Curriculum Vita
Professional experience
Current- Professor, IMCS and Department of Geology Rutgers University
2000-2006 Assistant & Associate professor, Rutgers University
1997-2000 Assistant research professor, Rutgers University
1996-1997 Post-doctoral fellow, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
1995-1996 Post-doctoral investigator, Biosphere-2 Center of Columbia University, Tucson AZ
1988-1994 Graduate student, research assistant, post-doc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1985-1988 Graduate student, RA and TA, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
1981-1982 Field geologist for the Society for the Protection of Nature, Israel
1978-1981 Regional supervisor for the Nature Reserves Authority, Israel
Education
1994 Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
1988 M.Sc. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
1985 B.Sc. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, majors in Geology and Biology
Research interests
Paleoceanography & Paleoclimatology; Trace metal biogeochemistry;;
Shipboard experience
2005 R/V Sonne, coring in the Timor Channel (24 days)
2004 R/V Knorr. Co-chief Scientist. Coring in western N. Atlantic (21 days)
2004 R/V Knorr, Chief Scientist. Coring in Norwegian Sea (10 days)
2003 R/V Baruna Jaya VIII, Chief Scientist. Coring in Indonesia (31 days)
2002 R/V Oceanus, coring in the North Atlantic (4 days)
2000 02 Eight 1-day cruise on the Hudson River
1998 R/V Moana Wave, Co-chief, Coring in Hawaii (23 days)
1997 R/V Shikmona, Sediment geochemistry, eastern Mediterranean SeaM
1992 R/V Le Suirat, Coring in the North Atlantic (21 days)
1991 R/V New Horizon, Trace-metal cycling in the California Current (11 days)
1990 R/V New Horizon, Trace-metal cycling in the California Current (11 days)
1989 R/V Weatherbird, Trace-metal cycling near Bermuda (2 days)
Courses Taught
- CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY (Graduate course)
- PALEOCEANOGRAPHY (Graduate course)
- THE WATER PLANET (Undergraduate course), Spring
- PROBLEMS IN MARINE SCIENCES (Undergraduate course)
- INTRODUCTION TO MARINE SCIENCES (Undergraduate course)
- ADVANCED BIOGEOCHEMISTRY (Graduate course)
Awards
Forchheimer Fellowship, for visiting scientists at the Hebrew University, 2005
The Dept. of Geology (Hebrew University) Excellence Award for graduate students, 1986
The Israel Geological Society Award for M.Sc. thesis, 1987
Professional affiliations
Geochemical Society, American Geophysical Union
Graduate students supervised
2002- Ph.D.- Sindia Sosodian, current Ph.D. student (principal advisor)
2004- Ph.D.- Kate Jordan, current Ph.D. student (principal advisor)
2005- Ph.D.- Emily Clinch, current Ph.D. student (principal advisor)
2006/7 Ph.D. Kuo-Fang Huang (Visiting student)
Current post-doctoral advisees
Dr. Bridget Wade (Ph.D. U. Edinburgh, UK)
Previous post-doctoral advisees
Dr. Thibault de Garidel (Ph.D. CEREGE, France; current position- researcher at CNRS, France)
Dr. Bas Vandeschootbrugge (Université de Neuchâtel; current position- Assit Res. Prof. U. Farnkfurt)
Dr. Carrie Lear (Ph.D. Cambridge U.; current position- lecturer Cardiff U. UK)
Dr. Trevor Bailey (Ph.D.Royal Holloway U., current position- Cardiff Geological Museum)
Dr. Dyke Andreasen (Ph.D. UCSC; current position Research Scientist UCSC)
Undergraduate advising
Advised over 25 undergraduate students in laboratory work including
3 honor thesis projects
Academic and professional services
- Fellow of Livingston College, Rutgers University
- Reviewer for Science, Nature, Paleoceanography, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, Marine Geology, Earth
Planet. Sci. Lett, Geology, Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol, Global Planetary Change, Quaternary Research,
. Quaternary Science Reviews, Chemical Geology, Geophys. Geochem. Geosy., Marine Micropaleontology and other journals
- Reviewed proposals for NSF Marine Geology, Earth System History, Chemical Oceanography, Office of Polar and
Atmospheric Science programs; ACS Petroleum Research Fund; Hudson River Foundation; Israel-USA Bi-national
Science Foundation; European Science Foundation; National Environmental Research Council
- A member of the reviewing committee for EPSL-On Line (1996)
- Session Chair Fall AGU 1998, Spring AGU 1999, Fall AGU 2001
- AGU, Spring 1999 member of the media advisory
- NSF proposal review panelist: Marine Geology and Geophysics, November 2000
- NSF proposal review panelist: Marine Geology and Geophysics, May 2001
- Consultant to the New York Academy of Sciences, 2002
- Faculty sponsor for Randye Rutberg as part of NSF-funded Hunter College’s “Gender Equity Project”
- Organizer of an international Mg/Ca inter-lab calibration study
- Guest editor for special issue of Global Planetary Change on “High-Resolution Paleoceanography in the western
Pacific during late Quaternary”
- Member of NSF Earth System History (ESH) planning workshop, 2005
- Co-chair IMAGES ITF corking group
Invited conference and workshop talks (since 1996)
13th International Marine Science Symposium on the Physical, Biological, Chemical and Geological Processes
in the Pacific Ocean and Asian Marginal Seas. July 2005 Bali, Indonesia. (Plenary talk)
- Israel Society for Ecology and Environmental Quality Sciences. The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, June 2005. Invited speaker
- The G.M. Friedman Seminar on Paleoclimate and Paleoceanography, May 2005. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Invited speaker
- Past Equatorial Pacific Dynamics meeting, April 2005 Taipei, Taiwan, Invited speaker
- International Conference in Paleoceanography, France Sept. 2004 Invited speaker (declined)
- Goldschmidt Conference in Geochemistry Kurashiki Japan, 2003 (Keynote lecture)
- Goldschmidt Conference in Geochemistry Davos Switzerland (2 invited talks), 2002
- NOAA workshop on marine CaCO3 cycle in the ocean, LDEO October 2002
- American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 2001
- New Academy of Science – “Mercury and cadmium cycling in the NY/NJ Harbor”, Oct. 2002
- New Academy of Science – “Mercury and cadmium cycling in the NY/NJ Harbor”, June 2002
- NY/NJ Harbor Estuary meeting on "Who is doing what in the Hudson River?” January 2002
- Organizer and convenor of AGU session, "Amplitude and phasing of tropical temperature signals
during glacial cycles", Fall 2001
- International Conference of Plaeoceanography VII, Sapporo Japan (cancelled due to the September 11 terrorist attack)
- Participant of the workshop on “The Ocean Carbon Cycle and Climate change”, Delmenhorst, Germany 2001
- Participant in JGOFS “Synthesis and modeling meeting on calcification”. WHOI May 2001
- IGBP sponsored workshop on “The global carbon and nutrient cycles”, Stockholm, Sweden 1999
- Speaker at the workshop on "CaCO3 dissolution in the deep ocean", LDEO August 1999
- Participant of the NSF sponsored workshop on “Alkenone-based paleoceanographic indicators”, WHOI, USA 1999
- Gordon Research Conference of Chemical Oceanography “Mg-paleothermometry” USA 1999
- EPILOG workshop on “Global ocean and land surface temperatures during the LGM”, Delmenhorst, Germany 1999
- American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting, Boston, 1999
- American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 1998
- Participant in Marine Isotope Stage 11 Interest Group, San Francisco, Dec 1998
- NASA- workshop on “Climate-vegetation bi-directional interactions”, São Paulo, Brazil 1996
FUNDING HISTORY
NSF (OCE)- Reconstructing Holocene climate variability and the Indonesian throughflow in the
western equatorial Pacific ($623,585 06/05-06/08 PI: Rosenthal $164,606 share; co-PI’s: Oppo,WHOI and Linsley, SUNYA).
NSF (MRI)- Acquisition of a laser ablation high resolution inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer
($645,000 09/04-08/07 PI’s: Sherrell, Rosenthal, Field, Swisher).
NSF (OCE)- Assessing the effects of calcite saturation on the benthic foraminiferal Mg/Ca-temperature
relationship using a homothermal depth transect in the Norwegian Sea ($221,810 02/04-01/06 PI: Rosenthal).
Includes a 10-day cruise in the Norwegian Sea Supplement ($36,900)- for participation on 25 day cruise to New Zealand
NSF (OCE)- Acquisition of inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometer (ICP OES)
for paleoceanographic research ($66,400 01/03-01/04 PI: Rosenthal)
NSF (OCE)- Reconstructing Holocene climate variability and the Indonesian throughflow in the
western equatorial Pacific ($850,000 08/02-08/04 PI: Rosenthal $365,912 share; co-PI’s: Oppo,WHOI and Linsley, SUNYA).
Supplement: ($18,660)
NSF (sub-award through WHOI)- Holocene changes in the Gulf Stream and western Sargasso
Sea ($600,000 9/02-9/05 PI: Keigwin, WHOI; co-PI: Rosenthal - $75,000 share)
NSF (EAR)- Constraining Tertiary temperatures, salinities, and ocean chemistry: An isotopic
and trace-metal study of serially-sampled mollusks. ($112,000 01/02-12/03 PI: Ethan Grossmann,
TAMU; co-PI: Rosenthal, Lear - $53,980 share)
NSF (OCE)- An inter-lab comparison of Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca measurements in foraminifera
($22,765 03/01-03/02; PI: Rosenthal)
Rutgers Research Council (2002) - $1000
Rutgers Undergraduate Research Fellows Program (2001) - $1500
NSF (Biocomplexity)- The evolution and radiation of eucaryotic phytoplankton taxa ($4,000,000
10/00-10/05 PI: Paul Falkowski; co-PI: Rosenthal - 10% share)
Hudson River Foundation- Toxic metal inputs to the lower Hudson River Estuary during sediment
resuspension ($224,496 6/00-6/02 PI: Rosenthal - 65% share; co-PI’s: Rob Sherrell, Rutgers
and Rob Mason, CBL Maryland)
NSF (OCE)- Incorporation and preservation of magnesium in planktonic foraminiferal calcites:
Implications for Mg-paleothermometry ($349,000 5/00-5/03 PI: Rosenthal; co-PI: G. Lohmann,
WHOI - Rosenthal $179,000 share)
NSF (OCE)- Research Experience for Undergraduate ($5875; 4/00-4/01; PI: Rosenthal)
NSF (OCE)- The Southern Ocean paleochemical record: Modern calibration and down-core
reconstructions of trace-metal variability in planktonic and benthic foraminifera ($214,038 1/99-1/02; PI: Rosenthal)
NSF (OCE)- A calibration study of the elemental chemistry of live benthic foraminifera at Hawaii -
($29,864 5/98-5/99; PI: Rosenthal)
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