Rate My Professor Amelia Shevenell

Dr. Shevenell's research generates high-resolution geochemical and micropaleontological records from marine sediments to investigate Earth's climate evolution over the past 65 million years. Her work addresses Antarctic ice sheet development over the last 50 million years using far-field and proximal records, the role of high-latitude oceans in glacial-interglacial carbon cycling, and Antarctic Holocene climate variability. Employing techniques such as stable isotopes in microfossils, trace elements in biogenic calcite, lipid biomarkers, and sedimentology, her studies inform IPCC concerns on polar ice melting and sea level rise. Key publications include Gulick et al. (2017), 'Initiation and long-term instability of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet' in Nature; Gray et al. (2018), 'Deglacial upwelling, productivity, and CO2 in the North Pacific Ocean' in Nature Geoscience; and Smith et al. (2018), 'New species from the Sabrina Flora' in Palynology. She has received the AGU Outstanding Reviewer award (2016), election to The Oceanography Society governing council as Geological Oceanography Counselor (2019), full membership in Sigma Xi (2019), and a USF Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award (2019). Additional honors include serving as IODP Distinguished Lecturer (2014-2015) and Associate Editor for Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology (2020-present).