli              Ph.D. in Earth Sciences              1989–1994
1991–92 Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc./U.S. Science Support Program Fellowship; three–year award National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, 1992–94; 1991 UCSC Earth Sciences Aaron Waters Award for Outstanding Thesis Proposal; 1992 UCSC Outstanding TA award.  Currently Professor of Geology, Indiana University–Purdue University at Indianapolis.