My research focuses on micropaleontology with special emphasis on foraminifera as paleoenvironmental proxies in basin analysis. My career started with research on modern deep water marine environments and then gradually moved back into deep time. My expertise lies in Mesozoic basins of Western and Arctic Canada and the Canadian West Coast. Much of my work focuses on the Cretaceous Period and its paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental changes. I am interested in Oceanic Anoxic Events and how catastrophic paleoecological conditions influenced faunal communities. Carbon isotope studies are performed in collaboration with the Goethe University in Frankfurt/Germany. Studies of modern marine ecosystems have taken me to the eastern margin of Australia where I study estuaries to deep water settings of Quaternary age. In connection with the University of Newcastle (NSW) I have had the opportunity to work with multibeam seismic data, which led to a fascinating study of sediment and faunal transport processes offshore Fraser Island, Queensland.
I am presently conducting a multi-year geological investigation assessing a number of sedimentary basins in both the Eastern and Western Arctic regions to produce a Cretaceous pan-Arctic, multi-fossil, biostratigraphic and chemostratigraphic framework to improve our understanding of large-scale paleogeographic and paleoecological reconstructions. My work is field and laboratory based and my field areas take my team to spectacular and remote areas. This work is funded by NSERC with the Geological Survey of Canada's GEM Program and ConocoPhillips as supporting partners.
I have completed a three year term on the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Discovery Grant Selection Committee and I served as Chair of Carleton’s Earth Sciences Department from 2003 to 2006. My passion for teaching field-based courses has brought my students as far as the Antarctic Peninsula. I am also active in several science outreach programs. My strong collaboration with researchers at the Canadian Museum of Nature has fostered Carleton's Program in Vertebrate Paleontology, which attracts undergraduate and graduate students alike.
I am presently conducting a multi-year geological investigation assessing a number of sedimentary basins in both the Eastern and Western Arctic regions to produce a Cretaceous pan-Arctic, multi-fossil, biostratigraphic and chemostratigraphic framework to improve our understanding of large-scale paleogeographic and paleoecological reconstructions. My work is field and laboratory based and my field areas take my team to spectacular and remote areas. This work is funded by NSERC with the Geological Survey of Canada's GEM Program and ConocoPhillips as supporting partners.
I have completed a three year term on the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Discovery Grant Selection Committee and I served as Chair of Carleton’s Earth Sciences Department from 2003 to 2006. My passion for teaching field-based courses has brought my students as far as the Antarctic Peninsula. I am also active in several science outreach programs. My strong collaboration with researchers at the Canadian Museum of Nature has fostered Carleton's Program in Vertebrate Paleontology, which attracts undergraduate and graduate students alike.
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Our work in the Arctic has been very rewarding in many ways. We like to share our discoveries with schools in Nunavut and elsewhere. Therefore we are working on a scientific documentary entitled "Arctic Greenhouse". The film will have its premiere on Jan. 26, 2017 at the theater of the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa. To get a taste of what is to come we produced this trailer.
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At the end of December 2013 thirteen students and I traveled to the Antarctic Peninsula with Students on Ice to study the geological history of the Southern Ocean and its ecosystem. The video below showcases our journey.
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Contact
Email: claudia.schroderadams@carleton.ca
Telephone (613) 520-2600 ext 1852
Fax: (613) 520-2569
Dept. of Earth Sciences
Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1S 5B6
Telephone (613) 520-2600 ext 1852
Fax: (613) 520-2569
Dept. of Earth Sciences
Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1S 5B6