Timothy Bralower
Research Summary
Paleoceanography and paleoclimatology of past warm climate intervals, the origin of Cretaceous black shales, the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum event, nannofossil biostratigraphy, evolutionary dynamics of nannoplankton, the Mesozoic and Paleogene time scale and the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary event.
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Recent Publications
New species evolved within a few thousand years of the Chicxulub Impact
Lowery, C. M., Bralower, T. J., Farley, K. & Leckie, R. M., 2026, In: Geology. 54, 3, p. 285-288 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
A long-lived impact-generated hydrothermal system at the Chicxulub impact structure
the Expedition 364 Scientists, Dec 2026, In: Communications Earth and Environment. 7, 1, 470.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Millennial-timescale thermogenic CO2 release preceding the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
Jiang, S., Cui, Y., Wang, Y., De Palma, M., Naafs, B. D. A., Jiang, J., Hu, X., Wu, H., Chu, R., Gu, Y., Wang, J., Huang, Y., Ingalls, M., Bralower, T. J., Yang, S., Zachos, J. C. & Ridgwell, A., Dec 2025, In: Nature communications. 16, 1, 5375.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Paleoceanographic Significance of Calcareous Nannofossil Assemblages in the Tropic Shale of Utah during Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 at the Cenomanian/Turonian Boundary
Fortiz, V., Oakes, R., Boudinot, F. G., Jones, M. M., Leckie, R. M., Parker, A., Sageman, B. B., Sepúlveda, J. & Bralower, T. J., 2024, In: Micropaleontology. 70, 3, p. 205-224 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Investigating assessment types in an online climate change class: moderating and mediating effects
Millet, A. L., Dinç, E. & Bralower, T. J., Dec 2024, In: Educational Technology Research and Development. 72, 6, p. 3075-3101 27 p., 065030.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Paleogene Earth perturbations in the US Atlantic Coastal Plain (PEP-US): coring transects of hyperthermals to understand past carbon injections and ecosystem responses
Robinson, M. M., Miller, K. G., Babila, T. L., Bralower, T. J., Browning, J. V., Cramwinckel, M. J., Doubrawa, M., Foster, G. L., Fung, M. K., Kinney, S., Makarova, M., McLaughlin, P. P., Pearson, P. N., Röhl, U., Schaller, M. F., Self-Trail, J. M., Sluijs, A., Westerhold, T., Wright, J. D. & Zachos, J. C., Apr 2 2024, In: Scientific Drilling. 33, 1, p. 47-65 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Stratigraphy of the Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary at the Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) in El Kef, Tunisia: New insights from the El Kef Coring Project
Jones, H. L., Westerhold, T., Birch, H., Hull, P., Negra, M. H., Röhl, U., Sepúlveda, J., Vellekoop, J., Whiteside, J. H., Alegret, L., Henehan, M., Robinson, L., van Dijk, J. & Bralower, T., 2023, In: Bulletin of the Geological Society of America. 135, 9-10, p. 2451-2477 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Surface ocean warming and acidification driven by rapid carbon release precedes Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
Babila, T. L., Penman, D. E., Standish, C. D., Doubrawa, M., Bralower, T. J., Robinson, M. M., Self-Trail, J. M., Speijer, R. P., Stassen, P., Foster, G. L. & Zachos, J. C., Mar 2022, In: Science Advances. 8, 11, abg1025.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Astrochronology of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum on the Atlantic Coastal Plain
Li, M., Bralower, T. J., Kump, L. R., Self-Trail, J. M., Zachos, J. C., Rush, W. D. & Robinson, M. M., Dec 2022, In: Nature communications. 13, 1, 5618.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Elevated Post K-Pg Export Productivity in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean
Lowery, C. M. & Bralower, T. J., Sep 2022, In: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 37, 9, e2021PA004400.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The Chicxulub impact and its environmental consequences
Morgan, J. V., Bralower, T. J., Brugger, J. & Wünnemann, K., May 2022, In: Nature Reviews Earth and Environment. 3, 5, p. 338-354 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Life before impact in the Chicxulub area: unique marine ichnological signatures preserved in crater suevite
Rodríguez-Tovar, F. J., Kaskes, P., Ormö, J., Gulick, S. P. S., Whalen, M. T., Jones, H. L., Lowery, C. M., Bralower, T. J., Smit, J., King, D. T., Goderis, S. & Claeys, P., Dec 2022, In: Scientific reports. 12, 1, 11376.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Microfossil and geochemical records reveal high-productivity paleoenvironments in the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway during Oceanic Anoxic Event 2
Bryant, R., Leckie, R. M., Bralower, T. J., Jones, M. M. & Sageman, B. B., Dec 15 2021, In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 584, 110679.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Size and shape variation in the calcareous nannoplankton genus Braarudosphaera following the Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/Pg) mass extinction: Clues as to its evolutionary success
Jones, H. L., Scrobola, Z. & Bralower, T. J., Nov 7 2021, In: Paleobiology. 47, 4, p. 680-703 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Early Paleocene Paleoceanography and Export Productivity in the Chicxulub Crater
Expedition 364 Science Party, Nov 2021, In: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 36, 11, e2021PA004241.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
