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Dr. John Firth

IODP Activities

Curatorial Activities

• IODP-USIO Curator
• Curator, San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD) Core Collection
• Supervisor of TAMU Micropaleontology Reference Collection

IODP Expeditions

• Expedition 311 Transit: Database testing

ODP Expeditions

• Leg 169S: Saanich Inlet
• Leg 168: Juan de Fuca Ridge
• Leg 159T: Eastern Canary Basin
• Leg 157: Madeira Abyssal Plain/Canary Island Volcaniclastic Apron
• Leg 151: North Atlantic-Arctic Gateways
• Leg 143: Cretaceous Pacific Atolls and Guyots
• Leg 136: Hawaiian Arch
• Leg 131: Nankai Trough Accretionary Prism
• Leg 126: Izu-Bonin Island Arc
• Leg 105: Baffin Bay and Labrador Sea

Research

• Research interests:
  • Micropaleontology and Palynology: Biostratigraphy, paleoecology and evolution of late Mesozoic to Cenozoic calcareous nannofossils and dinoflagellates, and their application towards geologic problems.
  • Palynofacies and thermal alteration analysis of kerogen. Biostratigraphy and paleoecology of ichthyoliths and other marine vertebrate fossils.
  • Arctic and North Atlantic Cretaceous and Paleogene paleoceanography.
• Curriculum Vitae

Professional Affiliations

• Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University
• Member of Paleoecology and Global Change Group