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Kanfoush to Give Talk on Climate, Sea Level

How 425,000-Year-Old Evidence Can Be Analogue for Future

Written By Marissa Filletti '18, PR Intern

Contact - cleogrande@utica.edu

Utica, NY (03/12/2015) - On Friday, March 13, as part of the Nexus seminar series at Utica College, Sharon Kanfoush, Ph.D., will present evidence regarding climate change and sea-level change during marine isotope 11.

Kanfoush, associate professor and chair of geoscience at Utica College, will discuss how evidence from more than 425,000 years ago may provide a glimpse into the future. Her talk will center on marine isotope 11, the geologic temperature record of the Earth’s warm climate that rapidly changed to ice age conditions. Kanfoush will address the controversy surrounding sea level during this era by analyzing deep-sea sediments that landed north by the movement of icebergs.

Kanfoush earned her bachelor’s degree in geology from the Southampton College of Long Island University. She went on to pursue a master’s degree at the State University of New York College at Buffalo, and earned her Ph.D. in geological sciences from the University of Florida. Her research is heavily based on the application of sedimentological and paleontological evidence to solve geologic problems. She even conducts some research locally at the Adirondack Lakes.

This event is free and open to the public. It will be held in the Willard Conference Room located in UC’s DePerno Hall at 2:15 p.m.

About Utica College – Utica College, founded in 1946, is a comprehensive private institution offering bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees. The College, located in upstate central New York, approximately 90 miles west of Albany and 50 miles east of Syracuse, currently enrolls over 4,000 students in 36 undergraduate majors, 27 minors, 21 graduate programs and a number of pre-professional and special programs.